Contract Terms That Are Tough to Swallow

[HawkeyeNJ]

Contract Terms That Are Tough to Swallow
June 29, 2001 9:06 am EST

LONDON (Reuters) - As soccer transfers go, Spencer Prior's $985,500 move to Cardiff City will be remembered more for what has to be one of most bizarre contract clauses in the history of the sport.
In agreeing terms to join the newly-promoted second division club, the former Manchester City central defender will honor his contract by eating sheep's testicles and a cooked sheep's brain.

The clause was the idea of the Welsh club's Lebanese-born owner Sam Hammam, who believes that eating the Middle Eastern delicacy helped his players win promotion last season.

Prior refused to eat them raw. "It must be the strangest contract in the history of football," he said. "But I'll try anything once."

 

[monto]

<< Contract Terms That Are Tough to Swallow
June 29, 2001 9:06 am EST

LONDON (Reuters) - As soccer transfers go, Spencer Prior's $985,500 move to Cardiff City will be remembered more for what has to be one of most bizarre contract clauses in the history of the sport.
In agreeing terms to join the newly-promoted second division club, the former Manchester City central defender will honor his contract by eating sheep's testicles and a cooked sheep's brain.

The clause was the idea of the Welsh club's Lebanese-born owner Sam Hammam, who believes that eating the Middle Eastern delicacy helped his players win promotion last season.

Prior refused to eat them raw. &quot;It must be the strangest contract in the history of football,&quot; he said. &quot;But I'll try anything once.&quot; >>

now there's a man's man, none of that padded american football

 

[purplehayes]

That's not so bad, a little strange, but not unheard of.

PH

 

[bacillus]

<< eating sheep's testicles and a cooked sheep's brain. >>


thank goodness humans don't get scrapie.
I wouldn't have the balls to eat either! :Q

 

[Josh]

If its cooked, it can't be so bad

 

[Warblad13]

eww
try it and tell me how it taste:disgust:

 

[urameatball]

hey, anything to win right?

 

[GoldenBear]

HAHHAHAA the title is so awesome.

 

[AndrewR]

<< now there's a man's man, none of that padded american football >>


Europeans just don't understand that with the pads, the players just hit as hard as possible. &quot;Tough football players&quot; from Europe would end up being smashed to pieces on an American football field.

Or, tell me YOU want to be hit by a 270 pound linebacker running full speed, that full speed being nearly as fast as competitive sprinting??