Marc Ellis
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
That was a little clever addition that the old man actually put in.
And as I was signing it, he wrote at my discretion.
You know, and so... Did you know agents back then?
Gee, no, I think dad was acting as that.
And I had a commercial advisor, but he wasn't part of that particular process, but he snuck in, you know, or altered as it was being signed at my discretion.
So after three years when they're trying to get rid of me because I was paid a bit too much and probably not performing to the level that they'd hoped, they could have bought two players for what they were paying me.
I said, yeah, look, I'm just going to exercise my right of another couple of years, which freaked them out.
So they had to pay me up for those last couple of years, so.
The lack of budget in 98, 99 or whatever it was.