Sports Daily: Mendenhall Retires, Bashes Commercialization

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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:

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<table border="0" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td class="alt2" style="border:1px inset"> "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." </td></tr></tbody></table>
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]

Re: Sports Daily: Mendenhall Retires, Bashes Commercialization

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/2014/03/09/mendenhall-explains-his-decision-to-retire-at-26/

[NDAlum]

Re: Sports Daily: Mendenhall Retires, Bashes Commercialization

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

[OSUFan_88]

Re: Sports Daily: Mendenhall Retires, Bashes Commercialization

Actual scumbag and loser.

Good riddance to his dumb ***.

[Jr.]

Re: Sports Daily: Mendenhall Retires, Bashes Commercialization

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?

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.

[kehlis]

Re: Sports Daily: Mendenhall Retires, Bashes Commercialization

Actual scumbag and loser.

Good riddance to his dumb ***.

This is the kind of guy we are calling a scumbag and a loser these days?

[NDAlum]

Re: Sports Daily: Mendenhall Retires, Bashes Commercialization

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?

In my opinion he sounded arrogant in his article. Not really anything to debate about. Just my perception of that piece.

[Lukin4]

Wow, a football player that actually has a life outside the sport, understands the bigger picture and knows what his priorities in life are, and people are going to bash him for that???

[TreyIM2]

In my opinion he sounded arrogant in his article. Not really anything to debate about. Just my perception of that piece.

My opinion is that your perception is off...way off. U sound like the typical person who gets defensive about everything, even when it's positive, and is always subconsciously looking between the lines for something negative. And a few others up here seem to have that same mentality. Grew up around too many like that and unfortunately still have a few friends like that. Smh....

At any rate, I like how he seems to be a well thought person, especially coming from a league of immature, ignorant and uneducated sounding players who seemed to only go to school to become pro football players and not much else. Definitely refreshing to read. If he actually verbalizes as well as he writes, he should have a bright future ahead of him, post football. Good luck to him.

[OSUFan_88]

Re: Sports Daily: Mendenhall Retires, Bashes Commercialization

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

Try searching Mendenhall 9/11.

I maintain that he is a loser and a scumbag.

[FaceMask]

Re: Sports Daily: Mendenhall Retires, Bashes Commercialization

I hope to someday live in a world where people can have a different point of view without being demonized for it. Unfortunately, based on what I see of people in this world, there isn't a rocket ship that can travel that far yet to find it.

[mestevo]

Re: Sports Daily: Mendenhall Retires, Bashes Commercialization

I hope to someday live in a world where people can have a different point of view without being demonized for it. Unfortunately, based on what I see of people in this world, there isn't a rocket ship that can travel that far yet to find it.

lol? Didn't you now just do the same thing to the people you disagree with that you're accusing them of doing?

Some of you are so eager to white knight someone it seems. This story is akin to that bitter guy at work writing an email to the entire company his last day on the job.

This isn't the first topic has been outspoken about either, may want to read his previous public opinions which are why some will respond the way they will.

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