Hard Charger
It appears that negotiations between the San Diego Chargers and first-round choice Philip Rivers have broken off after Rivers’ agent, Jimmy Sexton, failed to meet a Sunday night deadline to accept what the Chargers’ say is their final offer. [Full story at ESPN.com] Hopefully now people are starting to realize that Eli Manning did the right thing by refusing to play for them. The Chargers are quickly replacing the Bengals as the NFL’s biggest joke of a franchise.
I’m obviously not privy to the negotiations, but I’d be pretty hesitant to hang this one on Rivers or his agent. The insider folks on ESPN like John Clayton seem to think this is a case of the Chargers trying to nickel and dime their top draft pick like always. Not surprising.
Rivers is a talent and it will be fun to see how he does in the NFL. I just hope that we get to see him this year.
As a State grad and fan, this is a real bummer. I was hoping to watch him play a bit this year but I guess it’s not going to happen.
I was even thinking about getting tickets to the Panthers October game against the chargers.
Hope he’s there by then….