Posted by Sabrina B. @gametimegirl
Former all-pro DT Warren Sapp filed for bankruptcy in Florida last month, claiming he owes $6.7 million in debts.
“Do you think I wanted to declare bankruptcy?” Sapp tells the Tampa Bay Times. “Do you think if there was any other way possible I would have done it? It was either this or go to jail. Those were my choices.”
Sapp said poor investments in the home construction market in Florida put him in financial straits.
“You tell me what to do,” Sapp said. “Do you keep working without a check? If you don’t pay your child support, you go to jail. This wasn’t something I wanted to do. This was something I had to do.
“When you live like I do,” said Sapp, who estimates he earned $60 million as an NFL star with the Buccaneers and Raiders, “you know where you are and what you have to do. I’m not at war with me. I promise you this. I will never go to jail.”
Sapp is unsure if he will continue to be employed as an NFL Network analyst but scoffs at those who don’t believe he lost his Buccaneers Super Bowl ring, which is not listed among his assets in the bankruptcy filing.
“In my life, has anyone called me a liar?” he said.
“Why would I start now? Someone told me something that (former President) John Adams supposedly said. Facts are stubborn. I like facts.”
WRITTEN BY Nate Davis, USA TODAYÂ & FULL STORY HERE
