Parcells had actually signed the contract but spurned them, and Jon Gruden took the job.
In 1931, after years of resistance, she spurned a $50,000 studio contract with M.G.M., gave in to George Romney's demands and married him in the Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City.
He popped up in almost every TV series of note – Casualty, Haggard (starring Keith Barron as a lascivious Georgian squire; Kelly played a sidekick called Nathaniel Grunge), the Poirot series and EastEnders – he even spurned a long-term contract with Coronation Street, having made a cameo impression in 1983 as Bob Challis, the man who repainted the Rovers Return before it burned down.
Pete Carroll was eventually dismissed by the New England Patriots, prompting Bill Belichick's hiring there after spurning his Jets contract as Parcells's successor.
When I first heard about Tillman's spurning a $3.6 million contract after playing four years for the Cardinals, what really impressed me was his utter refusal to talk about it, the belief that his choice was his own business and would in no way be enhanced by face time on TV.
In the meantime, he had various job proposals, which he spurned until privately receiving a contract offer from the manager of North Sydney Cricket Club.
Mr. Eisenberg said Equity's executive council had approved the boycott after the tour's producers spurned the union's offer of a special contract that would have allowed Equity actors to perform in the company for substantially less than the standard touring production contract rate of $1,252 a week, plus benefits and daily expenses.
By Monday, Commissioner Paul Tagliabue is expected to decide whether Bill Belichick is free to become someone else's head coach or must remain under contract to the Jets, the team he spurned.
Three years ago, Holik was booed every time he touched the puck in his first visit back to Continental Arena after he spurned the Devils to sign a five-year, $45 million contract with the Rangers.
His contract runs out in 2013, but Kagawa has spurned Borussia's offer to extend it, and that explains why Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson and his assistant, Mike Phelan, were in the audience in Berlin.
