Former Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Chuck Noll was famous for many things, but perhaps the most important thing that he came to be known for, other than his success as a professional football coach, was his belief in players understanding the need, and the time, to go on from football and find their “life’s work”.
It’s a lesson that seems all too obvious, yet is one that many professional athletes fail to learn, especially those less fortunate to have a comparatively brief career, finding themselves having been flushed from the NFL talent pool by their mid-20s, a variable that they had never accounted for before.