Muhast;3538028 said:
It has nothing to do with loyalty. Your not a fan anymore, your a player (in this scenario)
I don't know how much simpler it has to be stated - you are offered $10 million to play for team X, $5 million to play for the Cowboys. You may not like what it says about loyalty, but it *does* say it.
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.
And that is what separates you from those of us who would. I dreamed of playing for the Dallas Cowboys since I piled my sectional cushions up and did goal line dives over them to score when I was 7 years old. I'd play for the minimum. And I'd sure as hell play for $5 million dollars.
The alternative is to NEVER have that dream fulfilled. At any price. What would we give to play for the team of our dreams? $5 million out of $10 million?
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.
If Jeter played for the sorry Pittsburgh Pirates, he'd take less pay to go to the Yankees if it was a dream of his.
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.
Clearly the idea of being a Dallas Cowboy doesn't carry any cachet with you. That's fine, mercenaries need jobs too. There are those of us, though, for whom it would be the dream of a lifetime to play for the Cowboys. There's nothing I want that I couldn't buy with $5 million that $10 million will get me.
Regret comes with a steep price later in life.
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.
They had long careers as Cowboys - playing elsewhere was an alternative to not playing at all. Ask Troy or Emmitt if they'd rather have played in Tampa Bay for their careers instead of Dallas, for twice the money. They both would say... NO.
bounce;3538138 said:
It's a ridiculous hypothetical thread - and everyone would take the money, regardless of what they say in here.
It's perhaps ridiculous, but your statement is by far more ridiculous. I have no reason to doubt you'd make a grubby little grab at the cash, you should have no doubt I'd make a little grab at a dream.
