Andrew

Yeah.

Or...

I'm going to go do, I don't fucking know.

And, and, and those are really your options.

And that's why I say like, I've, I've used, I've used the NFL to kind of figure out my way, like through, you know, how I feel about things because there's such real like desperation from these people to get out.

And the problem, like also with the union is like, let's say like to some of these guys come from nothing.

Like the fact that they could figure out a way to get to a bus that would take them to a school where they could play football is like a major accomplishment in their own.

And the fact that you can go from that to making $300,000 in a year at 21, that will distort you as well because now you've made such an extreme jump

so fast, you're probably going to be a little bit complacent.

You might not be thinking about what's next because, and I say this for like a 21 year old person, you spent the last 20 years of your life fucking fighting, like just to get to the next day.

I remember one of the craziest things was back in the day, like when Laramie Thompson was at Ole Miss, like back when they got busted before the NIL stuff going out, there's this text thread between Laramie Thompson's O-line coach and his mom saying like, hey, like, can you send money for the light bill this month?

He's a five-star starter on your team that is generating millions of dollars.

And you could get in trouble for sending his mom, like, 200 bucks to keep the lights on.

You know, there's a real, like, systemic, like, obvious extraction of value from these Black men.

And...

Once it's over, they say, good luck, get fucked.

Until, you know, we had like the CTE lawsuit where they had to pay out billions of dollars.

But ultimately, you just kind of come in and get discarded, which is why this union is so important.

And the fact that you can be J.C.

Trotter, use the trust that you have earned through your own blood, sweat, and tears of being an NFL player and good enough to stand on your own as like a