Michael Irvin let the money do the talking.
The former Cowboys star and NFL Hall of Famer revealed that he used his first $1 million check to help his sex life.
“That check, that first million-dollar check. I left that right there on the table,” Irvin said while grabbing a flash card and pretending it was a check on Shannon Sharpe’s “Club Shay Shay” show.
“Right in my room, so as soon as they walk in they say, ‘That’s your check.’”
Irvin then pretended to be a woman stripping, while Sharpe erupted in laughter before the former receiver hugged him.
“I say, yeah, yeah, yeah,” Irvin continued. “I had my finance people calling me, telling me, ‘Send that check, Michael, we’re losing, we’re losing.’
“I said, ‘Shoot, I’m winning. What you talking about? I’m winning like a… But it’s real, it was real.”
The Cowboys drafted Irvin with the No. 11 pick in the 1988 Draft and he became one of the best players in franchise history with a legendary career.
He explained to Sharpe how he grew up in a poor area of Florida — he labeled it “Brokeville” — and how “he didn’t know anything” after receiving life-changing money.
Irvin’s Cowboys teams are a famous part of NFL lore for all the winning they did on the field with their three Super Bowls in four years in the 1990s, and their off-the-field antics too, as chronicled in the recent “America’s Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys” Netflix documentary.
While Irvin certainly seemed to enjoy his early bachelor days in the league, he married his wife, Sandy Harrell, in 1990, and the couple remains together 35 years later.
They reportedly first met during his years at Miami.
Irvin welcomed a daughter, Myeesha, in 1990 from a previous relationship, and he and his wife are parents to three children: Chelsea, Michael Jr. and Elijah.
He revealed last year that his wife has early-onset Alzheimer’s.
The family has hired a nurse to look after Harrell at their home since she needs constant support.
“She, if anybody, has earned the right to be in her home. You know what I mean?” Irvin told Sharpe. “And no matter what, she will be in her home.”
Irvin played for the Cowboys for 12 seasons from 1988-99, tallying 750 career catches for 11,904 yards and 65 touchdowns.
He led the NFL with 1,523 receiving yards in 1991 to earn First-Team All-Pro honors, and made five straight Pro Bowl teams from 1991-95.
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
