[DUMBGRUNT]

There but for the Grace of God... All of us, every man jack one of us.

[dfwgator]

I liked the Johnny Walker, a little bit of wine. Cigars. Ladies.”

And the rest of the money he just squandered.

[DUMBGRUNT]

More on Joe Murphy at an unlinkable site: Detroit Free Press.

Very interesting and all too common.

[Steely Tom]

More self-inflicted problems.

Slums are in people’s heads. The garbage, graffiti, and burned-out abandoned houses are just the physical manifestation of thought patterns.

[RinaseaofDs]

I didn’t fritter it away, but I was homeless after my divorce for about nine months. One of the best things that ever happened to me in hindsight.

I know the value of everything, and I want everything I have.

[V_TWIN]

Agreed. Atheletes and entertainers (same thing in a sense really). Many seem to have a hard time managing their finances.

[Blue House Sue]

Lots of former NFL players are in the same boat.

Too many blows to the head, too little education, and lots of poor decisions.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

Does he have chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), the degenerative disease believed to be caused by repeated blows to the head?

CTE is certainly becoming the all-encompassing boogeyman for anytime something goes wrong in any contact athlete's life.

[Buckeye McFrog]

An article in the Detroit Free Press claims that he is homeless and living on the streets of Kenora, Ontario.

That’s WAY up there. Gets pretty damned cold there.

[spiderpig]

I would like to point out a key issue in his homelessness... it is in NORTHERN ONTARIO.

There are many more beneficial local climates in which one could be homeless, and eliminate the survival concern of not freezing to death during ~1/2 of each year. I’m sure he could hitch a ride to one.

[redshawk]

Sounds like a very nice man. Generous to a fault.

I know a few people like him, although without the large paychecks. I’m sure he has his own demons to fight just like the rest of us.

Perhaps all he really needed was a true friend.

[golux]

Seemed a little strange the interview seemed to have been taken with a hidden camera. (Behind the front car seat, at a distance, seemingly from a concealed, low position...)

[Jack Hammer]

Yup.

You said it.

Gotta be careful every day, all the time.