Was Cushman's dad racist? Or just greedy?
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pacinofan58 — 16 years ago(June 05, 2009 11:49 AM)
It had nothing to do with his father being a racist, it had to do with teams preferring to deal with one agent more than another. Cushmans dad wanted the kid to go first in the draft, and the team that they were pushing for, wanted to deal with the firm Maguire got canned from, rather than Maguire himself. It happens all the time. If you go to Fox Sports, you will see this very thing happening with the super agent Drew Rosenhaus. He has been fired by quite a few clients recently, who have had a problem settling their contract disputes, because Rosenhaus is very aggressive, and teams don't want to deal with him.so he has been let go by a bunch of athletes of late, for that reason!
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hnt_dnl — 16 years ago(July 05, 2009 11:00 AM)
It's an interesting question. I think that the "black fellow" statement, taken in context, was more that he was peeved that Jerry would dare to focus on anyone but his son, who was the biggest draft pick in years. Just a function of where he comes from and how he grew up that he made a statement like that.
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dhmason6155 — 16 years ago(February 01, 2010 07:28 AM)
What bothers me is that they replaced the word "colored fella" for "black fella". Political correctness at work again.
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jane_bront — 12 years ago(April 10, 2013 07:52 PM)
I still don't get it. It looked like Jerry spent a
lot
of time with Cush that day with apparently no hint that anything is amiss from Mr. Cushman. He spends what looks like a half an hour, or hour tops, walking through the lobby with Tidwell and the next thing you know the man that said he didn't do contracts
"did"
a contract with Sugar who is an obvious slimeball. Why not tell Sugar 'I'll get back to you' and ask Jerry if he could definitely get Denver for Cush?
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angelprincess6879 — 15 years ago(January 21, 2011 11:51 PM)
In my opinion, Matt (the father) was NEVER fully with Jerry. I kinda got the feeling he was playing both sides to see the best deal he could get and whoever got that for him and kissed all their asses enough was the one they'd go with. One reason I say that is when Jerry goes to the Cushman's house, Matt tells them that they decided if Jerry showed up they'd stay with him. Jerry gets excited and hugs him and then Frank walks in with this "Ummmmm dad, what's going on?? Why is Jerry here??" It was kinda like he had NO clue what his dad was talking about and just played along until Jerry left and then Matt filled him in.
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