I feel like I agree with you but would also like to hear more of your thoughts. This fandom writes a fair bit about pro male athletes as bros, but that's mostly the younger players.

And it doesn't seem to deal with extravagant wealth hardly at all, which I can understand, since I think it'd be harder to make characters sympathetic in that context, and also most of us have no experience of what that'd be like. (See: someone writing Geno renting a Camry.)

I'm not sure what the balance is between acknowledging that these guys are hugely talented, hugely competitive, and all have egos the size of the moon, and keeping them sympathetic as characters. It's a tough line to walk.