Ex-NFL player's house on the market includes one cool, million-dollar pool

Bob Hille

Ex-NFL player's house on the market includes one cool, million-dollar pool image

Everybody into this pool!

Former NFL defensive back Asante Samuel's Florida mansion — including, among other amenities, a $1 million swimming pool — is on the market for a cool $9.5 million (but if you've got to ask …), the Los Angeles Times reported.

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According to the newspaper's "Hot Property" page, the pool — part of the property in Southwest Ranches, Fla., north of Miami — is "[d]esigned for large-scale entertaining. The 140,000-gallon pool is highlighted by a saltwater filtration system, a water slide, a geyser feature, a beach entry and a 25-person grotto "complete with flat-screen televisions, a hot tub, a fire pit and party pavilion. Surrounding custom LED lighting, tropical landscaping and pavers complete what is a million-dollar setting, according to listing agent Ben Moss of One Sotheby’s International Realty."

Samuel bought the nearly five-acre Florida estate in 2008 for $2.375 million, according to records cited by the TImes. The home and to-die-for pool were completed in 2013, his final season in the NFL.

Samuel, who played collegiately at Central Florida, played 11 seasons for the Patriots, Eagles and Falcons. 

Bob Hille

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Bob Hille, a senior content consultant for The Sporting News, has been part of the TSN team for most of the past 30 years, including as managing editor and executive editor. He is a native of Texas (forever), adopted son of Colorado, where he graduated from Colorado State, and longtime fan of “Bull Durham” (h/t Annie Savoy for The Sporting News mention).