Posted on 08/26/2019 9:35:21 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
Retired NFL player Le’Ron McClain took to Twitter to ask for help with injuries he said he suffered since his football career, pleading with the league to help him get his “head checked.”
McClain left the league after seven seasons, having played for the Baltimore Ravens, San Diego Chargers and Kansas City Chiefs before retiring in 2013. However, he wrote on Saturday that he is still dealing with the physical effects of playing football for so long.
"Playing fullback since high school. Its takes too f---ing much to do anything. My brain is f---ing tired," McClain wrote. "@NFL i need some help with this shyt. Dark times and its showing. F---ing help me please!! They dont care I had to get lawyers man!"
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In some ways this is like the women that got too close to Weinstein. There are risks and rewards to all jobs.
Really sad to hear about this, but maybe it is time to roll out the robot football players. Of course then they couldn’t use National Felon League for the name anymore./s
Sounds like a personal problem to me. Let him use some of the money he was paid. Or did it go up his nose?
If the NFL keeps going the way it is, I’ll be glad to see robots instead. It is sad though, it can be a brutal sport and I hope he gets help.
According to the information I found online, he was paid a total of more than $11 million over the course of his career. I wonder what his current financial situation is.
Just sounds like a guy that’s suffering to me and being judged by folks even though he might be the nicest guy in the world.
There are lots of people that call themselves Christian but there are very few who are worthy of the word, including myself too often.
If he could afford it,he probably would have paid for the help himself.
For what it's worth, this gentleman does have one arrest listed on his Wikipedia page -- in 2014, for trafficking synthetic marijuana.
This is why it was smart for Andrew Luck to retire.
One thing I know is that retired NFL players are pretty much on their own, and get screwed by the NFL in so many ways.
It's not really the league's fault, either. The bylaws of the NFL player's union are set up so that only active players vote for the union's leadership, so every collective bargaining agreement is set up to maximize the benefit for active players even if the union accepts terms that screw their retirees in exchange. It's a ridiculous system they've set up for themselves.
Andrew Luck is looking smarter by the minute.
Probably zero.
Serious question to anyone who may know:
Does the NFL typically offer financial counseling and guidance to players who may want it, or is that never something they get involved with.
I suspect that few middle to lower class people are prepared to deal with a sudden windfall of liquid assets in a prudent manner. It’s like the Lottery being won year after year. I would have thought this man would have health insurance of some type.
He needs to contact Dale Jr. He’s going to a Doc for Head Injury.
Ban the helmets and pads and they’ll stop leading with their heads. But then it would be more like rugby. And NFL players are too pussified to play rugby.
Some old teammates should reach out to this guy.
Or, maybe he is a pain in everyone’s ass. The NFL
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Yeah—I have sympathy for the guy as well.
I have no sympathy for the left-wing propaganda and financial support of the NFL—and my boycott will continue this year.
I hope he can find a real nasty lawyer (on a contingency basis) and cleans the NFL’s clock.
Football players today are nowhere near the football players of the 1950’s through the 1970’s.. These guys today are a bunch of wussses!
Agents, lawyers, and his "crew" of 20 or more old drug-dealing street friends.
And if his own health wasn’t important enough to tend to with his money, why should anyone else care or foot the bill?
I wonder what he’s been doing for the last five years, snce his 2014 arrest.
If it’s anything that wouldn’t look good in civil court, that may be why he’s trying this in the court of public opinion.
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