DR. TOM - THE PRO YEARS

HUSKERMAN-HUSKERFAN · Apr 23, 2012

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A relaxed Tom Osborne joked about his brief NFL career following a football practice in the spring of 1990. The subject came up because the NFL draft was that weekend.

Osborne played two seasons with the Washington Redskins.

“We were so desperate, things got so tough, we went to what’s known as an incentive pay system,” he said. “If you made a touchdown, you got $100, caught a pass, you got $50; if you made a great block or a great tackle, you got $15. And, of course, there were fines and deductions if you fumbled, missed an assignment, did something wrong. To give you an idea of the kind of player I was, at the end of the first year, they called me in and added everything up and said I owed the team $34.50.

“They said I was the highest-paid player on the team that year.”

(Insert rimshot)
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Sid · Apr 23, 2012

LOL! I love it when a big-time person like Dr. Tom is self-deprecating. It shows humility.

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