A lot of athletes go from making millions to zero when they're 30 and....

Have no real life skills outside of their sport. Whatever they've made from 22-30 has to last the rest of their life. SI estimated that 80% of NFL players are broke within 3 years of retirement. The NFL has put money into helping the players make better financial decisions, but it doesn't appear to be working.

In response to this post by HokieDiver

Posted: 03/09/2018 at 10:33AM

Did you know some people have to pay taxes? -- HokieDiver 03/09/2018 08:21AM

Dude is in real bad shape... -- Major Kong 03/09/2018 11:44AM

A lot of athletes go from making millions to zero when they're 30 and.... -- J-Dub 03/09/2018 10:33AM

Wonder what political candidates he votes for now?** -- EDGEMAN 03/09/2018 09:34AM

The ones that run up massive national debt? ** -- DarylS 03/09/2018 3:06PM

Damn, i guess he is eating raman noodles and peanut butter to survive ** -- UEMcGill 03/09/2018 09:24AM

So he's only going to get half his guaranteed $78M? Poor guy. ** -- reestuart 03/09/2018 09:16AM

Does he actually expect sympathy? ** -- HokieNoVA 03/09/2018 09:13AM

Don't forget the fines for all the cheap shots he takes. -- Hokie360 03/09/2018 09:12AM

Is playing the world's smallest violin.... ** -- banishedtothelounge 03/09/2018 09:03AM

Throw in the concept of inflation and that is another 3 percent -- dolph 03/09/2018 08:51AM

It's not fair- they are really good at football. no other rules apply -- bigbadbird 03/09/2018 08:43AM

I'm with him on the city taxes thing... -- `lag 03/09/2018 08:38AM

Generally, there is going to be some minimum threshold for requiring filing -- BigDave 03/09/2018 09:15AM

Interesing, thanks ** -- `lag 03/09/2018 7:33PM

But he plays half his games in FL. So no state taxes there. -- 48zip 03/09/2018 09:25AM

I don't know he got by on the $40 million knowing that he actually had... -- Gobble Gobble 03/09/2018 08:34AM

Yeah, most are just careless. At that level of money, they need to hire -- reestuart 03/09/2018 09:20AM

...and regular life expenses. Wow. ** -- 48zip 03/09/2018 08:26AM

I wonder how many on here have "regular life expenses" of just 2% of income ** -- Nova Hokie 95 03/09/2018 09:40AM

He's paid a fair amount of idiot taxes too. Poor guy. ** -- JoesterVT 03/09/2018 08:28AM

“A lot of people don’t understand this” lol ** -- HokieDiver 03/09/2018 08:28AM

And per the NBA baller, they buy cars and houses! Who knew? ** -- 48zip 03/09/2018 08:35AM

Freaky ho’s and -- YardBird 03/09/2018 09:29AM

A lot of athletes go from making millions to zero when they're 30 and....

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