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Creativity lands Seymour huge payday

By Len Pasquarelli
ESPN.com

Friday, April 14, 2006

It took months of negotiations, dozens of meetings with proposals heaped upon counterproposals, a few hundred faxes and, of course, a lot of money, to complete the lucrative contract extension that New England Patriots star defensive lineman Richard Seymour signed this week. But mostly it took the creativity of people on both sides of the negotiating table, perhaps even more so than cash, to consummate an extension nearly two years in the making. The extension, first reported by ESPN.com on We ...

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