While it's true NFL players today have far greater salaries than their counterparts decades ago, todays players work for it. Your about to hear silence in the NFL…its the month of June…the only real offseason NFL players get.
It's the last quiet time for veterans of the game, the last peace. Because by the 3rd week of July, it time for NFL training camp, and thats the days WE all look for as fans.
Yet NFL players do not really get to rest like those hall of famers from years gone by. Back in the day, the offseason was exactly that…. an OFFSEASON. Players took off after they were either eliminated in a playoff game, or last game of the year for the losing teams. Then they came to training camp to get into playing shape.
In today's NFL, you had better show up to camp in shape, because someone else will, and they will take your job! This is pretty much how the transition took place. It was not overnight mind you, but at some point in the 90s, star players like Walter Payton, Hercshel Walker, and Jerry Rice let their secrets be known…they trained all year long. More and more NFL Stars started doing whatever it took to be on top of their game, and before you knew it, you had "OTAs"!
Who knows, maybe in the future, June will be the month of "PreCamp" or something like that! But for now, its the quiet NFL month.
To get us ready for July!
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