nobody is going to say they are hurting when they are making multi millions of dollars and there is a guy very hungry to take your job standing 10 feet away on the sideline. Hence the outbreak of severe mental, cognitive, and physical problems hitting football players as young as in their 40s and the leagues decision to pay billions and billions of dollars in a settlement with the retired players and the colleges to make a huge settlement with the ex players. they payed the price with the rest of the years of their lives. Not to mention the numerous suicides and subsequent studies on the deceased ones brain showing encephalopathy