I Don't Want Anyone To Wind Up Like Me (Good Read)

The Boston Glob ^ | 02/02/07 | Jackie MacMullan, Globe Staff

[ichabod1]

The pension system is not very good either from what I understand. People need to understand most of these guys were not paid millions. Lots of them made only several hundred thousand a year and the average career in the NFL is only like 4 years.

[yankeedame]

Maybe it has nothing to do with football, maybe it is just inherent in him. Until people realize that sometimes a person's mind just doesn't work properly, no one will ever take these kind of ailments really seriously. It doesn't have to be a hit to the head or a former drug issue. Sometimes it just "is". Always blaming it on something else won't ever help people who need real help.

Amen!

[misterrob]

The older guys made didley squat. It's one thing when someone made $3 million over a few year period of time, quite another when some guy in his later 50s who made nothing.

[USMCWife6869]

I understand that. But there are many others in this world that suffer from these same types of depression and anxiety and haven't been hit once. It isn't right to just assume it is from the head hits. Doing that makes it too easy to blow it off and turn it into something that only happens to people that get hit in the head or possibly did drugs.

I'm not saying it couldn't be from being hit so much. I am just saying that it isn't right to make a blanket assumption that the only reason it is happening to him is because he has taken hits to the head.