Chris Henry is "Destitute"

[TNCowboy]

I hope you never enter the world of highly paid athletes. You'd be dog meat and clueless.

Duh! let's consider his expenses.
1. SUVs and entourages
2. Trips to all points in the U.S.of A.
3. Closets of shiny-fabric suits
4. Girls in every city
5. Bottles of Crystal
6. Your own deejay for your par-tays
7. A traveling deejay
8. 2,000 relatives with their hands out
9. Can't mention this expense
10. Meals
11. Fashion makeovers for girlfriend(s); lots of hair products
12. Dry cleaning
13. guns and ammo . . .

OK, this is just for starters

You kin see how easily your money would go.

No thanks necessary; your mere presence at CZ is thanks enough.

We see the same thing happen with lottery winners. Frequently, even big $ lottery winners wind up broke.

People who win the lottery - and a lot of kids who make it big in sports - have no concept of how much money they actually won or, in Henry's case, are making. To them, the million or ten million is an endless sea of money that will never end. They don't have a clue that the money is finite and won't last if they don't take care of it.

 

[TellerMorrow34]

Don't feel bad for him in the least. he brought it all on himself by being a complete idiot.

 

[1fisher]

I'm hoping to move out of Willieland soon.

where are you going? Nowhere?

 

[FuzzyLumpkins]

How many of you if you lost your job could afford to make all your payments for 6 months? Give me a break and get off your high horses.

 

[joseephuss]

How many of you if you lost your job could afford to make all your payments for 6 months? Give me a break and get off your high horses.

You will have to rephrase that. How many of you if you were reckless and ran afoul of the law causing you to lose your job could afford to make all your payments for 6 months? And of course we would all have to be paid just as well as Henry in this scenario to make it close to equal.

 

[GimmeTheBall!]

We see the same thing happen with lottery winners. Frequently, even big $ lottery winners wind up broke.

People who win the lottery - and a lot of kids who make it big in sports - have no concept of how much money they actually won or, in Henry's case, are making. To them, the million or ten million is an endless sea of money that will never end. They don't have a clue that the money is finite and won't last if they don't take care of it.

And it don't help none that many of these athletes have been coddled and protected by schools/coaches from the outside world.
You see, they were BMOC, had all the girls they wanted, were immune from meaninful schoolwork and were told they'd succeed no matter what real-world skills they'd need -- like balancing a checkbook or getting a financial services expert (not the agent, plealse, not the agent).
Makes me wish I had been a full-time jock, but then, again, I would be broke today instead of living high on the hog with my head-injury checks.

 

[Hostile]

*** was he doing with his money.I could be a complete ***** with that much money and still have a lot left.

More and more I find myself agreeing with you sac. It's real simple, once you have money don't spend it until you have invested it first. Make your money work for you so you don't have to work for your money. Then, once your money is working for you, spend some. Hell spend a lot. It will be there.

 

[stealth]

Not sure that if I was a poor kid from the other side of the tracks that I wouldn't have pissed all my money away too. I can feel for the kid, he doesn't know what he has.

 

[Yeagermeister]

where are you going? Nowhere?

To be your neighbor

 

[ndanger]

Exactly. I don't have an ounce of sorrow for him. Give most people his talent and that money and they wouldn't piss it away.

Give any one species to much rope and they'll f--- it up.

 

[dcfanatic]

Can someone tell me how these kids make it thru one semester of college?

 

[sonnyboy]

Sure he will have less than the total contract pays out. I don't know if his agent gets 15%. It is probably less, but not much less. Even at 15% Henry should see about half of that $1 million signing bonus.

A big factor for his money woes is probably his legal expenses. Those can mount up fast especially when you are constantly in trouble like Henry has been. If he led a different off the field life he would probably still be in good shape financially. Missing half a season means missing half of his income for that year. Stay out of trouble and you get paid and don't have to pay a lot to lawyers.

Think you're on to something

 

[juck]

How many of you if you lost your job could afford to make all your payments for 6 months? Give me a break and get off your high horses.

i could making that much easily.

 

[juck]

Whats crazy is I have a friend who went to WVU and played sports there when pacman and henry were there and he says they were running mates and constantly in trouble.lol.

 

[Sarge]

How many of you if you lost your job could afford to make all your payments for 6 months? Give me a break and get off your high horses.

I could....next question...

 

[Hostile]

How many of you if you lost your job could afford to make all your payments for 6 months? Give me a break and get off your high horses.

Give me his income and I can survive without ever working another day in my life and live very comfortably doing it.

Man this horse is tall.

 

[pgreptom]

i could making that much easily.

I'm with you. The first thing my mother ever told me was to put four full paychecks in a "oh ****" savings.

That doesn't even touch my high-yield savings. Or just my normal spit and whiff savings.

I could lose my job tomorrow, and pay my bills for about six months - if not more. I could simply cut my lifestyle down tremendously.

 

[1fisher]

To be your neighbor

come on down and we'll go fishin'

 

[Yeagermeister]

come on down and we'll go fishin'

I'll bring the dynamite

 

[1fisher]

I'll bring the dynamite

In my best JJ Evans voice.... DYYY-NOOO-MITE!!!

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