Former New York Giants receiver and Super Bowl hero David Tyree may need to pull off the impossible one more time. One of the most iconic moments in NFL and Super Bowl history is when David Tyree, on a third down in the fourth quarter against the greatest team of all time, made an impossible catch pinning the ball against his helmet.
This play ended up being the most important play of the game and resulted in a super Bowl victory for the Giants and the New England Patriots first loss of that year. Now, Tyree is facing some major trouble in his financial life.
New York Giants Hero David Tyree Made Some Bad Investments
Following his NFL career, Tyree made an investment with Clean Juice, thinking that this would help him profit after his career and capitalize on the money he made during his time in the league. However, so far that investment has turned out very poorly for Tyree.
Tyree originally had invested $40,000 for a Clean Juice license and then additionally coughed up $450,000 for all the equipment needed. He opened up his store in New Jersey following that.
Sadly for Tyree, this investment quickly went very poorly. The first major issue that he learned was that the store could only make about $10k profit every year, which would take him over five decades to make back the money he invested.
What made the investment totally not worth while was that the stores were told to start selling the juices that were only bottles off site. This basically made the incredibly expensive press machines effectively worthless.
Tyree’s wife told the New York Post about the struggles they have had with the store:
“One of the reasons I came into this was the quality of the product,” Tyree’s wife Leilah told the New York Post. “We spent so much time educating the clientele and then it became bottled juice.”
Back in late 2023 the Super Bowl hero turned the Juice store into what he calls Tyree’s Table. He offers a whole different range of products now, but this has not changed the financial situation at all sadly.
Tyree still owes over $238k for a Small Business Loan, and if he wants to break from this current lease he would have a suffer a $80k loss on top of everything he already has.
“I’ve been in hard circumstances before, but this is uncomfortable,” Tyree said.
Hopefully, the legendary Super Bowl player can find a way to turn this all around, as at the moment the struggle is real.
