She Got Flown Out by an NFL Player — Then His Girlfriend Showed Up in Her DMs Promising to 'Be Waiting in Miami'

How a Random Store Encounter Turned Into a Baller Situation

It started the way a lot of messy stories do — completely innocently, at least on the surface. Our storyteller (we'll call her Lyssa, per the creator credit) was working her shift when a woman came in browsing hair products. No big deal. But the woman's boyfriend walked in too, dripping in NFL-issued gear — the kind you can't buy in stores — and proceeded to stare Lyssa down like she owed him something. Lyssa clocked it, figured maybe he was a brother or cousin, and when she confirmed he was actually the boyfriend, she did not say 'hey, your man's been eye-sexing me for ten minutes.' Instead, she asked the girlfriend to connect her with some of his teammates. That detail? It matters later. The couple left. Lyssa moved on. Then, days later, a DM slid in from the man himself — who she'd actually seen pop up on her Explore page months before — saying he'd been thinking about her for a while and, by the way, he and his girlfriend had just broken up.

The Wire Transfer Heard 'Round the Group Chat

Here's where the story shifts from flirty Instagram drama into something that made us genuinely gasp. Lyssa wasn't interested in the man romantically — she was freshly out of a breakup and very clear that the most this guy was getting from her was a bill paid. When he offered to fly her and her friend to Miami, she figured why not. She looked up tickets, sent him the screenshot, and he wired her roughly four thousand dollars — covering flights and checked bags for both of them — without blinking. The catch Lyssa wisely added: flight protection, almost on instinct. Within days, she and her friend had new nails, fresh waxes, new outfits, and an 8:30 AM flight ready to go. Everything was set. Then she went to sleep.

“Bitch, I'mma beat you and your friend's ass. I'll be waiting in Miami for y'all.”

— Cherry's DM, as recounted by the storyteller

The Morning Everything Exploded

She woke up to hundreds of Instagram notifications and a DM from a woman we'll call Cherry — the girlfriend, who had apparently gotten hold of one of the NFL player's other phones and found everything: the texts, the flight info, the whole plan. Cherry was not sending a polite heads-up. She made it crystal clear she would be in Miami, she knew exactly when they were arriving, and she intended to fight both Lyssa and her friend on sight. Meanwhile, the player himself was flooding Lyssa's Instagram telling her Cherry was 'delusional,' they really were broken up, and to just get on the plane. Lyssa, to her credit, did not get on that plane. She blocked Cherry, told the player it was too much drama, and canceled the trip. Because of that flight protection she'd added almost on a whim, she got back roughly 80 percent of the ticket cost — somewhere around three thousand dollars — and kept it.

“Something told me deep down inside, add the flight protection just in case, cuz you never know.”

— the storyteller

He Posted WHAT?

If the story ended with the canceled trip and the refund, it would already be a lot. But later that same day — the day Lyssa was supposed to be landing in Miami — the NFL player posted a photo of himself kissing Cherry outside a truck. The caption was a Rod Wave lyric about forever and not letting anything come between it. Lyssa and her friend stared at their phones in disbelief. And here's the kicker that keeps this story alive: the man still messages Lyssa to this day, now offering to fly her and her friend to a different city entirely. She says he's basically married at this point. She's not going.

“Till this day, this man will still be in my phone. Hey, let me fly you and your home girl out to Green Bay.”

— the storyteller

Curtis and Honade Break It Down

We went back and forth on this one because there are layers. The player is obviously the villain here — he was living with Cherry, had multiple phones, had been sliding into Lyssa's DMs since the previous year, and then publicly kissed his 'forever girl' the same day he was trying to get Lyssa on a flight. That's not a breakup. That's a man running two situations simultaneously and almost getting both women to collide in Miami. But we also couldn't let the moment at the store go — Lyssa saw him staring, confirmed he was Cherry's boyfriend, and the move she made was to ask for his teammates' numbers. That's a choice. And when Cherry DM'd her with threats, Lyssa's first instinct was to block her rather than feel any solidarity. The refund was a genuine win, though. Three thousand dollars, no flight, no fade caught. We'll take it.

When a man says 'we just broke up' and his girlfriend still has access to his phone, his texts, and his flight bookings — they did not just break up. The flight protection was the smartest decision made in this entire story.

Questions people ask

What happens when you get flown out and the guy's girlfriend finds out?

In this story, the girlfriend got hold of the player's third phone, found all the trip details, and DM'd Lyssa threatening to confront her in Miami. Lyssa canceled the trip and kept the refund.

Can you get a refund on flights if you add travel protection?

In this case, yes — Lyssa added flight protection when she booked and received roughly 80 percent of the ticket cost back after canceling, which she described as around three thousand dollars.

Is it wrong to accept a trip from someone who says they're newly single?

The story raises exactly this question. Lyssa's position was that she took the player at his word about the breakup, but the fact that Cherry still had access to his phone and their communications suggests the relationship was far from over.