Vince Young is broke

[Golden Taters]

You know what I meant

[krulmichael]

What about all the money he made in college?

[Blick]

Dude was retarded.

How did Vince Young go broke after earning $26 million in six years of professional football? Cars? Trips? Houses? Women?

As Clay Tavis details, the former Tennessee Titans quarterback had a more lowbrow, deep-fried road to the poorhouse: He spent thousands of dollars per week at chain restaurants.

Folks in the Nashville area helped piece together Young's squandered wealth during the3-Hour Lunch radio show this week. Among other tales, they report the University of Texas legend spent as much as $5,000 per week at Cheesecake Factory during his rookie season.

Five thousand. Per week. At a place with appetizers for $7.99.

A buddy of mine waited tables at Cheesecake for years. He served a number of famous people and large groups and estimates that the biggest tab he ever saw was $1,400 from a 20-person group. Even if Young brought the entire Titans offense out to eat, getting to $5,000 per week is mind-boggling. It's not like there's $90 steaks and $250 bottles of wine on the menu to help rack up tabs, you know?

Other amazing, hard-to-believe rumors: Young once spent $6,000 in a single sitting at T.G.I. Fridays, he paid a kid $200 to carry his luggage at the airport and he'd do $600 shots of Louis XIII de Remy Martin at Morton's after games. It's the last one that's most appalling. Shooting, rather than sipping, a fine cognac is like putting ketchup on Kobe beef. Or, more appropriately, spending $6,000 at T.G.I. Friday's.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/gameon/post/Vince-Young-spent-5k-per-week-at-Cheesecake-Factory-and-other-tales-of-how-to-go-broke-7000081712/09/Vince-Young-spent-5k-per-week-at-Cheesecake-Factory-and-other-tales-of-how-to-go-broke-70000817/vince-#.UFwMhY2PVSR

[KINGOFOOTBALL]

I was expecting diamond encrusted hoes and strippers......not cheesecake and Remy Martin.
Not buying the 200$ luggage story, everybody knows black people don't tip.

[Tailback U]

This is sad but it's also kind of funny.

Not gonna lie if I was making millions when I was 22 I'd be flying my friends out to Vegas a LOT and who knows how much money I'd be spending.

I'd have set aside a good amount to make sure I was safe but yeah I'd be dropping thousands at restaurants and strip clubs no doubt about it. I like to party.

[ralaw]

Put me in the category of people who aren't surprised........you could see this coming. Vince Young appears to be a good dude, but he is too trusting and too loyal.

[ZoneBlitz]

Dont really give a shit about players personal lives, im just disappointed that his NFL career was a flop, he had great potential.

[Apocalypse]

[killgod]

at what he did, what a dummy.

Sucks if he got robbed, even if he is a dummy and blew most of his wad, if he got punked that 1.7M, then that does suck regardless.


Still, 26M and broke in 5 years. That's just what was guaranteed, likely had to make something non guaranteed with his ROY, perhaps advertising money too? Dear lawd.


Although it happens to everyone, lottery winners can go broke all the same as this. People be morans.

[Senser81]

Dude was retarded.



http://content.usatoday.com/communit...-#.UFwMhY2PVSR

I also heard that when he would fly Southwest Airlines, he would buy every ticket for the flight and just sit alone in the airplane. Thats ridiculous.

[Guest]

This is sad but it's also kind of funny.

Not gonna lie if I was making millions when I was 22 I'd be flying my friends out to Vegas a LOT and who knows how much money I'd be spending.

I'd have set aside a good amount to make sure I was safe but yeah I'd be dropping thousands at restaurants and strip clubs no doubt about it. I like to party.

Agreed. Just put $2 million in a bank account and let it sit there, or do some safe investment. It's not very difficult, and doesn't take a lot of effort to do.

It's also hard for me to feel sorry for the guy, because I'll never see that amount of money in my life and I'm just fine right now, and I'll continue to be fine.

Dont really give a shit about players personal lives, im just disappointed that his NFL career was a flop, he had great potential.

[Argath]

Atleast he can earn it back while he's on the Dream Team..

Oh wait..

[Aso]

If I was a millionaire who went broke I'd have spent all my money on fast food and weed. But shit, you still gotta put some away in savings.

The average person in their lifetime will make about 4 million dollars so blowing 26 in 6 seasons is just incomprehensible to me when most of it is on restuarants.