GQ's Look At The MBA For NFL Players Is A Portrait Of Hubris And Fear

Belly-up pro athletes are among the world's saddest washouts, in part because you can't blame them for their own gruesome collapses. It's a surreal deal: You're invincible as a kid, invincible as a young man, a millionaire before you know how to file your own taxes and then an undereducated, slow-moving target for anyone hunting money. Or as writer Ben Austen describes NFL players in his piece just out in GQ, they're "barn-sized marks for any underhanded scammer or well-meaning bumbler."