Nfl

[luvfan]

I love football. Been a fan as long as I have a memory. Also amazed by the personnel decisions and players attitudes and the short careers and the way they blow money.

So here's a hypothetical.

You are a Rookie Free Agent on a team and you are fighting to make the team.
Do you:
a) sign if the coach offers you $500K/year for five years guaranteed.
b) try to hold out for more because you think collective bargaining will be better in the future?

what if you are an unheralded journeyman who has been on five different teams and you are in the twilight of your career? Do you:
a) take the $1M signing bonus and $750K guaranteed for three years or
b) hope you can get more later?

YGBFSM

I thought airline pilots were smarter than football players. Maybe not.

There is no such thing as indispensable.

 

[luvfan]

Oh, and it's preseason...

So you are one of 80 cats trying to make the roster.

53 on the roster.

45 dress for the game.

So you turn down the money?

Smart!

 

[GuppyWN]

I may be a little slow but you're not talking football are you?

Gup

 

[Flying the Line]

Maybe the NFL rookies will get a vote to see if it goes to a vote, if not they will probably be insurance salesmen.

 

[luvfan]

Football, yea, we're talking football.

Everyone knows Warner went from grocery store clerk to super bowl hero.

How many people know about the 10000 "almost made it" to the NFL who are stocking groceries as we speak?

 

[fletch717]

When I was eleven my mother divorced. After a couple of years she met a divorced father of two. They decided to get married. Now my sister and I were part of the family, we weren't forced to live in the basement. given the leftovers from the dinner table and told how lucky we were that my new stepfather had chosen mom. Yes there were disagreements and jealousy at first, but we learned that if we wanted to be happy we had to share.

 

[luvfan]

Since we're talking football...

A buddy of mine ran a legit 4.31 40. NSTFS

Saginaw Valley State U.

He was fast as hell.

Not fast enough to make it to the next level??? Bull********************!

Should he have taken a)?

His brain wasn't spoiled by years of flying the line or an entitlement mindset. He knew he was fast but he also knew he was 169 pounds dripping wet and a longshot to make it to the NFL. Hard to argue he could have played special teams. He was just too small. But man he was fast! But that wasn't enough.

He might have made it but he needed a little more luck and the planets to align for him. What if he had gotten hurt? No question he would have taken the money!!! He told me just as much.

But then again, he's smarter than most airline pilots.

He should have taken the first offer right?

After all he was...Fast as hell...and...Tough as nails. See Ya!

So this is how life works. You chose. If you don't like the offer. Just say no. The alternative will be better right? Are you sure?

Lots of football players expectations are different than what happens to them. But you're not like them are you? You are so much smarter than they are...

 

[On Your Six]

The arbitrators who give awards to professional ball players also do SLIs for airlines. Look at recent awards to possibly see your own future.


Godspeed!


OYS

 

[SWA GUY]

Here's your damn football story:

I had this little dog one time... his name was Ruff.

I trained Ruff to not sh!it in the house, but he did anyway.

So I told Ruff he had a choice; don't sh!t in the house or there'd be consequences.

Ruff sh!it in the house again, so I sold him to Michael Vick.

Moral of the story?

Don't sh!t in the house, or you'll get ass-raped by an enormous pro football player that makes $100 mil in 6 years. Who, consequently, looks like Gary Kelly!

 

[canyonblue]

Is this the story of the guy who played for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the CFL who wanted to play for the New England Patriots of the NFL, but held out for more money because his agent said he was just as good, if not better, than most of the guys on the Patriots? If so, he is now driving the Double Tree Van in Denver, tip well.