GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Tim Masthay learned the not-for-long nature of the NFL quickly.
Undrafted out of the University of Kentucky in 2009, he was signed and released by the Indianapolis Colts that year. Before the punting-poor Green Bay Packers came calling in March 2010, he’d been working as a tutor for $10 an hour while his wife Amanda, whom he’d met as a sophomore in an accounting class and married after graduation, worked for $9 an hour as a bank teller.
Had the Packers not signed him, Masthay was ready to put his economics degree to work and get a real-world job.