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mr_lebowski

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5. Top baseball and basketball players make considerably more, with way less risk to their bodies

Reply to True Dough (Original post)

Wed Sep 4, 2019, 09:52 AM

Sep 2019

and minds ... given this, I don't begrudge NFL players their dough, they put their lives on the line, literally, every game.

And if the players don't get it in paychecks, the billionaire owners just pocket it.

I say, good for Zeke.

Perfect timing w/my fantasy draft tonight as well

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