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JonLP24

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2. It would be difficult to not have any head cases being a professional athlete

Reply to Auggie (Original post)

Tue Jan 28, 2020, 01:39 PM

Jan 2020

If you make a mistake there will be thousands of people to remind you that you made a mistake. I could never imagine all that pressure, millions watching. You'd need good mental health treatment to be able to deal with all that. I'm so glad I'm not a celebrity sometimes.

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Nothing the Browns do ever seems to work out for them CentralMass Jan 2020 #1

It would be difficult to not have any head cases being a professional athlete JonLP24 Jan 2020 #2

I dunno ... if you can't vet mental health these days you might as well hang it up Auggie Jan 2020 #3

I mean I can see people becoming head cases because of the pressure JonLP24 Jan 2020 #4

I guess that could be a dice roll ... Auggie Jan 2020 #5