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Haitian-American. Family first. Love life. Love our planet. Love 49ers n Lakers

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[the Sports ON Tap @thesportsontap]

Logan Ryan says he made close to $80 million in the NFL and never spent a dollar of his salary.

Not a car. Not a house. Not one paycheck.

He retired at 33 and lives entirely off what his investments pay him.

He posted the whole thing himself this week, and it's the best financial advice any athlete has given in years.

First, who he is.

Logan Ryan was not a superstar. He grew up in Berlin, New Jersey, played at Rutgers, and went in the THIRD round to New England in 2013. Eighty third overall.

He never made a Pro Bowl in eleven seasons.

What he did do was last. Patriots, Titans, Giants, Buccaneers, 49ers. 755 tackles, 19 interceptions, 15 forced fumbles, 13 sacks.

And two Super Bowl rings.

Here's the mindset, in his own words.

He points out that he was the 14th cornerback taken in his draft class, and says that chip never left him.

"It made me suspicious of any dollar that felt too easy to spend. So I never touched the paychecks."

So how does a man live for eleven years without spending his salary?

He built a portfolio and lived off what it produced. Commercial real estate. Private credit. And notably, he got into OpenAI early, while he was still lining up at corner on Sundays.

He also lives beneath his means on purpose. His words: he doesn't fly private, and he still doesn't wear the heavy jewelry.

And he says he asks his financial advisor more questions than any other client on the man's books.

Now the part that matters most, and it's the reason he wrote any of this.

"Most guys who hit that number are broke a few years after their last check. I've watched it happen up close."

That's not a hypothetical for him. He spent eleven years in locker rooms watching teammates get life changing money and lose all of it within a few years of their last game.

His actual thesis is one sentence, and it flips how most people think about a big contract.

"Chasing a big number was never the point. What actually bought my freedom was saving relentlessly, year after year, while everyone around me spent."

The number was never the win. The saving was.

And here's what freedom actually meant to him: "I retired at 33 and answered to no schedule but my kids'."

One more thing worth knowing, because this isn't a story about hoarding money.

In 2017, right after signing a three year, $30 million deal with Tennessee, Logan Ryan surprised his older brother.

His brother had gotten into Drexel, graduated with honors, and was working as an engineer, and was still buried in student loan debt.

Logan handed him a check for $82,000 and wiped it out.

His comment at the time was that the system is broken and makes no sense, and that he was fortunate enough to be able to take care of it.

He didn't spend his money on himself.

He spent it on being done working at 33 with his kids and his brother taken care of.

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[draLly 🐾 @_NYVKU7]

Texas just made weed a felony after over 70% of voters voted to legalize it.That's what happens when incarceration rates go down and prisons start to lose money.

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[VISA Free World @visafreeworld]

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• New York City 🇺🇸 ($350/night tiny hotels, rat-infested subways & $25 cocktails)
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ALERT: 🚨 Police in Wisconsin used FLOCK CAMERA TECH to track a man across state lines to create a PRETEXT TO SEARCH his car for weed.

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[Darius Soriano @forumbluegold]

both sides have moved on, but lebron’s best option is probably the lakers. family's there, a top 3 player in the world teammate, huge hole at his position, chemistry w/ the team’s best couple of players, defensive anchor at center, floor spacers, wing defenders to surround him.

[HJB @HJBercy]

So scary. Pedestrian minding his business and this happened.

[E X X ➠A L E R T S @ExxAlerts]

ALERT: Brooklyn road rage leads to 2 drivers hitting a pedestrian as they smash into a soon-to-be-open yoga studio.

NYPD arrested the drivers of the Cadillac and BMW, 43-year-old Robert Walker and 56-year-old Anthony Hayes, who hit a 28-year-old who was just walking by.

Walker, Hayes, and the pedestrian were all taken to Kings County Hospital, where police say they are expected to fully recover.

The owner of the yoga studio, Noir Yoga, says the business was set to open August 1st, but that is no longer possible.

“It's just jarring and an immense amount of damage. I'm like, how could something like this happen?”

Hayes has been charged with vehicular assault, driving while intoxicated, reckless endangerment, resisting arrest, reckless driving, and aggravated reckless driving.

Walker’s charges include vehicular assault, criminal mischief, disobeying traffic laws, and reckless endangerment.