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Moose Scores Old Number OTH

By Brinson | May 2, 2008

Nothing beats On The House. Ever. Because it means free. A.K.A. nothing. Which is what Mushin Muhammad paid Jeff King for number 87, his old digits. It’s very, very rare that you see such a giveaway happen, too; generally players end up having to cough up at least like 10 large in order to land their old numbers. Not the case here.

Usually, when a player wants a number somebody already has, some kind of deal is transacted, or a fee is charged.

Not so with King, who gave Muhammad the number back and took No. 47 for himself.

‘Amazingly enough, it was freely given,’ Muhammad said. ‘Where the market is these days, it was actually free!’

Nice move by King, although I can’t say I would have done the same thing. And actually, I like the idea (and I’m somehow drawing a blank on who it was last year) of making the new player donate X thousands of dollars to a particular charity in order to get the number back. That’s really the way to go. But good for Moose, I suppose. Wide receivers happy = everyone happy.