Except the overwhelming majority of professional athletes don’t make $6 million, or even $600,000. If this was only the ones with multimillion salaries, pairing things down to some more reasonable fraction after they turn 35, sure. That’s not what this is. This is an organization with a notoriously shit training…

Insofar as I can, I’ve stopped rooting for them. Kinda hard after all these years, but everything about the Bears and being a Bears fan is awful. The franchise is aggressively mediocre, and there’s this whole fuckin cult of being sad and shitty that we’re supposed to buy into.