Pretty heartless.
The Minnesota Vikings have docked wide receiver Troy Williamson one game check for missing last Sunday’s game against the San Diego Chargers
to attend the Monday funeral of his maternal grandmother.Based on his 2007 salary of $435,000, the action by the Vikings will
cost the three-year veteran $25,588. Williamson has 45 days to appeal
Minnesota’s decision to withhold his pay, and NFL Players Association
sources said he will do so.
,,,The team apparently apprised Williamson on Wednesday that he would not receive a paycheck for the game that he missed.
“I don’t care if they would have [taken] my pay for the rest of the
year, I was going home,” Williamson told the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
“It wouldn’t have mattered to me.”
Ugh, this from the team that’s the furthest below the salary cap in the NFL (i.e., they have money to spend).
Fine, they won’t pay to sign a real QB or WR corps. But 25k so a player can go to his grandmother’s funeral? That’s Red McCombs territory there.