Monday, July 24, 2006
Saints' Bush Contemplates Holdout
According to Yahoo Sports' Jason Cole, NFL sources have said that the New Orleans Saints' first round selection Reggie Bush not only will hold out of training camp, but he will consider sitting out the 2006 season and entering the 2007 draft if he does not get his price.
According to the Yahoo! story, Bush would not have a problem sitting out should he decided to do so. He reportedly has $5 million in the bank from several endorsement deals that he has done since leaving the University of Southern California after his junior year.
This would be a boneheaded decision for Bush to make, and would certainly mean disaster to the New Orleans Saints.
Bush, who has been offered a contract worth around $26 million, would go through a public relations nightmare should he sit on the couch in 2006. When the Saints drafted him in the 2006 draft, Bush stated that he wanted to "help rebuild New Orleans."
Saints fans responded, buying 15,000 season tickets in the weeks after he was selected, bringing the total sold to over 55,000 for 2006. That number is the highest number of season tickets ever sold in New Orleans, which just ten months ago was completely ravaged by Hurricane Katrina.
Should Bush not sign with the Saints, the situation will be a disaster that the Saints will never recover from in New Orleans. Saints' owner Tom Benson is already not very well liked in the City amidst constant threats to move the team if a new stadium is not built. It is no secret that both he and the NFL would like the team to move to either Los Angeles or San Antonio. After Katrina, New Orleans residents have had very little to cheer about, and are looking forward to the Saints bringing the city back together after the horrific disaster, and Bush has been advertised as the face of the franchise.
If Benson does not sign Bush, there is no doubt that the city will be against him almost 100 percent.
On second thought, I have never been much of a conspiracy theorist, but could Benson purposely not sign Bush in order to have more of a reason to bolt for a market that would be deemed more lucrative?
Even if Bush does end up signing with the Saints, he will be quite a bit less popular. Hundreds of thousands of people that were left with nothing in the aftermath of Katrina might find it somewhat hard to root for someone who thought that $26 million was not enough.
Either way, this is looking to be a bad situation in the Crescent City. Bush needs to get this settled as soon as possible so as to avoid any possible ill will with his future fans.
Bush may think he is making a good decision, but this is definitely not a Heisman winning decision. This is a lateral in the Rose Bowl decision.
According to the Yahoo! story, Bush would not have a problem sitting out should he decided to do so. He reportedly has $5 million in the bank from several endorsement deals that he has done since leaving the University of Southern California after his junior year.
This would be a boneheaded decision for Bush to make, and would certainly mean disaster to the New Orleans Saints.
Bush, who has been offered a contract worth around $26 million, would go through a public relations nightmare should he sit on the couch in 2006. When the Saints drafted him in the 2006 draft, Bush stated that he wanted to "help rebuild New Orleans."
Saints fans responded, buying 15,000 season tickets in the weeks after he was selected, bringing the total sold to over 55,000 for 2006. That number is the highest number of season tickets ever sold in New Orleans, which just ten months ago was completely ravaged by Hurricane Katrina.
Should Bush not sign with the Saints, the situation will be a disaster that the Saints will never recover from in New Orleans. Saints' owner Tom Benson is already not very well liked in the City amidst constant threats to move the team if a new stadium is not built. It is no secret that both he and the NFL would like the team to move to either Los Angeles or San Antonio. After Katrina, New Orleans residents have had very little to cheer about, and are looking forward to the Saints bringing the city back together after the horrific disaster, and Bush has been advertised as the face of the franchise.
If Benson does not sign Bush, there is no doubt that the city will be against him almost 100 percent.
On second thought, I have never been much of a conspiracy theorist, but could Benson purposely not sign Bush in order to have more of a reason to bolt for a market that would be deemed more lucrative?
Even if Bush does end up signing with the Saints, he will be quite a bit less popular. Hundreds of thousands of people that were left with nothing in the aftermath of Katrina might find it somewhat hard to root for someone who thought that $26 million was not enough.
Either way, this is looking to be a bad situation in the Crescent City. Bush needs to get this settled as soon as possible so as to avoid any possible ill will with his future fans.
Bush may think he is making a good decision, but this is definitely not a Heisman winning decision. This is a lateral in the Rose Bowl decision.
# posted by Bevo @ 5:27 PM 
