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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sschind" data-source="post: 947580" data-attributes="member: 10247">I'd take a job for chump change if its a few hundred thousand dollars.My problem is why can't these players at the bottom have a contingency plan for when their football career ends.  Why does football have to set them up for life.  Can't they get another job?  I don't blame anyone for trying to get as much as they can but I don't have any sympathy for them if their career ends early (unless its a major injury that affects their quality of life) A guy who goes through four years of college and signs on to a teams practice squad and stays there for 1 year will earn 165,000 dollars his first year out of college.  If that is the extent of his football career he has still gotten a bigger leg up than most college grads do.</blockquote>

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