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NFL begins "performance based pay" system

By Len Pasquarelli
ESPN.com

Tuesday, March 18, 2003

One day in the next week or two Randy McMichael will go to the mail box, sort through all of the junk he regularly receives, and discover an envelope with a Miami Dolphins return address on it. And at that moment, the Dolphins second-year tight end will be more than $40,000 wealthier, compliments of the NFL's new "performance based pay" program. Instituted in partnership with the NFL Players Association, as a part of the 2002 extension to the collective bargaining agreement, the new system will ...

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