SUPER BOWL DAILY REPORT
Two days before Derrick Thomas was involved in the accident that has left him paralyzed, the Kansas City linebacker signed with the One-on-One sports radio network as a Super Bowl analyst.
He was to have attended news conferences, done interviews and provided analysis all week. His only compensation was to have been $1,000 for the week and a credential to Sunday’s game.
“He was very excited,” Mark Gentzkow, One-on-One’s vice president of programming, said from Atlanta. “He wanted the experience to prepare for a post-playing days career. It was almost as though he was paying us to be part of our team.”
Gentzkow said Thomas has a job as an NFL analyst waiting for him any time he wants it.
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