Kickers are hilarious

Former Seahawks kicker Josh Brown, now a St. Louis Mouflon, gave a rather hilarious interview wtih KJR, about the process, circumstances, and reasons he declined Seattle's offer (which would have made him the highest paid kicker in football) in favor of the Mouflons' offer (which makes him the highest paid kicker in football). Here's the link:

Josh Brown Interview Transcript

It is particularly funny because I think Brownie (who did a heckuva job for us last season, no doubt) starts out being refreshingly honest about the whole deal:

Q from Mahler: What were they offering you that the 'Hawks were not? Money?

Brown: Oh, yeah.

But then he thinks to himself, "Wow, sounds bad, I better qualify it," so he adds:

Brown: Oh, yeah. It was not necessarily just the money, but it was the breakdown of the money. The breakdown of the money. The way I'm getting it and when it's coming. I felt like I put myself in the situation in the way that I played as to where I couldn't be kind of a prisoner to the businessman and go off what he thought was best for me.

But that still didn't sound quite, what's the word I'm looking for...non-assholish. So later he declares:

Brown: It is important because this isn't necessarily about money. It's about winning. It's about winning plain and simple.

Uh-huh. Brownie left the Seahawks (4 straight NFC West titles, lost in second round of playoffs last season) to go to the Mouflons (3-13 last season) because it's all about winning. And because apparently Seattle has a problem with psychotic prisoner-taking businessmen with a fetish for NFL kickers.