Oh, Good God.... These players make exponentially more than 99% of everyone else. How about a little self-responsibility?
I agree with you.
My God! You wanna know what’s wrong with this country????!!!!! Look at some of these dumbass posts (other than yours, which is 100% correct). On a CONSERVATIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! website, half the posters think highly paid football players are entitled to welfare!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We are screwed!!!!!
I think that is a fair question....Reggie, what happened to all the money you got paid?
You knew that football was a high risk/high reward endeavor. Didn’t you plan anything for life after football. Didn’t you acquire any other skills while in college? Something ? Anything ?
We appreciate your humanitarian work, but you should have been more prudent with your altruism and how you were going to finance that. A good job with decent insurance would cover these problems or is working a 2080 hour day job beneath you?
Looking at typical salaries... he earned about 90K a year for about 13 years. Chances are you will make more over the course of your career.
Anyway, this is on the league and the union to do the right thing.
The injuries are work related and are a responsibility of the employer.
The players are being paid market rate for the value they bring to the business, not for the long term health effects of the work they do.
Because the employers have refused to do what is right their business is going to end as we know it before much longer.
“Oh, Good God.... These players make exponentially more than 99% of everyone else. How about a little self-responsibility?”
No kidding. They knew the risks. They accepted the risks in order to make fame and fortune. ‘Nuff said.