Poppinga Explores Business School

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Linebacker Brady Poppinga is about as obsessed with the game of football as any player in the Green Bay Packers' locker room.

But Poppinga is also a realist, and he knows he won't be able to play the game he loves forever.

That's why he took the opportunity last month to enroll in the NFL Business Management and Entrepreneurial Program, attending the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania for four days to study, among other things, commercial real estate.

The program is part of an ongoing NFL-NFLPA initiative to help prepare players for their post-playing careers, and more than 500 players have taken part since the program's inception in 2005. There's also an annual program at Harvard Business School.

Poppinga chose Wharton because of his interest in real estate, something he's become intrigued with while learning about the collapse and ongoing recovery of the nation's economy. The Wharton program featured 10-hour days of lectures, group ..

Source: Packers.com
 

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