No offense or judgement meant to anyone if that’s your thing (to each their own). That’s just how I see pretty much all professional sports - the super bowl is just the poster child for it.

  • @Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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    21 year ago

    Average career length in the NFL is 3.3 years

    After making hundreds of thousands for a year or two you can still retire safely and live off the interests. 2.8m gets you 140k/year, you don’t need that much to live, even with 1m in the bank you’re safely making an extra 50k/year (about median US salary), allowing you to pretty much choose to take whatever side job you want no matter the salary to end up more comfortable than the vast majority of the population.

    • @Anti_Iridium@lemmy.world
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      31 year ago

      Go be a football player then, if you have it all figured out.

      Personally, with 80% going bankrupt after 3 years, I don’t like those odds

      • @Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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        21 year ago

        Because they’re basically kids who get money thrown at them in a system that encourages them to spend it on stupid shit.

        “Go Be A fOoTbAlL pLaYeR tHeN!”

        Hey bud, I would gladly work a job where I make 800k/year for a year or two and retire if I had the competences, not everyone can become an NFL player, but I sure as hell could manage their money better than most do!

        • @Anti_Iridium@lemmy.world
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          11 year ago

          I would too. It’s just that the job you described doesn’t exist, and all I’m saying is that it’s not that simple.

          Even if it did, and there was an 80% chance I would end up bankrupt, I wouldn’t play those odds.