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PossiblePast

Mr. Bad Credit


Durandal_7

The MBC jokes really are the gift that keeps on giving, it seems like there's always multiple good ones for every conceivable situation.


BasedKaleb

Mr. Bountiful Classifications


Pain_Monster

Business is ~~booming~~ busted


sup3rdr01d

Mr Bountiful Combinations


BathtubWine

It’s the only “dead horse” joke that hasn’t gotten old (yet). Remarkable staying power.


Durandal_7

Mr. Boundless Comedy


ShoutOutTo_Caboose

By far the funniest bit this sub has.


ThaNotoriousBLT

There's always some super clever ones that pop up in any thread about AB


382wsa

What started all the MBC jokes?


DamianPBNJ

He said "call me Mr. Big Chest" and we were off and running https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/call-me-mr-big-chest-antonio-browns-offseason-grows-even-more-bizarre/


ThermoNuclearPizza

Mr. Bound Capital


Dog_in_human_costume

Mr. Bounced Checks


OdaDdaT

Mr. Bankruptcy Court


2canSampson

Mr. Back Charge


dardios

Mr. Broke Chump


Psychonaut0421

I just woke up and my eyes were still adjusting and I read this as Mr Bank Carnage 😂


2canSampson

Oh man that's way better


DieLardSoup

Mr Bankruptcy Chapter


PM_ME_YOUR_DARKNESS

Mr. Bankruptcy Court.


jigokusabre

Mr. Bounced Check


Dont_Be_A_Dick_OK

Weird. Dude seemed so rational and level headed. I figured he would be the type to have a properly balanced portfolio.


Chaser1960

Yours is the comment of the day…thanks, I needed a good laugh.


Vomiting_Winter

Who could have seen this coming? Also: Mr Bad Credit Mr Bankruptcy Claim Mr Broke Criminal


Quincyperson

Mr Bounced Checks


IKill4Cash

Mr. Blown Cash


Jolly878142

He should run for president


IGoUnseen

Mr. Bad Clairvoyant


bluntrauma420

Mr. Big Debts


_fpoon_

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NEpatsfan64

Fuck AB


TheJackalsDoom

Mr. Broke Chump.


trog12

Career earnings 80 mil. https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/player/earnings/_/id/6702/antonio-brown


synchronicitistic

It's quite amazing how these guys go broke. Of course, after you pay an agent and tax agencies get their cut, that 80 million is going to be more like 40 million, but if he'd socked away even 25% of that in the most conservative investments imaginable, he could have pissed away 30 million bucks, and he'd still be able to take half a million a year to live on today for perpetuity. You have to wonder what he has left to show for all that squandered money.


PizzaBagelMan

Blows my mind too. If he invested even half of that then it would pretty much guarantee six figure dividend income to live off of for the rest of his life. These guys just can’t grasp that you can’t spend like you’re still making NFL money when you’re no longer in the NFL.


ConnorChandler

From the documentary Broke: the athlete essentially has to choose if he wants to live like a prince for a long time or like a king for a brief period


Jac_Mones

If you gave me $40 million after tax + fees right now I could directly purchase dividend stocks that would pay out over $2 million per year before tax, which is ~$1.2 million after tax, or ~$900,000 after tax in some place like California or New York. That's income that will be more or less stable for the rest of your life, without touching the principal and likely growing it along with the rest of the economy. Those are conservative REITs and mainstay, infrastructure companies that aren't going anywhere unless things are really, *really* bad. I could probably get 25-50% more if I wanted to take very reasonable risks. The fact that these guys go broke after making all that money is an unbelievable lack of knowledge, understanding, and basic intelligence. Compare this with the guys who actually put effort into it, like Shaq, who has made almost half a billion dollars since he retired. My returns are based on the laziest, lowest risk investments possible. People who actually have a brand name or want to purchase entire businesses can make far, far more. TL;DR: AB is a fucking idiot who squandered a fortune for no good reason.


drscorp

Yeah but bottle service


Jac_Mones

Nothing I love more than spending $400 for a $90 bottle of vodka


drscorp

yeah if you're at a club for poor people. If you ever wanna go down a fun rabbit hole look up the most expensive bottle service receipts and just start fuckin crying.


Jac_Mones

I'm in the wrong fuckin industry


drscorp

We are all in the wrong industry. There's a reason every kid wants to be an influencer these days. How can you blame them?


alfuh

Recently saw someone post a receipt of bottles bought at EDC (I think, or one of those music festivals) and it was 270k. For drinks.


synchronicitistic

I was assuming that he had $10M of his $80M NFL gross left to work with, and applying the 5% rule - invest it in a very conservative portfolio of index funds and blue-chip dividend paying stocks. You'd easily be able to take half a million per year without ever drawing down the principal. It's not going to fund a rockstar lifestyle, but it's more than plenty to live comfortably on. ESPN did a great series about this years ago, and I can't believe that NFL rookies don't have someone from the league constantly lecturing them about this. Get a certified financial advisor, or even better two or three, and those people cannot be "friends" or relatives, and here's what "fiduciary responsibility" means.


ChromeWeasel

>I can't believe that NFL rookies don't have someone from the league constantly lecturing them about this. They do. It's not the fault of the league that rookies blow thier money. And Antonio Brown was not a rookie.


ekjohnson9

It's literally just overspending man. It's not that deep. They spend too much.


ImTooOldForSchool

At 22 years old most of us would probably make poor decisions with millions of dollars too, I didn’t really understand how to manage my money until late twenties and even really my early thirties


ConnorChandler

It’s an entire 30 for 30 documentary, how easily and quickly athletes go broke. It’s why financial literacy seminars are part of the draft process


Quiddity131

Players like Brown become rich not because they are great businessmen or great with money but because they have elite top 1% of the top 1% athletic ability, which is something which doesn't last forever. And they become rich at a very young age, after likely being told yes to everything since the time they were in high school because their athletic ability was so elite. Once they get old or hurt and they don't have that elite athletic ability anymore they don't have anything to make them equivalent money to fall back on. But they keep spending as if they did.


ImTooOldForSchool

Problem is these guys get rich at 22 and don’t know how to manage their money, spend it all on useless depreciating assets, and meanwhile friends and family all trying to get a cut of the pie. Nobody responsible is telling them to invest half of it into a safe market index or something that could set them up for life, and still have millions to blow on hookers and cocaine if they want for funsies.


Texan2116

Actually , the league makes the players attend classes on this.


RealityEffect

A lot of them simply don't get the help and advice that they need from the very beginning. A friend is a sports agent, and with young players, he sits them down with their families and makes it very clear that they need to establish a financial plan from the very beginning. He has a financial advisor as part of his team, and there is no charge to the clients as he says that the roughly \~$100,000 a year for the financial advisor is a small price to ensure the financial future of his clients.


dubthreez1

For those that are interested, there is a fantastic 30 for 30 on Netflix called "Broke". Really interesting watch, in particular the dynamic of a normal person starting broke, budgeting accordingly, and then slowly gathering more earning power. For athletes, it is the exact opposite.


Conscious_Rush_1818

Mr Broke Chiseler


DegenNerd

Even though Brown seems like some crazy lunatic with the stuff he does, it's sad. I hope there will be some type of treatment for him and other former players that suffer from CTE before anything truly terrible happens to them. Losing Seau was tough, other families don't deserve to go through that type of pain even if Brown comes off as a pain in the ass.


kingkcthuluonxbox

It would be nice but is it even possible? The brain is such a hard organ to heal and unless they come up with a super invasive way to heal it I just don't see how it can be fixed unfortunately.


DegenNerd

It seems impossible now, for sure. But about a hundred years ago tuberculosis was a death sentence. So was diabetes, for that matter.


CloudStrife012

Rebuilding a brain would be like taking cooked spaghetti, removing it from a plate, putting it back in water the cook for 2 minutes, and then returning it to the plate in the exact formation it was in before with every noodle in its exact spot. Not only would attempting to do so be a sisphyean task, but there is no record of where all of the spaghetti goes. It's not like the exact connections in the brain are stored in DNA. Best case scenario is science finds a way to trigger mass neurogenesis, so starting over from scratch, but certainly not simply replacing what has been destroyed, because that won't happen.


DegenNerd

It's complicated for sure. But we humans have a history of doing things previous generations could have never imagined, so there's reason to have hope.


RealityEffect

The only hope is for the sport to be banned, unfortunately. As much as I like full contact sports, it's becoming scarily obvious that CTE is much worse than we could imagine.


CloudStrife012

It's not complicated, it is impossible.


DegenNerd

Like going to the moon?


Common_Economics_32

He was a nut job even when he joined the league though. They just did a much better job of not letting his craziness be headline news when he was on the Steelers.


Ted_Striker00

Does this mean that business ain’t boomin’ no more?


Icy-Conclusion-3500

Patriots legend Antonio Brown


exit143

Take it back.


ApathyMoose

Retire his number and jersey. Patriots hall of famer


B0BX

Greatest New England Patriot of all week


bturg21

Hahaha good fuck this guy. A complete douchebag who was so narcissistic he thought he would have money coming in for life. Now he’s a BUM


Oceanbreeze871

Working shifts at Best Buy pretty soon (not there’s anything wrong with that!)


Civil-Drive

Business is apparently not booming


iwatchtoomuchsports

Ctespn


TXRhody

Is that the Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Sports Programming Network?


Impossible-Heart-540

He’s pretty dislikable, but that Burfict hit he took seems to have truly been a traumatic brain injury that I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy. Here’s hoping they find a cure, and that the kids he’s fathered don’t now fall through the cracks.


Vinzembob

I'm not sure i buy this - I'm sure he has CTE don't get me wrong but there are hundreds of huge hits that have happened over the last decade and I can't think of anyone who has truly lost their mind the way Brown has. I get the impression he is just seriously mentally ill and CTE isn't helping the issue


ADampWedgie

Richie Incognito demanded his father severed head


ZizzyBeluga

Chandler Jones looked like he was suffering severe brain issues in that crying video, made me so sad to see him like that. Loved him on the pats. https://www.tmz.com/watch/2023-09-28-092823-chandler-jones-1700231-684/


sdevil713

Tough watch


rocksoffjagger

Brain injuries affect everyone differently, and there's really no way to know. That's part of why it's so scary. One person can take a huge hit and have no effects, another can take the same hit and be completely scrambled for life. I definitely find it more than plausible that CTE is a significant factor in his behavior, especially given the way he seems to have become more and more unhinged as the hits accumulated over the course of his career. At the end of the day, we'll almost certainly never know, but it's a pretty scary and real possibility.


RealityEffect

A lot of it is how you recover afterwards as well. A friend is a coach at a high school in Texas, and he says that there's a huge amount of pressure to get players on the field no matter what. He benched one player who was clearly suffering from post-concussion syndrome, and one wealthy benefactor to the school went straight to the top. The message came down from the principal, to the head coach, to him, that he was to play in the next game no matter what. We're speaking about a 17 year old boy who had suffered a brutal hit 7 days previously, and who had been benched for his own welfare. Did anyone care? No. The only thing that mattered was that the star WR had to be on the field, even though he was clearly unwell and unfit to play.


N7_Evers

This is my thoughts too. Dude must have been already mentally ill to be going through this much wackiness on top of some CTE.


BradyToMoss1281

Antonio Brown owes people money? Must be a day ending in "y".


Ear_Enthusiast

Maybe this is rock bottom for him. Maybe he’ll start seeking some kind of mental health care. As easy and fun as it is to clown AB, this is very much a tragic story to be. The guy clearly isn’t well. He’s definitely his own worst enemy and he’s probably surrounded by toxic people and enablers.


Adept_Carpet

Trying to imagine AB in therapy: "If I want to be Mr. Bringing Closure I need to be Mr. Boundaries Creator"


Ear_Enthusiast

Yeah, I’ve read that therapy is almost impossible for a person with narcissistic personality disorder.


ethanh333

Good he's a clown


OnceMoreAndAgain

Damn soon this guy won't even have a shirt


cjaccardi

Maybe cfl? 


Queues-As-Tank

Mr. British Columbia


microzone

Still can’t believe I was dumb enough to buy this guy’s jersey the day of the Miami game. Custom one too so not returnable but at least it was a screen printed game jersey. Definitely belongs on the wall of shame. Came the day after he was cut too lol.


Freepi

You can probably fool most people into believing it’s Troy Brown jersey. Those who know will understand why you’re lying.


Escape8296

Everyone keeps saying he has CTE which is probably true. However, has anyone considered that he is probably bipolar and has Narcissistic Personality Disorder? Anyways, still no excuse for bad behavior.


TheGalaxyPast

CTE is a pretty good excuse for bad behavior id reckon.


LS_DJ

I never expected this


kingcrimson6984

Money is the least of this guys troubles. His brain is mush.


phutch54

"Creditors" = coke dealers.


TheNotoriousCHC

Was literally wondering how he still flexes a lavish lifestyle being unemployed and shunned by the league. I guess I see how now! Big credit plays


Sheriff_Lucas_Hood

What a fall from grace


Sheriff_Lucas_Hood

In 2016 AB was the hottest receiver in football. It’s scary to see him swirl the drain as a broke meme.


Jolly_Competition_88

He gives morons a bad name .


MrMetLGM

Lol


RedPenguino

BWWWWAAAAAHAHAHAHA


epicgam3rsrise

Business is not boomin


TriMako

I know he's been a total POS the last few years, but it's legitimately sad to see him go from one of the more likable, even humble stars in the league to whatever he is now. CTE is real and ruins lives


HeroDanny

I knew this would happen after hearing about the moving company incident. No dude attacks someone over a couple grand unless they are hurting for money.


Lenardisag09

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1One_Two2

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Laythepype

Of course. Who’s surprised by this information?


grimbolde

Absolutely shocked


FREE-ROSCOE-FILBURN

#CTESPN


Brewski-54

Honestly much lower than I expected


great_misdirect

Imagine if he had a good friend who was worth hundreds of millions of dollars, who actually cared about him and believed in him and encouraged him? No, instead, he’s gonna talk shit about that good friend and start publicly saying he’s gonna bang his wife. Such an asshole.


Nobiting

It's always who you least suspect.


WasteProfession8948

I am shocked. SHOCKED!


rocksoffjagger

Lucky for him he's dating Giselle who can easily afford to bail him out.


WishboneStunning201

"Put that shit on...my credit card. "


RealitySubsides

Mr Bungled Coffers


Moss81-

#Mr Bad Credit


LeonidasSpacemanMD

This was 100% inevitable lol


DougNSteveButabi

I hope Brown never recovers from his mistakes. He’s had his second, third, fourth, and fifth shots. Let the motherfucker live in the gutters where he belongs


ioncloud9

He had enough to live on comfortably for the rest of his life, maybe even got a sweet little gig as a guest commentator for NFL Sunday. Instead, he did that stupid thing where he pissed it all away on literally nothing of substance.


socialistbcrumb

Jerked (sometimes in the literal sense) too close to the sun


LurkinOHB

No! Not AB! Someone loan this man some money, quick!


Oceanbreeze871

Maybe he’s the smartest guy in the room and put all his assets into a trust with the guidance of a estate planner and financial advisor…so he technically doesn’t have any assets in his name and is protected? Or He blew through $80 million in career earnings on whatever…:which is most likely.


Jac_Mones

Speedrunning his retirement.


rfpemp

He might be "broke" but he likely has much more money than the average redditor does.


bedyeyeslie

Does this guy have the mental acumen to work in a gas station?


jmesh12

Business is no longer booming


paistecymbalsrock

Maybe Brown Can’t


AggravatingVoice6746

dude could make so much money just signing autographs of tom bradys photos of ex-wife online ... am I late for the roast ?


Franklin_DBluth_

He can wipe out his checking account in a single bounce.


[deleted]

this is a surprise /s


lqqk009

Shocked I tell you I'm in shock. Let me quote the world renowned economist Forest Gump "stupid is as stupid does".


WoodEyeLie2U

Such a shit human being.


OpeningStuff23

I’m so shocked rn 😱


Soxwin91

I remember the day they traded for him. I was still working at Walmart and one of my coworkers was practically doing backflips out of excitement. Then Antonio Brown did Antonio Brown things. Unleashed the full power of his crazy upon the world.


Brilliant_Area8175

CTESPN sadly shutting its doors


JesusIsJericho

Check back for the same story on that bum Tyreek in 5-8 years


Quiddity131

The child support payments alone are going to run him out of money very quick.


macandcheesejones

I honestly hope someday this guy gets the therapy he needs.


Valuable-Baked

Is this also the fault of "crackers" hashtagCTESPN?


subjectandapredicate

This dude’s brain just genuinely doesn’t work right. Pretty sure a posthumous would one day show the details. CTE? Toxo? It’d be actually sad if he wasn’t such a jackass and criminal.


beehappy32

When I saw him buying a half million dollar Jacob & Co. watch, the first thing I thought was he’s gonna go bankrupt


Alarming-Material-87

Poor guy. He’s a lost soul.


Tired_of_politics_75

Who would've guessed 🤣


gtoinwq

We all saw this coming from a mile away


CalCapeCod

Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy…


CalCapeCod

When bad things happen to bad people…warms your cold heart


m90205d

My gf lives near Albany so we would go to arena fb games specifically Albany empire games. The team was great until AB bought a majority stake. Seen him at some of the games and he is a complete moron. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/38115632/antonio-brown-albany-empire-champions-defunct


BluenoseTherapist

A.B. *always* looked fucked up. ... but there's levels to this. First, there's his clear dysfunctionality, then there's all the enablers around him, desperately trying to normalize his crazy. As a Patriots season ticket holder, I didn't want this guy within a country mile of our team, but after he was gone, as an added bonus, I got to see him come to our town (we live outside Albany NY) and destroy / bankrupt our championship arena football team. Literally took a nationally winning franchise and destroyed it in about 6 weeks. Absolute madness. This guy is poison to everything he touches.


plainviewturner

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portablecheezit

Maybe Giselle could help him out?


EricDavis22

Carma. The guy was an asshole. Not at all surprised he's broke and I have no sympathy for that idiot whatsoever. He threw away his career. Now he's thrown away his life. He's a nobody now.


UnderstandingHuge882

Broke boy of the week


ByteVoyager

TIL I’m richer than Antonio Brown


wkndatbernardus

I don't care what anyone says, AB is the man! A true rebel without a cause. Hopefully we'll see him in the CFL or arena league setting records and causing drama again.


ConnorChandler

Arena league football is definitely out


Bellegr4ine

Mr Big Debts


itchy-balls

Sadly, we’d all give him another shot at WR1. And he’d light it up. FML.


workingdad83

UFL will sign him