Sports Money Talks, BS Walks: A History of NFL Rookie Holdouts

This Sunday marks Week 2 of the NFL season, but you wouldn’t know that if you hung out with Michael Crabtree. The former Texas Tech wide receiver was the 10th overall pick in last spring’s draft, but still hasn’t signed a contract, and may sit out the season entirely. Whether Crabree’s holdout is due to pride, greed, or simple stupidity is an answer that only Crabtree and his ridiculous cousin/adviser knows, but whatever the case dude stands to lose a ton of cash.

Of course rookie holdouts are nothing new, but seldom have players stayed away into the second week of the season, with results ranging from a two-year career ending with a rape conviction to a 13-year career with multiple Pro Bowl selections. Here’s our list of the best and worst of NFL rookie holdouts…

Sports 5 Reasons Tim Tebow Stayed At Florida

Focused on his man’s game, Tim Tebow gives female fans the cold shoulder.

Hallelujah! Thank God! Praise Jesus! Tim Tebow, the Bible-beating star quarterback of the national champion Florida Gators, is stiff-arming the NFL to play his senior season! After God willed UF to win the Bowl Championship Series title game against the Oklahoma Sooners last Thursday, Tebow, a two-time national champion and the first player to win the Heisman Trophy as a sophomore, could have said, “Later Gators! God wants me to get paid in the pros!” Instead, he’s staying in school, ostensibly to compete for back-to-back titles and graduate.

Complex knows there was much more to his decision than the desire to get an education and get his Gators another championship. Read on for the five reasons we think Tim Tebow is really returning to the college ranks…