River Sharks Dreams Came Falling Down With No Pay And A Shellacking In Cincinnati Monday, February 1, 2021 - by Joseph Dycus
River Sharks in action
Chris Carter was on his way back to the gym, completely empty handed and preparing himself to face a team that hadn’t been paid in several weeks. As the coach of the Tennessee River Sharks, his guys had traveled up to Cincinnati, got toasted, and came back with the promise of getting a few hundred dollars for their troubles. Team owner Jamie LaMunyon had promised Carter money would come.
“I go to the hotel (in Chattanooga after the game), and they’ve all checked out,” Carter said. “They are gone, and the guy that took me said ‘the guys are going to kill you.’ I could have sunk 30 feet into the ground, since those were guys who had played on my team before, and now they’re following me somewhere that’s not good. When I went back, the look on their face…..it was pretty bad then.”