Ping!....................
Much deserved...
He spent most of it on booze, drugs and women. The rest of the money he just squandered.
Good thing he’s got his college degree to fall back on.
Way too many players enter without thinking this career and money train has a timer on it, and it’s shorter than you think.
Hard to feel sorry for the lad, but now he'll want the NFL pension to bail him out from his ongoing mistakes, and ticket purchasers will subsidize this crap.
Could go into politics and become a grifter.
I’m a Steelers fan. It is sad what happened to this guy who came into the league as a humble, hard-working sixth-round pick who earned his way up the starting lineup and to fame and fortune. He came from the ‘hood in the Miami area and was such a rabble rouser, he was essentially exiled to Central Michigan University instead of University of Miami or Florida State where he could have easily played. His early years in Pittsburgh made it appear that he truly matured and turned his life around for the better. Then he started to go bats*** and forced a trade to the Raiders, who shipped him off before he ever played a down for them. He bounced around a lot after that though he won a Super Bowl with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, playing with Tom Brady.
First round hall of famer? Doubtful. He certainly would have been if he just played the remainder of his career without the shenanigans. He may get there eventually; he has the stats for it. He may be waiting a while though.
“Brown made over $88 million as a player, but he currently claims he has less than $50,000 in assets.”
Yowza.
What’s that old saying? A fool and his money are soon parted...
One can only wonder how/why the mentally ill/emotionally disturbed are continually accommodated to the detriment of the pubic at large.
He’s a complete mental nutball. I noticed they didn’t mention that part
My eldest daughter and I both got to meet Steelers players of our respective generations; mine being Mike Webster at a book signing, hers being Joey Porter. The two are tales of opposing sides of a coin.
Over a decade ago, one of our NFL teams “stars” bought his fiancee a $750K pair of earrings, which become public news and shocked people at the time, but whatever - its what NFL players do
They were married a year or two, then divorced. He too went bankrupt.
There was fight over the earrings and other assets as part of the divorce settlement. They were valued by the court at something like $100K
11 million.
$11,000,000 x 5 percent interest.
He'd be raking in $550,000 a year, without considering compounding interest.
Screw him.
I thought “Chapter 11” was only for businesses?
He’s not a first ballot HOFer. He poisoned too many wells. They’ll hold him back at least 1 year in punishment. If they put him in at all. Thanks to the way his bad behavior shortened his career he doesn’t really have the stats.
We once had a youngish black NFL player originally from the deep south in our mid-states neighborhood, and our kids played together. I was wary of him at first; but he and his wife were born-again Christians who shunned the party culture, and they were great neighbors. After an injury, he got a job as a coach at a private high school. Just a really settled-down guy, and God bless him.
Roger Staubach's best year in the NFL was about $150,000. Staubach is worth about $600 million today due to smart investing (mostly in real estate) and eventually selling his firm, The Staubach Company, to the Jones Lang LaSalle Partnership.
That doesn't happen by accident. It was the result of smart, well thought-out decisions even if you want to sprinkle in some luck and timing. Staubach wasn't "making it rain" in strip clubs or spending money on ridiculous 'symbols' of perceived wealth like jewelry and fancy cars. Antonio Brown clearly wasn't making smart decisions with his massive fortune, which should have set him up for life.
It's a cliche, but it rings true; It's not what you make, it's what you keep (after saving and investing wisely).