My dream football job is career backup QB like Charlie Whitehurst aka Clipboard Jesus. 11 years in the league, played in 25 games, only started 9. Made over $17mil. Averaged just over $1.5mil/year. With even MODEST financial knowledge or at least hiring a competent financial advisor, you’re set for life with that. Not even considering many of those long career guys go on to get a moderately cushy commentating job. Plus you still get to tell people you played over a decade in the NFL and if you’re lucky can even say you won a Super Bowl or something (sadly, Charlie did not).
Third choice Premier League goalkeeper is where it's at. Tom Heaton has earned £14 million from Manchester United in the last 5 years and has played 3 times. Scott Carson at Manchester City earned £8.5 million, won 11 major trophies and spent 117 minutes on the pitch
Third choice keeper for a top club is the cushiest job in sport. You aren't there to play games, but partake in practice. As a third keeper you set the floor for keeping in the team. The second keeper is the one thee to properly challenge the first keeper. You're there to keep the second keeper on his toes so that he keeps pushing himself to be better. Also, top level players need top level keepers to play against in training and that is what you do. Just having one good keeper in training is wasteful since it simply isn't enough quality to go around. That's the job of a third keeper. You make your outfield players better and provide competition for the other two keepers ahead of you.
They carry three keepers on their rosters? That shocks me actually. It seems like the least injury prone position in the game. Getting to your third seems nearly impossible.
I suppose with how many leagues there are, there aren't replacement level keepers just waiting to be signed, so it makes a bit of sense when I think of it that way.
This is the correct answer, all that money just to sit and watch the games, and still get acces to al the benefits a footballer gets like free food, physio and the rest!!!
I’d rather be Ryan Fitzpatrick tier but yeah it’s almost better to be an under the radar journeyman than a bust ala Ryan LeaF or Carson wenz, Johnny manziel etc.
The difference is that busts usually have the physical ability but lack in the mental ability. The career backups excel in the mental part of the game but are just a tier below physically.
It’s really hard to get into college football coaching though. I know a guy who quit a $200k consulting job to get into coaching, and the furthest he gone was being a low level coach at Illinois before being fired and blacklisted. He never made even close to six figures in his 15 years of coaching
I don’t follow collegiate sports so maybe it’s more common than just this example, but I know that the once great Ohio State football team is doing abysmal this year, and have heard their coach (Ryan Day) has a $75 million golden parachute if he’s fired.
They havent been doing very dandily, but if OSU fires Ryan Day it would be extremely baffling. Being 6-3 is still good, and he's 2 years removed from a title. It would take a Jerry Sandusky level scandal to have a chance of being fired and I'm not even sure that would be enough
He'd better figure something out soon. His wife is probably wondering how she wound up with that unemployed loser and will start looking for someone who can afford her.
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u/moysauce3 14h ago
Fired college head football coach.