Agreed. It's a "problem" I won't ever have to deal with, but I think an NFL player on his first contract is probably best off just renting until (big if) he's more established.

That's actually sad. Imagine being that careless..

At least take your ass to IHOP. In all my years, the only Waffle House I've seen that didn't appear to have great potential for me to be robbed while I was there was in a small beach town.

Yeah, that's crazy. I do remember that now.

Didn't something similar happen to Harvey Williams back in the day? Driving a Bentley or some such around Linwood and Troost and ended up getting jacked?

A little off topic but for a guy that I despised when he played for the Broncos, I can't believe how much of a likeable guy Shannon Sharpe is.
I think his HOF speech is what really turned it for me, but also that he seems like a really good dude.

He was a great listen when he was on Sirius/XM in the morning with Bob Poppa.

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That why you buy a cheap house. Then rent a apartment that all bills paid in the town you play in and pay ahead 24 months so you don't worry about it when you at your house during the off season. Get a nice vehicle. Boom you set.

That was a fantastic interview. Long as hell and covered so much.

Really one of the best I've seen.
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BTW, did anyone notice the signed picture of Len Dawson hanging on the wall over his shoulder? :hmmm:

He gained a lot of my respect when I heard him talk about his young, growing up years.

He has earned everything he has. Good guy as far as I can see.

Kelce had it right. These young players should be hiring a money manager as soon as they sign a contract.

Young people do stupid things with money, period. The first year I made six figures I spent almost all of it on stupid crap, because I was like 23 or something and had next to no idea what I should've been doing. I think a couple months in there I was still taking money off credit cards to pay the rent.

the next time I broke six figures I was much smarter about it, but still did some dumb things, because holy crap, six figures for a single guy is a lot of money. One of the few smart things I did was buy a house and open an investment account, or I might've blown most of that money as well.

ROFL

I’d like to think I could make it 60 days without doing something dumb enough to end up dead.

Bueh, you are the kind of guy where if you won the lottery nobody would ever know.


Well, until you told an unsavory customer/landlord to get ****ed by a Redwood tree.

I remember my first paycheck. $21.73 making minimum wage part time at a pizza shop after school.

I SPENT IT ALL, MAN! went to Ralph's grocery and bought a big box of Coca Puffs, Gallon of milk and a bunch of bags of chips and salami. I had never been able to buy my own groceries up to then.

The roof of my mouth was shredded for days from all those Cocoa Puffs.

ROFL