Want to know how NFL players (and ex-NFL players) go broke?

Here's how...this is Shawn Merriman's tab from the bar last Sunday night: http://instagram.com/p/aYBiKemolx/

Is that 1 bottle of water going for $36? Am I reading that right?

Anyway, the reason this is in the news is because apparently Merriman overdosed ("got dehydrated") when he combined alcohol and "medication" and had to be rushed to the hospital. He's now reportedly fine. Good for him.

So not only did he ring up a $16K bar tab, he probably stuck the taxpayers with a $3,000 ER bill.