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‘Sports Illustrated estimates that after two years of retirement, 78% of former NFL players have gone bankrupt or are under financial stress because of joblessness or divorce. What transferable skills does a professional football player bring to the marketplace? What job is going to give him a salary even close to what he was making as a player?’

But wait. Many of these guys attended or graduated from some of our better universities. Ray Rice, Rutgers. Aaron Hernandez, University of Florida. Richie Incognito, University of Nebraska. Adrian Peterson, Oklahoma. Our internationally acclaimed higher education system has taken these and so many other NFL players in and educated them.

Sure, once they’re retired at 29 or whatever, and once the brain damage they got playing for these universities (Motto: A mind is a terrible thing to waste; so we use it, use it, use it!) starts up, they won’t make big NFL money. But they’re college-educated! They went to storied schools like the University of North Carolina!

Bankrupt? Financial stress? They’re not even carrying college loans!

Well.

Anyway.

Margaret Soltan, January 30, 2015 12:13PM
Posted in: sport

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