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Thread: OT: Titus Young
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05-09-2013, 09:38 PM #49Pro Bowl Poster
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Re: OT: Titus Young
This is a very weird standard of conduct: professional football players have a drastically lower amount of freedom when it comes to choosing their employer than the average person does (basically they have none, as "don't sign the sheet from the team that drafts you" isn't actually a viable option for most players, as the fact that you illustrated the point with Bo frickin' Jackson amply demonstrates), but they're then held to a FAR higher obligation to their employer than the average person is (as approximately no one will give a damn if I quit my job and go to work for a competitor tomorrow). This is, quite obviously, incredibly fucked up.
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Although Walsh's system of offense can compensate for lack of talent; however, defense is a different story. According to Walsh, talent on defense was essential and could not be compensated for. What did Walsh do in 1981? He acquired physical and talented players on defense.
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05-09-2013, 10:01 PM #51Legendary RSR Poster
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It's hardly a job. It's an incredible privilege to play any sport at the professional level.
And like any high privilege, it comes with a greater expectations of responsibility.
These guys are not owed a place on a team. There's thousands of players just dying to get in the league.
To compare these players to the employment expectations of the average Joe is, IMO, the height of oversimplification and wholly inaccurate.
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05-09-2013, 10:05 PM #52Pro Bowl Poster
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Erm, no. Being granted something special for no particular reason or having an exception made for you is a privilege. Being paid a lot of money to play football because you're one of the absolute best football players on the planet might be a pretty fantastic way to make money, but it is not a "privilege."
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Re: OT: Titus Young
I get what HoustonRaven is trying to say. However, his way of saying it seems to omit the ridiculously strenuous work and discipline involved with even coming close to being such a great player. While the player gets held to a higher standard, because he has higher quality privileges (In the eyes of many), the average Joe, as Houston put it, is the average Joe, because he didn't bust his ass in the gym 2-3 times a day, 5 days a week, on top of studying film and surviving a decade and a half (Likely if one started with pee wee ball) of such a violent sport.
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05-09-2013, 10:32 PM #55Pro Bowl Poster
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Re: OT: Titus Young
I'm going to go out on a limb and venture that the kind of people who are signing non-compete clauses are, in fact, making quite a bit of scratch when compared to the average worker. But then, you can't actually "quit" on an NFL team and go play for someone else, either, so I don't really understand what the point of that is supposed to be...
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05-09-2013, 10:43 PM #56
Re: OT: Titus Young
About 21 million young men between the ages of 22-32.
Less than 2100 are on NFL rosters (IR, Active, Practice Squad, etc.)
So that's 1 out of 10,000. (.01%)
The total male labor force in the US is about 84 million, so the percentage of the male labor force in the NFL is about .0025% (1 out of 40,000 workers).
I think my calculations are correct. I got my numbers from a couple of government websites, so they should be good.
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05-09-2013, 10:48 PM #57
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05-09-2013, 11:00 PM #58Pro Bowl Poster
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05-10-2013, 12:44 AM #59Steve Flacco, Apparently
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Re: OT: Titus Young
Players have left and gone to CFL. They also used to leave for the USFL, AFL and other competing leagues. The only thing the team could sue for, and would win, is a return on money that was prepaid for a contract like a signing bonus. Teams sometimes do that when a player retires and doesn't go anywhere. The bottom line is a player can leave for a different league and it has happened in the past.
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