Welcome back to another hour of The Jalen Ramsey Show. We are here today to talk about your life and your money. The whatever of whenever is here or has come or didn’t come and it’s not whoever’s fault but it is something else or one another. And if you’re rich like me, you just cut your second estimated tax payment check to Uncle Sam. And, I dunno, doesn’t feel especially satisfying this time around. C’est la vie. We have open lines at 305-943-8000. Starting off today on line one with Angela from….really, Tyrell? Calling from Martin Luther King Jr Blvd. Well I’m sure that’s the location of the wirefull pay phone booth, she is calling from. Angela, welcome to The Jalen Ramsey Show today.

Hello and thank you taking my call, Jalen. And how are you doing today?

Better than the Jaguars under Tom Coughlin. How can I help?

Oh Jalen. It’s the new political persecutions! It’s the lawfare! It’s coming for our brothers and sisters who have accepted career calls to serve and, under this new….this new…Fake Florida Department of Law Enforcement! 

So you’re not on MLK Boulevard in LA then?

Oh HELL no, Jalen. This proud southern girl is straight up from TallaNASTAY! Ha haa! Yeah boi! Ain’t no one trying to trade me out of here. Born and raised. Attended Florida A&M University — Go Excellence with Caring! — and was a Delta Sigma Theta. Got into the local sports-tourism industry scene and, in 2017, took over as President and CEO of the Florida Sports Foundation, a non-profit under the state Department of Commerce which generates $70 billion dollars in impact annually.

What exactly is ‘dollars of impact’ as a metric? Can you elaborate?

It’s economic impact. It’s annual. But it’s not important because, in 2024, after the big $237-Million-Dollar-Donation-to-Historically-Black-University-is-Fraudulent little thing went down in Rattler Nation, FAMU needed someone to come over to run athletics. That’s right, Jalen, once again ol’ Angela comes back to the Snake Pit last year and takes over as AD after President Beard cleaned house. That’s right. No onboarding. No big announcement in our school news-gazette, The FAMUAN, with a cover photo of me and Venom, our beloved mascot. Nope. Just — this place in freefall and this girl has a proven history of fundraising. Get to work.

You’re a hero. Between the NIL mayhem and the general reform in how America addresses higher education happening, our HBCU’s need our, as you said, our brothers and sisters to come home and be the stewards that reset the standards at these institutions by standing with men and women who contribute their personal integrity to these positions — in respect for the ceremonial value it may have for the young black students who are looking to today’s black leaders to provide an example for how to carry yourself truly ‘the right way.’ Bless you, my sister. How is it going?

I got fucking arrested this month.

Like a political stance thing? They are going after HBCU athletic directors? That is so sick.

Well, yeah. Yeah, Jalen. It sure does seem like it. It sure does seem so.

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….well also the state says I owe them back twenty-four thousand dollars for they-say-“fraudulent”-but-I-say-their-investigation-is-“Fraudulent!” expenses I put on my old FSF credit card. Expense vouchers. Little pidilly paperwork things. And I already cleaned up their big concerns. But they’re just being real pricks and real holdouts about this last $24K. So anyways, it’s some paperwork stuff from 2022 to 2024. I think they’re sour I took off to FAMU in such short order (started last October) and now they’re just putting the screws to me. So it’s more like — how to deal with this new America where we all need to watch out for being too successful around whitey.

Okay so, actually, so no one is trying to trade you out of town because you’re under arrest.

I’m on bond.

The bond costs more than half what you stole!

I get it all back when I win!

The fuck are you talking about girl?

It’s not important. 

It’s not important? You get your ass arrested from your old job. Get suspended from your new one for it. Call my show. Get coy about your location then be from an actually shitty location. Then we’re going to ignore the bond obligation as an opening to financial discu —

Look it’s fine. It’s on FAMU’s tab. First thing I did here as AD was set up an account with Harrison. You invest in these players right? Well, I’m part of the team too. So it’s good. It’s good. Can we move on?

I’ll take your word for it. Which is probably going to be your biggest problem moving forward. You got the $24K to pay back. The hell if I know whether you further this drag this out for justice. But I do think the “hey I’m just a bureaucrat getting myself a little taste here and there” defense isn’t going to receive much sympathy in 2025. In Florida. About a black woman quasi-government leader. On Fox News.

I thought Biden was going to win.

No you didn’t. Plus you’re 55 and, while you do look good, girl — don’t let anyone withhold that from you — ain’t nobody gonna give you a second chance leading anything. Especially with the depression being here. Fundraising is about to become very much more blowjob-heavy than usual. And giving money to a thief, you know…

I didn’t steal it. You don’t get it. It’s like NIL. Everyone needs to get a taste. You call on Athletic Directors to be all knowing in all sports and then also be hamstrung by archaic NCAA rules.

What is archaic about theft?

Oh fucking theft. Come on now, Jalen. We all know twenty-four grand is nothing here. They want the fight. I’m their Hunter Biden. They painted me into a corner and, it’s like, if I settle — don’t even admit, just settle — on this money then they’re going to sink into my husband and me for millions! It all hangs on this case. And it’s tiny but it’ll release an avalanche. How do I even prepare for this?

Well, I mean, have you been stealing this money? Probably. Do you have proof you did not steal it? Absolutely not. So are you going take your medicine? Uh huh. This is why you don’t steal. Would have more time to elaborate on your specific situation but you wasted my time at the beginning of the call.

Reminder to all of you out there — don’t steal. And — Goodness man! — don’t steal from your job with the Department of Commerce. By faking travel vouchers! At an Indian Casino!

Time for one more caller. We’ll shoot over here to line two where we have Amar in Wisconsin. Amar, welcome to the Jalen Ramsey Show.

Hey Jalen! Thanks for taking my call. Question today is about my boys back home. You know man, I played with South Dakota State University last season. Create a bond with these young men as we competed throughout the season and pressed one-another through a spring of combine prep and we were together through draft night and beyond. So the dust settles and the only guys heading to training camp from our crew are me and Dalys.

Congratulations on making the most of your opportunity. Also, a well-deserved tip of the cap to the NFL.com analytics experts whose Nexgen Stats peg you as, “Candidate for bottom of roster or practice squad”.

Goddamn right, Jalen. I mean, not to beat my chest personally, but making an NFL camp roster is another level of elite beyond college football. Like, I know you went to FSU —

Only good thing about Florida.

And your 2013 National Champion Seminoles ended up putting like 39 guys in the NFL from that roster. Highest scoring team in NCAA history. Just absolutely jack-stomped other teams for 126 straight days that season. Not who I am talking about here. I’m talking about the thousands of other scholar-athletes that were cream of the crème to just make an NCAA roster. I may be at the bottom of it, but I am part of an elite class and ready to put in the work to stay here in The League.

You are not wrong. Everything about playing in the NFL is of lottery-like proportions. The chances. The rewards. The coldness. The show. The losses. The totality delivered every single week.

And you talk about how you gotta stay focused. Focused on the present. Focused on the goals ahead. Full commitment.

I mean, only if you don’t want to be tossed aside for someone who will aggressively dominate you with the explicit intent to take all your stuff and to sever you from the greatest passion your young life has ever known because hearing of your failure will momentarily send a rush of blood to his large white penis.

Yeah, most def. Most def. I’m thinking of my buddies from the Jackrabbits. My teammates who didn’t make it and are still holding out hope. Still training. Missed the draft? Okay, so did I. No problem. Watching the rosters fill with your position? Getting as-needed updates from your absentee representative? Receiving only more pessimistic news when you do hear from him. But still getting up every day and working your ass off — scared. Bills mounting. All that shit you talked in college — and especially over the past five months — about being good enough for The Game, now aging in the summer heat. How do I tell them to hang it up? Get a job now while you’re still a fresh-out-of-college winner; not a recent NFL washout (“Oh,” they’ll whisper after the Enterprise interview, “he never even got signed by a team.”)

Why is that your place?

Cause they’re fucked Jalen. They ain’t got no money. But they’re keeping the trainers. They’re doubling their supplements. Instead of getting rest, they’re binging XFL games for more game study. And then these desperation purchases, Jalen. Tiny went out and bought a Jaguars hat (“Just putting it out into the universe.”) and T-bone went and got a no-money-down Ford Jeep which he presents as a signing-bonus purchase — and no one thinks to ask where he signed. It ain’t for me to tell them they can’t play ball. But, for how long do you go before you’re Uncle Rico just looking backward with silent regret?

For as long as you can. I mean, if they had oil money coming in every week, they could make hopping around playing Reject Football League games a hobby. But the fundamentals don’t change — even for new college grads who are entering a sour hiring market. $1,000 emergency fund. No debt. Save three to six months expenses.

And I think this is where it is going to bite them. They don’t budget. They’re pushing more more more! to feed the NFL’s need for mass and speed and energy to broadcast. I don’t think they have a clue where their spending goes. But, shit Jalen, just like….what do I tell them? 

Tell them, bro, I care about you. But the NFL doesn’t. So let’s reignite that spark for Communications that drove you to get 84 credits towards your diploma at North Cowlick College! Because if you aren’t already a highly paid professional by your second year of college ball, you ain’t gonna make it long term in the NFL. Its just numbers.

Good calls today. Lots going on right now for everybody. Eyes open, head up. And we’ll see you next time, right here, on The Jalen Ramsey Show.