LT, Bolts call truce, come to terms on restructured 3-year deal

[madinmaryland]

Sorry Boss.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/football/nfl/03/10/LT.chargers/index.html

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- LaDainian Tomlinson is staying with the San Diego Chargers.

L.T. and the Chargers agreed to a renegotiated deal that gives the team salary cap relief. The Chargers confirmed the agreement Tuesday night. Financial terms weren't immediately available for the three-year contract.

The deal ends a two-month saga during which it looked like Tomlinson, the 2006 NFL MVP, could be finished with the Chargers.

"I love San Diego and being a part of this team with my teammates," Tomlinson said in a statement released by the team Tuesday evening. "My No. 1 priority was to stay here in San Diego. I truly believe this is the place that gives me the best chance to be successful and win a championship. I want to finish the job we started when I got here eight years ago. My heart has always been in San Diego. I couldn't imagine putting on another uniform."

General manager A.J. Smith sounded relieved that any uncertainty over L.T.'s future was over.

"The way I'm looking at it, L.T. has helped us on the field and now he's gone a step further and he's helped us off the field," Smith told The Associated Press.

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[nickgutierrez]

1. Prediction: By this time next year, he's an ex-Charger.

Contracts don't mean a damn thing in that league.

[Captain Hilts]

2. They're not guaranteed. Is it to make him seem more attractive in a trade? That his...

skills are still good?