It wasn't a ripoff like the City of San Diego squandering millions of dollars on a ticket guarantee to Team Spanos, but the Donald Brown investment returned pennies on the dollar before the Chargers released Brown, their No. 4 running back, earlier this month.
Over his two seasons in San Diego, Brown drew about $7 million in pay.
I begrudge him not one penny, even if his performance was pedestrian. NFL running backs are the crash-test dummies of football. They get extra points for bravery.
Adding to the occupational hazard for Brown, who once got clothes-lined by a New York Jet linebacker who ran unimpeded into San Diego's backfield, Bolts blockers ceded more ground than Chamberlain did at Berchtesgaden.