Why Can’t NFL Players Seem To Stay Retired

NFL players, like other athletes, love the roar of the crowd and thrill of competition. This love creates a hunger that is sometimes very difficult to replace. Imagine that you are a young child who is the best player on your peewee football team. Now once you have gotten older you are the most dominant athlete on your middle school team. Then within a few years, you are the greatest player on your high school team. In fact, you are the talk of your hometown. You are constant news, whether it is the state championship run or your choice of colleges. You enter college as a great prospect and quickly live up to potential by earning a starting job your freshmen or sophomore year. The next few years of college are a blur. You receive daily offers of entertainment, gifts and just flat out adulation from friends, boosters, girls and fans.

The dominance in college soon talks to NFL potential and where you will be drafted. Luckily, you are chosen by an average team in the middle of the first round and the wooing and adulation starts all over again. Within a few years, you become a steady NFL player and by your fourth year, you are great. It is impossible to eat a meal without requests for autographs or pictures. Every Sunday, you compete against the greatest in your sport. Then after the eighth year, your team cuts you in a salary cap move and nobody contacts you for an opportunity.

An NFL player loses that reality when he retires. In a short period, he will go from a great athlete to a former athlete. For some the loss of the limelight and competition are too much and they must try to hold on any way that they can.The hits keep comin’: NFL players ratify new CBA