Rodney Harrison says player once offered sex with girlfriend for a jersey number
During a recent segment on Pro Football Talk, former Chargers and Patriots safety Rodney Harrison shared a story about the sanctity of an athlete's jersey number.
Apparently, that athlete-number bond was so strong for one San Diego player that he offered a teammate sex with his girlfriend to acquire the digits. Here's how Harrison described the indecent proposal (emphasis added):
"[A] guy offered another guy $50,000 for his number and the guy said, 'No way, I need my number.' It just shows you how superstitious these guys are and how connected they are to their number. But at the same time, then the next thing was probably the craziest thing, money, people offer that all the time, but the guy said, ‘Hey man, I’ll allow you to sleep with my girlfriend.’ Once he said that, I lost my mind. I said no way can it be that serious. I said, 'Obviously you don’t love your girlfriend that much.'"
Or he just really, really loved that number.
