The policy my mother cashed in when my father died was sold to him in the early 1960s by a retired New York Giants player
Tom Landry was in insurance for a while, wonder if it was him.
Tom Landry (Army Air Corps) Roger Staubach (Navy) and Ernie Stautner (USMC) could kick any of these guys butts, and two of them are dead
Roger Staubach didn’t make a huge salary but was savvy enough to become a multimillionaire in real estate.
Many NFLers these days (with bogus college degrees) would of course pass that off as white privilege, not hard work.