Damn straight. Randy Gradishar, Lyle Alzado, Louis Wright, Tom Jackson, and Bob Swenson, who all made the pro bowl, and yet Swenson never played another down of football for the Broncos, becasuse the pinhead owner Edgar Kaiser offered him a three year contract after that season which would have paid him less in the first year of the new contract than he was paid the year he made the pro bowl. He was so insulted, he held out and said he would rather not play thamlay for less, Kaiser's flunky, G.M. Hein Poulus, a Dutch businessman who knew exactly dick about football, decided to make an example of Swenson and refused to trade him, saying he would play for what they offered or not at all. Brilliant management, no? Poulus also chased Alzado out of town, to their division arch rivals, the raiders, no less. By contrast, when Pat Bowlen, the current owner took over, he told his GM, I want John Elway signed for life. Don't give away the ranch, but I want him to spend the rest of his career here, and I want him happy.
Unfortunately for the game, there are more pinhead owners, rich dweebs with more money than brains who think they know so much about everything because they are rich, like Jerry Jones and his wannabe mini-me, Dan Snyder, who got taken to the cleaners on Deion Sanders, when he still had Darryl Green, compounding this stupidity when he made darryl share time on the field with Sanders, who at his best couldn't hold Green's jock, let alone play at Green's level, and please don't anybody start with that "Sanders was the best cover corner ever" shit. That's saying he was the best at only doing half his damn job, because tackling is part of the corner's job, and he not only couldn't tackle worth a shit, he AVOIDED TACKLING LIKE THE PLAGUE, and after a while, offensive coordinators just started running wide to his side, and watched him try to stop running backs with his "matador" tackles...wave his arm like a matador's cape over the running back and shout "ole!" When the cameras panned back from the big pile of bodies on the sideline, usually well past first down yardage, who would always be the only player from either team still standing up with a spotless uniform? Mr "Cover" himself... the overrated candyass. Then Snyder allowed himself to be bent over and drilled (with no K-Y or even a kiss), and talked into paying a ton of money for Jeff George, the QB with the million-dollar arm and the ten cent brain, who has never accomplished a damn thing in the NFL OR college. As a much-hyped junior (or was it an over-hyped senior?) at Illinois, he led the Illini into a MAJOR ass whuppin' by Colorado at Folsom Field, when all the prognosticators said he would make mincemeat out of the CU defense with his wondrous arm. what a loser. And yet Snyder paid him millios to do nothing but ride the pine while Snyder jerked Brad Johnson around, refusing to even talk about a contract extension for the QB who was in the process of taking Snyder's Redskins team to the playoffs. Johnson won a superbowl ring the next year as the starting QB for Tampa Bay, while George played down to his usual standards, ignoring the play calls from the sidelines in favor of one half-assed improvised play after another. He thought he was John Elway, Joe Montana, or Brett Favre, but played like Bobby Douglas, the early 70's Bears QB, who could throw the ball through a brick wall, but couldn't hit the brick wall, let alone his receivers, with anything even approaching consistncy.
And Jerry Jones, who told Jimmy Johnson to pretend to confer with him during the draft, so he could burnish his non-existent credentials as a great football mind, hired Barry Switzer to be head coach of a passing pro offense, after using the wishbone offense exclusively at Oklahoma, forcing Troy Aikman, Moose Johnston, and Emmett Smith to stage a bloodless coup, ignore switzer, and take over the offense themselves. Later, Jones even went as far as to state that the Cowboys were going to pioneer a new merging of the owner and head coaching duties. i can only assume that the Cowboys veterans kidnapped his family and threatened to kill them if he went through with his boneheaded plan.