NFL player retires after selling rare Pokemon card
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🗓️ 22 November 2022
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So there was an interesting story that I saw on the internet, and you know the rule, |
| 0:04.7 | if it's on the internet, it has to be true, involving a player for what are now the |
| 0:10.7 | Las Vegas Raiders. And this guy, Blake Martinez. Blake Martinez is his name. He's not a superstar |
| 0:21.0 | by any stretch of the imagination. I think he's kind of a role player. He's a linebacker, |
| 0:25.3 | was a linebacker, made about a 1.035 million dollars. So that's pretty low by NFL standards, |
| 0:33.6 | but obviously he will not be hanging out at a soup kitchen anytime soon. And he unexpectedly |
| 0:42.8 | retired on November the 10th. And it wasn't like, oh, he's at the end of his career. People are |
| 0:49.9 | anticipating he's not going to play anymore. Well, now it has come out that on November the 10th, |
| 0:55.5 | November the 10th was two weeks after he had sold a Pokemon card for $607,000. So basically, |
| 1:04.5 | if you extrapolate what he was still owed at the time, his contract was what a million 1.0359. |
| 1:13.2 | So where they were in the season, based on what he was still owed, he basically broke even by |
| 1:19.4 | selling that Pokemon card, what he would have made playing professional football. And he said, |
| 1:23.9 | screw this. I don't need, I don't need to be beat up anymore. I am out of here. Yeah. And that's |
| 1:29.0 | the, that's the big thing that I had written in my notes that the risks to his health weren't worth |
| 1:35.2 | it. Right. You got the money without playing the game. Right. Do it. Now, as we just talked about |
| 1:42.9 | last segment, I am pondering not even taking my vacation because I love being here so much. And |
| 1:48.9 | if you love playing professional football, I'll not like a Tom Brady. Look at what he's been |
| 1:53.6 | willing to sacrifice to keep playing football. Right. My question to you, Casey, those if someone were |
| 1:59.1 | to parachute $672,000 to you in a duffle bag, would you show up to work? Would you still continue |
| 2:07.4 | to work with me? Would I retire? Well, I didn't, let me, I didn't say retire because I'm just |
| 2:13.4 | saying you would not be subjected to work with me anymore. Would you still show up to work? |
| 2:18.4 | I know. You did done. Yeah. I would, I'd be done. Really? Yeah. That's it. Yeah. |
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