It’s a good thing Christmas is over, because the next family reunion might not be so pleasant for one NFL wide receiver.
After Andre Johnson’s uncle/adviser Andre Melton told the Houston Chronicle that Johnson “doesn’t mind having a pay cut,” Johnson himself had a different take.
“Who said that?” Johnson said, via Tania Ganguli of ESPN.com, who was then helpful enough to point out it was good old Uncle Andre.
“Really?” Johnson said. “I don’t know where that came from. I’ll cross that bridge when I get to it.”
Johnson’s $10.5 million base salary might need adjusting for him to have a future with the Texans, but he said he hasn’t had any conversations about it.
“I never made any statements about no pay cut or anything because nobody ever approached me about a pay cut,” Johnson said. “Like I said, I’ll cross that bridge whenever it comes. . . .
“I don’t know where that story came from. It wasn’t, did it say that I said it? I can’t speak for nobody else. I only can speak for what I say. I didn’t make that statement.”
Now it’ll be interesting to see how many more statements his uncle makes, or whether he gets thrown out to the curb with the old Christmas tree.