Ping!................
He’s broke, Jim.
IIRC you make something like $500K a year just to warm the bench in the NFL. Why would he need to rob gas stations?
Wealthy criminal? Sheesh.
> later signed a four-year, $17 million deal <
It sure looks like Ward did not have a good financial advisor, and is now broke.
But you never can be sure. I know a guy who was high up in city government. He had an important job, and was always busy. Then after he retired, he starting doing all these crazy illegal things. I guess he was just bored.
He didn’t stop until he was arrested.
probably has brain damage.
We are not taught anything about economics.
I did not learn how to open a checking account (or savings account) until I got out of the Army (in 1967). We were paid in cash (side story even in Vietnam on payday the paymaster would fly out to where you were and pay you in cash).
We certainly were not taught about compound interest and how it can help you in a savings account and hurt you with credit.
We were not taught about contracts and what to be careful about and when necessary to get a lawyer involved.
All these things we learned as we stumbled through life.
Some never learn.
A person can be rich, but not wealthy. A rich person has a lot of money that comes from one source and if that source goes away their net-worth begins to drop. A wealthy person has a lot of money but has structured things so they have many sources of income and if one sources dries up there are others.
This is why someone may come into a lot of money could be broke in a relatively short time after getting the money.
They either trusted someone they should have trusted and/or they did not understand the need to invest in things that will keep the money stream flowing.
Lottery winners, actors, and athletes make up the bulk of those that squandered their millions (as well as children that have inherited wealth).
He was turning his life around ..........
We have someone who was a star in a narrow field of endeavor (professional football player). A man whose talent earned him millions, a coveted Superbowl ring, a college education (FWIW), and an admirable career in the spotlight. The left would say that he is a “winner in life’s lottery.”
...So who or what turned him into a criminal? Can’t be the life of a poor and down-trodden man. Can’t be a society that kept him down if it recognized his talents and rewarded him lavishly for it.
No, a man with overwhelming advantages and resources made the unfirced decision to rob others of their livelihood for no good reason whatsoever.
Nice, way to rep the national felons league, great job!
where’s all his football money? he could not have spent it all on grills.
Cut him some slack...he blew through all the millions he made as a running back for the New York Thugs and is hungry.
He spent all his money on booze, hookers and drugs. The rest of the money he just squandered.
One has to be a moron going from making millions to resorting to robbery. He at least could use his NFL ID as a former player to garner some gainful employment. He’s a thug criminal by choice and hence a moron.
How else he gone git he stuff
I am white so I can’t comment on this.
If you take all of the money away from the rich people and give it to the poor people, in a few years the rich people will be rich again, and the poor people will be poor again.