If you were offered these two options...

[BAZ]

10 mil of course. When they realise what a mistake they've made you wouldn't even see the inside of a locker.

 

[Seven]

I go to one of the other teams for $10 mil, play a year and show my worth,, then Jerry trades for me giving up two 1st round picks and increases my contract to $15 mil with guaranteed money.

:laugh2::laugh1:,,,,,, :bang2:

Pull a Haynesworth. Get paid, get traded and have jerry pay you again. 15 mill. Done.

 

[Venger]

Easy. Cowboys.

$5 million a year is a ton of cash.

And when your career is over in a Commander uniform, you can't fulfill your dream of playing for the Cowboys at ANY price.

Anyone taking the $10 million, if playing for the Cowboys wouldn't be a dream come true, what the ^&%$ are you doing around here?

 

[cowboyfreak]

I'd Take the Five and Die a happy man! After a long and :laugh2: glorious football career of course

 

[THUMPER]

I would love to see if there is an age variable between those who said they would take less and play for the Boys and those who said they would take the higher salary. I would venture a guess that many of the older fans would pass on the extra $ for the chance to play for the Cowboys while the younger fans would take the money.

Just a thought.

On a personal note, I have twice in my life been offered a job by a competitor of the company I worked for at double the salary and I turned it down both times.

I have news for you folks, money won't make you happy and the facts are that giving millions to someone who has never had that kind of money before typically ruins their life.

$5M to play for the Cowboys? I wouldn't even look at the other offers. I would play for whatever the minimum is and not regret it a bit. :starspin

I played semi-pro ball for what amounted to expense money, barely enough for equipment and travel expenses and I never regretted it a moment.

 

[DC Cowboy]

Let's say that two competing NFL teams offered you, a player, a contract.


1. The Cowboys offer you $5 million.
2. The Eagles/Commanders/Giants/insert-hated-team offer you $10 million.



(apart from money, all other things in the contract are equal - length of time, conditions, etc.)



Which would you take?

10 mil. taking care of my family trumps anything else.

 

[Muhast]

I would love to see if there is an age variable between those who said they would take less and play for the Boys and those who said they would take the higher salary. I would venture a guess that many of the older fans would pass on the extra $ for the chance to play for the Cowboys while the younger fans would take the money.

Just a thought.

On a personal note, I have twice in my life been offered a job by a competitor of the company I worked for at double the salary and I turned it down both times.

I have news for you folks, money won't make you happy and the facts are that giving millions to someone who has never had that kind of money before typically ruins their life.

$5M to play for the Cowboys? I wouldn't even look at the other offers. I would play for whatever the minimum is and not regret it a bit. :starspin

I played semi-pro ball for what amounted to expense money, barely enough for equipment and travel expenses and I never regretted it a moment.

To me, it doesn't have as much to do with fan loyalty as some make it out to be. It's a business decision.

If your only two offers were from Philly and Washington, would you just refuse to play? I doubt it If you throw out the monetary difference and think about what people are choosing,it shows some are choosing with their heads ( go with the money)and others are choosing with their hearts (go with the team).Not that either is necessarily wrong.

If your choices are between Dallas and a rival, I could somewhat understand. But the fact of the matter is, it's a business decision.You have the opportunity(theoretically) to play a game you love, for twice the pay, or play for a team you love for half the pay. The NFL is a business, they chew you up and spit you out and have no care for if you grew up worshipping them or not. (Look at Roy Williams. He wanted more than anything to play for us, and now that he is here, all anyone wants to do is bash him. How do you think that makes him feel as a human, a player,and a fan? If you were under the same situation, would your allegiance to Dallas stay? Or would it falter?)

There is a really good movie out called "Big Fan". I'm pretty sure it's in the redbox DVD things. It has an interesting take on fan loyalty.

Just curious what you guys say. What would it take to make you goto another team?

 

[CowboysFaninHouston]

Let's say that two competing NFL teams offered you, a player, a contract.


1. The Cowboys offer you $5 million.
2. The Eagles/Commanders/Giants/insert-hated-team offer you $10 million.



(apart from money, all other things in the contract are equal - length of time, conditions, etc.)



Which would you take?

I love football. I love the cowboys. but My Family comes first. I take the 10 mill. after the contract I will sign with the cowboys. that's if they will have me

 

[Beast_from_East]

Lets ask this another way, say a non-rival like the Raiders offered you a starting job and the Cowboys were offering you a backup job that would never turn into a starting job (like being Romo's backup).

Would you take less mony to ride the bench in Dallas or would you sign with the Raiders to be a starter??? Would you take less money and be a backup in Dallas or would you take the starting job in Oakland???

I am curious if most on here still say Cowboys.

 

[DallasDomination]

I just need 2 mill to be set for life with the right investments, 5 is way more than enough to set myself up and my entire family. 10 would be for the lazy undedicated fan..



95% either don't know how to invest their money wisely or they just aren't true fans..

This is a perfect example why it's hard to have a realistic football conversation around here. You have guys like this that would take less money just to live a pipe dream.

 

[Teren_Kanan]

Sorry, but I'd take the 5 million and be a Cowboy.

Say whatever you want, I'm a content person. 5 Million is more than I'll ever need.

Having 5 million would be a dream come true. Having a Dallas Cowboys uniform and playing with the team even if I was just a bench warmer would be another dream come true.

I don't care how selfish anyone wants to make that out to be, I would do it anyways. 5 Million would set me for life, and would easily afford all the school I want to do after my Dallas Career. So even if I somehow lost that 5 million, I'd have the education to do something with myself afterwords.

Perhaps if it was like 5 million from the Commanders, and 500,000 from the Cowboys, I'd go with the Commanders. But when you offer me two sums of money that would set me for life, the decisions is easy for me. Cowboys all the way.

 

[Venger]

10 mil. taking care of my family trumps anything else.

You can't take care of your family on $5 million dollars?

 

[ZeroClub]

If I were a player, I'd approach it as a business and go for the best $$ situation.

And I'd be fully prepared for my employer, be it Jerry or whomever, to treat me as a depreciable operating asset.

 

[Clarkson]

Give me the money.
If it were 7 mil vs. 10 mil, it'd be close. But Double? 5 vs. 10?
Ten Mil, all day, every day.

 

[Venger]

This strikes me as a seminal question for the kind of fan you are.

What would you give to play for the Dallas Cowboys?

Apparently, for a lot of fans here, it's "not much".

Here's the rub - if $10 million being more than $5 million - if that $5 million is "a lot of money" - then isn't the first $5 million a lot of money?

And if so, you wouldn't play for the Cowboys for a lot of money?

Fascinating to see how loyalty can be bought.

 

[Christiann]

:laugh2:

$10M. Sorry. Cash rules everything around me, cream get the money, dollar dollar bills y'all.

 

[cowfan]

I would have five more reasons to love the team.

 

[Chuck 54]

We're not professional football players so I had to survey the entire NFL and every player on the Cowboys team in order to figure out what I would do IF I were a baller....

It's unanimous, there's not a player in the NFL who would take 5 million instead of 10 million...not a single one. And you're kidding yourself if you think otherwise.

Frankly, most would probably go to another team for an extra million, unless they are already filthy rich millionaires and don't want to uproot their families.

 

[Shotgun Dave]

Cowboys. How many Ferrari's can one man drive? I couldn't put on another NFC East uniform and look myself in the mirror after rooting for the Boys my entire life.

 

[Muhast]

This strikes me as a seminal question for the kind of fan you are.

What would you give to play for the Dallas Cowboys?

Apparently, for a lot of fans here, it's "not much".

Here's the rub - if $10 million being more than $5 million - if that $5 million is "a lot of money" - then isn't the first $5 million a lot of money?

And if so, you wouldn't play for the Cowboys for a lot of money?

Fascinating to see how loyalty can be bought.

It has nothing to do with loyalty. Your not a fan anymore, your a player (in this scenario)

I couldn't tell you the last time a player went to his dream team and took way less money. It's easy to turn it down as a fan, but I have a hard time believing ANYONE who says they'd take half the money just to play for a team they love.

Jeter loves the Yankees, but he still plays for $20million a year. You think he'd take 10million a year to stay a Yankee if Boston offered twice as much? There is no way in the world it'd happen.

It's not a fan decision, it's a business decision. It doesn't take anything away from you being a Cowboys fan your whole life. You don't have to sell all of your gear and disown them, you simply have to suit up and do your job for someone who is willing to pay you twice as much just to play a game. lol.

Look at Emmitt and Tony D. Even Aikman considered playing for the Eagles, and it wasn't even an after-thought. It becomes a business decision. People keep forgetting that.