{"id":9275,"date":"2011-08-22T15:12:55","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T19:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=9275"},"modified":"2011-08-22T14:17:42","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T18:17:42","slug":"cards-sign-fitzgerald-to-120m-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=9275","title":{"rendered":"Cards Sign Fitzgerald  To $120M Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>TEMPE, Ariz.<\/strong> \u2014 The Arizona Cardinals and <strong>Larry Fitzgerald<\/strong> have agreed to an eight-year deal that could pay the star receiver as much as $120 million, making it one of the richest deals in the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement, with guarantees near $50 million, is by far the biggest in the franchise\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fitzgerald<\/strong> and team president <strong>Michael Bidwill<\/strong> appeared at a hastily called news conference Saturday night to announce the agreement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fitzgerald<\/strong> insisted he \u201chates this part of sports,\u201d but he certainly has made a boatload of money. This is the third major contract he has signed, and he doesn\u2019t turn 28 until Aug. 31.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGrowing up, since I was 7 years old, this has been the game I love and something I have been so passionate about,\u201d <strong>Fitzgerald<\/strong> said, \u201cand to have to talk about it on the business side is a little bit uncomfortable. But I am really happy to put it behind us and it wouldn\u2019t be possible if it wasn\u2019t for the Bidwill family\u2019s hard work in making this thing happen.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEMPE, Ariz. \u2014 The Arizona Cardinals and Larry Fitzgerald have agreed to an eight-year deal that could pay the star receiver as much as $120 million, making it one of the richest deals in the NFL. The agreement, with guarantees near $50 million, is by far the biggest in the franchise\u2019s history. Fitzgerald and team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}