Sean Weatherspoon returned to the Atlanta Falcons after one year in the desert with the Arizona Cardinals
Do you know how you can tell when you make too much money? When a $138,000 check isn’t cashed for almost seven months and you don’t miss it. Go ask former Arizona Cardinals linebacker Sean Weatherspoon, he knows how that feels. Upon packing up his apartment in Phoenix for a move back to Atlanta, his girlfriend made the astonishing find.
Weatherspoon, who spent just one season with the Cardinals, returned to the team he came from in Atlanta this past month when the free agency period opened. He played in 14 games for the Cardinals in 2014 but had just 11 tackles.
He was bothered by injury off and on from the start of his time in Arizona. He played sparingly, so the writing was on the wall he’d likely leave given he was playing on just a one-year contract.
However one-year contracts in the NFL are just as nice as multi-year contracts apparently. Weatherspoon tweeted he found his game check from week one back in September. The Cardinals defeated the New Orleans Saints 31-19 on opening Sunday of the 2015 season.
My gal just found a game check, I guess moving does have its perks ha
— Franklin De’Sean Weatherspoon (@SpoonJones56) March 29, 2016
Yeah I guess it does. Weatherspoon’s game check was calculated to be approximately $138,000 based on his contract. Interestingly enough, he produced his best statistical day of the entire season that afternoon. He had three tackles in that game. It was the only game all season he had more than two tackles.
Seriously though, how do you not miss that money? I don’t care how much you make. I know I would miss $138,000. Now, he expected the check to be direct deposited apparently but still, if my bank account is expecting $138,000, even if there is over $1 million in it, I will recognize that.
Hopefully he will take better care of his money upon his return to the Falcons. Of course we are happy he found his money but clearly he isn’t hurting for it.