OT: TO, broke and friendless

[Holy Diver]

Can we change the thread title to include the fact thyat he also doen't have a championship?

On his character, and I have this on a decent source...TO used to engage in 'shady things' while playing for the 49ers...

I don't want to get into details...but when I heard the allegid tales...I had to keep confirmig that the source was talking about THE T.O....the 49ers wide reciever...the source kept saying "YES"

dude has issues...

 

[Bella*chick]

Aw, come on, why no details?

 

[TheGodInAGreyHoodie]

There are many people in this world who value their children more than their money.

I dunno...there was post yesterday about how if the SB was in NO instead of Indy said fan would have sold his kids on the black market. But not worth selling off the kids just for Indy.

 

[PATSNUTme]

Wehn I say that I feel a little sorry for the guy, it seems that he trusted the wrong people with his money and they screwed him. His agent, who was seen everywhere with TO when TO was in the limelight, brought in those people to invest for him. Now he seems to have abandoned him.

It is hard to feel bad for a guy who seemed to be so egotisical and did not take care of his own business. But maybe I'm just a softy.

 

[MoLewisrocks]

Yeah, 45K a month is just utterly ridiculous. 45K a YEAR could even be viewed as excessive.

I feel bad for him because it seems he has some severe mental issues and apparently no one has helped/forced him to deal with it. Throw all the money and fame out the window and look at the person. He's obviously had problems his whole life and being 38, having had fame, and now without friends, money, or a job, it's got to be as tough a time as ever for him. Fame and money don't solve your problems, in fact, they can often make them worse.

The situation he is in is totally of his own making. Utter lack of accountability. It's always someone else's fault, from the 4 seperate supposedly skanks HE managed to impregnate including the last one's child he has never set eyes on he's so angry that happened...to the teamates who inexplicably undercut him and the agent who enabled him to even earn $80M to the media who painted him as exactly who and what he is...

No sympathy whatsoever. And $130K per babymama household per kid isn't excessive for a guy making $2M even last season, let alone one who has apparently blown through $80M in a little more than a decade.

 

[MoLewisrocks]

Wehn I say that I feel a little sorry for the guy, it seems that he trusted the wrong people with his money and they screwed him. His agent, who was seen everywhere with TO when TO was in the limelight, brought in those people to invest for him. Now he seems to have abandoned him.

It is hard to feel bad for a guy who seemed to be so egotisical and did not take care of his own business. But maybe I'm just a softy.

That's his story, nut, but Rosenhaus is the same guy who got him $80M to begin with. Drew is an enabler, but he gets them what they want. And it seems in TO's case what comes after that is always someone else's fault.

 

[TheGodInAGreyHoodie]

That's his story, nut, but Rosenhaus is the same guy who got him $80M to begin with. Drew is an enabler, but he gets them what they want. And it seems in TO's case what comes after that is always someone else's fault.

That is my take. Exactly how much of that $80M was bad investments and how much was spent on strippers.

 

[PATSNUTme]

That's his story, nut, but Rosenhaus is the same guy who got him $80M to begin with. Drew is an enabler, but he gets them what they want. And it seems in TO's case what comes after that is always someone else's fault.

OK then, I don't feel sorry for him. I just had moment of weakness.

 

[Holy Diver]

Aw, come on, why no details?

As I stated....its rather shocking. I seriously had to interrupt the story like a dozen times to make sure the source was talking about Owens.

I have good sources sometimes. A few years back while watching the draft with some Raider fans, a friend told me: "Jamarcus is on that purple drank...the syzurp."

I didn't believe it.

Next year the story comes out...

The TO stuff is worse in my opinion, although a very different accuasation. Sine nothing has come out about it, I brushed it off...but when I see stuff like this, or his attempted suicide, or the stuff with McNabb, or him crying about Tony Romo...I always come back to what I was told and wonder....

I think we can all agree the dude is shady...and mental.

 

[Rob0729]

if you need a friend, all you have to do is ask me, Rob....

Thanks Joker, but I said I was broke and friendless, I was hoping that you would offer money too. Friendship ain't going to put food on the table unless you own Facebook.

BTW, thanks to the people who decided that they would click the like button on my admitting I am broke and friendless. I wonder how many likes I could get if I announced that my dog died and I am homeless.

 

[fnordcircle]

You guys realize that the continuing narrative we see of one hit wonders who made it big and went broke, sports stars who end up bankrupt, lottery winners who end up feeling their lives are ruined after winning it big isn't just a bunch of unrelated coincidences.

Managing money isn't easy. There's plenty of studies out there about how people can make like 40k a year and others can makes like 80k a year but there is no difference in quality of life between the two sides.

If you think you'd have no problems managing millions of dollars you're probably no different than others who won 25 million dollars after having an average yearly salary of 40k a year and ended up in debt.

 

[Joker]

I disagree....using THIS board as an example...we have a preponderance of professional types, from lawyers to accountants,musicians to artists..who seem to understand the intricasies of NFL capology(something I'll bet most NFL players can't even begin to comprehend).To suggest they would suddenly "go broke" because the sheer volume of money would overwhelm them is pretzel logic with mustard on top.

Personally, I'm not rich by any means...but I worked at building my life, invested prudently and I'm now secure enough to lead the life I choose. I don't trust my savings to someone who uses other people's money to make a percentage off the top. There are plenty of ex-NFL players who have gone on to much success and accolades post playing days.

The real point is, you CANNOT make chicken salad out of chicken sh!t. A T.O. has consummate PHYSICAL skills...obviously, he lacks the shrewdness and mental acuity to manage his net worth and prosper as his life unfolds. This is not anything new...just look at the people who trusted Madoff. When you are faced with a financial bonanza like an NFL contract, it behooves you to educate yourself in all financial aspects such a windfall provides. If you don't, THAT is on you.

 

[FalconHeavy]

Yeah, 45K a month is just utterly ridiculous. 45K a YEAR could even be viewed as excessive. .

One thing I never understood, why do rich and famous people ever get married? They know for sure they will be taken to cleaners anyway when the marriage falls apart and they KNOW it will fall apart !

 

[Joker]

One thing I never understood, why do rich and famous people ever get married? They know for sure they will be taken to cleaners anyway when the marriage falls apart and they KNOW it will fall apart !

it's their way of compensating...getting back to "normal"...

see? just because I'm this huge media star doesn't mean I can't get married...like Mom and Dad did...I just need to find the right person....another 10 or 15 tries and I think I'll have the hang of it...check out my "Just A Regular Star" home decor website...I've gone to great efforts to share my decorating secrets...like where to place the diamond and emerald encrusted Ottoman for maximum effect....and "Servant Quarters Touchup Tips" for the star handyman fixer-uppers out there....

 

[PatsGirl2011]

Sadly, this medical provider thinks T.O actually suffers from depression. He used his money to make himself "happy" and "feel better," but now its all gone he can't do that. If he was a narcissistic he wouldn't be able to give money to other people; thus I lean towards more of a borderline personality disorder if anything, but that is hard to say even just reading an article because I don't know him personally.

 

[The Scrizz]

I'm sorry, I can't read a whole thread about TO but did the OP say he felt sorry for Terrell Owens because he managed to blow through 80 million dollars?

I don't care what kind of problems face the suddenly nouveau rich. They have a very easy option when the money runs out. It's called getting a job. Why is the immediate assumption made that an athlete can play a sport for a few years and then be set for life? Why is it a shame when he has no money?

I'll be working until I'm at least 65 and probably 70. Why the f@ck would I care if some idiot blew his wad and can't afford a mansion anymore. GET A JOB. My hopes for this country are seriously depressed when even millionaire athletes have become part of our Victim Culture because they are too stupid to balance a checkbook.

 

[fnordcircle]

I disagree....using THIS board as an example...we have a preponderance of professional types, from lawyers to accountants,musicians to artists..who seem to understand the intricasies of NFL capology(something I'll bet most NFL players can't even begin to comprehend).To suggest they would suddenly "go broke" because the sheer volume of money would overwhelm them is pretzel logic with mustard on top.

Saying something doesn't make it true. The reality is that there are tons of examples of people who went from poor/middle-class to excessively wealthy ending up broke or in debt.

You can't simply handwave that away because we have a lawyer who posts here and you think he would be able to manage his money just fine.

TO is clearly a guy with emotional problems and people finding joy in the fact the guy is broke are the epitome of the mean-spirited internet poster whose self-righteous vilification of another human being without regard for circumstances is particularly vile to me. Especially when it's possible the people who are taking joy in his downfall might they themselves fall prey to the same pitfalls.

For instance, most of us manage our budget under the expectation that we'll continue to earn at the level we do now. That's why we buy houses that cost 10x what we have in savings. When a rich person does this they're doing the same thing - expecting that there will 'always be more where that came from.' It's a very seductive state of mind to find yourself in and having more zeroes at the end of your paycheck doesn't make you immune to it.

 

[fnordcircle]

I don't care what kind of problems face the suddenly nouveau rich. They have a very easy option when the money runs out. It's called getting a job.

Let me know what job options are available to an out of work athlete that allow them to cover 1/2 a million a year in child support alone because I want to get in on that line of work pronto.

I mean you can't simply be oversimplifying here, right?

 

[Armchair Quarterback]

Maybe if he didn't act like a childish selfish a**hole his whole career he'd still have a job.

 

[JaxPats]

Tough Sh*t