Shannon Sharpe doesn’t understand how Odell Beckham Jr. couldn’t make $100 million last a lifetime.
Sharpe responded to the viral clip of OBJ on The Pivot podcast talking about how $100 million is hard to make stretch during a segment of Nightcap that came out on Dec. 1.
“OBJ, I’ going to be honest with you, bro,” began Sharpe. “If you get 60 million dollars liquid and that can’t last you a lifetime, you’ve got a problem.”
“Do you really need 10 houses? Do you really need 15 cars? Do you need to buy everybody in your family a house that costs a million or two million dollars?” Sharpe asked before diving into how expensive that would be.
“First of all, if you buy somebody in your family a house that costs a million or two, first of all, they can’t afford the upkeep on it,” he said. “You buy somebody a Mercedes, a Ferarri, a high-end car…if something happens to it, who are they calling?”
Sharpe added that he thinks even spending just four million a year, without having a business is wild. “You out of your damn mind,” he said.
OBJ has sparked an internet-wide conversation about the value of $100 million with his comments from the October episode of the Pivot podcast, which have recently gone viral.
“I always explain this to people, you give somebody a five-year, $100 million contract, that’s five years for 60,” he said. “We’re getting taxed. That’s 12 million a year that you have to spend, use, save, invest, flaunt, whatever.”
“I’m just being real,” OBJ continued. “I’m going to buy a car, get my mom a house. Everything costs money. If you’re spending $4 million a year, that’s really $40 million over five years, eight million a year. You start breaking down the numbers, and that’s a five-year span, you’re getting eight million. Can you make that last forever?”
Just adding this in: OBJ has a car collection that’s worth an estimated $9 million, according to the Daily Mail.
