Overview
- During Sunday Night Football, Melissa Stark relayed that Bourne celebrated his $500,000 incentive for surpassing 500 yards and joked that the timing helped because “my wife Vanessa is expensive.”
- Mike Tirico and Cris Collinsworth laughed on-air at the remark, with Collinsworth quipping “He’s dead” and Tirico noting Bourne might not have realized the comment was on the record.
- After the Bears game, Bourne was listed at 551 receiving yards for the season, leaving him 49 yards shy of another $250,000 bonus tied to reaching 600 yards.
- Vanessa Bourne responded with a tongue-in-cheek Instagram Story joking about the broadcast mention and playfully leaning into the “expensive” tag.
- Bourne is playing on a one-year deal worth up to $5 million after a preseason release by the Patriots, and some outlets have highlighted unverified photos of a Rolls-Royce gift in context of the comment.