NFL’s Luck Lucky 2 Grasp Curly’s No. 1

City Slickers’ Curly said with a single raised finger to discontented NYer, there’s just 1 most important thing in life 4 you to be happy. Andrew Luck was lucky 2 figure out mental health was IT & retired from NFL stress at 29.

As Fox News & ESPN noted, Luck was on course to be a Hall of Famer after being selected No. 1 in the 2012 NFL draft & was widely considered as one of the league’s best QBs who became a regular (4 time) Pro Bowler. Yes, the injuries that piled up during his 6 seasons may have played a role in calling it quits. Yet, it was the “life style” issues of being an NFL leader, including obsession with being an elite player, as well as “guilt feelings” dominating his life from “letting people down,” that triggered a life-changing reassessment.

In an interview with ESPN’s Seth Wickersham, Luck explained how, recently married and with a baby on the way, an NFL QB is “not allowed to worry about anything except the task at hand … And that seeps into other areas of life. It’s not the healthiest way to live.” An “identity crisis” ensued over husband/father vs QB locker room leader, one that “I didn’t realize … until after the fact.” After sharing his growing concerns about “wanting to do this [NFL career] anymore “with his wife, Luck also came to realize it wasn’t a matter of being able to keep playing the NFL game, but whether he “wanted” it still. He saw that he had already proven he could play at the “highest level … he had received plenty of praise and criticism,” Wickersham noted. And, in the end, it was “enough [for Luck] to know that neither of those things matter.”

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