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Article: Money Washes Off Dickerson's Back;Ex-Ram Returns to L.A., Is Grateful Fans' Shower Was Paper, Not Stones
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- The Washington Post
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- September 20, 1989
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Eric Dickerson has a remarkable ability to raise the hackles of
people out here. Maybe because he's a confident kind of guy, or
because he's good looking, or because he's rich, or because he
thought he was worth more than $682,000 a year and said so,
constantly.
Take the fans at Sunday's Rams-Indianapolis Colts game,
Dickerson's first appearance here since he was traded to the Colts in
October 1987. First they booed. Then they threw play money at
him-lots of it-as he left the field at Anaheim Stadium. In between
they serenaded him with derisive "Ehhhriiiic, Ehhhriiiic" chants.
At first Dickerson was glib, saying, "If it was real money we
would have stopped and picked it up."
But later he ...