Despite being the owner of a four-year, $39 million contract that paid him an $11.5 million signing bonus back in 2014, Jordy Nelson is still a cheap S.O.B.
Apparently, you can take the boy out of the country, but you can’t take the country out of the boy. Nelson attributes being brought up on the farm for his thriftiness.
He was on the Dan LeBatard show the other day and told this story.
“I’m extremely cheap, absolutely,” Nelson said. “Even now in the NFL we get per diems on road trips to go out and have dinner with everyone — like with the receivers or whatnot. Some guys, their wives and families will be in town and they’ll go eat with them. I’ll just stay in the hotel room until snack at 9:00 to eat dinner and not pay for food.”
First of all, NFL players who make a minimum six figures a year still get per diems?
I actually did not know that. I guess it’s technically business travel though, so that makes some sort of sense.
But what do you think that per diem is? Maybe $50 a meal? Maybe $100?
Just throw it on the pile, Jordo!