Money Well Wasted

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The Bengals announced Monday that the team re-signed linebacker Rey Maualuga to a two-year deal, despite the fact that Maualuga has been tackling-intolerant for the past couple seasons. The deal pays him $6.5 million over the length of the contract (plus bonuses), which is somewhere in the range of $6.5 million too much. Below is a list of more productive things the organization could have done with that money.

– Donate the money to a charity.

– Donate the money to Bill Gates.

– Give Hamilton County a tax break by putting it toward the team’s stadium deal.

– Throw it all on Black 17 at the roulette tables of the new Horseshoe Casino.

– Bequeath it to Pro Football Focus to fund improvements for what Marvin Lewis considers to be “some dumbass website that doesn’t have any idea of what football is.” (Shots fired!!!)

– Wire it to those Nigerian princes that are always hitting Mike Brown up for cash via email.

– Help pay off my student loans. (This one isn’t a joke.)

– Fund some ridiculous Kickstarter campaign. (Give your face a hug!)

– Buy a ridiculous amount of the new Mountain Dew Kickstart—the orange flavor isn’t bad.

– Go all Breaking Bad and pull a Heisenberg with the stacks (while screaming “I AM THE DANGER! I AM THE ONE WHO KNOCKS!!!).

– Make sure Girl Meets World, the reboot of Boy Meets World, gets past the pilot stage and is picked up for a full season. And that it doesn’t suck. We all need Topanga back in our lives.

Treat. Yo. Self.

– Or, ya know, spend the cash elsewhere in free agency.

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