There are so many dysfunctional families in sports that it is tough to pick a place to start. With Brandi Favre doing her part to keep the Favre name in the news, they are definitely making a run for first place. Sports bring out a lot of positive qualities in kids, usually.
But it seems as the kids turn into professionals that play sports, the money and sense of invincibility starts to take over. Not to mention the fact that their siblings and parents are usually riding coat tails in some way, and share the sense invincibility.
So come on in and feel good about yourself, and your family.
The Debartolos are known in sports for owning the San Francisco 49ers in their prime, and sold the Pittsburgh Penguins a year before they won the Stanley Cup. Luckily for Edward J. Debartolo Sr. his name still made it on the cup.
The Debartolos were wealthy for basically creating shopping malls. They are one the richest families in the U.S. and their ties to organized crime certainly got them into some trouble on a few occasions.
Edward Debartolo Jr. got into a bit of trouble with the Federal Government after trying to purchase a river boat casino license for $400,000. Debartolo was fined $1million and two-years probation for not reporting the corrupt Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards who was trying to get the money from him.
He was banned from the NFL for a year, and fined by them as well.
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Hulk Hogan's family has their own reality television show. That instantly puts them on this list. You have to be insane to have a reality show. Plus, he was a pro wrestler. They all look exactly alike. They are really like a cult more than a family. It's kind of scary.
But in reality, they have all broken off on their own now. The youngest son Nick almost killed his friend in a car wreck, yet he walked away. Hulk and his wife Linda got divorced, and she started dating a 19 year-old.
And Hulk just got married to a girl that looks exactly like his daughter Brooke. (Some serious Freudian activity going on in the Hogan family.)
Brooke is trying her best to milk her 15 minutes of fame with her reality show on VH1, "Brooke Knows Best." She's on schedule to release a sex tape once that show is canceled, or leak nude photos somewhere.
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Los Angeles Dodgers ownership is up for grabs at this point, due to the fact that Jamie and Frank McCourt don't read prenuptial agreements. They just sign them. The divorce has everyone wondering if Frank can get control of the team back. The two signed an agreement in Massachusetts in 2004, and clearly had no? idea what they were doing.
Once thing is certain Frank wants his team back, but it is split under the California community property law. The team might be run by Major League Baseball for a year if things aren't worked out soon enough, but it has just been a circus watching this play out.
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The Vicks grew up in the Ridley Circle housing projects. One of the toughest housing projects in Virginia. Drugs and violence were a part of every day life in the neighborhood.
We all know Michael Vick didn’t leave behind all of those things after leaving the neighborhood. He was arrested and served time in prison for running a dog fighting ring, and his brother, Marcus, a former quarterback at Virginia Tech too, has been in and out of jail for multiple offenses including a weapons charge, DUI and was a suspect in a shooting after Michael Vick's birthday party last year.
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Andre Agassi's father pushed his son to the absolute limit at a young age when it came to tennis. He pushed him so much that Andre Agassi wrote in his book that he "hate tennis with a dark and heated passion.
He tried to bet football player Jim Brown his house that Andre could beat him when he was just nine years-old. Brown decided on $10,000. Agassi beat him in two straight sets, and then they decided to pay a third set for just $500, and Agassi won that as well.
Agassi admitted to smoking methamphetamine, and testing positive for it. The guy really opened up in the book that was appropriately named "Open."
Agassi resented his overbearing father, and hated tennis for it. But man was he good.
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Venus and Serena Williams are without question two of the best tennis players ever. And they're sisters. They had competitive spirits pumping through their veins since they were young girls on the court with their dad after school in Compton, California.
Richard Williams has coached his daughters as professionals since they were 14 years-old. He looks out for them both in the media and otherwise.
When Venus Williams was catching flak about her wardrobe choices, she said she just wears what her father picks out for her. This is sort of like a Hogan meets Agassi kind of dysfunctional.
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This is just continuing the country club sports. Maybe it's the individual sports where the parents really get involved that brings upon such dysfunctional ways. Nobody knows for sure, but Tiger Woods' family seemed like a white picket fence situation. It was terrible when his father passed because he and Tiger were so close, and he taught him the game.
But once everything started turning on Tiger (including his wife and multiple mistresses) rumors surfaced of how his father was unfaithful. Tiger used to cry to his high school girlfriend about it, and it tore at him. Yet here he was traveling the world as if he were a single man, while his wife was at home with their two children.
Tiger lived this lie for years until that Thanksgiving night when his world came tumbling down, and Elin was taking out the windows on his Escalade with a golf club.
His life changed that night, and so did the world's perception of Tiger Woods.
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Baseball Hall of Famer Ted Williams' family seems a little crazy, and money-hungry. They were milking that man until the last possible second. His son, John-Henry, would go with him to card shows, and was accused many times of forging his father's signature.
Then there's Ted Williams' daughter who wanted to sell the 2,000 signed bats her father gave her, and John-Henry took legal action to stop her.
Then when their father passed away in 2002, it was in his will that he wanted to be cremated and have his ashes spread in the Florida Keys. But John-Henry and sister Claudia apparently got him to sign an informal agreement on a napkin that would have him frozen.
Their sister Bobby-Jo Ferrell wanted her father's original wish to be carried out, and they went to court.
He remains frozen through biostasis, and the family split up his will evenly three ways.
Seem like a really tight-kit family.
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Andy Reid's home was labeled, by a judge, as "more or less a drug emporium." Ouch. But that's what happens when police get drugs, guns and ammunition from your home. His sons Garrett (24) and Britt (22) Reid were sentenced to 23 months in prison.
Garrett became addicted to painkillers following a football injury. Britt became addicted to heroin. and was high when he crashed his car into another, leading to a possession charge and their arrest in 2007.
Garrett was in drug rehab when he was 20.
It is a long sad story for the Reid family of their sons just losing control.
The Favre family is not just recently getting into trouble. They always seem to be getting into trouble, and I’m not talking speeding tickets. Brandi Favre, the only girl of the four Favre kids, was arrested in connection with a methamphetamine lab. She has gotten in trouble in the past for shoplifting too.
Brother Scott Favre killed one of his good friends in a drunken car crash and was convicted of vehicular manslaughter in 1996.
Brett Favre recently got in trouble for allegedly sending sending nude photos of himself to former New York Jets sideline reporter Jenn Sterger. He just got slapped with a sexual harassment suit by two massage therapists as well.
The good news is he’ll have plenty of time to sort this stuff out, because he is finished with football…supposedly.
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