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CaptYossarian

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3. That's true--or we wouldn't have any Lifetime movies.

Reply to NewDayOranges (Reply #2)

Tue Oct 6, 2020, 10:52 AM

Oct 2020

As I was typing my opinion on this, I was thinking about three related instances of stopping a career in sports at an early age:

1) A Chiefs player who committed suicide in the 1980s and had no plans after his career was over. The "treated special" part came from a sports psychologist who studied NFL suicides (before the discovery of CTE).

2) Dexter Manley, who retired at 35 due to his bad knees. Dexter went through college, received a degree, yet was functionally illiterate and sued the NFL for allowing such a thing to happen. He had no marketable skills other than tackling people.

3) Naturally, OJ Simpson. I merely thought of him because of the act of violence, but you took it deeper than I should have.

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What are you supposed to do when you reach the top for a brief time and then wash out? CaptYossarian Oct 2020 #1

I don't know ALL the details/history of this couple, NewDayOranges Oct 2020 #2

That's true--or we wouldn't have any Lifetime movies. CaptYossarian Oct 2020 #3