AJ Brown is the reigning Super Bowl champion after he and Philadelphia Eagles beat Travis Kelce and Patrick Mahomes’ Kansas City Chiefs 40-22.
Despite renewing his contract with the team for three years and $96 million in 2024, AJ doesn’t believe that money brings happiness. On the contrary.
And he expressed as much recently in a mentorship at the Delaware County Juvenile Probation Office.
In a video that quickly went viral, Brown made no secret of the lavish lifestyle NFL players can lead. However, he also brought to light that not all that glitters is gold.
AJ explained to the youth about what money and fame can do and tried to open the eyes of young people. From acquiring unhealthy practices to encouraging and increasing addiction to women and adult content, AJ came clean.
And backing up this message was an NFL legend
Cam Newton, former Carolina Panthers quarterback, weighed in on the “4th and 1” podcast, where he stated that money can negatively impact a person and called for the male community to work on discipline. “There’s so many times men mask their real issues,” Newton began.
Money does a lot of things to an individual. But one thing that money does is just magnify the person who you really are…. Magnifies your desires, your infidelities, your issues, your addictions.
Then, he began to relate his experience, as he felt that in his moment of fame and wealth, everything was bought with money: “When you have enough of it, this word does not apply to you. No, because everything has a cost,” said the former New England Patriots.
In addition, on several occasions Newton said he had financial problems to support his eight children after his retirement from the NFL. The fact is that the sums of money that were coming in when he was active stopped after being out of the game for three years, “those checks are not coming in the same way,” he said.
Despite stating that he did not feel like the “superman” he was before, he continues to go through a different stage of his life in which he is looking for personal growth and his comments regarding AJ prove it.
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