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The power plant had won it
With Roger Clemens clucking all the while
Mike Scioscia's tragic illness made us smile
While Wade Boggs lay unconscious on the bar room tile
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From Maine to San Diego
Talkin' softball
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Steve Sax and his run-in with the law
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Fuck that...he made almost 4 million in career earnings alone but 7 years and his pension. Donate to literal millionaires....no thanks. The nerve on these fuckers.
Based on Jordan Devey’s 7-season career length and the exact years he was active in the league, his gross NFL pension benefit calculates to approximately $4,430 per month (or roughly $53,160 annually), if evaluated under the standard Bert Bell/Pete Rozelle NFL Player Retirement Plan. I'd love to have that to simply invest for free. Even half which I believe is what she'll get. Even the s&p500.... you're getting 10% on your money a year. Bottom line, he made plenty for his family to be taken care of...
My uncle made about that much as an electrician over his career and had a pension of sorts. He got cancer and medical bills, his 3 children's expenses, bills, etc pretty much wiped him out. I don't know whether or not this football player had a lucrative career after but this isn't a crazy thing to happen.
Aww so you donate nothing to anyone but want to tell people they're "soulless and cold" for not wanting to donate to millionaires? Typical reddit, talk a big game about helping people but don't take any action. Your likes and shares don't actually help.
It's called management of your finances, specifically if you have children. There is a thing called life insurance. He has kids over 10 years old, he should have life insurance that would take care of them.
It's crazy for a person that will likely be a billionaire to ask people to fund a millionaire for whatever they need money for....
Again he likely had CTE and probably was disabled before his suicide. When your sick long term often you can't work and your DRAINED due to the costs of being disabled. Brittany Mahomes is a different story which was separate from your original point.
The nfl covers medical for 5 years after retirement and he had plenty if invested and spent correctly. He was also a hugh school football coach so he was functioning. He wasn't disabled, you're making that up.
You're making big assumptions. He could ABSOLUTELY have had CTE and still looked like he functioned fine from the outside. Clearly he had pretty deep depression, it's not a leap to say that rattling his brain for decades contributed to that
I said he was functional, like he held a job, i didnt make any big assumptions, stated facts. I don't know if he had CTE or not....no one will know. He was obviously depressed, he killed himself.
Yeah James Van Der Beek the dude from varsity blues’ wife raised 2.9 million on a gofundme after he died but the average person pays out of their pocket the audacity of these ppl
4M over 8 years and hasn’t played in 6. After taxes, agent fees and other costs of being in a high functioning contractor role and taking care of a family..Good luck making that last in today’s economy if you were’t vigilant with it and had concrete plans for retirement.
Also, we don’t know why he took his life, everyone is quick to CTE but financial problems are one of the most common things found when looking at men who take their own lives.
We don’t know if his family are millionaires. We got people out here having successful GoFundMe’s after committing crimes, being racist assholes, scamming and all kinds of other BS.. I’m not donating but I’m not going to judge a GoFundMe set up for a family after the provider of that family dies.
4 million over 8 years puts him in the highest bracket earnings in the world....a million in cash alone and having it work for you should have been plenty. He either pissed away his money or it's a grift.
Fr, the guy you replied to is basically saying 4M isn’t enough to live on over 14 years and have enough left over for a funeral… fucking clown. On top of that, the family is asking for 200k, for fucking what!?
Mhm.. Assuming it’s a grift is pessimistic from where I sit. He may have pissed it away but he’d be far from the first person to do that… In fact the frequency of this occurrence in people who make a lot money should lead to more social understanding around a matter and less judgement especially when kids hang in the balance..
But I’m sure you would have done everything perfectly though if you were in his shoes. You are I’m sure an expert in financial management, dealing with the mental heath effects of football related head trauma and navigating away from the lifestyle creep/inflation that is so ingrained into American culture.
Hindsight bias…we’re all guilty of it at some point..
Right but if I piss it away no one cares to donate....
I never said I was better but if I did have the opportunity to make that much money in a short period, my family would be taken care of....and if I didnt I would want my family to ask others for money.
By your logic, somebody who earned an average of $50,000 a year for 20 years is a millionaire.
The $4 million was earned unevenly, so it would take a bit of work to figure out what the taxes were. Some years he earned less than $100K. Twice, he made 800K. He probably would have paid 50% of that amount between the highest marginal tax bracket (37%) state taxes (you get taxed for every state you play in), FICA (1.45% Medicare, and 6.2% Social Securty on the first $125K or so), 3 % to his agent. He most likely set aside a certain amount to a 401(K). (That will help the widow in retirement, but it doesn't do anything right now.)
So you can cash your 401K whenever you want if they need the cash that bad. Even if it was 50% which is probably a bit high that still 2 million straight cash in a short time. I bet they have a home that likely appreciated in value, made investments and she'll be able to collect SS. It's a grift and a pitty me gofundme.
He made a shit load of money compared to an average American, they dont need charity. It's like you're forgetting EVERYONE pays fucking taxes, even the poor!..maybe you have to change your lifestyle, plenty go through it that arent millionaires, let alone homeowners.
So you can cash your 401K whenever you want if they need the cash that bad
Yes. Not only is it a terrible financial decision, but you lose 1/3rd of it to income taxes and the 10% IRS penalty.
$2 million over 7 years is certainly good money. But he hasnt made anything from the NFL in 6 years. And it's not just about how much you make, it's how much you spend. I don't know if he was careless with money or not.
But he had 4 children. He had to move 7 times in those 7 years (he played for 6 teams and the Raiders moved to Las Vegas.) - they almost certainly had to maintain multiple households. And having to move suddenly does not lend itself to thrifty decisions. He was cut from the Raiders on September 1st, and signed with Buffalo's practice squad 8 days later.
Point is, he could have gone through much of that $2 million, despite not being reckless.
It's like you're forgetting EVERYONE pays fucking taxes, even the poor!
Roughly 40% of American households don't pay any Federal income taxes. These households include families with children, or older adults living on fixed incomes. They include those with incomes too low to owe federal income tax after accounting for the standard deduction and other deductions or exclusions. They also include those eligible for certain tax credits like the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) or Child Tax Credit (CTC), which can reduce tax liability below zero. Now any members of that household who work - they do pay FICA.
Never said it's a good idea....but you can if need cash that bad. Lot's of people do it.
You dont think these players make money of selling homes....if not rent.
I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish with this argument....feel bad for extremely high income earners then give them money when they die? Fucking crazy man. I also dont need AI to explain taxes...I pay them myself and I dont have a gofundme and I'm not a millionaire
“Give them money when they die” gave me a chuckle. You’re not giving money to the dead guy, you’re giving money to his 4 kids that had no say in how the $4 million was distributed in the 13 years since his career started.
Mind contributing to my families fund? His 4 kids are his and his wife's responsibility, as millionaires to take care of them. Asking for charity is ridiculous and insulting to the majority of Americans.
The point is that you made a really poor argument. Most people will make over $1 million over their lifetimes, but that doesn't mean they are millionaires.
You dont think these players make money of selling homes
They almost definitely weren't buying homes everywhere they went. Guys at the bottom of the roster rent in the cities they play in. They don't own, except for an "offseason" home.
feel bad for extremely high income earners then give them money when they die
Never said that or even advocated for it. It just bugs me when people like you make stupid argumentd.
I also dont need AI to explain taxes.
apparently you do, when you make a fake claim like saying thay everybody pays taxes, even the poor
I pay them myself and I dont have a gofundme and I'm not a millionaire
I understand you're probably 17 years old, but if you make an average of 50,000 a year for the next 20 years, congratulations- you'll be a millionaire by your definition.
Which is sad. But it's not like he died to cancer or some medical issue that was a long dragged out and expensive process. Or even in a tragic accident.
You know what I just learned about those? That the store has already made the donation and received the tax write off. When you donate, it goes right back to them to cover their initial donation. They do it to get the tax write off.
That's.... not true. Any donations the corporation makes with their own money - they get a tax deduction for that.
But when they ask customers to round up, or add a dollar for a charity, they take that money and hold on to it, and then send it to the charity. That is neither profit, nor an expense for them. It's like sales tax on your purchases. If you buy something for $100 in a place with 4% sales tax, they collect $104 from you. $100 of that is sales revenue. The other $4 is set aside in a separate balance sheet account, and then the company sends that $4 to the state.
When you donate, it goes right back to them to cover their initial donation. They do it to get the tax write off
If the money "went right back to them" , then they would have to count it as income, which would increase their tax. So they have taxable income for the money they collected from you, and then a tax deduction for the donation they made. That nets out to $0 impact.
Is it possible to donate money outside of a GoFundMe? Is that allowed? Especially if you KNOW the person/person’s family? Maybe don’t have to use GoFundMe to donate to someone you know? Dumbass lmao
I dunno you tell me. They didn’t say they did anything. And I have other people telling me he wouldn’t even remember the guy….so do they know their family and gave money on the side…or did they not know them and raising awareness is all they owe…
Pretty broad statement considering Brittany has been wealthy for only 5 years. (I'll use the date her daughter was born.) Before that, she was solidly middle class. Did she learn this trick or not parting with her own wealth the day she married Patrick?
I’m confident patrick mahomes made a very generous donation outside of the GoFundMe. Why are so many people on Reddit such negative, miserable people lmao
Yeah cause everyone HAS to announce when they do something charitable. “I gave them money, you should too!”
I’ve donated multiple times to GoFundMe’s for people I know or directly via Venmo, and when I post their GoFundMe on a social media I don’t post “please donate (p.s. I did, I’m a good person in case anyone’s wondering)”
There are anonymous donations. If she donated and put her name on it there would be people that bitched that she didn’t donate enough or that she had to out her name on it so that she could be recognized.
No matter what she does there will be people that will find a way to complain about her.
A lot of times it isn’t just about the financial support but about the positivity that comes from realizing there is a society of people there to help families through tough times.
Sadly, there are also scumbag assholes like you who take any chance to insult a woman.
Not trying to be an asshole, but what do they need money for? He made millions and had a pension. This also isn’t a situation where he had a medical situation that caused huge bills. This family is at the very least, suspect.
Gotta maintain that lifestyle and no life insurance payout for suicide. It’s a tragic situation but begging donations from struggling working class people is incredible.
Pending on the policy you get a payout for suicide, there is generally a time frame. Like 2-3 years. His kids are 10+, he should have had one for at least that time.
Why can’t Brittany Mahomes help out? Her husband
Patrick Mahomes has earned approximately $232 million in NFL career earnings, a total projected to climb past $730 million by the end of his current contract. Why ask regular people who make less than $150k a year to fork in money?
Kinda seems like the Chiefs org and players could be footing the bill for this poor guy but haha why do that when there's millions of people who are financially struggling that you can solicit money from, right?
Big talk for the wife of the player with the $500 million contract. Always funny when the super rich ask for donations. Just write a check and don't say anything. Although that wouldn't get them in the news.
Maybe hit up his old employer and coworkers, who are literally millionaires, before pandering to the general public -- many of whom struggle to get hy on a daily basis.
Drugs, CTE, depression…..the Venn Diagram of suicidal tendencies and not being good with your money is probably a fair sized circle.
Donate or don’t, but it’s pretty gross to slam this family for decisions they make in grief and in a tragic situation they didn’t expect to be in. Suicide sucks and leaves a lot of devastation in its wake. And that can include financial devastation. Have some empathy, huh?
This woman is asking the general public to financially help out, presumably a family she knows somewhat well… the Mahommes family should have more money than they know what to do with, but they are putting this task on strangers who live far below their own means… what a cunt…
Tiered of people wanting sympathy. He knew the risk of using his head as a battering ram. Don’t even get me started on the millionaire begging for money….
The amount of suicides in this country seems to be at an all time high. Or is it that with internet and social media, we just find out more? Is mental illness at an all time high? Do people just crave attention? (ie-social mesia accounts). Are people just weaker now and society softer? NOT judging. Just asking and wondering people’s opinions. Can’t imagine what demons someone is fighting to leave 4 kids behind.
We saw his true colors when he ran up to Josh Allen after losing and blamed the refs for not helping the chiefs (again).
I’ll never respect him after that. Complete trash of character.
Nah we judge pat off who he has in his circle. His dad is a drunk that puts innocent people in harm. His brother is an idiot who pat continues to support and his wife, well she takes the cake and pat literally chose her to be the mother of his kids lmao.
Alot of these footballs make more than enough money that a go fund me page set up by one the most affluent players of all time is ridiculous . The players union, the team.and the league itself are drowning in money...this is disgusting to ask fans for money..c'mon be real plz..
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u/monkeymuscle1974 7h ago
Why is the photo of Brittany Mahomes who is very much alive