Note also that you had the option of moving to another firm or hanging out your shingle. Brees doesn’t. For him, it’s the NFL or nothing, if he wants to play pro ball. He would have given up 2 years’ salary *and* the rest of his career, as well as another chance at the Super Bowl. The analogy would be to you giving up a career in law.
The guy is 40, he’s had a good run.
It’s about getting an announcing gig after he’s done playing.
The analogy would be if me giving up a career in law if I'd already earned hundreds of millions of dollars and was a couple of years away from retirement anyway.
Which I obviously wasn't. And I'm not trying to build myself up here. I think a lot of people make similar choices. Brees just confirmed that he is always going to be for sale no matter how much money he already has earned.