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The Superbowl is nothing more than watching rich people fight over a ball while companies spend obscene amounts of money to blast advertisements at you. (dubvee.org)
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No offense or judgement meant to anyone if that's your thing (to each their own). That's just how I see pretty much all professional sports - the super bowl is just the poster child for it.

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[–] Anti_Iridium@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I would too. It's just that the job you described doesn't exist, and all I'm saying is that it's not that simple.

Even if it did, and there was an 80% chance I would end up bankrupt, I wouldn't play those odds.

[–] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Except it's not the bankrupt lottery. You don't just get money and then have an 80 percent chance to lose it. How you choose to manage the money is what really affects whether you go bankrupt, or not.

All that the 80 percent figure shows is that NFL players have a poor education on money management, just like the vast majority of young Americans. NFL players are usually just beginning adulthood. We all know that if you give most young adults a large sum of cash that they will probably mismanage it and spend it on frivolous things.

If the NFL and teams actually cared about the players and the 80 percent bankruptcy, they could fix it by educating them on money management.