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LATROBE, Pa. -- Wide receiver Antonio Brown said he never planned to hold out but made it clear Sunday the Pittsburgh Steelers should give him a new contract.Brown is due $6.25 million in the fifth year of a six-year, $43 million contract. He has caught an NFL-record 265 passes in the past two seasons.You have to take care of your guys, Brown said after Sundays practice. If a guy underperforms, you get rid of him. If a guy overperforms, you take care of him.Brown, who said agent Drew Rosenhaus is expected to meet with the Steelers, was responding to a question about whether he should be the exception to the Steelers long-standing policy not to renegotiate contracts for non-quarterbacks unless a player has one year left on his contract.General manager Kevin Colbert cited this policy on Steelers Nation Radio this week, saying Brown is a great player who understands the teams business approach.Brown said the Steelers have been first class to him in the past, including a contract restructure last year to move $2 million of future salary into 2015 as a way to please the talented receiver.Another restructure of Browns contract is a possibility.Brown feels he is different, and his numbers validate that claim, as he posted 136 catches for 1,834 yards and 10 touchdowns last year despite playing four games without star quarterback Ben Roethlisberger.Brown ranks 13th among wide receivers in 2016 base salary, with Chicagos Alshon Jeffery more than doubling Browns income as a result of the franchise tag he received from the Bears. 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LOUIS -- Missouri Gov.-elect Eric Greitens said Monday he opposes taxpayer money to help build a new soccer stadium in St. Louis, calling the project nothing more than welfare for millionaires.Greitens comments, in an email statement, were made a day before the Missouri Development Finance Board is expected to vote Tuesday on a request to approve $40 million in state tax credits for the stadium.Plans for the new $200 million downtown stadium proposed by the group SC STL were unveiled in November as part of an effort to attract a Major League Soccer expansion team to St. Louis. In addition to state tax credits, the stadium is contingent on St. Louis voters approving $80 million in public funding in an April vote. The city would own the stadium and lease it to the MLS team in a 30-year agreement.Im opposed to spending taxpayer money to build a soccer stadium in St. Louis, Greitens, a Republican, said in his statement. This project is nothing more than welfare for millionaires. Right now, because of reckless spending by career politicians, we cant even afford the core functions of government, let alone spend millions on soccer stadiums. This back-room wheeling and dealing is exactly what frustrates Missourians. This type of politics as usual is coming to an end.Greitens, who defeated Democratic Attorney General Chris Koster in the November election, doesnt take office until Jan. 9. It wasnt immediately clear what action he could take once in office to remove tax credits if they are approved by the finance board. Messages left with a Greitens spokesman were not returned.Outgoing Gov. Jay Nixon, a Democcrat, has expressed support for state funding.dddddddddddd MLS Commissioner Don Garber met with Nixon and potential investors during a visit to St. Louis last year. MLS has expressed interest in St. Louis as a site for future expansion, though no timetable has been established.A spokesman for SC STL said the group had just learned of Greitens statement and declined immediate comment.The current proposal would mean that taxpayers pay 60 percent of the stadium cost. SC STL has said it would pay the remaining 40 percent, along with league fees expected to be at least $150 million, any construction overrun costs and maintenance fees over the life of the lease. The group has estimated the combined cost of building a stadium and acquiring a team at $405 million.Critics of public funding for stadiums point to the dome that housed the St. Louis Rams during their two-decade stay before returning to Los Angeles this season. The dome, now empty except for occasional convention and sports uses, was paid for entirely with public money, a debt that wont be paid off for several years.A competing group also interested in building a soccer stadium has offered to join forces to eliminate the need for public financing, but SC STL has declined comment on the joint venture proposed by Foundry St. Louis.The open-air stadium would have 20,000 seats with the ability to expand to 28,500. It would sit next to St. Louis Union Station on land currently owned by the Missouri Department of Transportation. ' ' '