'Man, we doing all this and we don’t even know if we going to be here next week.'
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On Tuesday, they went back to work. The Express ran their typical special teams meetings and players later prepped for practice. James went out to the field early to get extra work in before the session. He sat on the field to warm up when he felt an offensive coach tap him on the shoulder. The coach told him they had to go back inside to have another meeting.
“It was like, ‘Damn, really? Like, tonight?’ ” James said. “I mean, that was a first. What kind of is that? So then I was like, well, ‘I’m sure you’re going to figure out transportation and have flights scheduled, or you’re going to compensate guys for gas and stuff like that.’ Well we got another message saying that’s not happening at all.”
James spoke of the team’s fullback, Anthony Manzo-Lewis, who lives in New Jersey and, with no place to go, had to drive 17 hours to get home. Then the game ended. Players were starting to celebrate when Ebersol walked into Arizona’s locker room. “I went and looked at it, and I was like: ‘Is this an April Fools' joke?’” Johnson said. “I didn’t know. I started looking up stuff and calling my teammates, and they were like, ‘Yeah, man. It’s over.’ ”
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