Well damn. I guess it’s a good thing Rolando McClain retired so early at the age of 23. His anger was so bad that he wanted to kill someone. Not everyone is built for that type of pressure & at least he was smart enough to leave before something terrible happened. Details after the jump…
Via TheBigLead:
Rolando McClain, in a revealing interview with Seth Wickersham of ESPN the Magazine, says one of the reasons he retired from the NFL at the age of 23 was because he was starting to feel like Aaron Hernandez
… McClain also couldn’t say no to his boyz back in Decatur, Alabama. Signing a 5-year, $40 million deal with the Raiders ($23 million guaranteed!) ended up being a very bad thing.
He says he spent almost $600,000 on friends and family in a sixth-month span, mostly on cars. Once word got out that McClain was hooking up his crew, more people called and texted, wanting in. Feeling under siege, he wrote checks so that people would leave him alone.
McClain flew to Decatur for his grandfather’s funeral, expecting a simple service. But he says that his family had signed up for a $20,000 funeral package, with five limos — and stuck him with the tab.
** Read the full article at ESPN the Magazine **
