Two-time Pro Bowl wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald signed a $40 million, four-year contract with the Arizona Cardinals on Tuesday just before leaving on a South American vacation he surely can afford.

The deal includes $30 million guaranteed, a generous figure for a franchise that was long considered one of the stingiest in sports.

The contract also includes a no-trade clause, which means Fitzgerald would have to approve any move to another team.

"This is what I wanted to happen," he said on a conference call during an airport layover. "There was a great deal of dialogue through this whole process, and everybody got what they wanted."

The Cardinals wanted to restructure Fitzgerald's incentive-laden rookie contract because he had reached many of the benchmarks and was to receive $14.6 million in 2008 and just under $17.4 million in 2009.

Those figures left the Cardinals with hardly any room under the salary cap to sign free agents. In addition, the contract locks up Fitzgerald through 2011, when he still will be only 28 years old.

Fitzgerald, who grew up in Minneapolis, starred at Academy of Holy Angels in Richfield and was a one-time ballboy for the Vikings, led the NFC in receptions with 100 last season for 1,409 yards and 10 touchdowns, earning his second Pro Bowl bid in four seasons.

At 24, he has 330 career catches for 4,544 yards and 34 scores in 60 games.

Restraining order dropped: A woman who obtained a restraining order earlier this year in a domestic violence case against New England Patriots star Randy Moss wants the case dismissed, court records show. Rachelle Washington, 35, filed papers March 3 with the Broward County (Fla.) Circuit Court clerk's office requesting that the order be dissolved and the case closed.

Moss, 31, denied he harmed Washington as she claimed at her Florida home on Jan. 6, or that he prevented her from seeking medical attention. Moss did acknowledge there was an "accident" involving Washington, but he would not be more specific.

Vikings to host QB: While searching for a veteran backup to quarterback Tarvaris Jackson, the Vikings aren't ignoring the draft.

They are one of a number of teams looking at the University of Delaware's Joe Flacco, who is scheduled to visit Winter Park this weekend, according to his agent, Joe Linta. Flacco is projected as a second-round draft choice.

-- In need of a defensive end, the Vikings are talking to free agent Marques Douglas, an eight-year NFL veteran who had three sacks in 16 starts with San Francisco last season. Douglas, who turns 31 Saturday, visited Tampa Bay and Tennessee last week.

Favre honored: The Wisconsin Legislature officially bid farewell to Brett Favre, passing a resolution honoring the former Green Bay quarterback and the NFL's only three-time most valuable player.

Both the state Assembly and Senate adopted the resolution on unanimous voice votes. Favre did not attend either proceeding.

Briefly: Carolina receiver Dwayne Jarrett, in town for the start of the team's offseason conditioning program, was arrested early Tuesday and charged with driving while impaired. Jarrett was pulled over in the Charlotte suburb of Mint Hill at 3 a.m., said police spokesman Lt. Sergio Carrera.

-- Carolina released center Justin Hartwig, the latest in a series of offseason moves to make over its offensive line. The move clears about $2 million in salary cap space.

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