Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen told CNBC Sport he'd consider broadcasting after football. CNBC Sport exists. That's the lead here.
Allen joins the long tradition of athletes realizing they can read words off a teleprompter for three hours on Sunday and collect a check larger than what most people earn in a decade. Tom Brady did it. Drew Brees did it. The bar is set at "can you remember which team is wearing white." Allen figures he's qualified.
He cited reservations. Didn't specify what those reservations were. Probably worried he'd have to pretend Kirk Cousins is an elite quarterback or that Thursday Night Football matters to anyone's actual happiness. Fair concerns.
The Bills pay Allen $43 million per year to throw a football. When that ends, Fox or CBS will pay him $10 million per year to say "great catch" and "you have to make that throw in this league." The American dream is not dead. It just requires being six-foot-five and able to run a 4.75 forty.
Retail traders saw this headline and immediately started researching which broadcasting stocks to buy. They will lose money. Not because of Allen's career path. Because they are constitutionally incapable of not losing money. They could have insider information and a time machine and still find a way to buy high and sell low.
Allen has at least five more years of getting hit by three-hundred-pound men before he needs to worry about sitting in a climate-controlled booth eating catered shrimp. But sure, good to have a plan. Most people prepare for retirement by contributing to a 401k. Allen prepares by keeping his CTE symptoms mild enough to read cue cards.
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