Nnamdi Got Ppaid!
My homerism for Nnamdi Asomugha is well-documented. But now that he has allowed the Raiders to sign him to the richest contract in football, it has bloomed to an all-out mancrush. Why shouldn’t Asomugha make boatloads of scrilla? No one is the game does their job as well as Asomugha does his. A man of his stature commands a salary substantially more than that of Chump Bailey.
The Raiders also re-signed the NFL’s top punter Shane Lechler to boot (heh heh, boot, get it?). Some thought that the Raider would not be able to keep both the NFL’s best corner and best punter, but they proved otherwise. Maybe Al Davis finally realized that he if is going to overpay somebody it should be good players like Asomugha and Lechler instead of wretched bums like DeAngelo Hall and Javon Walker.
With these huge signings, is Oakland really the purgatory that it has been made out to be the past few years? Probably, but it goes to show what some people will tolerate for Scrooge McDuck money.
Tags: Homerism, oakland raiders, respectability is the goal for 2009
February 20th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
Looks like Asomugha picked Oakland in this week’s KSK Draft.
February 20th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
Have you thought about watching basketball instead, flubby?
February 20th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
Reached for comment, Raiders owner Al Davis said “Tractor pancakes acorn squash.”
February 20th, 2009 at 1:22 pm
Superbowl here we come!
February 20th, 2009 at 1:22 pm
Respectability? Setting the goal really high aren’t we? Why don’t we try for 10-11 wins and the playoffs first. You know, something easier for the Raiders to handle.
February 20th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Investing in a good defender and a good punter fits right into what the Raiders need. Hell, they should just scrap the entire offense and line up C-Bass on 1st down no matter where they are on the field.
February 20th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
The New York Knicks of Football strike again
February 20th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
He’ll make good trade bait for Michael Vick.
February 20th, 2009 at 1:38 pm
@ Punch — Super Bowl, huh?? Who is buying the tickets for them to get to the Super Bowl?
February 20th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
It sucks to be a Riaders fan these days but I’ll take it over being a douchy cat owning Stillers fan anyday.
February 20th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
respectability is the goal for 2009
woooo i’m already getting PUMPED
February 20th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
That’s Mister Douchey Cat-Owning Super Bowl Champion Stillers Fan to you
February 20th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
It sucks to be a Riaders fan these days but I’ll take it over being a douchy cat owning Stillers fan anyday.
And he uses his Super Bowl trophy as a douche. What a douche.
February 20th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
@Dan
Asomugha has that kind of scratch now.
February 20th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Lechler’s good, but he’s no Donnie Jones
February 20th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
Damn! I wanted Asomugha to hit the FA market!
I’d normally say that’s a smart move, but it’s kind of a no-brainer (like Al right now, whose brain has calcified).
February 20th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
Mike Scifres strongly disagrees with all this Shane Lechler love
February 20th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
Sexy Glottalic Consonants?
February 20th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
I, human man go mad
i’ve spent all day (well, since it was posted) at work trying to come up with the best anagram for his name
i still wish he went to the jets. He’d be a monster opposite revis.
February 20th, 2009 at 2:53 pm
This justifies getting those extra large shoulder pad spikes you wanted Flubby.
February 20th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
where da sexy at?
February 20th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
Is it not friday? No sexy?!?
/puts away Jergins
February 20th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
Sorry Mr. Douchy cat owning Stillers fan. No disrespect intended.
/goes back to furiously analyzing “immaculate reception” tape.
/concludes Franco is a lying cockwallet who picked it up off the ground.
February 20th, 2009 at 4:01 pm
Shoot me now!
Committment to Excrement continues. The New York Islanders & Clippers of the NFL.
Jeezus? Allah? Buddah? Bo Jackson: please smother Al Davis with a pillow out of respect for the game of football.
February 20th, 2009 at 4:59 pm
Remember kids: even a blind, deaf, dumb, half dead, mentally retarded, recently hit by a car, and then a bus, and then a semi, squirrel will find nuts every once in a while.
February 20th, 2009 at 5:03 pm
I have to say that Im cautiously optimistic for next season. With the AFC west rapidly becoming the new NFC west, and the week to week improvement the team showed under Cable, we should have a shot.
Yes, I said “we.” Go fuck yoursel(f)(ves).
February 20th, 2009 at 7:27 pm
Raiders = Commitment to Excellent (Psychiatric Institution)
February 20th, 2009 at 7:37 pm
DeAngelo Hall was last year’s Nnamdi. That financial transaction went swimmingly.
February 21st, 2009 at 1:33 pm
The funny thing is I bet any other team in the NFL could have offered him the vet minimum, two packs of gum, and 3 McDonalds coupons, and he’d be so thrilled to leave that dysfunctional mental institution he wouldn’t have to think very hard to accept it.
February 22nd, 2009 at 1:37 am
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Animal Mother Says:
February 20th, 2009 at 1:22 pm
Respectability? Setting the goal really high aren’t we? Why don’t we try for 10-11 wins and the playoffs first. You know, something easier for the Raiders to handle.
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Those things seem equivalent to me.
February 22nd, 2009 at 1:56 am
Why in the hell is Al paying his people what they are worth? He usually pays free agents 5-10 times what they are worth.
February 22nd, 2009 at 4:58 pm
Funny…Al keeps referring to Nnamdi as “Woodson.” Maybe Alzheimer’s explains his decision to spend money on a player with talent?