they must save more when their earnings peak, so that they can continue to spend later in life (including retirement) when they may earn little, if any money. This paper shows thatthis assumption does not holdfor NFL players, who earn the bulk of their...
The study does knock down a widely repeated claim bySports Illustratedthat "by the time they have been retired for two years, 78% of former NFL players have gone bankrupt or are under financial stress because of joblessness or divorce." Instead, the study found about 2% file for bankruptcy ...
Sports Illustrated estimated in 2009 that 78 percent of NFL players have gone bankrupt or are facing serious financial stress because of joblessness or divorce within two years of ending their playing careers. In light of the seemingly never-ending stories about NFL players going broke, could you...
Source: NFL, CBS. Two players waving goodbye to opposing players. One was fined for taunting. One was not. Because reasons.Football has even more scenario diversity than baseball; it isn’t infinite, but for our purposes it might as well be, given that it is dimensioned by down-and-...
Bankrupt Logic:Organizations err, and individuals make mistakes. Trust me, I have plenty of experience! So perhaps vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan's boast that he ran a sub-three-hour marathon, when the actual time was more than four hours -- followed by his weird statement that the ...
Q: Do you have some advice for the younger players who are considering the jump like you did early out of college? What factors should they consider since you went through that whole process? Gonzalez: I think if you are going to leave early, you better make sure that you are going ...
Just two years after their athletic careers end, 78% of former NFL players are bankrupt or nearly there, according to an analysis by Sports Illustrated. “I’ve made millions and Iost millions,” admits Eddie George, who was a first round draft pick in 1996 and went on to play nine seas...
Rich and Bankrupt, Poor and Bad-Mouthed (Posted 2015-04-15 22:29:18) ; Recent Stories on Well-Paid NFL Players and People on Public Assistance Reveal the Two AmericasSingletary, Michelle
'Tis Better to Have Rushed and Lost Than Never to Have Rushed at All No. 2:In terrible conditions at Not Bankrupt Yet Coliseum, Kansas City passed 13 times and rushed eight times while the game was close in the first half; Oakland passed 11 times and ran 28 times through the same peri...
The first – and really only time – I recall the option attack being used regularly was a series in a 1987 replacement game between the 49ers and the woeful replacement players that made up the New York Giants that year. The fake 49ers blew away the fake Giants and at one point, Bill...