Incentive Package

October 11 – 2006

MLS salaries continue to grow nearly as fast as attendance. The league, therefore, is getting creative with players’ salary packages and leaving no stone unturned. Case in point: MLS has mounted a “Vote Bobby Boswell” campaign in the hopes the DC United defender will win the $15000 Cosmo Man-Hunt.

The video attached to both links is a must see, chock full of side-splitting sarcasm. Confession: the second part of the last sentence was sarcastic. Bobby’s 2002 hairstyle is funny, though, and so is the following tidbit taken from his bio.

Dating deal breakers: “A woman who doesn’t want to try new things.”

Good luck, Bobby. We at Soccernista understand the need for an All-Star to supplement his $29,400 salary, and we’ll be voting early and often.