Once the playing days are over when the cleats are hung up by their shoelaces on a peg in the mud room, as the body can no longer take the rigors of the game of football, what is there to do? For some, the coaching ranks beckon. For others, the broadcast booth. For a very few, the realm of politics draws them in.
Former Oakland Raiders fullback Jon Ritchie tried coaching. According to the Stanford graduate, that attempt met with disastrous results.
“When I first retired from the NFL, I was a volunteer assistant coach at Cumberland Valley High School, and I helped lead us to our worst record since 1974,” Ritchie said.