One player I’m excited to see this upcoming preseason is #Steelers rookie Gabriel Rubio.
Feel like there’s some untapped potential still within his game. Should be considered one of the steals of the Steelers draft class
Drew Brees explains why he rejected Nick Saban, a yacht and the Miami Dolphins for a destroyed New Orleans franchise:
“On paper, it was Miami all the way. Miami had Nick Saban. They had just come off a 9–7 season. Defense was lights out. They were running the same offense we were running.”
“I’m sitting there eating dinner on Wayne Huizenga’s yacht. He’s talking about playing golf in Scotland every summer. No state income tax. I’m like, ‘Dude, this is wallpaper. Miami, here I come.’”
“New Orelans was six months post-Katrina. They just hired some unknown head coach named Sean Payton. Who is this guy?”
“I’m in Miami in an MRI tube for two hours just aching. They stick these big needles in my shoulder to test the nerve endings. I got this feeling of doubt. They don't really think I will be able to play. Their doctors said I had a 25% chance of coming back and playing again.”
“I go to New Orleans and it was like, ‘You are our guy.’ Sean Payton and Mickey Loomis said, ‘We’re building this offense around you.’”
“They did everything they could to roll out the red carpet despite all the circumstances. New Orleans was still destroyed.”
“Houses were off their foundations. There was a Chevy truck upside down in a living room. The car stops, and there’s a tugboat in the middle of the road.”
“I’m looking at my wife like, ‘Are you seeing what I’m seeing?’”
“It was one of those moments where it's like this is so much bigger than just football. We get to be part of the resurrection of one of America’s greatest cities.”
“This is God’s calling in our life. And that was the determining factor.”
Drew Brees explains why he rejected Nick Saban, a yacht and the Miami Dolphins for a destroyed New Orleans franchise:
“On paper, it was Miami all the way. Miami had Nick Saban. They had just come off a 9–7 season. Defense was lights out. They were running the same offense we were running.”
“I’m sitting there eating dinner on Wayne Huizenga’s yacht. He’s talking about playing golf in Scotland every summer. No state income tax. I’m like, ‘Dude, this is wallpaper. Miami, here I come.’”
“New Orelans was six months post-Katrina. They just hired some unknown head coach named Sean Payton. Who is this guy?”
“I’m in Miami in an MRI tube for two hours just aching. They stick these big needles in my shoulder to test the nerve endings. I got this feeling of doubt. They don't really think I will be able to play. Their doctors said I had a 25% chance of coming back and playing again.”
“I go to New Orleans and it was like, ���You are our guy.’ Sean Payton and Mickey Loomis said, ‘We’re building this offense around you.’”
“They did everything they could to roll out the red carpet despite all the circumstances. New Orleans was still destroyed.”
“Houses were off their foundations. There was a Chevy truck upside down in a living room. The car stops, and there’s a tugboat in the middle of the road.”
“I’m looking at my wife like, ‘Are you seeing what I’m seeing?’”
“It was one of those moments where it's like this is so much bigger than just football. We get to be part of the resurrection of one of America’s greatest cities.”
“This is God’s calling in our life. And that was the determining factor.”
LeBron will make $4M a year from the Sixers. Living in Manhattan and helicoptering to Philadelphia could cost him over $1M of it. He'd be spending a quarter of his salary to avoid living in the city he plays for.
Run the numbers. Shams says the flight is 45 minutes from Manhattan. Twin-engine charter rates run $3,000 to $5,000 an hour, so call it $8,000 a round trip. With 41 home games plus practices, that's 100+ commuting days. $800K a season, minimum.
Then taxes. A New York City resident pays up to 14.8% combined state and city income tax. Pennsylvania is a 3.07% flat tax. On a $4M salary, choosing Manhattan over Philly adds $300K+ a year, and New York taxes residents on everything they earn everywhere.
So why does a man who just took a $48M pay cut spend seven figures on a commute? Because the paycheck stopped mattering years ago. LeBron earns roughly $80M a year off the court. His entire Sixers salary equals about 18 days of being LeBron.
The vet minimum was a gift of cap room to the front office so Embiid, Maxey, and Jaylen Brown get surrounded with actual depth. And when your day job pays 5% of your income, you arrange the day job around your life. His family, his media company, and his business all run better out of the biggest market in America.
Kobe ran this exact math two decades ago, flying from Newport Beach to Staples every day. What he was actually purchasing was hours with his daughters. LeBron at 41, on possibly his last contract, is buying the same thing.
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@Vision239@AmandaFGodsey I got embarrassment for you hating on women when the same damn report is out there by a man. But I guess we know which way your song swings my man
Pitt coach Pat Narduzzi says Miami tried to get Pitt QB Mason Heintschel into the portal before it closed.
Heintschel stayed at Pitt, and Narduzzi told Duke HC Manny Diaz that Darian Mensah was next.
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