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J.C. Tretter

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
169 total appearances

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Freakonomics Radio
When Is a Superstar Just Another Employee?

What are the other variables I can look at? And before it was, what do I think of the area, like the city, like how close is it to my family? And now it's like, hold on, I'm not going to go to a team that has weight room floors peeling up and charges me for dinner. I'm going to go someplace else.

Freakonomics Radio
When Is a Superstar Just Another Employee?

My wife, my mom, my sister, my dad, they didn't come to games to tailgate and booze it up and cheer for the Cleveland Browns. They came to the game to make sure I walked off the field at the end. That, again, is J.C. Tretter, former president of the NFL Players Union. I understand the guys on the field are making a lot of money. Even the guys making minimum salary are making a lot of money.

Freakonomics Radio
When Is a Superstar Just Another Employee?

My wife, my mom, my sister, my dad, they didn't come to games to tailgate and booze it up and cheer for the Cleveland Browns. They came to the game to make sure I walked off the field at the end. That, again, is J.C. Tretter, former president of the NFL Players Union. I understand the guys on the field are making a lot of money. Even the guys making minimum salary are making a lot of money.

Freakonomics Radio
When Is a Superstar Just Another Employee?

My wife, my mom, my sister, my dad, they didn't come to games to tailgate and booze it up and cheer for the Cleveland Browns. They came to the game to make sure I walked off the field at the end. That, again, is J.C. Tretter, former president of the NFL Players Union. I understand the guys on the field are making a lot of money. Even the guys making minimum salary are making a lot of money.

Freakonomics Radio
When Is a Superstar Just Another Employee?

The risk they are taking, though, is substantial. And the damage they are receiving is substantial. And parents and kids and wives and siblings are there worried about their well-being. And the idea...

Freakonomics Radio
When Is a Superstar Just Another Employee?

The risk they are taking, though, is substantial. And the damage they are receiving is substantial. And parents and kids and wives and siblings are there worried about their well-being. And the idea...

Freakonomics Radio
When Is a Superstar Just Another Employee?

The risk they are taking, though, is substantial. And the damage they are receiving is substantial. And parents and kids and wives and siblings are there worried about their well-being. And the idea...

Freakonomics Radio
When Is a Superstar Just Another Employee?

That the guys out there making the owner hundreds of millions to billions of dollars for what they're doing on the field while taking all of the risk physically, the idea that their wife and newborn baby are sitting on the grimy floor of a public restroom breastfeeding is just preposterous to me. 18 of the teams offer family rooms, 14 don't.

Freakonomics Radio
When Is a Superstar Just Another Employee?

That the guys out there making the owner hundreds of millions to billions of dollars for what they're doing on the field while taking all of the risk physically, the idea that their wife and newborn baby are sitting on the grimy floor of a public restroom breastfeeding is just preposterous to me. 18 of the teams offer family rooms, 14 don't.

Freakonomics Radio
When Is a Superstar Just Another Employee?

That the guys out there making the owner hundreds of millions to billions of dollars for what they're doing on the field while taking all of the risk physically, the idea that their wife and newborn baby are sitting on the grimy floor of a public restroom breastfeeding is just preposterous to me. 18 of the teams offer family rooms, 14 don't.

Freakonomics Radio
When Is a Superstar Just Another Employee?

And the teams that don't, like, where is that wife supposed to go? What's your prediction for, let's say, two years from now? How many of those 14 will offer it? We've heard from some teams being like, ah, you know, we have an older stadium. There's no room for it. But everybody has suites. You know, like in the end, it comes down to a choice.

Freakonomics Radio
When Is a Superstar Just Another Employee?

And the teams that don't, like, where is that wife supposed to go? What's your prediction for, let's say, two years from now? How many of those 14 will offer it? We've heard from some teams being like, ah, you know, we have an older stadium. There's no room for it. But everybody has suites. You know, like in the end, it comes down to a choice.

Freakonomics Radio
When Is a Superstar Just Another Employee?

And the teams that don't, like, where is that wife supposed to go? What's your prediction for, let's say, two years from now? How many of those 14 will offer it? We've heard from some teams being like, ah, you know, we have an older stadium. There's no room for it. But everybody has suites. You know, like in the end, it comes down to a choice.

Freakonomics Radio
When Is a Superstar Just Another Employee?

So how many games did your family attend when you were playing for Cleveland? Yeah, they would be at almost every home game. And in the end, once I got my third contract, me and two other teammates went in on a suite. Like we bought our own suite. We all had young kids from two and under, and we didn't want them out in the cold. So we said like, we'll pay the money and buy a suite.

Freakonomics Radio
When Is a Superstar Just Another Employee?

So how many games did your family attend when you were playing for Cleveland? Yeah, they would be at almost every home game. And in the end, once I got my third contract, me and two other teammates went in on a suite. Like we bought our own suite. We all had young kids from two and under, and we didn't want them out in the cold. So we said like, we'll pay the money and buy a suite.

Freakonomics Radio
When Is a Superstar Just Another Employee?

So how many games did your family attend when you were playing for Cleveland? Yeah, they would be at almost every home game. And in the end, once I got my third contract, me and two other teammates went in on a suite. Like we bought our own suite. We all had young kids from two and under, and we didn't want them out in the cold. So we said like, we'll pay the money and buy a suite.

Freakonomics Radio
When Is a Superstar Just Another Employee?

How much did you have to pay? $150,000.

Freakonomics Radio
When Is a Superstar Just Another Employee?

How much did you have to pay? $150,000.

Freakonomics Radio
When Is a Superstar Just Another Employee?

How much did you have to pay? $150,000.

Freakonomics Radio
When Is a Superstar Just Another Employee?

We want to live in a world where we're giving out 32 A-pluses for all the teams. That, again, is JC Treader. And when we went into this year one, I told the staff when we started it, like, if all that comes from this is four teams start giving dinner to those players, it's a win.