After Phillip Buchanon was taken by the Raiders with the 17th overall pick in the 2002 NFL Draft, one of the first people he heard from was his mom, which makes sense because she's his mom. 

What didn't make sense to Buchanon though was what his mom wanted. The woman who raised him said he owed her $1 million for the child rearing. 

Buchanon, who played for five different teams during his 10 seasons in the NFL, recently wrote a book where he recounted that exact story.

Here's an excerpt Buchanon's book, New Money: Staying Rich (via FoxSports.com)

Soon after the draft, she told me that I owed her a million dollars for raising me for the past 18 years. Well, that was news to me. If my mother taught me anything, it's that this is the most desperate demand that a parent can make on a child. The covenant of having a child is simply that you give your child everything possible, and they owe you nothing beyond a normal amount of love and respect. There is no financial arrangement. If you get old and infirm, and your kids are around to help you out at that point, then you're lucky. It's not written in the social contract. The mothers and fathers of the world have been rearing their kids for generations -- in every culture imaginable -- and it's a one-way street when it comes to money. If they pay you back someday, and you really are going through hard times, then that's just a bonus, a gratuity for being a great mother or father.

According to Buchanon, his mom had joked about the $1 million payment before, but she never sounded serious about it until after the Raiders drafted him out of the University of Miami. 

My mother had said my debt to her was a million dollars before, but this time she was more serious than ever. If you do the math, one million dollars divided by 18 years of raising me was approximately $55,555.55 a year in restitution. Except, at age 17 I decided to move out of my mom's house, choosing to live with a close friend and his father because I no longer felt secure in my own home. Why, you ask? Because my mother let people come in and out of our house and take what they wanted. So technically, even if we went by her logic, I only owed her $944,444.44 for her services over 17 years.

Is it petty that I'm knocking a year off her calculation? The fact that I have written this paragraph enrages me, merely because I'm entertaining the thought that her argument had any logic at all.

In the end, Buchanon didn't give his mom the million dollars, but he did end up buying her a house. However, that turned into a disaster.

When I told my mother she would have to take care of the maintenance after I paid off the mortgage on her house, she told me she would not be able to afford the upkeep on a house that big. In fact, she made it seem like it was my fault for picking out a house that big. In part, she was right. I bought her a house with my luxury taste and no real wisdom behind it. It was an uneducated purchase.

After realizing a big house probably wasn't a good idea, Buchanon offered to buy his mom a smaller house. Only this time, Buchanon gave his mom a choice: I'll buy you a house or give you $15,000 in cash. 

I offered to buy her a comfortable house in my name for her to live in. This way she wouldn't have to take out any loans or put my little sister and brothers in a situation where the roof over their heads could be taken away. She'd move out of the house that was too big for her and into this new one. Instead, she opted for $15,000 cash. She told me that if the new house didn't have space for two living room sets, she didn't want it.

Buchanon is releasing the book now because he doesn't want young players to make "the same mistakes" he did. With the NFL Draft right around the corner, you can bet there will be several players who find themselves in a similar situation and Buchanon wants to make sure they can handle the situation.

"When I got to the NFL, I was all dollars and no sense," Buchanon told Fox Sports. "I want to make sure the next generation of athletes doesn't make the same mistakes."

You can check out Buchanon's book at his website here. 

There are definitely some pitfalls to being drafted. (USATSI)
There are definitely some pitfalls to being drafted. (USATSI)