Casey Printers was once the highest-paid player in the Canadian Football League. Then he became a Kansas City Chief, which essentially killed all that that unbridled success stuff.
Now Printers is trying to rebuild his career back on home-soil as quarterback for the British Columbia Lions, Canadian newspaper the Ottawa Citizen reports.
Here's an excerpt:
Before departing for Kansas City of the National Football League, Printers turned down a three-year contract offer worth $1.2 million from the Lions. If he had accepted, he might have reclaimed the starting job from concussion-plagued Dave Dickenson in a matter of months.Printers' Chiefs career wasn't much. He struggled in the 2006 preseason, and was bumped from the regular line-up to the practice roster twice before he was released in September 2007. Then there was the humiliation of being sacked on-camera on HBO's Hard Knocks: Training Camp With the Chiefs series.
Instead, three years later he'll draw practice-roster money, $600 a week or thereabouts, waiting for a Buck Pierce slump or a longer-than-expected Jarious Jackson absence to open the door a crack.
"One thing that is constant about football: There's always going to be someone who plays bad, and there's always going to be someone who gets hurt," Printers said Monday from Houston, where he held a conference call with reporters before climbing on a plane to Vancouver.
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