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SHUT UP WIT ALL DAT CRYIN! I’LL GIVE YOU SUMN TO CRY ABOUT

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black mothers (via squirtelle)

LMAO!!! Yes!

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“It was humbling,” Pryor told Sports Illustrated. “A mistake I made when I was a freshman by selling my pants for $3,000 just took away everything from me. I was just driven into the ground. I was the worst person in the world. My face popped up on the screen, and it seemed like I was the only one who did anything. I was the only one who was getting attacked.

“At that point last year, I’m 21 and it just felt like everything was against me, like I can’t do anything right. I did something to help somebody else out, and I end up getting into trouble. I understand. I shouldn’t have sold the stuff and taken $3,000. But I was kind of in a place where I didn’t understand why this is happening to me — especially for the reason that I did it.”

Pryor was suspended for the first five games of last season and then decided to enter the NFL supplemental draft, where he was chosen by the Raiders. He was later banned from associating with Ohio State for five years.

Pryor said he chose to take money in exchange for memorabilia to help his family.

“The reason why I did it was to pay my mother’s gas bill and some of her rent,” Pryor told Sports Illustrated. “She was four months behind in rent, and the (landlord) was so nice because he was an Ohio State fan. He gave her the benefit of the doubt and she said, ‘My son will pay you back sometime if you just let me pay you back during my work sessions.’ She ended up losing her job, and she and my sister lived there.

“Let me remind you it was freezing cold in November, December and she’s using the oven as heat. That’s what I did as a kid. I was telling the NCAA, ‘Please, anything that you can do. I gave my mother this so my sister wouldn’t be cold, so my mother wouldn’t be cold.’ They didn’t have any sympathy for me.”

Pryor also said he has documentation in the form of a receipt, proving the money went toward his family’s bills and not personal use.

“Whenever I write my book, the proof will be in there, the receipt that the money I gave my mother was to pay the electric and heat bill,” Pryor told Sports Illustrated. “The truth is going to come out one day when the time is right. I don’t think I deserved (being punished) in that way, because of the reason I was doing it. I felt like I was doing God’s work in a way, and I was getting driven into the ground.”

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Terrelle Pryor (via eatcerealwithwater)

Man, this shit eats at me. The NCAA is getting paid. PAID!!! The yearly work put in by collegiate athletes from the D1 to the D3 is real labor. Sweat equity on top of their academics and often in lieu of them. These young men are treated as commodities. Not students first. And definitely not workers. Many of them will not go pro but the NCAA ain’t worried bout that.

I hear college students bash their classmates all the time for the relative privileges college athletes appear to have on campus. Yeah it looks sweet from the outside especially when you have no idea what they have to put in to get the opportunity to simply wear the jersey. It’s a full time job and the benefits don’t add up for most.

And the NCAA has the gall to penalize young men when they are looking for money to help their families all the while clockin mad revenue at their expense?!?!!

Capitalism: Pimpin since pimpin been pimipin.

Show ‘em the receipts fam.

(Source: ESPN, via ghdos)