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

Four thousand dollars showed up in her account before she'd even had a real conversation with the guy. That's the number to keep in your back pocket while we rewind to how this started — because it started small. Lyssa (per the creator credit) was working her shift when a woman came in browsing hair products, boyfriend in tow, decked out in NFL-issued gear you can't just buy off a rack. He stared her down like she owed him money. Lyssa clocked it, figured maybe brother or cousin, then confirmed — nope, boyfriend. Her move wasn't to call it out. It was to ask the girlfriend if she could get connected with some of his teammates. Hang onto that detail. The couple left, Lyssa moved on with her day, and then days later a DM landed from the man himself — someone she'd actually seen pop up on her Explore page months earlier — saying he'd been thinking about her, and oh, he and his girlfriend had just broken up.

The Wire Transfer Heard 'Round the Group Chat

Lyssa wasn't chasing romance here — she was freshly out of a breakup and made it clear the most this man was getting from her was a paid bill. So when he offered to fly her and her friend to Miami, she said sure, why not. She looked up flights, sent the screenshot, and he wired roughly four thousand dollars without a second of hesitation — flights and checked bags covered for both of them. Almost on instinct, she added flight protection to the booking. Within days there were new nails, fresh waxes, new outfits, and an 8:30 AM flight locked in. 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 somehow gotten into one of the player's other phones and found everything: texts, flight info, the whole plan laid out. Cherry wasn't sending a heads-up. She said she'd be in Miami, she knew exactly when they'd land, and she was fighting both of them on sight. Meanwhile the player was blowing up Lyssa's Instagram insisting Cherry was 'delusional,' they really were broken up, just get on the plane. Lyssa didn't get on the plane. She blocked Cherry, told the player it was too much, and canceled. Because of that flight protection she'd tacked on almost as an afterthought, she got back about 80 percent of the ticket cost — somewhere around three thousand dollars — and kept every cent.

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

— the storyteller

He Posted WHAT?

The canceled trip and the refund would already be enough of a story. But that same day — the day Lyssa was supposed to be touching down in Miami — the player posted a photo kissing Cherry outside a truck, captioned with a Rod Wave lyric about forever and nothing getting between it. Lyssa and her friend just stared at their phones. And the part that keeps this story alive: he still messages her to this day, now offering to fly her and her friend to a different city entirely. Her read is that 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

There are layers to unpack here. The player is clearly the one running the play — living with Cherry, working multiple phones, sliding into Lyssa's DMs since the year before, then publicly kissing his 'forever girl' the exact day he tried to get another woman on a flight. That's not a breakup, that's two situations running at once that nearly collided in Miami. But the store moment is worth sitting with too — Lyssa saw him staring, confirmed he had a girlfriend standing right there, and asked for his teammates' numbers instead of saying anything. That's a choice. And when Cherry showed up in her DMs with threats, Lyssa's instinct was to block her, not to feel any kinship with a woman getting blindsided the same way she almost was. The refund, though, is an unambiguous win. Three grand, no flight, no fade. 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 move made in this entire story.

Questions people ask

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

The girlfriend got into one of the player's other phones, 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?

Yes, in this case — Lyssa added flight protection when she booked and got back roughly 80 percent of the ticket cost after canceling, around three thousand dollars.

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

The story leaves that question open. Lyssa took the player at his word about the breakup, but Cherry still having access to his phone and their communications suggests the relationship wasn't actually over.