Montana, Bradshaw spoil the Super Bowl pre-game party

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http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercu...s/13807432.htm

The league started trotting out Super Bowl MVPs of the past, guys who made an impact with brilliance in the most-hyped, most-scrutinized event in American sports.
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Joe Montana and Terry Bradshaw were nowhere to be found.
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Two men who took a pass on honoring the game, and the fans, that made them millionaires, many times over.

On Monday morning, we learned why.

Newsday and the San Francisco Chronicle reported that Montana wanted a guaranteed appearance fee of $100,000, instead of the package the NFL had in mind for the entire class of MVPs. The league reportedly was providing airfare, accommodations, two tickets to the game, $1,000 for incidentals while in Detroit and the use of a rental car.
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Bradshaw's agent told reporters that his guy wanted to spend Super Bowl Sunday with his family, that it had nothing to do with the coin. Either way, it's pretty weak.
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Montana, meanwhile, may have had other reasons for not showing up. Tim Kawakami of the San Jose Mercury News speculated that it could have been Steve Young's presence that kept Montana from showing up.

Interesting, Joey, interesting...