Mike, I'm not sure if JT's wife was spoiled but here is his rags to riches story ! Washing cars for 11 dollars an hour 12 months before, Thurston was suddenly rich. He had just received his first payment from the Cowboys. He had made more in a month than he was used to making a year. Thurston’s only extravagance is a 1967 Ford Mustang Shelby GT 500 Super Snake. Just one of 50 ever made, it has an estimated value of $500,000 Much to the disgust of his wife Samantha, Thurston secretly spoiled himself by buying the car as a retirement present in 2017. “It cost me a trip to the Super Bowl with Cameron Smith,” Thurston said. “That was going to be my retirement present but Sam canned it when she found out about the car.” Don’t expect to find the Mustang in Thurston’s garage — his house doesn’t even have one. But you will find his other car in the driveway; a second-hand Toyota. Thurston earned as much as $1.2 million dollars, excluding sponsorships and third-party deals, a year in a career that spanned 16 years. And in a lesson to the long list of NRL players who go from rags to riches, Thurston, excluding the Mustang and all the dance lessons he has bought for his daughters, has invested it all. “I began investing as soon as I came to the Cowboys,” Thurston said. https://www.reddit.com/r/NRLcowboys/comments/pmhjx6/life_after_nrl_how_johnathan_thurston_amassed_a/?rdt=56904