Sports Daily: Mendenhall Retires, Bashes Commercialization

[RaychelSnr]

He's not a household superstar name, but he may become the new trend in the life of NFL players.

Rashard Mendenhall -- at the ripe age of 26 -- has decided to hang up his cleats and retire from the NFL. Citing a desire to pursue other passions in life as well as a distaste for the image-driven league, Mendenhall articulated his stance well through an article on Huffingtonpost.com:

Quote:

"My older brother coaches football at the high-school and youth level. One day he called me and said, "These kids don't want to work hard. All they wanna do is look cool, celebrate after plays, and get more followers on Instagram!" I told him that they might actually have it figured out."

Sound Off: Do you relate with Rashard Mendenhall? Has the image-oriented and commercialized aspect of the NFL damaged your love of football?

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[UH53]

Respect Rashad! Very profound and well said!

[Syce]

i agree. they really should put a rule in for celebrations for touch downs in the game, its pretty sad that players will actually Practice celebrations for when they do touch down.

[tbook24]

sounds like a filed often injured first round draft pick that never lived up to his promise. he wasnt playing thats why he retired. he stayed hurt had maybe one partial good season

[mestevo]

Player reaches ceiling, sees end of career, turns to internet.

I agree w/ PFT's summary, was probably looking at a 715k non-guaranteed backup role next season.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...-retire-at-26/

[NDAlum]

Ok so he is basically the most perfect human being on the planet. Got it.

[OSUFan_88]

Actual scumbag and loser.

Good riddance to his dumb ***.

[Jr.]

Quote: Originally Posted by NDAlum

Ok so he is basically the most perfect human being on the planet. Got it.

So he says he doesn't want to play because the game doesn't seem the same as the one he grew up loving and that he has other interests he wants to explore while he still can, and all of a sudden he's portraying himself as better than everyone else?

Quote: Originally Posted by OSUFan_88

Actual scumbag and loser. Good riddance to his dumb ***.

Where does this come from? I did some quick searching but couldn't find anything that spoke to him being a bad person.