I don’t know if he’s got the ‘chops’ to play Pendergrass. But should make for a pretty interesting biopic. Wasn’t L&O’s Jessie Martin signed up to do a pic on Marvin Gaye ?

How about Conan O’Brien’s big payday from NBC ? He gets $33million while his staff share an additional $12 million in severance pay. Nice work if you can get it !

O’Brien seals $45 million deal to quit ‘Tonight’

Host walks away with $33 million payoff, staff splits $12 million

NEW YORK – NBC said Thursday it has reached a $45 million deal with Conan O’Brien for his exit from the “Tonight Show,” allowing Jay Leno to return to the late-night program he hosted for 17 years.

Under the deal, which came seven months after O’Brien took the reins from Leno, O’Brien will get more than $33 million, NBC said. The rest will go to his staff in severance, the network said in an announcement on the TODAY show.
======================
Click on link to read piece in its entirety
=================

And how about the Glazers ? Have you heard the latest about them issuing a bond placement in order to pay off part of Man U’s $1.1 billion debt. They want some of the players to buy some of the bonds that they’ll be issuing. That f_cking family couldn’t run a lemonade stand much less a sport’s franchise. Both United and the Bucs aren’t that far off from filing for bankruptcy. They’ve not been able to meet their financial obligations as to their creditors for Utd .

Glazer family loans saddle Manchester United with debt of £716m

• Interest rates on loans set to rise to 16.25%
• Parent company made profit of just £6.4m

Interest charges on loans taken out by the Glazer family and secured on their shareholding in Manchester United were this summer set to jump to an incredible rate of 16.25%, as the total debt now carried by the club stands at £716.6m.

The accounts, which provide a more complete picture than the figures released last week, show that, even allowing for a profit of £80.7m on player transfers, the parent company made a profit of £6.4m due to the need to service that debt.

The imminent hike in interest rates from 14.25%, due to take effect in August this year, would have further accelerated the rate at which the hedge fund debt – which has already swollen from £138m to £202.1m – “rolled up”.

Under the terms of a £500m bond scheme, the Glazers have made provisions to channel up to £127m back into the parent company in the first year alone to start paying down that debt. The Red Football Joint Venture figures, filed at Companies House, are likely to be seized on by critics of the Glazer regime as evidence of United’s reduced spending power.

========================================
Click on link to read article in its entirety
========================================

If you don’t think that they’re now hampering the Bucs with this financial fallout. Then think again.

So you’ve still got implicit faith that they and Bucs are heading in the right direction ? Sooner or later one boot is going to drop on this whole cumbersome mess. And the fallout will be catastrophic !

Goodell and the NFL hierarchy had better keep a close watch on this all or else it just won’t be United that’s in trouble but the Bucs and their overall operations as well.