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OSAKA, Japan _ The letter from the NFL inviting Masafumi Kawaguchi to join the 49ers as a goodwill ambassador remains at the Japanese linebacker's home near Osaka, tacked to a wall with a hand-scrawled "X" through it.
"You must understand, I'm a football player first, and you get a letter like that and it makes you mad," Kawaguchi said.
Not mad enough to turn down the short-term job, which over the past week has taken the NFL Europe veteran from this bayside city in southern Japan to the 49ers' training camp in Stockton and back again for Saturday's exhibition game against the Washington Redskins.
Kawaguchi, 29, is expected to play on special teams and get some snaps at weak-side linebacker in the ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Japanese-born Kawaguchi garners team captain role.(Knight Ridder...