NFL Discussion Thread: Pats win SB XLIX. Offseason begins

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Mister Friendly said:
People always say stuff til they get money. It's easy to say stuff when you aren't in the lifestyle. You also have to remember how a lot pro athletes and successful people are wired.
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im sure theyre plenty of rich people who are frugal.  alot of people are just mentally weak,. 
 
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Probably half of pro athletes and business owners are wired to be risk takers. They bet on themselves and that's how they made it. You also realize most pro careers are done by age 25. We are trying to apply safe suburban logic to a culture that's totally foreign to most of us. You have to be a different type of person to not get caught in that at all
 
Rashard Mendenhall is a writer for Ballers

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ex-nfl-player-made-13-154452355.html

In 2014 former Pittsburgh Steelers and Arizona Cardinals running back Rashard Mendenhall retired at age 26, walking away from millions in potential earnings. While Mendenhall may no longer be playing, he's still drawing on his NFL experience as a part of his new job.

Since retiring Mendenhall, who made more than $13.8 million during his six-year career, joined the Writers Guild of America and worked as a writer on the first season of HBO's "Ballers," which aired its series premiere last Sunday.

"Ballers" is about an ex-NFL player who transitions to life as an agent. It stars Dwayne The Rock Johnson, and has been widely compared to "Entourage."

While a former NFL player seamlessly transitioning from football to screenwriting may come as a surprise, Mendenhall told USA Today's Lindsay H. Jones he knew this is what he always wanted to do once his career ended:

"I've always known I wanted to write. It was always a passion of mine — it was peace, a getaway. It was also, even while I was playing, it was kind of an artist mentality. You have a day job, but the art that you're working on is what you really want to do. ...I knew that when I was done playing, that's what I was going to do. It was kind of always a thing behind [football], I just didn't know what to what extent in television or see how it was going to shape up."

Many athletes have a hard time transitioning to their new lives once their retire, but Mendenhall wrote in a blog post for The Huffington Post that hasn't been the case for him:

"I wasn't supposed to walk away from the NFL, but I did. I wasn't supposed to be writing television, but I am. I'm supposed to be lost after football. I'm not. I've reinvented myself. This is my first transformation. I'm supposed to be broke right now, or maybe the statistics say five years from now. Either way, I'm not even close. I'm not supposed to be anything but a football player. But really, I'm just a guy who used to play football. There's a reason I'm doing this."

Mendenhall is a part of a trend of under-30 players retiring in their primes. Jake Locker, Chris Borland, Anthony Smith, Patrick Willis, Anthony Davis, and Jason Worilds all retired this offseason. He told Jones he hopes to keep working on "Ballers" in the second season.
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 Tom Brady testifying under oath means he's putting his actual freedom on the line in arguing the NFL got it wrong. 
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Mister Friendly said:
Probably half of pro athletes and business owners are wired to be risk takers. They bet on themselves and that's how they made it. You also realize most pro careers are done by age 25. We are trying to apply safe suburban logic to a culture that's totally foreign to most of us. You have to be a different type of person to not get caught in that at all
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not really.. or at least the ones I've encountered.. or I should say not the ones who are over the top and flaunt there wealth

for example.. richest guy I know personally.. owns an island in the Exuma cays.. was one of the developers in Lyford cay and old fort bay in the Bahamas.. stupid.. ridiculous money

we'll go out, he'll buy everyone dinner.. buy bottles of wine and copious amounts of alcohol.. but when the bill comes, he will scrutinize every item on that thing.. if even a single coke is on there that shouldn't be and cant be accounted for, all hell is going break loose

and he's a great tipper.. he just doesn't want someone to take advantage of him or think just because he can easily afford it, that they can get away with taking advantage of him

hell.. if you see him, most unassuming guy.. he jokes, if he finds a shirt or pair of pants that he likes he buys 20 of them.. he'll take his stuff to the tailor to have labels removed
 
lakersman3000 said:
im sure theyre plenty of rich people who are frugal.  alot of people are just mentally weak,. 
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Our long time CEO and board pres has more money than I can imagine and he brags about getting good deals at Target and at certain low to middle priced restaurants. It's awesome :lol
 
Not sure if posted.

Deion Sanders delivers epic and intense Father's Day post
By Steve DelVecchio

No one in the world of professional sports created a more detailed and intense social media post about Father’s Day on Sunday than Deion Sanders.

Sanders, a former NFL star who has five children and has been married twice, got into a lot of personal stuff, including but not limited to a mention of sleeping with two women at the same time. That wasn’t the bottom line, however. Here’s what the Instagram post said in its entirety:

“Just because I have a penis doesn’t mean that I’m a Man. It simply means I’m a male. I didn’t become a man at the age of 18 or 21 when the world deemed me to be legal to drink, fight for my beloved country and to enter a night club. I didnt become a man when my 1st or 2nd child was born. I didnt become a man when I made my 1st or 10th MILLION. I didnt become a man when I won superbowls and played in the world series. I didn’t become a man when I slept with 2 woman at a time. I didn’t become a man when I had Lamborghinis and several cars in my driveway. I didn’t become a man when I bought 100s of suits with gators to match. I didn’t become a man when many thought I was the man. I didn’t become a man when you called me a role model but I was a model playing a role.

“I became a man when I accepted responsibility of my life, my ways and others. I became a man when I learned to love me and forgive me. I became a man when I stopped allowing the pain of yesterday to influence me today. I became a man when I realized I don’t have to be the perfect father but a present father. I became a man when I learned not to love something that didnt have the capacity to love me back.

“When I put away childish,simple minded,egotistical speaking,Understanding and thinking I then became a man. I’m certainly not a perfect man but I’m a Good man who’s playing his position of a Father like he played the corner. TBE! How could I give more to a game or a fan than I give to my children. When we celebrate Fathers day it means more to me than just a text, tweet, Instagram or email. I had a biological father and a wonderful step father that are deceased. We never exchanged the simple words I LOVE YOU so I don’t take this day for granted. All the men that are real Fathers & real Men HAPPY FATHERS DAY. To all the mothers playing both positions HAPPY FATHERS DAY and to all the Grandparents,Uncles and Friends stepping up and in the battle to raise these kids right HAPPY FATHERS DAY. GOD BLESS. #Truth #Deionsfamilyplaybook @owntv Saturday 8C. @RevJahwar @traceyeedmonds.”

Obviously, Deion had a lot on his mind.

As many of you know, Sanders has had a complicated relationship with his kids and spouses. There have been times when his interactions with one of his son’s made us laugh and others where he has been accused of doing some very irresponsible things.

Nevertheless, Sanders felt strongly about Father’s Day 2015.
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Mister Friendly said:
Probably half of pro athletes and business owners are wired to be risk takers. They bet on themselves and that's how they made it. You also realize most pro careers are done by age 25. We are trying to apply safe suburban logic to a culture that's totally foreign to most of us. You have to be a different type of person to not get caught in that at all
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There are foolish spenders tho...

Coincidentally, I was just reading something Adonal Foyle wrote for the Players' Tribune

Since more than half of NBA players go broke within the first five years of retirement (hard to believe but true) and play an average 4.8 years, it means some players will be in their 20s by the time they hang it up, with their whole lives ahead of them.
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Saving money =/= "surburban" logic.
 
dmxfury said:
Our long time CEO and board pres has more money than I can imagine and he brags about getting good deals at Target and at certain low to middle priced restaurants. It's awesome
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exactly. money dont change you. 

if you spend money foolishly as a broke dude , you would just as easily spend money foolishly if you had a bunch of money. common sense. 
 
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lakersman3000 said:
im sure theyre plenty of rich people who are frugal.  alot of people are just mentally weak,. 
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Our long time CEO and board pres has more money than I can imagine and he brags about getting good deals at Target and at certain low to middle priced restaurants. It's awesome
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my former boss with my firm.. this dude is probably one of the richest Bahamians in this country (easily top 10).. and some of the things he did literally amazed me

he went home for lunch everyday and his wife cooked for him.. the most expensive ties he easily had were the ones given to him by either myself or the other guy who worked for him as Christmas gifts.. hell most of his ties are probably gifts

my buddy told me one year (he started 2 years before me) he bought him a pair of really nice cuff links for Christmas.. neither of us have ever seen him in a French cuff shirt

his watch was a gift from a client

he literally just bought a new Honda accord recently after his buick of like 15 years died on him

I think the only thing he spends money on other than very low risk investments, is in the church.. that's it.. he's owns a crap load of land all over the Bahamas.. but he has a very simple house in one of 'middle class' areas of the island
 
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lakersman3000 said:
im sure theyre plenty of rich people who are frugal.  alot of people are just mentally weak,. 
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Our long time CEO and board pres has more money than I can imagine and he brags about getting good deals at Target and at certain low to middle priced restaurants. It's awesome :lol
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Man, when I was in HS and worked at Safeway our district Manager would come in and walk through our isles and say stuff like
"You see those fudgesicles over there? yeah the average person will buy the store brand but I got so much money I buy the Hagen Daez"
dude was so full of himself, I damn near beat him with a pack of hamburger buns once
 
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Last month, the newlywed couple decided not to go to their honeymoon until Brady's four-game suspension is lifted.
 
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