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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 784341">You know, in the old days when pay was much lower a guy's lifetime highlights came before the age of 30, maybe 35.  After that, he might run a bar.  Or if he was smart with his money and made the right connections, it might be a car dealership or a beer distributorship or a pole building construction company.  Charm and good looks might get him a media job.  At the rare high end, you have Staubach building a mini real estate empire which was sold off for $600 million, of which he got a nice chunk, and remains the company's executive chairman.The point being, looking at the money elite QBs make today, it is easy to see how a smart one who has some vision might be looking at football as just phase 1 of an adult life with more opportunities to come and not football as the "as good as it gets" experience.  An extra $13 mil per year is a nice add to the war chest for future endeavors.</blockquote>

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