| TheRealMafoo said: I would only care if they had no idea what they were getting into. They do. With the kind of money they make while they play the game, they can setup something so they can take care of themselves. The base pay is 310K. If you can't find a way to make that work for you, I don't know what to tell ya. There are many jobs in the world with more danger and less pay. They can deal with it. |
Not sure that's true.
While there is little chance of actual death, you are basically being paid specifically to harm yourself versus "more dangerous jobs" being the possibility of harm.
Average Life Expectancy for an NFL player appears to be about 50-58 (Granted, making the pension issue, kinda pointless unless it passes on to spouses.)
Once again, the average NFL player only plays 3 1/2 years. That's enough to lower life expectancy by like 20 years. Higher when you consider the fact that people who die as children and of young illnesses and the like are included in average life expectancy but not in the average NFLers life expectancy.
