OT: if you could have any job in sports...
The paper today showed the Lions and their salaries. The punter - a 26 year old who punted 62 times last season - is making $2.8 million next season.
So to me, if I could have any job in sports (or any job period) it would be an NFL punter.
What would you be if you could have any job in the sports industry? Starting ace for a World Series bound team? Power-broker agent or GM? NBA all star?
February 26th, 2017 at 8:00 PM ^
February 26th, 2017 at 8:10 PM ^
... but would settle for guy that works the tshirt cannon.
February 26th, 2017 at 8:45 PM ^
February 26th, 2017 at 8:57 PM ^
checks out.
February 27th, 2017 at 12:14 AM ^
I am SHOCKED you didn't say Director of Equipment Operations at Michigan or Football Equipment Manager.
You'll still get UNIFORMZ and gear as AD though. But you'll have some know-it-all message board poster trying to get you fired all the time.
February 27th, 2017 at 7:40 AM ^
Quit drinking and go to bed
February 26th, 2017 at 8:00 PM ^
Is Tom Brady an option?
February 26th, 2017 at 8:10 PM ^
(In any year but this one, I would rather be Tom Brady's backup. You don't get hit in practice, you almost never play, but you get to make NFL money. Like punters and placekickers, the odds that you will be able to spend all that money without having CTE or legs that don't work as you get older are high.
February 26th, 2017 at 8:47 PM ^
if you stick around someone will pay you starting QB money just, cuz, uh, you played with Tom Brady?
February 27th, 2017 at 8:25 AM ^
if you don't mind being on a losing team. One play away from being a hero. Money for nothin' and your chicks for free.
Shut down the thread
February 26th, 2017 at 8:13 PM ^
Co-owner of TB12 Sports Therapy Center and Tom Brady's body coach. Getting paid Tom Brady's salary without even being Tom brady seems like a pretty sweet deal.
February 26th, 2017 at 8:03 PM ^
Director of Fun.
February 27th, 2017 at 8:10 AM ^
I choose centerfielder for the Yanks.
February 26th, 2017 at 8:04 PM ^
Just imagine how much butt you could pull.
February 26th, 2017 at 8:20 PM ^
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February 26th, 2017 at 8:17 PM ^
You could create a booster program that drew federal money laundering charges and the NCAA would take like 3 scholarships from OSU and dock them a bowl game during a down year.
February 26th, 2017 at 8:08 PM ^
February 26th, 2017 at 8:31 PM ^
Yeah. Golf.
I don't even like golf that much. But the punishment and risk of injury your body takes in every other major sport is such a turn-off. And you still get that mega-celebrity salary and rockstar perks.
I've had a couple of students go to college on golf scholarships. One of them, freshman golfers were the only freshman allowed to have cars on campus (because of the need to carry bags around). The life, man, that is the life.
February 26th, 2017 at 10:26 PM ^
February 26th, 2017 at 9:22 PM ^
PGA Tour player. First choice by a mile.
February 27th, 2017 at 7:15 AM ^
nerves of steel and a short memory. If you play bad, you don't get paid, unlike most every other pro athlete.
February 27th, 2017 at 7:43 AM ^
You would have to intentionally miss the cut on Michigan Football weekends though. Even at the cost of making milions I won't miss a game.
February 26th, 2017 at 8:10 PM ^
for the Wings. Ken Holland did this to us.
February 26th, 2017 at 8:11 PM ^
Give me the GameDay crew's job......I've always said that Kirk, Dez, and Fowler when he was still hosting have the best job in sports. Work from late August thru January visitng a different campus every week....yeah I'd take that job, no doubt.
February 26th, 2017 at 10:05 PM ^
This would be pretty high on my list, too, maybe #1. I'm envious of them when I have a chance to watch them on Saturday mornings. Fowler is awesome at that job, too.
February 26th, 2017 at 10:23 PM ^
February 27th, 2017 at 9:42 AM ^
Fowler is/was better, IMO.
February 26th, 2017 at 8:12 PM ^
This guy:
February 27th, 2017 at 7:48 AM ^
Too much stress. Some of those players do pretty wacky things with Lord Stanley and this guy has to be on the verge of a heart attack on a daily basis.
February 26th, 2017 at 8:12 PM ^
February 26th, 2017 at 8:59 PM ^
No way. Too high pressure. No frills and all the blame if shit goes south.
February 26th, 2017 at 10:09 PM ^
Long snappers get all the chicks.
February 27th, 2017 at 7:51 AM ^
Evidence: Blake O'Neill as a kid
What, too soon???
February 26th, 2017 at 8:12 PM ^
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February 26th, 2017 at 8:21 PM ^
February 26th, 2017 at 8:22 PM ^
Can I be Michigan's bagman? Cuz then I'd be filthy rich and...does anything else really matter?
February 26th, 2017 at 8:27 PM ^
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February 27th, 2017 at 6:00 PM ^
You could still do that on your own time. Get an old Zamboni machine on the seondary market, swing by a fish market on your way home and then go to town.
February 26th, 2017 at 8:36 PM ^
I would want to have Mario Impemba's job just to see how much snark I can throw in Rod Allen's direction before he snaps and leaves the broadcast, then I could get someone that I could actually talk to about baseball.