Devin Hester Ain't Playing for $445,000 in '08

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Offseason Offtable: 7.24.08
Published 7/24/2008 by Hardwood Paroxysm (noreply@blogger.com) at Hardwood Paroxysm
... news that will certainly shock all of you, I do follow sports beyond the NBA. I'm a third generation Chiefs fan, so I still have tendencies to follow the NFL. Of course, that leads to tendencies of another sort. (See: suicidal. Adjective.) I do think about everything in terms of the Association, though, and something caught my eye that made me realize how differently I consider contract these days. Devin Hester was in a holdout with the Bears after saying he wasn't going to be playing for $445,000 this year. Now, this morning he relented and got his happy ass to ...

Daily Haze
Published 7/25/2008 by The Hazean at The Hazean
... Even with a holdout, Devin Hester would still have a good chance at being the team’s best wide receiver this year. Chicago is bad on paper. [FanHouse] ...

Devin Hester Ends Shortest Holdout in NFL History, Reports to Bears Training Camp
Published 7/25/2008 at FanHouse
... Let me take you back 24 hours, when Devin Hester, return dude extraordinaire, declared that he wasn't playing for $445,000 this season. He's worth way more than that, and until the Bears gave him a new deal, he wasn't showing up for work. ...

Maybe Bears Should Trade Devin Hester, Officially Give Up on 2008 Season
Published 7/26/2008 at FanHouse
... If, on the other hand, Chicago would like to have a shred of dignity remaining by January 2009, I'd suggest keeping Hester. And not only that, pay the guy, too. ...

Bears Give Devin Hester Four-Year Extension, Virtually Everybody Thinks It's a Good Move
Published 7/27/2008 at FanHouse
Filed under: Bears, NFC North, NFL Fans For those of you holding out hope for the Bears to trade Devin Hester (at last count, we were up to one person), well, it ain't happenin'. Instead, the team, which had been in negotiations with the Pro Bowl returner before he abruptly staged a two-day holdout, announced he wouldn't play for $445,000, and promptly returned to practice and tweaked his hammy, signed Hester to a new contract a few hours ago. No word on the how much the team forked over to keep ...