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From cnn.com : During the NFL lockout this year, some startling numbers came to light as many players were forced to consider what their lives would be like without football. • The average NFL career is 3.52 seasons; • The average age of retired NFL players is 28; • Within five years of leaving the league, 75% of NFL players end up broke, divorced or unemployed; • 65% of NFL players leave the game with permanent injuries; • At least 20% of players reading this are clinically depressed; • The average life expectancy for retired NFL players is 53-59 years.

I grew up in Kansas City, and thought this recent column would be of interest to readers here: http://www.kansascity.com/2011/01/23/2604840/great-play-doesnt-mean-great-character.html I have no idea what kind of person Ben Roethlisberger is now, but setting that aside, I think Mellinger is right about how fans often respond to these types of situations.

This paper was just published in the online journal, The Other Journal, and is available here: http://bit.ly/eucRRX Here's a short excerpt: The external goods that are available through participating in football (and many other practices) include fame, fortune, status, social influence, and power. Football players at the professional level often acquire a fortune and some achieve a significant amount of fame. These goods are external to football because one could play football and even achieve excellence in the sport without receiving any of these goods. In fact, in the past this was true of many of the great players who excelled prior to the escalation of salaries and media coverage of the sport. They experienced football’s internal goods but not the external ones. This shows that the external goods are not essential to football. What is the significance of the difference between the internal and external goods when considering the relationship between football and c...

According to the organization American Rights at Work, plenty .  I received the following in an email today from this organization: "The NFL is preparing a 'lock out' next season unless football players agree to its demands. If there's no football season, it would impact 150,000 jobs – and cause more than $140 million in lost revenue – in each and every city with an NFL team. Local economies will be devastated. All because of the NFL's greed. It's easy to see how crushing a lockout would be... Picture a 60,000-seat football stadium... EMPTY . Now picture all the bars, restaurants, hotels, t-shirt shops, hot dog carts surrounding the stadium... CLOSED . And all of the stadium's janitors, vendors, and support staff... OUT OF WORK. But the NFL and team owners don't care, because they'll still make billions. They've already signed TV contracts that will pay out even if the season is canceled. The NFL owners' greed is unbelievable. In ditching...

Article in yesterday's NY Times asking that question:  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/24/weekinreview/24sokolove.html An excerpt: There are some who believe that taking physical risks in pursuit of a communal goal — and even watching people take risks — has its benefits. “We learn from dangerous activities,” said W. David Solomon, a philosophy professor at Notre Dame and director of its Center for Ethics and Culture. “In life, there are clearly focused goals, with real threats. The best games mirror that. We don’t need to feel bad about not turning away from a game in which serious injuries occur. There are worse things about me than that I enjoy a game that has violence in it. I don’t celebrate injuries or hope for them to happen. That would be a different issue. That’s moral perversion.” Sean D. Kelly, the chairman of Harvard’s philosophy department, has a book coming out in January, co-authored with the philosopher Hubert Dreyfus of the University of California, Berkeley, that a...

Jeff Pearlman rightly criticizes the NFL's possible expansion of the regular season to 18 games. I, along with Pearlman, have a very difficult time seeing how this will benefit the players, all things considered.