Well, Golly Gosh Gee, Batman. They Take Money. 0
The local rag is all over surprised upon discovering that pro football players make money from personal appearances:
The gesture cost taxpayers $40,000.
The management team for Anthony Hargrove, formerly of the New Orleans Saints, charged $30,000 for three two-hour sessions over his nearly weeklong stay, which included other appearances with local children. Other costs associated with the visit – meals, a banquet with community leaders and hotel rooms for Hargrove and five others – totaled about $10,000.
My two or three regular readers know that my level of cynicism as regards pro and semi-pro college football is about to burst out of the top of my thermometer like the mercury measuring a fever in a Bugs Bunny cartoon, but, as my mother would have said, honestly!
As the actress said to the bishop, “Professional means you get paid for it.”
In other news in today’s local rag, sky blue and apple red.
Afterthought:
Whether or not it was a wise expenditure is a different issue, but was not really addressed in the gee-whiz-look-over-there story. If it keeps one kid out of jail, the visit likely paid for itself.
