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Posted January 2nd, 2009 by Commish
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Kurt Warner Can Add $4 Million in Bonuses

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Jan. 16 (Bloomberg) — Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner may earn as much as $4 million in bonuses, doubling his base salary, if he leads his team to its first Super Bowl championship, according to a person with access to his contract.

Warner, a two-time National Football League most valuable player who becomes an unrestricted free agent after this season, earned $1.5 million in performance bonuses during the regular season and $1.5 million for leading the Cardinals to the NFC championship game this weekend against the Philadelphia Eagles in Glendale, Arizona.

The 37-year-old quarterback, who won a Super Bowl title with the St. Louis Rams after the 1999 season, can increase his bonus total by $500,000 if the team advances to the Super Bowl Feb. 1 in Tampa, Florida, and another $500,000 if Arizona wins the championship. The total bonus payout for the season would be $4 million for a player who might have wound up as a backup.

“We weren’t sure what his role was going to be,” Mark Bartelstein, Warner’s agent, said in a telephone interview discussing his client’s contract.

He wouldn’t confirm the bonus figures. The person who provided them asked for anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to speak on the matter.

The Cardinals were 2 1/2-point underdogs to the Eagles with Las Vegas odddsmakers. In the American Football Conference championship game to determine the other Super Bowl team, the Pittsburgh Steelers were six-point favorites over the Baltimore Ravens.

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