Heard a clip about it today while eating lunch and i believe it was keith mccants who got a 60k injury settlement from the dolphins and he went and spent 50k of it on a new hummer because he "had to have it" lol. If you know you have a shot at going pro why not take some personal finance classes while youre in school or similar classes?

 

Originally Posted by Jaybone2315

yea.. cause when you got 20M in the bank youre like, "I can only spend $4K today." These guys go nuts cause they have no one to guide them otherwise.

Plus, they get blinded by the fact that money is still rolling in and probably think it wont stop.

Dont get me wrong, i dont feel sorry for these guys. But im smart enough to understand why it happens in some cases and why it doesnt in others. This makes me think of Alfred Morris from the Redskins. This is what he still drives becuase he knows his contract isnt guaranteed:



Smart guys like this probably wont go broke.

brandon jennings for the bucks donated 50k to a charity, has an apartment and drives a for festvia...and he makes (apperently) about 2.3 mil a year. they people wh oblow through this money are stupid. plain and simple. i dont get how someone would take joy in them fucking up so bad.

apparently having 25k means ur filthy rich in MJO's idea of reality. if he had 25k he probably wouldn't even find out if his roomate was a hooker or not.

 

Originally Posted by Jaybone2315

Is 25K an absurd amount of money or something to you? Do you make $6/hr?

And how dare I spent half of my winnings on something that is on my bucketlist and still leave myself with 5 times as much money as I had a week before.

Im really not understanding the hate, or how you could possibly equate 25K to tens of millions. Even i lived like a hermit, never left my house, and only spent money on bills and food... i dont think I could have made it last a year lol. And as of right now, ive made it almost 5 months and still have 1/4th of it left.

But yea... other than that, youre totally right.

It's not hate, and I don't know why you're so offended by my comments.

25k isn't an absurd amount of money. It's not even life changing money... but it is a lot of money. The median household income in 2011 was roughly $50k. You made half of that in 12 hours. Most people who are lucky enough to make half a year's salary in one day don't set out to spend half in the next 2 weeks, whether it's traveling to Tokyo or buying into a $10k poker tournament.

I just think that the mentality that you had after you big score is similar to the mentality of an athlete who gets his first big contract. Whether its a guy winning the lottery or a guy getting an NBA contract or a guy winning his first 6 figure poker score... I think the mentality is all the same. People think that it's easy money and easy money will keep coming in, so shit, I'm gonna treat myself to a new car or a new house or a luxury vacation. It's the same reason why so many elite poker players from 2 years ago are broke or struggling now. Easy money dried up and lifestyles werent adjusted accordingly.

The main difference between your summer and these athletes (aside from the amount of money) is that they never intend to run through all their money while you made a conscious decision to swing for the fences and gamble it up with most of yours. There's nothing wrong with that, it's just not conservative by any means. Didn't mean to offend you. Just thought that there is a similar mentality comparing a guy after his first big poker score to a guy after his first big pro contract.

 

Originally Posted by FenwayKing

I don't feel sympathetic towards them (although I do think it sucks that they probably never had anyone in their lives who would've taught them how to handle money/success) but I don't take pleasure in them losing their money either. And what is particularly disturbing is the undercurrent of racism that is inherent in it, like I said before.

And before you try to paint it with a broad brush, I'm not saying you're a racist or KillerFost is a racist (although we know Oh Rale is), but the schadenfreude so many people display in these situations has a somewhat race-based tone to it.

Also what Jaybone said is so true---even a little bit of money is going to change people, let alone 50 million when you're 19 years old after scraping by your entire life with next to nothing. Why do so many lottery winners (or even poker players with one big score) go broke? It's the same thing.

well said sir!

SHIT is boring as fuck so far get to the fucking point

andre rison is the only thing keeping me from changing the channel... what a legend

Say it don't spray it Andre

Andre Rison hasn't changed at all. That dude would go broke again if he was in the same spot.

Love Andre Rison. On the Packers 96 SB team and banging Left Eye. My hero.

 

Originally Posted by XXEDPXX

Say it don't spray it Andre

Andre Rison hasn't changed at all. That dude would go broke again if he was in the same spot.

IT'S CALLED SWAG, BRA

 

Originally Posted by AMARTIN1181

IT'S CALLED SWAG, BRA

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Originally Posted by dolphin13

It's too broad. They have too many people talking about too many topics.

Yea. Its all over the place.

Corbin jumped the shark with limelight doc.


Fuck this shittttt I'm in to deep grrrraggggwww

Sounds like I made the right call in recording this.

 

Originally Posted by Jaybone2315

btw, if there isnt at least one white guy in this episode, im going to consider it racist.

I think Curt Schilling has had considerable coverage.

amartin1181 is my favorite poster in OT and its not close