Falcons wide receiver Julio Jones isn’t known for dropping footballs, which has made him enough money to afford the purchase of a few extravagant items like expensive earrings to wear while jet skiing around a lake.
It also allows him to afford hiring some help when one of those earrings goes missing. Jones was on Lake Lanier in Georgia when he was thrown from his jet ski while crossing the wake of a boat and he realized that one of his diamond earrings was missing when he surfaced.
The earring, which is worth more than $100,000, remained below and Jones hired a dive team to search for it on the bottom of the lake. The bottom of the lake is some 65 feet below the surface, which the “Scubaman” of Lake Lanier Bobby Griffin — RGH2O could work if he wants another nickname — said was “pitch black,” and their efforts were unsuccessful.
guys with too much money and displaced priorities
wtf does anyone need with a $100k diamond stud earring? seriously ... if you have that much money you can just throw away please go help a homeless shelter or a community in distress ... something useful and productive, showing kindness and caring rather than selfish egotism
"Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things." George Carlin
Eh, it's all scaled. A person with a lesser economic position than you...someone who goes a day or two between Ramen Noodles...might think the money you spend on an expensive bottle of wine or a nice steak dinner could have gone to a homeless shelter or a community in distress and might also be thought of as extravagant and selfish egotism.
Jones has given an awful lot of time and money to the Children's Miracle Network, Locks of Love, and the Wounded Warrior Project.
He may have expensive earrings, but he's one of the really good guys in the league.
And this would be why we see a lot of these guys broke, 5-10 years out of the league after earning 100 million dollars in pro sports. They are just flat out morons with their money.
At least we can update the list of most likely to be on an issue of 30 for 30 Broke, in 20 years.
I think the figure is 78% of former NFL'ers file for bankruptcy or are in serious financial distress in just a few years after retiring from the NFL. Since Julio makes bank, I would assume it'll take a bit longer, but he'll be in that group eventually.
The universe is under no obligation to make any sense to you...
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Lance Briggs' 2007 Lamborghini Murcielago LP Roadster was the first one to be wrecked - I recollect it cost 6 figures to get it repaired - perhaps a life-changing event in more ways than one:
Wrecked a 350K hand-made car.
Could have got his ass hung for a phony story afterwards.
Could have been a goner.
There is a GM named Poles
Who has a clear set of goals
He’s rebuilt his team
So Bears’ fans can dream
Of winning some more Super Bowls
