QB Jay Cutler once rescued receiver from Las Vegas gambling tab – Las Vegas Review-Journal

Its the kind of story on which Las Vegas was built: A young athlete is comped a few suites, hits the tables, loses $140,000 and asks a star quarterback for a bailout.

Ex-NFL wideout Brandon Marshall recalled his ill-fated gambling run in the debut of his I Am Athlete podcast Wednesday. Marshall, who played for seven teams in a 12-year career, reached back to his third year in the league with the Miami Dolphins. Jay Cutler, crucial to this story, was the Dolphins QB.

(And a note on the Vegas coincidences in these names: Jay Cutler is not the bodybuilding champion who has lived here; Brandon Marshall is not the Raiders linebacker who graduated from Cimarron-Memorial and played at UNR.)

I lost all my money. I started at The Mirage. I was good with my $3,000-$4,000, Marshall said. He soon learned the concept of a marker, and arranged a line of credit with the casino for $70,000. He lost that.

I call my people. Im like, Yo, get me at the Wynn. Now, Im chasing, Marshall said. So I go to the Wynn and lose another 70-something thousand dollars. Im literally in the Wynn hotel, and I call Jay. Im like, Jay, Im in some trouble. I need $60,000.

Marshall didnt explain the $60,000 figure offsetting losses of $140,000. Probably some quick negotiations. But Cutler completed this pass.

Hes like, Aw, sheesh. B-Marsh! All right. This is what were gonna do, though: Youre gonna sign a paper. Some type of document. You owe me, Marshall said. As soon as I landed, he had that $60,000 check. I paid the marker off. We went back into the season. The marker got me.

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