What's with the big bada$$ football players wearing a pair of 4 carat diamond earrings?

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - What's with the big bada$$ football players wearing a pair of 4 carat diamond earrings?

Posted: 9/20/2009 9:24:05 PM EDT

I've been surfing arfcom for the last few hours w/ the tv on. They are talking more about the cowboys than the game took. I finally looked up and all I see is diamond earrings.

What's up w/that? Simply overpaid? Culture thing?

Posted: 9/20/2009 9:27:17 PM EDT

[#1]

Badass?, They aren't my heroes.

4 carat earing, a sure sign you made it out of the ghetto.

Posted: 9/20/2009 9:28:27 PM EDT

[#2]

You can take the hoodrat out of the ghetto, but you cant take the ghetto out of the....well you know.

Posted: 9/20/2009 9:28:43 PM EDT

[#3]

Hey, they're held in higher esteem than our men and women of the Armed Forces, they can do whatever they want.

Posted: 9/20/2009 9:30:20 PM EDT

[#4]

This is America, A person can wear what ever the fuck they want. What are we ten years old, making fun of people for shit like that. Sounds like someone is Jealous

Posted: 9/20/2009 9:31:38 PM EDT

[#5]

its a wealthy persons version of the "let me slap $1500 dollar rims on my $500 car so I can prove to society that I have overcome opression and AM actually worth something as a person" mentality.

Hood rats do it with rims, expensive sneakers, and clothing. "Profeshunal" athletes do it with diamonds, cars, and homes

Posted: 9/20/2009 9:34:33 PM EDT

[#6]

Wanna be homos......earrings are for da wimmenz God said

Posted: 9/20/2009 9:36:48 PM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:

This is America, A person can wear what ever the fuck they want. What are we ten years old, making fun of people for shit like that. Sounds like someone is Jealous

Comprehension problems or you wear a pair and get hassled about it?

Posted: 9/20/2009 9:38:21 PM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:

its a wealthy persons version of the "let me slap $1500 dollar rims on my $500 car so I can prove to society that I have overcome opression and AM actually worth something as a person" mentality.

Hood rats do it with rims, expensive sneakers, and clothing. "Profeshunal" athletes do it with diamonds, cars, and homes

And Arfcommers do it with KAC Triple Tap breaks, Magpul UBR stocks, and S&B Short Dots.

Posted: 9/20/2009 9:41:30 PM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:

Quoted:
its a wealthy persons version of the "let me slap $1500 dollar rims on my $500 car so I can prove to society that I have overcome opression and AM actually worth something as a person" mentality.

Hood rats do it with rims, expensive sneakers, and clothing. "Profeshunal" athletes do it with diamonds, cars, and homes

And Arfcommers do it with KAC Triple Tap breaks, Magpul UBR stocks, and S&B Short Dots.

Oh, no you ditten'.

Posted: 9/20/2009 9:51:53 PM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:
Hey, they're held in higher esteem than our men and women of the Armed Forces, they can do whatever they want.

sad aint it?

Posted: 9/20/2009 9:55:25 PM EDT

[#11]

Be a cameraman in the locker after a game.
bling, cologne and cock fest

Posted: 9/20/2009 9:56:19 PM EDT

[#12]

Its just the thing right now, like having a gold grill.

Posted: 9/21/2009 1:24:10 AM EDT

[#13]

My sister in law has a 5.5 carat round diamond ring. That fucking thing is HUGE, and is worth more that what I paid for my first house in 1993.

Posted: 9/21/2009 1:27:34 AM EDT

[#14]

I gots to have some bling, ya feel me?

Posted: 9/21/2009 1:42:18 AM EDT

[#15]

tacky,
especially when you see highschoolers with the Fake bling

Posted: 9/21/2009 2:08:51 AM EDT

[#16]

Well, better on the ears than in the teeth.

Posted: 9/21/2009 2:36:49 AM EDT

[#17]

As far as I can re-call ball players have been sporting diamonds in there ears since 87?? They have gotten bigger over the years but I can't remember a time really when certain groups of folks didn't wear the biggest cheesiest diamond stud they could afford. Even the high-schoolers with their cubic zirconias back in my day.
For the record I had an experimental phase and wore a hanging cross in my left ear around the age of 14-16 (88-90)

. That's my confession of the week, glad to get it off my chest

. Damn hole is still there.

Posted: 9/21/2009 2:48:22 AM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:

This is America, A person can wear what ever the fuck they want. What are we ten years old, making fun of people for shit like that. Sounds like someone is Jealous

If I make fun of people wearing their pants down past their butt, is that also due to jealousy?

Ghetto is ghetto, regardless of price point.

Class has nothing to do with wealth or income.

Posted: 9/21/2009 3:00:59 AM EDT

[#19]

If I am wearing any sort of earing it is because I have reached the top and have become truly excessive. After a wife, kids, multiple homes and cars, and an NFA collection, hookers for every day of the week, tons of blow, and nachos. If I still have money after that I would buy some gawdy earings. Those close to me would see it as a warning sign, that i was either going to die of some kind of designer drug overdose or in a shoot out with the IRS at a marina while trying to sail to the Caymans.

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - What's with the big bada$$ football players wearing a pair of 4 carat diamond earrings?

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