I was surprised that he took it as well as he did. They would have had to carry me away in a straitjacket if that'd happened to me. He came back even better.

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How long can you afford to be poor is basically the question. Most of our athletes are college graduates. They're coming in at 23 years old. You become a brakeman and push for maybe six years. By that time you're pretty well into your middle age and you don't even have a career yet. It's pretty tough.

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