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Oct 12, 2024
9:15:05am

Odysseus Truly Addicted User

Competitive sports are primarily transactional and it starts at a young age.

It’s tough for the participants to buy into all the rah-rah feel good stuff when they’ve spent the last decade bouncing around to different teams, practicing daily, getting cut, getting benched, getting criticized, traveling all over, dealing with politics, working through injuries, etc. It’s a grind.

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Odysseus

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I work with some former BYU football players

Future_Tacos

Oct 11, 6:22pm

Not too uncommon.

mulletino

Oct 11, 6:22pm

Being a fan is just not their angle.

Plantagenet

Oct 11, 7:08pm

Who hurt him?

Oct 11, 6:29pm

He don’t like you

Peterbilt

Oct 11, 6:31pm

I've anecdotally noted that a surprising number of former high-level players in

shoganai

Oct 11, 6:42pm

Jim McMahon barely follows football.

Jeffacka

Oct 11, 6:44pm

Yes, this...

U.E. McGill

Oct 11, 6:59pm

Yup. I know a guy who played RB in college. He has/had no interest in watching

Powerbait DPM

Oct 11, 10:41pm

You play the game long enough, at a high enough level, and you’ll inevitably

RevolutionDeathsquad

Oct 12, 7:06am

Worked with two former notable BYU players everyone on here would know. One

Chefcurry

Oct 11, 6:51pm

One got PT and the other didn’t???

eyebleedblu

Oct 11, 9:35pm

Or maybe he just doesn’t care about it anymore and doesn’t want to talk about

Polecat

Oct 11, 10:20pm

You just answered my question with a question?

eyebleedblu

Oct 11, 11:22pm

Did I?

Polecat

Oct 11, 11:53pm

Did you?

eyebleedblu

Oct 12, 7:34pm

One got PTSD and one didn't???

AFtotheNW

Oct 12, 12:54am

My daughter was a great figure skater. Won every competition she was in from

MormonThug

Oct 11, 6:57pm

Um, yeah. That's like figure skating

futbolmaven

Oct 11, 7:01pm

analogies are hard aren’t they

MormonThug

Oct 11, 7:24pm

Let's break it down: Football fun. Figure skating...bad analogy

futbolmaven

Oct 11, 8:34pm

Football does not look that fun to play

BaseCoug

Oct 12, 6:20pm

RE: I work with some former BYU football players

Blewis15

Oct 11, 7:18pm

I have an friend who had a 12 year career MLB playing for the Pirates, Orioles,

srn7668

Oct 11, 7:34pm

I’d switch careers with him in an instant.

Oct 11, 8:13pm

I would be miserable. Dedicating so much of your life to something that ultimately doesn’t matter. That would suck.

cheezedawg

Oct 11, 9:25pm

Yeah, who in their right mind would want to be a pro baseball player?

Oct 11, 9:44pm

I’m already doing that with my crappy job

Peterbilt

Oct 11, 9:46pm

You just described employment.

fredgarvin

Oct 11, 10:01pm

When I do my job well, I make a billionaire even richer and contribute to

Oct 11, 10:01pm

That's like every job in life though.

IronPotato

Oct 12, 8:28am

Well, that's what I do every day at work right now

Mitty

Oct 12, 8:40am

Well he did play for the pirates, orioles, an Rangers....

CAPX

Oct 11, 10:15pm

How dare you. There are DOZENS of us Pirate fans!

coug719

Oct 12, 5:40am

^^^ This ^^^ High level athletes are competitors at heart. Regardless of what they accomplished, it’s rare with former

Zach Morris

Oct 11, 10:26pm

And others would give anything to play and were not good enough double edgesword

barebones

Oct 11, 11:12pm

I was friends with a former D1 player. He said he couldn’t watch football casually because he could only focus on

Beest

Oct 11, 7:40pm

I talk frequently with a former defensive standout. Played under Bronco. He says

Real Men Wear Blue

Oct 11, 8:41pm

I don’t think Bronco’s wife cared at all for being approached by fans in the

Polecat

Oct 11, 10:17pm

RE: I don’t think Bronco’s wife cared at all for being approached by

HiLife

Oct 12, 12:49am

I'm related to a former player who casually follows here and there but who

Undefeated

Oct 11, 10:28pm

Also, my son plays High School football and I literally can't get him to watch

Undefeated

Oct 11, 11:16pm

I was the same way in HS. Didn't watch sports until college.

fattycoug

Oct 11, 11:21pm

I have a nephew who was a D1 starting o lineman, he's said he doesn't watch much

UNLVcougar

Oct 11, 11:07pm

Isn’t that how Luke Staley is these days??

ITSYABOI

Oct 12, 12:42am

Yes

Zip

Oct 12, 4:42am

Luke suffers chronic pain due to his days of playing for BYU

Knight-who-says-ni

Oct 12, 8:55am

A few fmr NFL players I know see college football as difficult to watch.

BYU-Laie

Oct 12, 2:20am

The former players I know love BYU football

pappabear246

Oct 12, 4:59am

You would have received more comments if you had said I was in prison with several former Ute football players and they…

Real G Man

Oct 12, 5:02am

Sometimes people are good at a sport but never fans of watching it. They enjoyed playing and it paid for school

22jrob22

Oct 12, 7:27am

I've learned as I've gotten older that we fans care way more about our team

Mitty

Oct 12, 8:37am

Competitive sports are primarily transactional and it starts at a young age.

Odysseus

Oct 12, 9:15am

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