OT: Lions Need to Restructure Stafford's Contract to Pay for Engagement Ring /s
Matthew Stafford recently got engaged to his longtime (HOT) girlfriend. The ring he bought her is gigantic. This impacts the salary cap as Stafford has requested to restructure for more upfront money in the form of a signing bonus in order to pay for this extravagant ring.
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she might need an assistant to help her carry around her left hand from now on.
That's for sure.
I know you're jealous of her, but don't be. You'll get him next time.
You weren't supposed to out me on this Blog! Argh!
You guys ever buy an engagement ring before? That might be a large ring but it doesn't matter if it is all flash. That "halo" style ring is trendy among those who want big rings, but big rings don't mean good rings. Fellas, you want clarity and quality in a diamond.
If you want diamonds at all, you want civil wars in Sierra Leone.
Immoral, decadent, wasteful.
Blood diamonds cannot be sold legally here in the US. Also, 49% of diamonds come from Africa. That means 51% of diamonds do not. So purchasing diamonds does not necessarily mean you are contributing to the civil wars in Africa. Unless, you can prove that the diamonds in US rings ALL come from Africa your point fails.
I will also point out that the issues behind the wars are much more complex than just diamonds. Poverty, government corruption and incompetence, religious conflicts...to name a few of the problems plaguing Africa. Africa was left in chaos by the colonial powers after they left. It's an issue that Europe has done little to correct. Africa is Iraq on a much, much, grander scale.
There is nothing immoral, wasteful, or gluttonous about purchasing a diamond. Not any more so than buying a work of art, a book, an album, or anything outside the essentials we need in order to live. The fact is we ALL buy stuff we don't really need.
Is the internet not wasteful? What about an undergrad degree in the liberal arts? Who determines what is wasteful and what is not?
I for one feel doubly ashamed having been married TWICE meaning I have contributed to not one but two wars it seems.
Just to clarify I mean wars in other countries, not my house although wife #1 might debate that point a bit.
You must be a hit at parties.
Double the pleasure, double the fun, double the post count....
After staring back and forth between the picture and my own Braves hat sitting next to me, I believe it's a Braves A not the Alabama A.
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Huh? QBs don't really need to be super ripped. Peyton Manning probably looks gross without a shirt on.
I think it's another manifestation of what many have indicated...that he's lazy.
He isn't overweight. Football players are thicken than the average person. They have to be.
I think this is you taking a perception of laziness and letting it influence your judgment of his weight.
Stafford is not fat and out of shape. He does have a fat face which makes some think that he is fat. But fat he is not. I think your post says more about some men's perceptions of bodies than anything about Stafford. It used to be women who held such views, but obviously that has changed.
Keep in mind at this time I'm a skinny freshman about 120lbs and 5'6" (hadn't hit the growth spurt yet), but I have played my share of basketball over the years. We shoot around for about 5 minutes before playing a causal game of 1 on 1. Here's the kicker:
Matt Stafford is horrible at basketball.
He has no jumpshot, can't shoot a three, and all he could do was clumsily dribble to the rim and make some layups. It was so shocking. It was just as the bell rang, signaling the end of school, when a mass crowd of students rushed the gym waving bits of paper and asking for autographs. Stafford saw them coming, sighed, and looked annoyed. He looked at me, shook my hand, and said "thanks for hangin with me bro". I walked away with a huge smile as stafford was swarmed by masses of young rabid UGA fans. SEC!
But that day, I got to hang out with Matt Stafford for a good part of an hour- not because I forced him to but because he wanted to, which is why he will forever be my favorite NFL player.
Most of my friends never believed it happened, and I got written up for A- skipping 45 minutes of class, and B- never retrieving that item the teacher wanted. But that day, it truly didn't matter
cool story bro!
If you're supposed to spend 3 months salary on a ring, I got off pretty cheap!
that means if you still have her that you are still getting off pretty cheap...
Anyone who spends three months salary on a ring is an idiot.
Am I the only one who thinks walking around Detroit wearing that ring might not be totally safe for your health?
which is just north of Detroit is one of the 10 most richest county in the country? She won't have a big problem wearing a ring in Suburb Detroit area.
I feel like you might've missed the joke.
Too bad another girl intercepted it.
The bigger the engagement ring, the flimsier the marriage.
Only on what I've observed in others.
There was no engagement ring, we eloped, and spent part of our honeymoon camping in Canada. Spent about $300 total. We've been married 35 years.
In that time we've seen a bunch of marriages come and go, and invariably the more money that was spent on the wedding, the shorter the marriage.