The Oakland Raiders snapped up the quarterback from Louisiana State University in 2007, fresh on the heels of Russell's MVP performance in the Sugar Bowl. But Russell's NFL debut was delayed while his agents hammered out one of the most lucrative (and eventually ludicrous) contracts in NFL history. Russell didn't attend a single day of training camp until he signed his sixyear, $68 million deal.Cricket was the poor cousin. And if you need to grow the game and build modern infrastructure, you need commerce. We are always being compared for the modern infrastructure with the NFL or the MLB or the EPL.

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