how long could you make $40 million last?

Why is this even a surprise? Not about him specifically, but just in general.

None of this should be amazing or a shock. You take underprivileged kids who get no formative education b/c we've destroyed public schools, send them to "school" to play for free (sorry a retractable "scholarship" to take classes when and where your coach tells you to), then give them a bunch of money and a lot of free time. What did we think was gonna happen?

pjhawks wrote:

RW81233 wrote:

None of this should be amazing or a shock. You take underprivileged kids who get no formative education b/c we've destroyed public schools, send them to "school" to play for free (sorry a retractable "scholarship" to take classes when and where your coach tells you to), then give them a bunch of money and a lot of free time. What did we think was gonna happen?

boom there it is. i knew this post was coming. no such thing as personal responsibility i guess. must be the man keeping them down. i guess we need to hold their hands to tell them that 'making it rain' at strip clubs is not sound financial advice. :roll: how did 'we' destroy public schools? i'm not sure how i am responsible for inner-city public schools being crime riddled thug traps where learning is lower than low on the totem pole.

although i do have a question about the child support - for athletes how come it's not treated as long term earnings instead of based on what they are currently making. i mean don't their lawyers argue that there is no way this level of income is going to continue so giving $11,000 a month in child support is absurd. why and how does this happen?

never said he wasn't personally responsible, just said that it's not surprising. how did we destroy public schools in the inner-city? we vote for people who took the money that once was used to make them acceptable places of learning and started giving it to rich motherfuckers. How do you think Baltimore, Philly, Cincy, Cleveland, Pittsburgh and so on have these beautiful places for middle class suburbanites to come play then return home to their safe havens? B'more sold the inner harbor land for like $1 an acre and didn't charge taxes for companies willing to commercialize that space, they built Camden Yards and M&T Bank Stadium for rich owners using lottery money that is generally earmarked for schools, and they just did it again for that stupid car race. In return urban schools are gutted, that population sees that its own government sold them out, so why would they try learning the rules of a system that is bent against them?

Good question on the child support, I'd like to hear that one.

What I don't get is why people are a. shocked or b. entertained by this. What's so funny about this? Why does it make you feel better to say "at least I could have made that money last longer"? It's sad that we have a system that makes this possible on all fronts.

BinauralJam wrote:

But wouldn't you buy some land, and a house and a couple of cars, jewerly, ya know assets, you could then turn around and sell in case the shit ever hit the fan.

you would and I would, but we have a whole different mindset for what to do with money.

pjhawks wrote:

RW81233 wrote:

BinauralJam wrote:

But wouldn't you buy some land, and a house and a couple of cars, jewerly, ya know assets, you could then turn around and sell in case the shit ever hit the fan.

you would and I would, but we have a whole different mindset for what to do with money.

it's 80% of NFL players not athletes. Real Sports on HBO did a story about this in the last year. basically agents give them all this advice and they just ignore it.

ahh missed that part. I know that even Mike Golic blasted through his first contract in like 6 months or something, he's told the story a couple of times on Mike and Mike. He just kept buying rounds of drinks and going out to nice dinners, then his credit card maxed or something like that. Either way I'd venture a guess that most of us on this board are highly educated, in our late 20's-late 40's and have had to work for the last decade or two to get to where we are at. That is a whole lot different than coming from nothing to essentially winning the lottery at 20-22 years old, and being told that you should really listen to that smarmy white guy in a suit telling you what to do with it.