NFL Players Who Paid for Their Jersey Number
Jersey numbers have deep meanings and sentiment to athletes in all sports. Certain NFL players have gone to great lengths and cost to obtain their jersey number when they go to a new team. Here are a few of the biggest price tags NFL players have paid to be able to wear that certain number.
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Deion Sanders
Deion Sanders became a Dallas Cowboys in 1995. Upon joining the team he had worn number 21 and wanted to continue to do so. The issue was Defensive Back Alundis Brice was already wearing the number. Reportedly, Sanders found out that Brice was going to purchase a BMW and beat him to it. Purchasing the brand new car and putting the keys and note that said “NOW GIVE ME MY DAMN JERSEY!” in Brice’s locker.
ELI MANNING
Eli Manning when arriving at the Giants wanted to wear his college number but punter Jeff Feagles was already wearing it. So Feagles told Manning he would give him number 10 if he paid for his family to have an all-inclusive paid vacation for a week to Florida.
Donovan McNabb
Donovan McNabb had wore number 5 since he was drafted into the NFL back in 1999 by the Eagles. When McNabb was picked up by the Vikings in 2011 he wanted to keep wearing the number 5. To secure the number McNabb had to donate $5,000 to punter Chris Kluwe’s charity, promote Kluwe’s amateur band in press conferences and take the punter out for ice cream.
Darrelle Revis
Darrell Revis was picked up by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and wanted to wear his number 24. At the time safety Mark Barron had the number and Revis paid him $50,000 for the right to wear number 24.
Clinton Portis
Clinton Portis was traded to the Washington Redskins in a blockbuster trade in 2004. When Portis got to Washington he wanted to wear number 26 like he did in Denver. To do so he had to pay Ifeanyi Ohalete $40,000.
Eric Decker
Eric Decker signed a big deal to come and play for the New York Jets and wanted to keep his number 87. To secure the number he had to pay teammate Jeff Cumberland $25,000 and a steak dinner.
Kellen Winslow Jr.
Kellen Winslow Jr. wanted to wear number 80 like his hall-of-fame father had worn. To secure the number Winslow paid teammate Aaron Shea $30,000 in suits, meals and vacation.
Lee Evans
Lee Evans was drafted by the Buffalo Bills in 2004 and wanted to stick with number 83. Evans had to pay teammate Mark Campbell $20,000 to secure the rights to the number.
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