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Peyton Hillis a no-show for kids Halloween event, former Browns player says By Vinnie Iyer: Sporting News Peyton Hillis is seeking a lucrative multiyear contract from the Cleveland Browns, but according to Cleveland sports radio station 94.3 The Fan, families at the city's Boys & Girls Club who were hoping to be treated to a Halloween night appearance by the popular running back got tricked. Hillis was scheduled to attend along with the organizer of the event, former Browns center LeCharles Bentley, who shared his frustration about the fact Hillis was a no-show via Twitter on Monday evening. "Peyton Hillis looking for 10mil guaranteed from Browns and can't show up to kids charity event? #ManPlease" It was especially disappointing for Bentley, as the event was promoted as "Halloween with Hillis," and was to be aired live as part of Bentley's own radio show. Later in the night, Bentley tweeted the following: "FYI, I'm a board member at Boys & Girls Club. Great event planned..just didn't work out. We all can move on." Hillis has battled injuries all season, and the Browns haven't been able to count on him to help their running game, which now will be without his replacement. Second-year back Montario Hardesty has a calf injury and won't be available for at least a couple of weeks. If the Cleveland community which holds the Browns in such high esteem can't count on Hillis, he can't expect to be counting his desired millions from the team anytime soon. web page
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Boys and Girls Club told 92.3 the fan that they only had a deal to provide space for LCB to hold his show. LCB was to provide the entertainment and guests.
Let's see what happens before we dump on Hillis. Something seems fishy here, IMO.
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On another thread it says that Hillis never said that he would appear.
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I don't know if that's the number, but does that seem high to any of you?
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I don't know if that's the number, but does that seem high to any of you?
No. Pay the man.
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Give him Robo's money? Pay this man if it gets his nose out of joint, head back in the game, and his rump on the field. Or buy some offensive line. 
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Boys and Girls Club told 92.3 the fan that they only had a deal to provide space for LCB to hold his show. LCB was to provide the entertainment and guests.
Let's see what happens before we dump on Hillis. Something seems fishy here, IMO.
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I don't know if that's the number, but does that seem high to any of you?
No. Pay the man.
If you plan on using him.
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attend along with the organizer of the event, former Browns center LeCharles Bentley
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Great, just saw this made Yahoo's front page along w/ all the other useless news of the day . . . 
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http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/201...-show/#commentsPeyton Hillis apologizes for Halloween event no-show Posted by Mike Florio on November 3, 2011, 8:04 AM EDT Placement on the cover of the popular (but, frankly, increasingly boring and stale) Madden video game franchise supposedly carries with it a curse. I never believed that. Until this year. For Browns running back Peyton Hillis, the public vote that gave him the honor over Eagles quarterback MikeŒVick apparently has contributed to Hillis having an attitude that he’s worth more money than he really is. And his inability to parlay one good-but-not-great season — he rushed for 1,177 yards after Montario Hardesty was lost for the season — into a major payday has caused Hillis apparently to go a little goofy. Whispers have emerged of Hillis wanting to be paid like Panthers running back DeAngelo Williams. There’s also talk that Hillis has rejected an offer from the Browns that would have paid him $5 million per year. Hillis has had to deal with the clumsy handling of a case of strep throat that caused him to miss a game, creating the perception that he would have played if he’d gotten a new contract. (It’s didn’t help Hillis that center Alex Mack later played with appendicitis.) Now battling a hamstring injury, Hillis faces suspicion that he’s not really injured. Complicating matters is the fact that Hillis failed to show up for a Monday event hosted by the Boys and Girls Club, and arranged by former Browns center LeCharles Bentley. Dubbed “Halloween with Hillis,” it was indeed Halloween but there was no Hillis to be seen. Two days after missing the event, Hillis publicly apologized. “I just want to say I’m sorry about the charity event with the Boys and Girls Club,” Hillis said, via NFL.com. “There was a lot of miscommunication between me and the management that I had, and if I knew the full depths of it, I wouldn’t have missed it.” In the grand scheme of things, anyone who blinks will have missed the best part of Peyton’s career. The Browns apparently are willing to let him hit the open market in 2012, presumably so that he can see that no one else will pay him anything close to what he wants. Given his recent misadventures and the national hit to his reputation, Hillis could find himself in the Tiki Barber/Clinton Portis category of veteran tailbacks, given that there are so many young, undrafted guys who can get the job done. Running backs have become more and more fungible in the modern NFL. Curtis Brinkley and Jackie Battle reconfirmed that notion on Monday night for the Chargers and Chiefs, respectively, moving the chains absent the pedigree or, for now, the expectations of getting paid big money. Only a small handful of running backs will ever get it. Hillis, who has only 211 rushing yards this year, simply isn’t one of them. And that’s fitting. When Hillis finally gets his shot at getting paid, the teams will treat his coming-out party like Halloween without Hillis.
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Wow...Halloween still came & went, while somebodys head was up thier....
Too bad I enjoyed watching Payton play. Too bad his head has gotten so big his body cant carry it, I'm with the Front Office 5 mil a year is fair.
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Peyton has done so many charity events it's not even funny. It was a screw up but with his history I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt that it was on his "management" (or brother which has been rumored) and not so much on him. Can't really be there if you don' t know when/where it is and you are relying on someone to give you that info.
Also it isn't about the 5mil it's about the guaranteed money. If Hillis is asking for 10mil guaranteed that is to high, if the Browns are only offering 3mil guaranteed then that is to low. It's negotiations and they will meet somewhere in the middle.
I don't see anywhere where Peyton is getting a big head, at all.
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I agree with you on that.
Hillis has done everything asked of him, so I am more than willing to forgive a mistake.
I know that the kids were disappointed, but I doubt that he did this with any malicious thought.
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If those kids are Browns fans, I'm sure they know how to deal with it.
I am unfamiliar with this feeling of optimism
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Might as well get them acclimated early ...... 
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The thing that kind of bugs me about this story is wouldn't kids rather be trick-or-treating on Halloween night than going to some Boys Club thing? Hillis or no Hillis, when I was a kid I would have wanted to be out roaming the neighborhood far and wide for Halloween candy ... just a boy, his costume, and his pillowcase come to collect your goodies. Do kids not do that anymore?
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I know that our city had Trick-or-Treat on Saturday night. So they wouldn't have had anything to do on Monday night unless they were going to a neighboring town or something.
I am unfamiliar with this feeling of optimism
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We had trick or treat in YTown on Monday from 5-7. Depending on when the event was, kids might have been able to make it.
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I hate that this is even a story.
Even if he's being spiteful to the Browns due to the contract situation, what would skipping out on this do?
Non-Issue.
I think a bigger issue is his teammates opinions of him. Because apparently at least one of them thinks he skipped it BECAUSE of his contract...
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Hillis just needs better management. His agent/PR people or whatever are failing him badly. I love to watch him play, and loved seeing him dominate people wearing a Browns uni. I hate that his legacy is this crap. Hopefully everything gets worked out, he gets healthy and starts kicking butt for us again.
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I think Hillis is desiring to get out of Cleveland at this point.
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This is becoming very Reuben Droughns esk...
And that's coming from the guy with a white (non-kevin mack) #34 jersey in his closet...
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Honestly...if Hillis leaves i don't blame him...
Shurmur doesn't commit to the run and likes to pass....Hillis would be better served to go somewhere where they are going to give him the rock 25+ times a game...he is a difference maker if you do that...not to mention he has nice soft hands and is a very good receiver....
Hillis played with Broken Ribs last year....a hamstring wouldn't keep him out long if at all....something is up here...i don't think he is happy with this system...he is is not going to stick around, why should he....
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MY GUYS on The Fan here in Columbus were discussing Hillis this afternoon. They said that on top of his agent, he has a manager, who is his BROTHER. They said, and this was just guys talking on the radio, that there is talk among media types in Cleveland that said brother is obviously not that bright. There is supposedly speculation that the guy is responsible for the multiple agent changes and Lord-knows what else. So take all that w/ a grain of salt . . .
And to those saying he wants out of Cleveland. Maybe. Probably. But if so, he's done nothing but show the whole league that he's a buffoon, possibly injury prone and not worth a whole lot of money. I think the biggest pay day he could possibly get is from us.
I'm not thinking too much into the Halloween kid thing, but MAN is a lot of storyline is piling up for this guy all at once . . . He had it bad enough after the strep throat thing (we WON that game), lingering hammy and turning down that contract. He's gotta be hating life right now.
I think getting healthy and showing something on the field soon will cure his ails for the present.
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Shurmur doesn't commit to the run and likes to pass....Hillis would be better served to go somewhere where they are going to give him the rock 25+ times a game...he is a difference maker if you do that...not to mention he has nice soft hands and is a very good receiver....
Hillis played with Broken Ribs last year....a hamstring wouldn't keep him out long if at all....something is up here...i don't think he is happy with this system...he is is not going to stick around, why should he....
Knight, if I could read Hillis's mind and found out all that was true, I'd help him pack his bags. He didn't play enough w/ Shurmur to make such a rash judgement and then just QUIT playing.
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Published: Thursday, November 03, 2011, 7:46 PM Updated: Thursday, November 03, 2011, 8:18 PM
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Joshua Gunter, The Plain Dealer"The fans have always been great to me," Peyton Hillis said Thursday. "They're great fans. You owe them the world, you try to do the best you can for them, and that's what I've been trying to do lately."
BEREA, Ohio -- A year ago, Peyton Hillis wore cowboy boots and an aw-shucks grin whenever he spoke in a corner of the Browns' locker room.
He talked about wrestling hogs and pulling pick-up trucks for workouts back in his tiny Arkansas hometown. He endeared himself to Cleveland fans with his brash running style, and surprised opponents with his physical rushing performances.
These days, the Madden NFL 12 cover boy has to face hordes of cameras and reporters to defend missed charity appearances, missed games with injury and illness, whether he'll sign a contract extension and whether he's still accepted by his own teammates.
Nothing is off-limits, as the 25-year-old Hillis even is asked about his abrupt midseason marriage on the team's off-day last week.
Hillis' announcement that he expects to play Sunday against the Houston Texans after participating in his first pain-free practice -- though limited -- since he strained his left hamstring three weeks ago earned only a handful of questions on Thursday. Instead, how the face of the Browns' franchise has been handling his newfound celebrity, and the missteps he's made as the Browns lost four of their first seven games was the bulk of the focus.
These days, Hillis speaks in the center of the locker room, where media crush around. He's still coming to grips with his cover-boy world.
"It's been a humbling experience," Hillis said. "It's been a whirlwind coming from where I was to where I'm at now. I'm trying to grasp the whole situation and trying to deal with it. It's still a learning process and I'm trying to do the best I can."
Hillis has learned the hard way that public perception is a difficult beast to control. He was criticized when he sat out a game with strep throat, complaints that were exacerbated when he later said he did so at the advice of his agent. Lurking all season has been his unsettled contract extension status, something he said he no longer wants to address with media.
His latest slip was a missed Halloween party Monday for the Cleveland Boys and Girls Club. Hillis apologized again Thursday for what he said was a "miscommunication" with his management, explaining that after finishing treatment for his hamstring injury at 4:30 p.m., he didn't know where he was supposed to be for the party an hour later.
"I didn't know how big a deal it was until the next day," Hillis said. "I feel terrible about that. I still say that's not any excuse. When there's kids involved, you should be there for them."
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On other topics, Hillis tried to dispel any negative perceptions:
• On not playing Sunday in San Francisco: "Now that I look back at it, it was too soon, no doubt. I wanted to play and I wanted to get out there. ... I was really excited to go and I probably let my emotions get too high."
• On his marriage last week: "I've always been a guy on the down-low about things. I try to get things done that I want to get done. It was something I really wanted to get done."
• On his relationships inside the locker room: "Me and the teammates are great. There's never been a problem there from my point of view. ... Guys in the locker room, they understand a lot of situations. And other situations they probably don't understand, you talk about it with them, then they understand."
• On whether Browns fans still support him: "The fans have always been great to me. They're great fans. You owe them the world, you try to do the best you can for them, and that's what I've been trying to do lately."
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Hillis said he likely pushed his injured hamstring too hard in practice last week when he was back for Wednesday before sitting again. Now, he said his strength and flexibility felt good after Thursday's practice. If it were Sunday, "I could go," he said.
"[But] I'm glad it's not Sunday," he added. "I'd rather have a couple more days to rest and get my mind right."
As controversy has followed him, the Browns' running game has struggled. They're 29th in the NFL with 87.6 yards per game, and last week lost Montario Hardesty to a torn calf muscle. Head coach Pat Shurmur said he's planning on using newly signed running back Thomas Clayton in Houston.
Shurmur, for one, doesn't think Hillis' absence the last two games and most of a third with the hamstring injury and his off-field drama has affected his relationship with teammates.
"The team wants all of the guys to be in there playing all the time," Shurmur said. "I think the team understands that as the season goes on, things happen. I don't see there being any problems between Peyton and his teammates."
But if there are problems with fans, it's something that does concern Hillis.
"I'm human. You get down on yourself when you let people down that care about you or you care about them," he said. "It's been an interesting process for me, but nothing I can't handle and nothing I'm not getting better from."
Because, he said, at the heart of everything is this: "I don't want to let nobody down. That's the last thing I want to do. I just want to go out there and do my best."
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I still like Hillis and not re-signing him would be to our detriment.
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Let's just hope Hillis has a couple good games to put all this to rest and shut the media up. There should be no controversy, he's one of the very few playmakers we have on this team.
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The thing that kind of bugs me about this story is wouldn't kids rather be trick-or-treating on Halloween night than going to some Boys Club thing? Hillis or no Hillis, when I was a kid I would have wanted to be out roaming the neighborhood far and wide for Halloween candy ... just a boy, his costume, and his pillowcase come to collect your goodies. Do kids not do that anymore?
There a reason why there is a Boys and Girls club in this neighborhood, it is horrible as are most neighborhoods with Boys and Girls Clubs. It was an even to keep kids off the street.
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