dekedangle_rpfanon | #26 — Vanek! with a Jurco

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Why do players in other sports, specifically American football, retire earlier than hockey players do? I feel like I've heard a lot about football players retiring while they're still good. Is it because football takes a harder physical toll? Because football players get paid more and can afford to retire earlier? Is it something to do with the culture?

Definitely the harder physical toll and fear of CTE. Unless you're a star QB or what have you, you aren't getting paid shit. Each team's huge and there's not a lot of money to go around.

I mean, the minimum salary of a practice squad member is a little less than 90k, which I wouldn't really sneeze at. It's double the minimum AHL salary, at least. If that's worth the costs (injury, lost years in the work experience or education, etc.) is another question.

ayrt

I mean, it's obviously good money, but it's low for ~pro-athletes or whatever. Even NFL stars still make the least out of the big 4 sports, which is questionable considering the viewership and how short their careers are on average.

... Not so much with stars? Top NHL salaries don't crack top fifty NFL salaries. None of that really helps, like, the last man on the totem pole if he breaks his back in practice, though.

Yeah, NFL players make way more than NHL players. I have no idea what ayrt is talking about.

With stars they're definitely wrong - there aren't NHL players making $20 million a year but I can name NFL players that are - but for everyday players they're right. Average NFL salary is $1.9 million versus the average NHL salary of $2.4 million. And the median NFL salary is even lower, less than a million.

There's also the fact that NFL salaries aren't guaranteed, which is just horrifying to me.

DA

Yeah, basically the NFL can be great if you're a superstar, and pretty horrible if you're not. Each NFL roster has so many players that it balances out to like...a median of shittiness.

ayrt

I was thinking more of star players, since those are the ones you actually hear about retiring. Marshawn Lynch is the most recent example to come to mind - he's only 30.

I'm not sure about other sports, but for American football, there's an increasing trend of walking away because of CTE. There's a lot more focus on it these days and more studies showing just how prevalent it is in NFL players. The increased probability of your post-football life being short and awful is changing the risk assessment a lot.

The NFL player's association is probably the worst out of any sport in terms of protecting its players and their interests. This article explains some of it-https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/sports/wp/2015/03/10/ndamukong-suh-max-scherzer-and-the-difference-between-lucrative-contracts-in-the-nfl-and-mlb/ but basically NFL players are almost completely at the mercy of their team. Practically anybody can (and will) get cut, and if you get cut there's a good chance your career is over.

On top of the other suggestions, football players don't have guaranteed contracts, I think. They can be cut at any time. Think about how many hockey players would have stopped playing by now, if their teams didn't have to find a trade partner for their now-inconvenient contracts.

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