NFL star tires of risking health for our entertainment
He’s 26 and, until lately, he had been an NFL running back at the Arizona Cardinals. He’s well-respected and a good deal sharper than the average 220-pounder condemned to a decade or so of clattering into a brick wall of linemen and linebackers.
(It does behove me to point out for the sake of balance that the workings of his brain did throw up a couple of kinks when he went on a rant about the September 11 attacks on Twitter almost three years ago.) Mendenhall was in that enviable position of being a free agent who could set himself up for a life free of financial troubles, if nothing else.
