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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voyageur" data-source="post: 974220" data-attributes="member: 17953">It's a terribly high percentage of NFL players who end up in wheel chairs, long before they reach 65. It's also sad as to how many of suffered and died, at a young age. NFL players die at an average age of just under 60, while the average male in the US lives to be just under 80. 78% of NFL players are broke 2 years after they leave the game. The cost of the NFL health insurance policy is roughly $35,000 per year. It's covered for five years, then the player has to pay for it. As far as conventional insurance, it's not readily available. They have to spend out of pocket until they reach Social Security retirement, and then, a supplement plan is very costly, if they can even find one. Of course they can pay for that insurance out of their retirement, which by the way, is $43,000 a year. So, they'd have $5,000 a year to live on.The problem is, the players of today don't give a rip about those that came before them, and people get the misguided impression that the money these guys make is huge. For guys in the lower 1/3 to 1/2 of the pay on their team, there's not as much there as you'd imagine.Now they're finding that 87% of the players in, and retired from the NFL, have CTE to one degree or another. We're talking about the reason so many of them have psychological problems, and sometimes so bad that they commit suicide.</blockquote>

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