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Originally Posted by Lathum
How dare he not continue to have his body be pounded for the enjoyment of others!
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This. I just don't get how anyone can question Luck's toughness, let alone the desire to spend the rest of his life as healthy as possible. Sure, the timing sucks for his team, but as is posted in another thread, he could have earned another 20+ mil on IR this season and instead made what I think is a more noble (and courageous) move.
Football is a violent game. I didn't even play at the highest levels but at 56 have osteoarthritis in my neck and upper back, thanks to years of physical pounding. Short term memory lapse, which whether related or not, is not helped by the likely multiple concussions I played through (I had a game in high school I could not remember at all, not even the score)
Not to mention the bizarre outliers like a lacerated kidney and broken jaw. I finished games with both these (jaw in HS and kidney in JC) and in hindsight it makes me more stupid than tough. I am in pain every single day from the game and though I don't regret a minute of playing because what the sport has given me outweighs the bad. I just wish I had listened to my body more at times.
Andrew Luck is listening to his and I respect him for it. Meanwhile Doug Gottlieb calls him out, really? I would take a player with integrity like Andrew Luck any day over a teammate betraying thief like Gottlieb any day of the week! (Gottlieb by the way cried in court when appearing for stealing his teammates credit cards. Pretty 'millennial' in it's own right Doug.