Ryan Clady has a really sore foot and also piles and piles of money.
Lisfranc injuries sound really nasty. According to Wikipedia, they are named after a French surgeon and gynecologist named Jacques Lisfranc de St. Martin, who treated soldiers for the maladies, which are essentially “crushing injuries” to the middle foot common amongst riders dismounted from their horses with one foot still stuck in the stirrup. These ouchies involve the tearing of connective tissue from bone and are apparently very, very painful. People who know about these things foretold Ryan Clady’s season being over as soon as Monday. His is not an injury that a 300 plus pound man copes with well.
Clady’s coping with the lisfranc injury will certainly be aided by the fact that he sleeps on a mattress stuffed with Pat Bowlen’s money. Thanks to his refusal to sign his franchise tender in the off-season Clady was recently awarded with a very lucrative new five-year contract which, according to Pro Football Talk, includes 33M in guaranteed dough.
What a stroke of luck. Clady must be thanking his lucky stars – and his agent – that he has such security instead of a one-year franchise deal worth only $10M. Teams and fans don’t love it when players hold out, but the Clady situation is a fine illustration as to the advantages of doing so. Had Clady played ball with the Broncos he would now be on IR with no assurances of future earnings. Now he can rest easy – on pillows of cash.
