Strange Ways Athletes Spend Their Million Dollar Paychecks

Athletes are not like most normal people. Most of us work our entire lives in hopes of landing a good enough job that pays the bills. Athletes train for physical competition. That type of training to become an elite athlete takes a countless amount of hours, which leaves very little time to develop social skills. For that reason, athletes can sometimes get a little crazy with their money after they have achieved professional status.

We all like to splurge on ourselves from time to time, but it usually involves a new pair of shoes or a golf club. For athletes, it consists of weird things like exotic animals or failed attempts to get even richer. There are a handful of athletes out there that would rather tuck away most of their money into safe and diversified investments, but where is the fun in that? Wouldn’t you personally rather have a jungle cat instead of a stock portfolio?

These tigers quite literally ate Tyson out of house and home. It cost Tyson $140,000 just to get the tigers delivered to his estate, then another $4,000 each month to have them taken care of. He couldn’t just take them to the groomer down the street, a trained professional was needed just to brush these kitties. It made sense that Tyson went bankrupt after making purchases like this.


 Novak Djokovic is clearly not lactose intolerant. One of the top tennis players in all of the world is a huge fan of cheese. Not just any regular old cheese you can get down at the grocery store, but a donkey cheese known as Pule. Yes, that’s right, donkey cheese.

If you have never had donkey cheese before, it is probably because it’s ridiculously expensive. In most parts of the world, it costs nearly $3,000 for a pound of the good stuff. Just to put that into perspective, you can buy a pound of cheddar cheese for about $2. Djokovic didn’t want anyone else in the world eating his precious donkey cheese, so at the time, he bought the entire world’s supply all at once. Still no word on how long it takes donkey cheese to go bad.

 Curt Schilling really wanted to keep his legacy going after he retired from baseball, so he started up a video game studio named 38 Studios (his baseball number). Unfortunately, the company went bankrupt after six years and ended up costing Schilling more than $50 million. Ouch.

If you haven’t heard of 38 Studios, it’s because they only released one game, titled “Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning”. If you are wondering if the game was so bad that it made the studio go bankrupt, it actually wasn’t. It even ended up selling over 1 million copies in the first three months. The only problem was that they needed to sell 3 million copies just to break even on the deal, so that didn’t go quite as planned.

 

 Michael Jordan has a private jet with the Air Jordan symbol on it, it cost him $30 million.

 

 

Marquis Daniels has a necklace with his head in diamonds on it. It's 2.9 pounds of 14-karat gold

                                    

Joe Johnson has a 500 square foot closet full of shoes.

                         

Reggie Jackson has a collection of at least 100 vintage cars.

        

 

Gilbert Arenas has several sharks. He shells out $6,500 a month to care for them.