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Subject: In case anyone had any doubts

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Rick

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Date Posted: Sunday, February 07, 08:04:03am

Danica Patrick can handle a big stock car.

yes, all Waltrips should retire.

interesting.. heard this on CNN this morning. 75% of all NFL players are either bankrupt or in deep financial trouble within 2 years of retirement. The NFL is trying to find out why.

I am going to tell them why right now. You have kids who can barely spell... I saw studies which show a huge percentage of US college students couldn't pass a grade 7 math test (the same study showed a huge percentage of Canadian college students couldn't find Canada on a freakin globe)... these kids are given scolarships to college for one reason... they can play football. Then the colleges make it easy for those studenst to cheat so they can stay on the team. Since 1990 479 of those studenst quit scool early just so they could enter the draft. Of those only 332 were drafted. This shows an incredible amount of stupidity on the parts of the studenst, their parents, the colleges and the NFL for encouraging it.
So these kids who are often not the brightest bulbs in the sockets to begin with, are suddenly given contracts for obscene amounts of money. They start living like movie stars and spending money like Howard Hughes. The problem is, their bodies cannot last that long. The average player in the NFL has a career of about 3.5 seasons. Some lucky ones have their huge contracts spread out over ten years or more... it's called deferred payments so they still make money after retirement but it means making less money while playing. Dumb ones with greedy agents and managers don't do that because agents and managers have their money deferred as well.
So you have these kids making millions for 3 and a half years, who suddenlt aren't making it any more. But do you think a 24 year old kid is going to give up being a celebrity just because his career ends? No. he's going to keep living that way and the people who surround him are going to keep sucking the life out of him until its all gone.
If the NFL really cares about its players, they need to start drafting players only after they leave college. That means every player becomes a college graduate. And I'd make sure they graduated with a degree in something important, so they can make money after football.
The NFL could do that starting next season if they wanted too. But they won't. Because getting the next hot thing is more important than what happens to an idiot kid after his career is over.
The NFL isn't alone. The NHL drafts 18 year olds right out of high school.

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