Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Alvin Kamara is a lot of things. He is a superstar football player for the New Orleans Saints. His interests take him well beyond the football field, whether it's fashion or NASCAR or to his family's ancestral roots in Liberia.
He is electric and intelligent and personable. And perhaps above all, he is blunt. So, when Kamara says things like, “I want to be a Saint; I want to retire here,” which he said after reporting to training camp this July in the midst of a contract dispute, it was easy to believe him.
He is a lot of things, but he is not someone who sugarcoats tough topics. It was just a matter of working out the details. And sometimes that takes a lot of time, and a lot of effort.
Sometime in January or early February, before the Super Bowl and the NFL Scouting Combine, the Saints reached out to Kamara’s agent, Bradley Cicala, to begin discussions about a new contract that would keep the running back in New Orleans. There was desire on both sides to get the deal done. The Saints viewed Kamara as a core piece of their roster, someone who has a hard to define connection with the city and the fanbase, and most important, someone who is still a premier player.
For his part, Kamara truly viewed the Saints as the only organization he was interested in playing for. “It’s just special here,” Kamara said. “I think I would lose my flame if I went somewhere else.
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