The family is worth $200 million. Not exactly a picture of avarice taking advantage of a poor millionaire athlete (preview)
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There's some comments that I thought were fairly interesting.
Okay, so these are from, I think, the New York Post here.
Jeremy 1957 or Jerry M 1957 says, What makes you think that the family is worth 200 million?
So he's responding to somebody else who's like these, you know, green 200 millionaires or whatever.
While the article states that the family sold a, quote, conglomerate of restaurants for 200 million, it provided no information whatsoever on the amount of net proceeds that the family received.
For example, if the family had borrowed $50 million to acquire and improve one or more of those restaurants, the balance due on that loan would have to be paid from the proceeds of the sale.
More importantly, whatever the net proceeds of the sale were, they would be further reduced by federal, state, and local taxes.
Dog, the restaurants weren't like mom and pop shops.
They were KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell.
Like they were they were the big ones.
They were the ones that will always be worth money.
You like.
Fuck you.
Well, he's not he's not arguing that they weren't worth 200 million, but he's saying that like maybe they were the family was in debt so that 200 million they got goes right into the hole.
So they're not actually worth like the family itself isn't worth 200, which I mean, I understand what he's saying, but at the same time, it's funny when it's, it's like issued as a defense of the family, right?
Cause somebody, somebody is like criticizing the family, bringing up the 200 million figure.
And this guy's like, well, actually, thanks to state regulations, they probably didn't make your precious $200 million or whatever.
There probably was more motivation to do this awful thing that they did.
Well, yeah, I think maybe he's, like, defending them as not, like, wealthy, out-of-touch elite, as a matter of fact.
But then Chief Lowe replies, the point is that the family built a business valued at $200 million and is clearly well-fixed, no matter what their net assets are.
Not exactly a picture of avaricious swindlers taking advantage of a poor, unsophisticated millionaire athlete.
Because the thing about Michael Orr, I didn't mention, is he was a successful football player.
He went to the Super Bowl a number of times.
He's worth millions, reportedly worth millions of dollars.
Yeah.
So with that information, this family though, not exactly a picture of avaricious swindlers taking advantage of a poor, unsophisticated millionaire athlete.
So I, I like that they're using the wealth to defend the family here.
Yeah.
The first guy was saying, no, they're actually not worth that much money in order to defend the family because, uh, they're not that wealthy.
So they're, they're not like as whatever predatory or elitist.
They're saying, no, they, they are worth that much money.
And that's good, because they would never take advantage of a poor, unfortunate soul who also, might I add, is a millionaire.
So they're so rich people would never like people.
There's there's there's all kinds of money that's being made here that you can't even think about, especially in the beginning of his career, his college career.
Because like you said, the dad worked for the team that he would play for in college.
And the thing is, if you your team, if your team does well, you get paid more.
Yeah.
And if you go ahead and find one of the best one of the best offensive linemen in the country to to be on your team, because you you now Run his life?
Do you get more money there?
There's no way he can ever get that money back, you know?
That would be where I think the bulk of this money would be made.
Like, I don't know if they got a percent of the movie or whatever.
If they did get a percent of the movie, then that's where they made their money.
But yeah, as I think he's like on the board of the college or he's one of the trustees, he's somehow connected to the college.
Yeah.
Like licensing deals or, you know, advertising from Don't sports brands advertise at college football?
Isn't that a thing?
Yeah.
Sports brands, alcohol.
I mean, all of their big games are like named after brand.
It's the Tostitos Bowl.
Yeah.
Like, come on.
Yeah, there's a lot of money in there.
The NCAA is notoriously awful.
Awful.
All the coaches make millions and millions of dollars.
These athletes don't make a dime.
Right.
Exactly.
But then, Jeff says, I don't think a family worth $200 million already is going to try and steal from this guy.
So the first half.
But that's just me.
So that's the one we just read.
Right?
Oh, they're worth so much money.
They don't sound like avaricious people.
They don't sound like greedy people.
And my, I don't know, my immediate response to that is how do you get to be $200 million rich if you're not greedy, if you're not literally trying to get more money?
Like that's avaricious, the love of money.
That's what that means.
Yeah, you would think that.
And that's probably why you're not worth $200 million.
But this guy, he starts off with that argument.
I don't think a family worth $200 million already is going to try and steal from this guy, but that's just me.
I think he is just looking for a payday now.
It's not like he's hurting for money either.
Most sites say he's worth around $16 million.
So do you mean what you say or do you not mean what you say?
I'm very confused.
I think the family is good because they're wealthy, whereas he, well, he's clearly bad because he's wealthy right here.
Um, it's not like he's hurting for money either, but I disbelieve him when he say he's not, when he says he's not hurting for money.
Yeah.
Interesting.
I wonder what makes him, I wonder what is motivating this trust and distrust.
I wonder if there's any factors that make him, it makes the, the, you know, the, the family I mean, I'm just saying, coincidentally, the white family more believable than, you know, the black athlete.
I want, I don't know.
Well, there's just certain types of millionaires that aren't looking for paydays and certain types of millionaires that are looking for, that are just looking for a payday.
And if he wasn't looking for a payday, he'd probably work 200, not 16.
That's what I'm saying.
It's even more pessimistic because like, wouldn't the party looking for more money have more money?
Yeah.
If you saw a person worth $200,000,000 and you saw a person worth half of that, you would be like, well, clearly the $200,000,000 person, they wanted it more.
Maybe they didn't work hard for it, but they clearly wanted to do that with their money.
So what?
You just, I guess, think he's not as good at it either.
As good at it as somebody who's not even trying.
Well, the thing, the whole point of this is like, I just wish he would go back to playing football and stop talking about anything that's not football.
Oh, that's, yeah, totally.
Shut up, shut up and we'll tackle, I guess, right?
They're like, why are you bringing politics into this?
He's like, no, this is just my, this is my actual life.
This is actually me.
Yeah, but you know, they're like a white family, and you're like not, so you're getting a little political.
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