Heard something on Fox sports radio the other day. They said 80% of NFL players are broke 2 yrs after retiring. I would imagine that's more of your run of the mill player though. You gotta be careful of your money when you first get it. But I can understand the urge to splurge.

There's an ESPN special called "Broke" from maybe 10 years ago that hit on that topic. It's fascinating if you can find it.

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Do a search on Derrick Thomas.....talk about a non football dumbass....blew the cash and had how many kids by how many women?

Kelce is a saint in comparison

At the age of 22, I was living in a shitty little apartment working 3 jobs and trying to figure out if my pregnant girlfriend and I were even going to get married. If I had a 700K signing bonus, I'm sure I would have been more prudent with it then a ****ing Rolex and shoes, but if I didn't have all that responsibility, I could see blowing it on cars, guitars, guns, good booze, helping friends, and maybe a house. BUT...my folks would have been all over my shit and I listened to my old man (even if he did piss me off...he was right just about all the time). It never would have happened to me. Of course, I lived in town with them too, which was not the case with Travis.

Meh. Stupid people do stupid things with stupid money. Glad he grew up.

Right. This highlights his growth as a person more so than anything else. Fortunately he was good enough and injury free to get that next contract. Hopefully some of our young guys learn from this.

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Lol, this thread went as expected.

A bunch of old men who know nothing about spending their entire youth as a superstar athlete and then being handed a (relative) shit ton of money in their early 20s talking about how they would never make mistakes.

Tell us all you know about being a young superstar athlete

I blew $600,000-$675,000 in the last 25 years on golf, cigars, gambling, travel, escorts, food and drink.

I got no big signing bonus, barely a company T-shirt or a nice shiny pen.

I would probably be broke and dead within 30 days with that kind of money. :hmmm:

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Where is my comment about what I would have done better if I was in his situation?

LMAO

it's all perspective, man.

Man, it's super easy to spend a metric shit ton of dough when you're young and don't expect the party to end.

I have some regrets that came from spending a ton of dough in my late 30's and while I knew better, I also wanted to take advantage of it because I spent my life working for it.

Tons of money at a young age is difficult to manage, as we've seen time and time and time again for basically our entire lives.

Just in case anyone else wanted to see the entire interview/episode.

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This was me, too.

...still wish I'd saved more.

but man , what a ride, amirite?