ABILENE, Texas (AP) - Former Dallas Cowboys starting quarterback

Quincy Carter is out of a job again.

The Abilene Ruff Riders of the Indoor Football League cut the

former Georgia Bulldog after he failed to show up for a home game

Saturday against the Odessa Roughnecks.

Coach Gerald Dockery tells the Abilene Reporter-News that Carter

phoned him four hours before Saturday's game to tell him that he

wouldn't play. At halftime, general manager Barney Welch said

Carter was no longer on the team.

In 2003, Carter led the Cowboys to a 10-6 season and the

playoffs in their first season under coach Bill Parcells. Dallas

released Carter in training camp before the next season, and he

started briefly for the New York Jets before poor play and

drug-related arrests ended his NFL career.

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