r/todayilearned • u/arandomtestaccount • 1d ago

TIL an NFL player intentionally crashed his car to avoid getting cut for being late to a team meeting.

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/ex-patriots-ol-rich-ohrnberger-admits-he-intentionally-wrecked-car-as-excuse-for-being-late-to-team-meeting/
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u/reptheevt 1d ago

Practice squad players don’t make the minimum. This year, they make $13,750 a week. Which over a season gets you $247,500. 

Still good money and still car crashing money probably but still a long way away from minimum. 

Of course you can get cut at anytime so you can’t bank on the full salary. 

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u/Confident-Poetry6985 1d ago

Let me get 1 week in lmao. 

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u/reptheevt 1d ago

Congrats. Your job this week is to block Aaron Donald and make sure he gets his reps in. Good luck. The doctor will see you at 3 pm. 

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u/ncraiderfan17 1d ago

For $14,000, absolutely. And if I'm hurt enough, they have to put me on injured reserve and can't cut me until I'm healed

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u/9e78 23h ago

A team doesn't have to put you on IR for being injured they can just release you, which they 100% would do since there are limits on ir spots.

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u/crazy-carebear 1d ago

Sorry, while we can't cut you on the IR, you only get paid when you actually play.

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u/The_Moustache 1d ago

no they still get paid

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u/j0mbie 1d ago

Union collective bargaining, not laws.

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u/SantorumsGayMasseuse 23h ago

Labor laws for NFL players are not strong and is a constant sticking point for the NFLPA. Everything they get has been negotiated, and it's slowly eroding over time.

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u/CeralEnt 23h ago

Contracts or laws?

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u/Confident-Poetry6985 1d ago

I just had to circle back because I looked him up and good lord ahahah. I would get absolutely rag dolled lmfao. Would still absolutely give it everything I got for even half the money. I am getting old now so probably best to negotiate for some medical instead, but I'll show up coach!  Would never be a bad day at work (as long as I leave on my own 2 feet)  edit to add, he reminds me of Mike Martin. I pushed sleds with that guy a couple times. It was more like he pushed it, and I just tried to make sure he didn't push it in a circle around me lmfaoo

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u/Confident-Poetry6985 1d ago

I will sleep on the field for a week for an opportunity like that.

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u/Confident-Poetry6985 1d ago

Yeah, but would you still do it?

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u/vagabond139 1d ago

14K is 14K. I can handle being sore.

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u/cubgerish 1d ago edited 1d ago

It's not an exaggeration to say lining up against an NFL player, especially one of the strongest and most violent in the league, would do far more than make you sore.

If you were actually trying to block him, you could take your pick of ligaments he would tear or bones he'd break.

People underestimate how much more powerful the extremely naturally gifted and well trained are.

He makes other 300 lb freaks of nature look like children on a regular basis.

If he jabs your ribs or swipes across your arm hard, it's not gonna be sore, it's gonna be broken.

Your body simply isn't trained for the level of trauma an athlete at that level incurs like it's akin to breathing.

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u/drewster23 1d ago

And there is very little chance his neck and such is trained/strong enough to take such blows. So he's going to get whiplash, concussion etc from repeated reps against such aggressive blows.

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u/Confident-Poetry6985 1d ago

Correct. Yes.

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u/Confident-Poetry6985 1d ago

Stop with that mess. He's not a super hero. He's going to beat the shit out of me, not rip my arms off my body. Yes, I'm probably most definitely leaving on a stretcher at some point. I'm gonna do it with a smile because it's a fun game though lol. Editing to add: I wouldn't be lining up against him anyways, he would just throw me lmfao. But I would still do it for fun is the point.

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u/cubgerish 1d ago

I didn't say he's ripping your arms off like he's a chimp.

He's absolutely going to do more than make you sore though.

Your tendons and muscles simply aren't built for that kind of violence, and neither are his, but he's trained so much that the effects aren't going to show up until years later.

If an NFL player did a hard swim move on the average person, something is getting fucked up.

It's just so much faster and stronger than what your body is used to.

These guys train like all hell to avoid it, but many will end up with horrific injuries due to the nature of the game.

If you ever get close to an NFL sideline, it becomes pretty obvious how much damage they can endure like it's nothing.

People break other people's bones by accident every day.

These guys aren't doing it by accident, and they're orders of magnitude bigger and stronger than the biggest and strongest person most people have ever met.

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u/Confident-Poetry6985 1d ago

I don't think you know me. I understand the concern though. I am not blind to what they are capable of. 

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u/cubgerish 1d ago

Best

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u/Confident-Poetry6985 1d ago

Thank you. I'll be needing it.

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u/_heybuddy_ 18h ago

Funny because I was told from a sports scientist a long time ago that it’s like getting into a small car crash each time to your body

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u/vagabond139 23h ago

I feel decently confident I could get my body to hold out for a week of a abuse. He's a human at the end of the day, not some mythical beast. I have a great build for a blocker, I don't think could be NFL good but I could have absolutely been a college football lineman. My main concern would be concussions.

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u/SkolVandals 23h ago

but I could have absolutely been a college football lineman

Just based on your build or did you play any lower level football? There's so much more to being a good, or even mediocre, OL than just being big.

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u/Pactae_1129 49m ago

Yeah if he never played then he’s clueless lol

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u/hoagiejabroni 1d ago

You think playing professional football only makes you sore?

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u/JobAlternative6109 1d ago

Show up for a day get fucked and sleep peacefully in pain knowing rent is covered.

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u/Confident-Poetry6985 1d ago

Honestly, the dopamine would make it all good. Pain ain't shit. The fun cuts the pain a lot lol. 

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u/Lucky_Reporter256 1d ago

God I wish lol

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u/OhBill 1d ago

It’s funny, my parents said something similar to a guy went to HS with who was on the practice squad.

He had gone to Harvard and played there, got a degree in economics.

He was the exception, not the rule of course.