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cawacko

cawacko

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How far do you live from there? I watched 30 on 30 films for ESPN tonight on Marcus Dupree. He was probably the best high school running back ever and then after an amazing freshman year at Oklahoma he left school the following year and never became a star in the NFL that so many thought he was destined to become. The documentary was called The Best That Never Was.

Sorry for the ramble about the documentary but I was curious with how familiar you are with Philadelphia?
 
I know about this:

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That was a great documentary.

Deputy Price from that MS civil rights worker incident ended up hiring him after his football career was over....
 
Onceler said:
That was a great documentary.

Deputy Price from that MS civil rights worker incident ended up hiring him after his football career was over....
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You watched it last night on ESPN? Man I can remember watching him as a little kid and I remember loving the USFL and going to an Oakland Invaders game once.

What's really sad is the issue with his money. That same story plays out today way too much as well.
 
cawacko said:
You watched it last night on ESPN? Man I can remember watching him as a little kid and I remember loving the USFL and going to an Oakland Invaders game once.

What's really sad is the issue with his money. That same story plays out today way too much as well.
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I remember him from when I was a kid, too, but I still didn't know (or don't remember) just how amazing he was that 1st year in college.

They should show that as a cautionary tale to any promising athlete coming out of high school or college. It's easy to see how you can trust other people to take care of the money if you just don't know any better...
 
Onceler said:
I remember him from when I was a kid, too, but I still didn't know (or don't remember) just how amazing he was that 1st year in college.

They should show that as a cautionary tale to any promising athlete coming out of high school or college. It's easy to see how you can trust other people to take care of the money if you just don't know any better...
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I'm going way out there now but I read this story of Clayton Holmes who played for the Cowboys in the early '90's on espn.com a month or so ago. From a money perspective a lot like Dupree's. If you have the time to read it it is so sad. When he signed with the Cowboy's he had never had a bank account never written a check. He signed a two year $1.3 million contract. He said he was so naive he thought that money would last him the rest of his life.


[ame="http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=pearlman/080110"]Pearlman: The rise and fall of Clayton Holmes - ESPN Page 2[/ame]
 
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