Travis Kelce on rookie contract: "Man, I spent it all"
 

This is kind of a shit post and doesn't mean much, but it gives some interesting insight to the mind of one of our best players.

We all know he wasn't a great decision-maker in his younger days, but blowing through a few hundred thousand dollars in his first year is beyond insane.

https://www.tmz.com/2021/01/05/travi...T_MNQHHJ_5f0Ks

No wonder his second contract was such a steal.

Pay rent?

These dipshits should buy a house the instant they sign that first contract.

Good on him for being honest and humble.

Best way to learn a lesson is make a mistake

Lol, totally seems like something young Kelce would do. Glad he turned into an All World TE.

Glad he grew up and learned from it. Most people that do something like that don't have the opportunity to fix the mistake and be better from it.

I wouldn't. NFL players get traded a ton. Buying a house would be a major pain to deal with unless you were VERY confident you weren't going to have to move (e.g., Mahomes).

The funny thing is that he didn't even play his rookie season due to an injury.

So he spent it on Hookers and Blow?

And the rest of it he wasted.

Club Shay Shay?? LMAO

Its just crazy, even in my dumbass 20's there is simply no way I would've blown through all that... hell even if I wanted to, there were voices in my life who would've straightened me out

And Travis was raised by a very nice family as I recall... what a hellion he must've been, we're all lucky he finally grew up

Exactly. I'm still laughing.

Shit these days is expensive. $100,000.00 just doesn't go very far.

As long as they buy a house in a growing area it doesn't matter. Sell or rent the house out. Landlords are making big money these days.

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?

In 1982 I was 22 yrs old and bought a Rolex along with all kinds of party favors of the 80s on journeyman pipe fitter wages and had the time of my life.some people’s view of bad life choices are different than others bad life choices.

Spending all that money motivates a guy to earn more.


Sounds crazy, but I bet it contributed to his success.

That’s right get a taste and you want more

You can always be counted on to chime in with the same old refrain when it comes to anything like this... but you're a respected old timer here and I'm not in the mood to drag it out

Just count us both glad that he wised up and got real about his career and life... peace

Should have bought a barge on the river & bummed tugs

It can also push a man to "survive".

When I bought my business, I was up to my neck in debt. There was only one way out. Work my ****ing ass off.

As soon as I actually made money, I put it all back in the business to expand. In a sense, I was still fighting my way out, which kept me VERY motivated.

Day by day, while you are fighting for your life, you build one hell of a work ethic, which never leaves you.

When everyone else hits cruise control after they feel they've made "enough", you are still full throttle even though you are piling up money.

^^^^^^

I'm getting ready to start a job doing 10 logos, that need to be done in 12 days, for the Grand Opening.

I'll make the deadline. I'll work 10 days straight through, but I'll make it.

Or you could just give up, do nothing, and let somebody else pay to keep you alive. :D

Thankfully, I was broke in my early 20's. It wasn't until after I met my wife that I straightened up, got a real job and made some money.

If I had the money I have now at 22, I'd be dead.

Well sure, my bad choices involved knocking up my girlfriend. I'm basically saying I did not have the opportunity to be that carefree with my money. Add to that if I had a 700k windfall, if not for my parents living in the same town and having my ear, I probably would have gone through that money pretty quick. Probably a lot of trips to places.

Thank goodness that’s not Kelce.

Amazing work ethic mixed with generational talent.

I have to imagine the culture in an NFL locker room is more about extravagant spending than saving and investment discussion. It's probably pretty easy for a young guy with full pockets to get caught up in that and feel the need to keep up with the other guys and their toys.

Anyone remember Alphonso Hodge, the fifth round corner? He was robbed at a ****ing Waffle House in 2005 where they stole a "$90,000 Hummer, $8,500 in cash, two diamond earrings valued at $6000, a $20,000 bracelet, a $6,000 watch and $450 dollar sunglasses."

And he was a fifth round rookie who played two years in the NFL and only one with the Chiefs before getting cut.

I couldn't even imagine the stupid bullshit I would buy and the things me and my friends would do if I had that kind of money at 23

Hard way to start out in life ,it could have happened to me lucky it didn’t.much respect for stepping up and staying with it you grew up fast.

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

Has anyone brought up the fact his ****ing Brother was in the NFL before him and still didn't get the memo LOL it happens though.

I like most of my landlords...

Other locals, though, might get the Redwood treatment.

Being a 22 year old and getting big money like that I would've spent most of that as well. Taxes are gonna take a chunk of it don't forget that bro.

Oh shit.

I remember one of my first real paychecks, I was 13. I bought a loaf of Wonder white bread, a jar of French's mustard (hadn't invented plastic bottles of mustard yet), and a big package of Kraft American cheese slices, and took them to the park after work, and making a dozen or so white bread, mustard and cheese sandwiches and eating all of them.

I've never eaten a white bread, mustard and cheese sandwich ever since. I can't even make one for someone else without wanting to be sick.LMAO

Yep. I can see being young and blowing through a lot of cash in that situation. An old saying goes, the more you make, the more you spend. I know that I would be better off financially today had I been smarter with my money back then, and I never had that kind of money. Glad that he got paid later and learned from it

With as much as Shannon Sharpe is all over the Chiefs nuts the past couple of years, I wonder if Donk fans are starting to despise him a bit.