7. A NFL STORY: THE POISON PILL PROVISION-- Under NFL rules, a free agent's team has the right to match another team's offer if it can. In 2006, the Minnesota Vikings found an ingenious, or, underhanded way, to get Steve Hutchinson from the Seattle Seahawks.
They offered him $49 million with a poison pill provision that guaranteed the full amount of the contract if he wasn't the highest-paid offensive lineman on their team. They did this knowing that Seattle would match it since they already had a higher paid lineman.
The Seahawks got back by offering wide-receiver Nate Burleson a back-loaded $49 million contract guaranteed if he played at least five games in Minnesota, who play eight home games a year in Minneapolis.
Such things are no longer allowed in the NFL.
8. A POISONOUS METEORITE-- A meteorite landed in Peru near Lake Titicaca in 2007, and fumes from the crater sickened dozens of villagers. Some speculated that it might be akin to the fictional Andromeda Strain, the toxic microbe from space.
Scientists, however, concluded that the heat from it activated arsenic in an underground water supply and created the sickening steam.
What Comes Around Goes Around. --Cooter
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