"It Ain't My Fault"

"I don't know what you're talkin' bout playa!"

In March of 2009, Sports Illustrated published an article entitled, "How (And Why) Pro Athletes Go Broke."  It said that by the time they have been retired for two years, 78% of former NFL players have gone bankrupt or are under financial stress because of joblessness or divorce. It also went on to say that within five years of retirement, an estimated 60% of former NBA players are broke. After reading that joint you begin to scratch your head because it simply makes no sense to you.

Then you turn on the radio this past Monday and Tuesday and hear Warren Sapp promoting his new book “Sapp Attack” and you quickly figure out why a boy can make $60 million over the course of his career and lose it all because this dun is completely nuts!!! He doesn’t have a clue out here bruh. If you let ole Warren tell it, it’s everybody else’s fault that he’s broke. He didn’t have anything to do with it.

He didn’t have anything to do with the fact that he fell to the No. 12 spot in the draft when he was coming out of the U. Those multiple failed marijuana tests with one failed cocaine test weren’t real because somebody set him up. He was on some conspiracy type joint that “they” didn’t want to see him drafted early so they made up the failed drug tests. What?

 I guess the fact that he has 6 kids by 4 different women isn’t his fault either.  “What had happened was,” some cat broke into his crib late one night while he was asleep, stole his joint, went on a sex spree with it, brought it back, put it back on and bounced before he woke up. The next thing he knew women and children were knocking at his door looking for child support!  I know Warren! I knew this cat in Baltimore that had the same thing happen to him. It’s the craziest thing I’ve ever seen.

Now if the book is supposed to be a “tell all” memoir of his life then everything is fair game, right? This cat was splitting hairs when guys asked the simplest of questions. Nick and John on SportsRadio 610 in Houston asked him about selling his 240 pairs of Jordan’s and he went off denying that he ever personally sold them. Hey look big boy, whether you sold them joints yourself at the flea market or turned them over to be sold, they were sold bruh.

Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1^st! In order to be considered a grown man you have to take responsibility for your actions good or bad! What did Big Momma always say? “Whatever’s on your plate you gotta to eat it.”  Stop blaming the world for you being a screw up bruh! It’s basic physics! For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. In other words, every time you push the fire alarm it gonna go off. In hood terms, “Every time you pick a fight you gone find yourself in one and it ain’t gone be fair.” That’s just real talk!

So the next time you read about some cat losing a fortune understand that it had more to do with them not being able to count bruh.  Some cats just love to screw up and blame the world for their mistakes just like ole Warren. So now he’s on to the next interview bumpin’ that Silk The Shocker “It Ain’t My Fault!’  

Holla At Ya Boy!

Jay Graves

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