Is There Life After Football? (51 page)

playing through

sports ethic and

Toradol used for anticipated.
See also
Chronic pain

Parkinson's disease

“Paternity Ward”

Payments, guaranteed

Payton, Walter

PD.
See
Director of Player Development

Peace Corps

Pear, Dave

Pensions: disability benefits and

NFL

retirement plan adjustments to

Perks, premium: expectations and pitfalls of

Koonce recalls illicit

NCAA and illicit

off the books

Personal diversification

Personal maintenance

Philadelphia Eagles

Philanthropy

Phillips, Lawrence

Physically unable to perform (PUP)

Pickens, T. Boone

Pittsburgh Steelers

Player Care programs, NFL's

Plummer, Gary

Polamalu, Troy

Police officer

Pop Warner

Post-career: benefits

camaraderie as missed and lost

culture shock in living

daily routine problematic

depression

disability benefits

domestic distress

of Gold

growing up

identity and transition of

Koonce's lack of mentoring for

languished life skills

moving on

NFL players transition in

sense of loss and sorrow

social dexterity as lacking in

spiritual support

spiritual support discontinuance

success stories

wives and

working as hard as in football for

younger players desiring guidance for

Post-career success: Davis, W., brewing industry as

in details.
See also
Employment after football; Success paths; Success stories

Prenuptial agreements

Prisoners

Prisonized

Private equity, investments

Profanity and vulgarity

Profit, Eugene

Profit Investment Management

Pseudonyms

PUP.
See
Physically unable to perform

Pyramid schemes

Race: Incognito's voicemail and

locker room culture and slurs about

NFL as not having issues with

NFL players using slurs about

stereotypes and

transition out of NFL and

Raymond, Drew

Reagan, Ronald

Real estate, investments

Recruiting process: college experience of

of eight grader

NCAA guidelines and

Ole Miss and process of

SAT scores and

Reentry challenges

Release anxiety

Religion

Research

Respect

masculinity

risking health for

Retirement

benefits

clean breaks rare for

closure and

complaints from pre-free agent era of

Driver's

financial context of

fired, not retired

identity and influence of

Koonce fired, not retired

Koonce's

retirement incomes of vested

retroactive

role exit and

status lost after

uncertainty

vested retirees and incomes.
See also
Post-career

Retirement plan: adjustments to pensions in

benefits

dental insurance

“88 Plan”

health insurance

joint replacement plan and

Koonce's benefits for

life improvement plan and

life insurance and

neurological care program

omissions in

player annuity program and

second career (401k) savings and

tuition reimbursement and

Retirement Plan Disability Board

Retreatism

Rhoden, William

Rhodes Scholarship

Rice, Jerry

Rice, Ray

Richardson, Jerry

Rison, Andre

Ritualism

Robinson, Denard

Robinson, Eugene

Rodgers, Aaron

Rogers, Charles

Role

engulfment in

exit/disengagement

NFL players' wives'

retirement and exit

transition

Rolle, Myron

Rookie Symposiums

Room service religion

Rovell, Darren

Rozelle, Pete

Ruettgers, Ken

Rule changes

Saban, Nick

Salaries: average contact

coaching levels and

after football and benchmarking NFL

in media careers

minimum scales for

NFL contracts and

as often overestimated

Oriard and

after payroll deductions

players' earnings longevity and.
See also
Contracts, non-guaranteed; Contracts in NFL; Money; NFL salaries

Sam, Michael

Sanders, Barry

Sanders, Deion

Sapp, Warren

SAT scores

Scams

Schlereth, Mark

Schlichter, Art

Scholarships: college experience and

division I and II football

financial support of

Rhodes

tuition rates and

universities and programs of

Schuler, Heath

Scott, Bart

Searcy, Leon

livin' large

Seattle Seahawks

Seau, Junior

Second career (401k) savings

Self-discipline

Self-employment

Self-esteem

Self-improvement programs

Settlements: concussion controversy

divorce

preliminary approval decisions in

reactions to

viewed as pocket change

Severance pay

benefits

Koonce's benefits due for

Sex

arrest for solicitation of

assaults

Favre's sexting scandal

liaisons and

livin' large

Sexy

Sharpe, Sterling

Sherman, Richard

SI.
See Sports Illustrated

Siegel, Will

Sign and Retire Club

Simpson, O.J.

Singletary, Kim

Singletary, Mike

Smith, Anderson

Smith, Emmitt

Smith, Rod

Snoop Dog

Social death

Social feedback

Social isolation and dependency

bubble and

wives influenced by players

Social life

Social media

Social psychology

Social realities

Social support

Koonce on scarce

scarce

Social territory

Solwold, Mike

Special treatment

Spending

bankruptcy and

Blackburn's modest

competitions

excess

finances and family

livin' large and

million dollar weekend

NFL cost of living and

NFL players' travels and

non-guaranteed contracts and

personal maintenance

profligate

Spinal cord injuries

Spiritual support: Koonce and

NFL and

post-career and

post-career discontinuance of

Sports ethic: football's heroic qualities as

NFL players' ethos and

pain and

Sports Illustrated
(SI)

on hiring wrong advisors

questioning bankruptcy statistics in

Starr, Bart

State of California

Steinberg, Leigh

Stereotypes

Stingley, Darryl

St. Louis Rams

Strahan, Michael

Structure and control

Strzelczyk, Justin

Student Assistance Fund

Student athletes: college experience and schedules of

college experience of elite

compensation and cheap labor of

education sentiments of

FGR of

Stunting

Success paths: Chapman's

Dampeer's

fortuitous opportunities and

Koonce on educational

lessons in preparing for tomorrow's

post-career

Profit and employment

Profit Investment Management in

Success stories

Suicide

encouragement after attempting

NFL players who committed

Supply chain

Support.
See
Academics; Child support; Financial support; Social support; Spiritual support

Surveillance

Sutton, James

Symposiums

Take no prisoners attitude

Talley, Darryl

Taylor, Jim

Taylor, Lawrence

Teach for America

Teaching

Teammates: Incognito supported by

Koonce echoed on acceptance of

locker room culture influencing

Theismann, Joe

Thomas, De'Anthony

Thompson, Ted

Thornton, Ivan

Tickets

Time demands: college experience

Koonce and

NCAA and mocking 20-hour rule for

scholarships and college

Toradol

Torre, Pablo S.

Total institutions

encompassing tendencies of

military personnel and

mortification of self in

NFL and parallels to

reentry challenges from

release anxiety after

resisting

Toughness: Favre's

injuries and

jobs kept by masculinity and

masculinity and

Transition

coaches and resources provided for

employment after football

of former NFL players

to future

post-career

role

troubles

Treadwell, Laquon

Triton Financial

Tubbs, Winfred

Tuition

Tunsil, Laremy

Twice divorced

Tyler, Otis

Tyrer, Jim

Uncertainty, of retirement

Uniform police

Uniforms

Unitas, John

United States Football League

Universities

University of Miami

University of Mississippi.
See
Ole Miss

University of Oklahoma (OU)

University of Oregon

University of Southern California (USC)

University of Texas

Unsportsmanlike conduct rules

USC.
See
University of Southern California

Utley, Mike

Villapiano, Phil

Vincent, Troy

Violations

Violence

embracing injury and

feelings towards

football as controlled

injuries and routine

against women

Voicemail, racially charged

Vulgarity.
See
Profanity and vulgarity

Ward, T. J.

Washington, James

Washington Post

Washington University School of Research

Waters, Andre

Wealth

Weathers, Carl

Webster, Mike

Weinke, Chris

Wells, Ted

Wells Report

Wesley, Dante

Wharton Sports Institute

White, Reggie

White collar crime

Wiley, Alexander

Williamson, Fred

Willis, Martin

Winning ethos

Wire, Coy

Wives

as agents

bubble, outside of

bubble and managed lives of

consequence of being burden to

locker room culture as excluding

as managers for NFL players

NFL players' isolation and

outside of bubble

post-career

roles of NFL players'

supportive and sensible.
See also
Family

Women

adulation and

livin' large and

masculinity requiring demeaning of

trouble relating to

violence against

Wonderlic Cognitive Ability Test

Workers' compensation

Workplace culture

Wrestling, professional

Wright, Keith

Wright, Kirk

Young, Steve

James A. Holstein is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Social and Cultural Sciences at Marquette University. He is the author, with Jaber F. Gubrium, of
The Self We Live By: Narrative Identity in a Postmodern World
and has authored or edited over 40 scholarly books.

Richard S. Jones is Professor of Sociology and Faculty Athletics Representative at Marquette University. He is the author of
Doing Time: Prison Experience and Identity
with Thomas J. Schmid.

George E. Koonce, Jr., played professional football for a decade, the majority of those years with the Green Bay Packers, with whom he won Super Bowl XXXI. After his playing days, he held positions as Special Assistant to the Athletic Director at East Carolina University, Director of Player Development for the Green Bay Packers, Senior Associate Athletic Director and Director of Development at Marquette University, and Athletic Director at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Dr. Koonce is currently Vice President of Advancement at Marian University.