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Article: Dickerson's a survivor // Shrugs off Ram fans' `welcome'

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September 24, 1989
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ANAHEIM, Calif. 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

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