It what ultimately could be a hollow gesture given that his team’s season has ended, the UFL has suspended Hartford Colonials running back Lorenzo Booker in the wake of his decision to boycott the regular-season finale due to the league’s decision to enforce a $150,000 “transfer fee.”
That said, it wouldn’t surprise us to learn that the league is taking the position that Booker still “owes” the Colonials one more game, and that the league would try to hold Booker’s rights beyond the expiration of his contract on February 28, 2011.
That said, it’s safe to say no one in the NFL wanted Booker even before his boycott. He’d been out of the NFL for two years after playing only two.