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

[ThaVirus]

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

"Man, I spent it all," the Kansas City Chiefs tight end revealed on Shannon Sharpe's "Club Shay Shay" podcast ... "I should've been on the '30 for 30: Broke' the way I was spending!"

Here's the deal ... Kelce was a 3rd round pick in the 2013 NFL Draft and signed a 4-year, $3.1 million deal with a $700k signing bonus. Great money for a normal person but far from generational wealth!

So, how did Travis spend his first NFL checks? Shoes and a Rolex...

...But, he has some advice for the next generation of young guys ...

"All the young guys in the league, all the guys that have the opportunity to get that big first check from the NFL -- save it!"

"Find a financial advisor that you trust, that's gonna do right with your money because I was searching around for car deals after my first year trying to just pay rent!"

[Demonpenz]

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.

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by notorious

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 like most of my landlords...

Other locals, though, might get the Redwood treatment.

[neech]

Originally Posted by Easy 6

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

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.

[Megatron96]

Originally Posted by TinyEvel

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.

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.

[jjchieffan]

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

[Molitoth]

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.