I'm suprised that no one started a thread on this yet. Apparently Montana and Bradshaw skipped the pre-game MVP ceremony over cash. The MVP's got $1000 plus expenses, airfare, a car, and tickets to the game to show up. Montana said he wanted $100k.

Personally it leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I can understand Bradshaw a little more as he said he wanted to be with his family and was ending a season of commentary on the weekends, but Montana should be ashamed.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs05/news/story?id=2321024

2/6/2006 12:48:36 PM

^ Yeah Mike and Mike were talking about this on the morning show today. Bradshaw had an excuse, but Montana wanted appearance fees for the week of 100 Gs. He is a prick and should be ashamed. Fuck Montana.

2/6/2006 12:50:57 PM

Joe Montana can do whatever the fuck he wants OK

2/6/2006 12:52:02 PM

yeah i lost all respect for montana. its a fucking ceremony honoring you, and you want to be paid on top of it? what a joke

2/6/2006 12:53:40 PM

^^ No

He is a bitch. The NFL made him a multi, multi-millonaire and he can't even show up for a halftime show to honor his ass without getting paid. Fuck him, he is just like TO. All about the $$$$.





[Edited on February 6, 2006 at 12:54 PM. Reason : ^]

2/6/2006 12:54:21 PM

This is hilarious. I love Joe Montana for doing this. With the amount of money floating around the NFL, an offer of one thousand dollars for an appearance is fucking offensive.

2/6/2006 12:56:58 PM

that's about as funny as a screen door on a battleship

2/6/2006 1:01:02 PM

That's a joke. It's not a "ceremony honoring him," it's a way for the NFL to hype the SB for more money. He has the right to decide whether or not to come.

2/6/2006 1:03:54 PM

then don't come because you think its a joke, not because you're a greedy asshole who wants $100k for a minute long ceremony on your behalf

2/6/2006 1:05:27 PM

ya tha'ts pretty ghey... good and bad but meh I'd have gone

2/6/2006 1:06:39 PM

i really don't give a shit about any of this

2/6/2006 1:09:54 PM

ATHLETES ARE NOT ROLE MODELS

THEY ARE FUCKING ATHLETES

WHO CARES WHAT THEY DO OFF THE FIELD AS LONG AS THEY ARENT HURTING ANYONE ELSE???

2/6/2006 1:12:53 PM

because the nfl would have you believe montana is a hero of the game, above all the pettiness, but we see now that's just a sham

2/6/2006 1:18:08 PM

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"that's about as funny as a screen door on a battleship "

haha

2/6/2006 1:19:56 PM

he is a hero of the GAME

2/6/2006 1:20:59 PM

yeah, and to me that includes all activities related to the game. i mean like it or not, off the field behavior influences people's perceptions of you as an athlete. there's absolutely no justifiable reason to demand 100k other than greed

2/6/2006 1:26:47 PM

how bout carolina golden boy Jordan who has been shown to be a pretty worthless guy off the court


does he have respect?


so montana is greedy, that doesnt make him any less of a football player

2/6/2006 1:29:16 PM

i realize that, but when you've been force fed his godlike status for 23 years, its a little shocking to hear about anything that taints his image. i guess it helps that i'm just a casual montana fan too

2/6/2006 1:33:07 PM

ha

Jordan is pretty much a piece of shit

2/6/2006 1:36:48 PM

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"With the amount of money floating around the NFL, an offer of one thousand dollars for an appearance is fucking offensive."

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" It's not a "ceremony honoring him," it's a way for the NFL to hype the SB for more money. He has the right to decide whether or not to come."

Right on.

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" He is a bitch. The NFL made him a multi, multi-millonaire and he can't even show up for a halftime show to honor his ass without getting paid. Fuck him, he is just like TO. All about the $$$$."

The NFL did not make him a millionare. He earned that money through hard work and talent, and a lot of people got rich off of his hard work and talent.

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" yeah, and to me that includes all activities related to the game. i mean like it or not, off the field behavior influences people's perceptions of you as an athlete."

People aren’t perfect—including athletes. The sooner you learn this, the less disappointed you’ll be in the future.

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"there's absolutely no justifiable reason to demand 100k other than greed"

Perhaps he was trying to make a point…?

2/6/2006 1:40:12 PM

I lost respect for Montana when he made me sit through a Super Bowl of my Denver losing 55-10.

2/6/2006 1:53:56 PM

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"The NFL did not make him a millionare. He earned that money through hard work and talent, and a lot of people got rich off of his hard work and talent. "

Yeah because without the NFL, he could have just gone down to the local park and threw the ball around and made a million dollars assuming he worked hard Joe Montana is a millionaire because the NFL exists and markets itself so that it can pay it's players millions. He is a product of the league, not the other way around. The halftime stunt to honor the former Super Bowl MVPs is the kind of stuff that keeps the NFL on top. Montana is a greedy cock.






[Edited on February 6, 2006 at 1:58 PM. Reason : y]

2/6/2006 1:57:29 PM

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"Montana is a greedy cock."

so is every other player, owner or coach ever to work in the nfl

2/6/2006 2:21:02 PM

maybe he just didnt want to go, so he made the outrageous request of 100k because he knew they'd say no

2/6/2006 2:23:50 PM

Montana has a right to do what he wants, hell I am sure he makes money doing other things during a week like speeches and what have you, this was an appearance fee, these guys were in Detroit the entire week, and someone like Montana is bound to have autograph seekers. Its not like they were just there Sunday.

2/6/2006 2:44:09 PM

I dont agree with it, but we dont know the whole story

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"Perhaps he was trying to make a point…? "

2/6/2006 2:57:32 PM

Unless he rapes or kills, Joe Montana will always have my respect.

BEST. QB. EVER.

2/6/2006 4:31:03 PM

A simple "No thanks" from Joe Montana would have sufficed, AKA- What Bradshaw did, gasp, Bradshaw is smarter than Montana, well not really, but on that issue he was. And Montana is not even the undisputed best player at his position, these god-like comparisons and "He can do what he wants" are off base. Comparing Jordan to Montana is pointless. Montana's supporting cast= undisputed best WR, nasty tight end, solid RB's and nasty defenses, AKA- Great Teams. Jordan's supporting cast=Pippen, that's it, and look what he did without Jordan, nada. 95% of so called rabbid sports fans couldn't name either starting center for either of the three peats, why, because they weren't good enough. Montana must be hard up for cash, something just doesn't add up.

2/6/2006 5:08:53 PM

^pippen was on the list of 50 greatest nba players of all time

jordan also had kerr and at least one respectable big man during his run w/ the bulls

2/6/2006 5:12:08 PM

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"Montana must be hard up for cash"

He did do a FedEx commercial recently...
I doubt he's actually hurtin for money, but if he wanted 100k to walk across the field, i wonder what fedex gave him for the commercial.

[Edited on February 6, 2006 at 5:13 PM. Reason : asdf]

2/6/2006 5:13:09 PM

didnt the bulls almost make it to the finals with just pippen during jordan's fake retirement???




edit: not the finals but they definitely made the playoffs, in fact i dont think pippen has ever been on a non-playoff team until late in his career

how is that 'did nothing'??

[Edited on February 6, 2006 at 5:22 PM. Reason : a]

2/6/2006 5:20:17 PM

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"Joe Montana can do whatever the fuck he wants OK"

damn straight

His roundhouse kick is much stronger than Chuck Norris's

2/6/2006 5:45:40 PM

That's my jam.

2/6/2006 5:51:18 PM

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"not the finals but they definitely made the playoffs, in fact i dont think pippen has ever been on a non-playoff team until late in his career how is that 'did nothing'?? "

Over half the teams make the playoffs in the NBA, 16 of 30. Most teams get in with .500 records. The bullls made it one year at 30-52 with Jordan before they started winning. It's like making a bowl in college football. It only matters what you do once you get to the playoffs. Jordan went all the way, and Scottie cried like a bitch when the final shot when to Kukoc instead of him. Pippen was the ultimate sidekick, great as a second option, but never could succeed as the man.

2/6/2006 8:40:28 PM

my guess is he just didn't want to go so he made up some crazy fee

still a bitch move

if he doesn't do like everyone else who showed up, he is gonna get compared to them

[Edited on February 6, 2006 at 9:13 PM. Reason : 9]

2/6/2006 9:11:32 PM

so if kobe never wins a championship he was just shit on shaq's shoes???

2/6/2006 9:18:35 PM

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"That's a joke. It's not a "ceremony honoring him," it's a way for the NFL to hype the SB for more money. He has the right to decide whether or not to come."

thread should have ended right after that was said

2/6/2006 9:48:56 PM

^

agreed

2/6/2006 10:04:51 PM

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs05/news/story?id=2321024

so apparently the whole money thing was wrong. joe wanted to see his son play basketball, which i can understand. some reporter dropped the ball. sorry joe

2/6/2006 11:04:03 PM

haha

pwnt

2/6/2006 11:04:54 PM

ugh fuck joe montana what a greedy bitch

2/6/2006 11:13:08 PM

ITS TOO LATE FOR FACTS
THE RESPECT IS GONE

EVEN THOUGH THESE GUYS HAVE 1/5 OF ALL THE SUPERBOWL WINS

THEY DIDN'T SHOW UP FOR THE GROUP PHOTO

2/6/2006 11:27:51 PM

^^^Just because he went to Notre Dame doesn't mean you can chime in.

[Edited on February 6, 2006 at 11:28 PM. Reason : ^^^]

2/6/2006 11:27:56 PM

whats worse is that the oportunity to get honored in front of the whole nation doesnt come around every day, if he did this his commercial fee would have increased even more, just a bad mistake by him,
funny enough tom brady was the one flipping the coin
he's pretty much the new montana

2/6/2006 11:33:37 PM

Who gives a fuck. They should just playing the fucking Superbowl and not have some god damn historical pagent for the 3 hours leading up to it. I mean who gives a fuck.

2/6/2006 11:41:09 PM

Montana was on the phone with SAS tonight and it took him a long time to deny the 100k charges. He simply sidestepped it the first time and brought up family, which is cool, if he was trying to spend time with his kids. Typical Montana, very cool and collected simply said it wasn't true. I think it is just not his nature to open a can on anyone. Although if that reporter lied about any other athlete, he would be slammed by that athlete. Still not convincedd 100% Montana didn't ask for the 100 K though, but for Montana to yell and throw mud at the reporter was never going to happen, can't figure out why I expected it.

2/6/2006 11:49:07 PM

too bad, he shoulda been there, i actually was wondering if he ever won an mvp

2/7/2006 12:04:20 AM

Seeing his son play basketball > than going to the Superbowl

and you'd have to be retarded to wonder if Joe Montana was the Superbowl MVP when he won it three times.

2/7/2006 1:11:28 AM

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"maybe he just didnt want to go, so he made the outrageous request of 100k because he knew they'd say no "

thats what I was thinking

2/7/2006 2:05:02 AM

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"He is a bitch. The NFL made him a multi, multi-millonaire and he can't even show up for a halftime show to honor his ass without getting paid. Fuck him, he is just like TO. All about the $$$$."

Maybe he was just feelin lazy and wanted to chill at home...havent you ever won an award that you didnt feel like getting so you just skipped...I used to do it all the time in high school...its the same concept just a bigger stage

2/7/2006 2:45:54 AM