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It's on the Detroit Lions to make amends with Calvin Johnson over petty $320,000 payback

Detroit Free Press

It looks petty. I’ll give you that.

That can happen when a man who made more than $100 million playing football gets upset over a (relatively) measly $320,000. Folks aren’t gonna relate.

And many didn’t earlier this week when former Detroit Lions’ star, Calvin Johnson said he wasn’t happy with the way he and the Lions organization parted ways.

To recap: Johnson signed an eight-year, $132 million contract in 2012 that included a $16 million signing bonus. When Johnson retired before the 2016 season, he owed, per his contract, $3.