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Originally Posted by bowener
Yeah, I am aware. That's the point. Mahomes is the child of a pro athlete that made a lot of money. He was set before he was born.
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Patrick Mahomes was the son of a major league journeyman in an era prior to the DVR boom where many were paid well, but not 'generational wealth' well.
Mahomes Sr. hasn't pitched for a living for nearly a decade and spent most of his career bouncing up and down between the majors and minors. There's an pretty good chance that he didn't even hit the 10 years of required big-league service to to fully vest his MLB pension.
Patrick Mahomes II probably came from a little more money than most of us did...but not a ton more. His father was retired by the time he was 8 yrs old and he retired as a 33 yr old man with a life to live and no obvious source of long-term income. He'd have made somewhere between 2.5-3 million total by then. Certainly great money at that age, but not 'big baller' money and with the 2008 market crash, not enough to just invest and live off of for the rest of your life. By the time Pat Sr. retired, II's parents were divorced and he was living with his mother who has evidently been something of a part-time events coordinator most of her working life.
Pat Sr. had 40+ years of living ahead of him and Pat II lived with his event coordinator mother. If he lived much more than an upper middle class upbringing, I'd be surprised. If you happen to have 2 relatively successful parents; like a loan officer and a middle management type - your family is/was probably pulling in as much money as Patrick grew up with.
He made SIGNIFICANTLY more money than both of his parents combined the moment he signed his NFL contract. No, nothing about his upbringing will have any bearing on his willingness or ability to sign a discounted contract here.