September 18, 2018 05:26PM | Registered: 14 years ago Posts: 2,506
Status: HOF Inductee
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Yes, NFL players are very well compensated relative to most of the rest of us - which doesn't make the division of benefits and burdens between the players and owners remotely fair.
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The average NFL career lasts 3.3 years, according to the NFL Players' Association; 78 percent of players go broke within three years of retirement and 15.7 percent file for bankruptcy within 12 years of leaving the league, according to a paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research." I'm pretty sure owners don't face the same financial risks and certainly don't face the same physical and cognitive risks.
They play a sport whose ill health effects often persist, and worsen, decades after they're done and some of you begrudge them HEALTH INSURANCE?
Sheesh.
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