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Originally Posted by pylon
If he made 500k in his 8 year career, that is an average of $62,500 / year.
That is very mediocre. There are receptionists at oil companies downtown pulling that kind of dough. $30 dollars an hour isn't hard to come by in this city. Add that to the fact it was probably back loaded cash, and he made most of it in the last few years of his deal, and probably blew through it trying to act like a baller, and it dries up in a hurry.
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There are post CFL jobs that are available to players, but they have to be smart about it. In conversations with some people in the league, they have stated that players have been able to parlay the contacts built in the league into a job post football career, often in the marketing/PR side of a business. However with a lot of the players they don't go down the same path and instead find themselves being 35-40 years old, with a small, dwindling bank account, injuries, minimal education and little to no transferable skills.
This guy sounds like a total loser though.