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- avataros, on 09/28/2008, -0/+16I am still waiting for the triumphal return of Ryan Leaf.
- cmjM67, on 09/28/2008, -0/+10The money or simply the love of the sport
MJ came back at 38 and still schooled kids who were a decade younger. Now that's entertainment!
He was playing on 1 mil a year for two years and donated all of it. Guy was set for life before all this yet he still came back to play after what happened after 9/11. Now that's love for the game. - roflmcwaffles, on 09/28/2008, -0/+7But a few post-40 athletes can still compete at a very high level. Look at Randy Couture, who can still beat up other fighters 10-20 years younger.
- Liquidfire3240, on 09/28/2008, -0/+7Just choose already Mats Sundin...PLEASE
- inactive, on 09/28/2008, -2/+8Because they are broke.
- Badandy127, on 09/28/2008, -0/+6Such as who? People always say that coming back when you're old damages your legacy and that people shouldn't do it, but when has this ever happened? Jordan came back and almost everyone will agree he is still the best player the world has ever seen...
Favre might be remembered for his drama this summer, but he will always be known for his gun slinger attitude and child-like demeanor.
People who come back to the sport are to be appreciated, no belittled. You know they come back because they love it (or are broke) and you see them give all they have. And even if that's not quite as much as when they were 28, I admire the hell out of them. - yehaww, on 09/28/2008, -0/+5when you spend your entire life from 7 or 8 years old, playing a sport, it's not rocket science figuring out why, after a few months of twiddling thumbs and watching tv, these guys feel like they need to fill that hole in their lives. they don't know what to do with themselves.
- BiggMat, on 09/28/2008, -2/+6The '' legend '' title always fades away when athletes come back after a retirement and do not reach the level they were at before.
- ledsam, on 09/28/2008, -0/+4Claude Lemieux wants to break some more faces and might make a comeback at age 43:
http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/2008/09/26/spector_ ... - devin_mm, on 09/28/2008, -0/+4Coke doesn't pay for itself
- warlax27, on 09/28/2008, -0/+4Because I told them to!
- billjimbob, on 09/28/2008, -1/+4I always felt like if I was good enough to play in in the NFL (or any other professional sport), they'd have the rip the jersey off my back before I retired. I mean, these guys spent their entire lives playing this game, of course it is going to be hard to say goodbye to that... it would be hard to say goodbye to just about anything after doing it for so long.
- RipleyIsDead, on 09/28/2008, -0/+2I think people don't generally start being "old" until they hit 50. By "old" I'm not trying to disparage anyone, I just mean going fully gray, putting on pounds that don't come off, and getting a waddle under the chin (the whole "aged" package). One of the women I work with turned 50 a few years ago, and she was disgusted with how quickly her body started to change, she said right up through her 40's she looked basically the same as she had in her 30's. I've known her since she was ~48, and she was really pretty hot. I think since athletes get so beat up they start feeling run down by the time they are 40, but a few years off and they start to recuperate and think they can come back good as new.
- y2kery, on 09/28/2008, -0/+2Well you only get one chance at youth and one chance to be an athlete. When its over, its over and that makes it hard to walk away.
- obxjdt, on 09/28/2008, -2/+4Farve was board sh!ttless, and wanted to go back to work. The guy's only 39, has no other skills that he can market (for the money he's use to). I'll turn 42 in December. If I had his money, and stopped working right now, I'd end up dead in 5 years. Either drinking, drugs, or being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Sometimes people want to keep working because they love their job (Farve's case), or to protect themselves from themselves (my case). It's not really as deep as they want to make it out to be....
- avataros, on 09/28/2008, -1/+3Leafs fan checking in. Yes they do.
- inactive, on 09/28/2008, -1/+3leafs suck
- randomstupid, on 09/28/2008, -0/+2to get to the other side
- TwwIX, on 09/28/2008, -0/+2Because Wal-Mart wouldn't hire them?
- sexybobo, on 09/28/2008, -1/+2That is usually true. My boss is an ex chiefs lineman he has said of the people he use to play with 90% of them are flat broke working really crappy jobs now. Because most of them don't invest their money and spend it like it is burning a whole in their pockets. Most nfl players spend all the money they make in the first 5 years after they retire.
- inactive, on 09/28/2008, -0/+1Because they've spent their entire lives dedicated to one thing and don't know how to properly conduct themselves without it? If it were a relationship you would call the woman out for being co-dependent.
- Jeffler, on 09/28/2008, -1/+2You don't think we know that? Mikhail Grabovski couldn't crack the Habs last year, he's didn't do anything to prove he was much better this year, so now he's the leafs NUMBER ONE CENTRE.
*cries* - Liquidfire3240, on 09/28/2008, -0/+1Well, im a Nashville fan, so i couldn't care less, im just sick of hearing about it.
- riptor666, on 09/28/2008, -0/+1It's typically just about money, when your getting paid tens of thousands per month your not really concerned with saving or investing so when you retire your *****. If it's not about money it's simply they have nothing else to do in their life so if they aren't playing they feel as if they should be dead already.
- credential101, on 09/28/2008, -0/+1He used to be my next door neighbor when he played for the Devils.
- inactive, on 09/28/2008, -1/+1Because they need more attention.
- bonjourmr, on 09/28/2008, -2/+2Money.
- pedo, on 09/28/2008, -1/+1HGH
- sadilak, on 09/28/2008, -0/+0Totally agree with you there. Many of these so called oldies played predominantly for the love of the game and then some money. The sportstars and the athletes of today play for the love of the money and then some game and of course for appearances to host SNL
- diggsterrrr, on 09/28/2008, -0/+0It's that despite being 40 they are still more awesome than 99.99 % of the human race.
They're just not as awesome as that gifted 23 year old replacing them and they forget that. - brownsound00, on 09/28/2008, -1/+1The leafs have to be one of the worst organizations in professional sports. I wish they could just throw that money at some management who can turn this team around. I really feel bad for the players who have been stuck on that team for so long and haven't gotten close to the stanley cup. When i say players i mean doug gilmour, mats sundin, daryl sittler... so many more.
Especially Mats, who is one of the best players without a cup. I really wish he just left at the trade deadline... went to Detroit for some draft picks... and won the cup. not to mention helping the leafs out with some draft picks. And then returning to the leafs the next year, retiring with them... and that is IT!
Now we just have some half/half thing going on now... we never even had a triumphant "Last game for Mats" or anything! That's horrible! - inactive, on 09/28/2008, -2/+1Brett found out about natural health. he's eating plenty of raw foods and taking plenty of herbal supplements, he stopped eating excess red meat and processed foods, now he's body is 5 years younger. At this rate, he could go on to play 5 more years.
- Dan11023, on 09/28/2008, -2/+1http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK_094JLu18
- FreshHaikus, on 09/28/2008, -2/+1Yeah because no one considers Michael Jordan a legend anymore after that comeback with the Wizards.
- inactive, on 09/28/2008, -2/+0because the wife watch too much qvc.
old athletes should have a old yeller ending
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