VY wants to retire?

I've a long time friend who played college ball at Indiana then was a lineman with the Browns. Between college and pros, he played 13 years.

He later went into a health profession and said it took 13 years to balance those 13 years, to get over what it did to his body and psyche. He said you have to get yourself ready in the locker room before the game or you get killed out there. You get yourself psyched up, and it does damage to your psyche even before you get hit and start the hitting in the game.

It's both a psychological and physical impact on your whole system. And after years, you almost have to go through a healing process to get your body and your "inner bodies" back to some king of normal condition.

Beyond that is the whole mental state of professional football. The ego, and business of it, the "aura" of all the players and the organizations.

It's entirely possible that Vince is not only a fierce competitor and hates to play below a certain level -- but also he is sensitive to a kind of madness in the whole game at the NFL level.

Me personally, I would never want to be a part of professional sports in the football, basketball and baseball side of it. Only in golf and tennis. Not even car racing.

In team sports, college is as far as I'd have taken it. And I'd have rather been an All-American running back with the pick of coed's than win a noble prize in physics. The money in the pros would mean nothing to me in the pro side of it.

One other point... John Madden said on a radio show a few years ago (when I was in the Bay Area and listened to him almost daily) that when you step on the field in the NFL and take just one hit... your body is never again the same.

That's what just one hit does to you. From then on, your body begins to break down. And according to my friend who played for the Browns, what you have to do to your psyche to be prepared for the physical pounding, is a beating you do to your "astral" body.

It would be the same in war, in battle. You have to become an emotional animal in order to survive.

I of course see a lot of NFL players who can handle both the physical and emotional state you have to be in to play the game. Could be Young was destined to be only a college player and maybe a coach. Working more with the humanity of the sport, before it's a battle and a business.

Okay, call all this a weird observation. 1 cents worth.
 
VY may not like Nashville. There will no doubt be posters with different experiences to counter this, but it is my firm belief that Nashville is no place to move to after you've lived in a place like Austin. It's just different. Couple this with the fact that his stay with the Titans has not started out the way he expected, I would guess that he would be pretty bummed.
 
Assuming this is all true and VY did decide to hang it up I hope he'd realize how truly fortunate he was for being born with enough crazy football talent to make himself a multi-millionaire at the age of 22. I hope he's aware that 99.999% of the population doesn't have a choice of whether or not to get out of bed each day and face the pressures of life. I wonder if he can imagine what the majority of people would give to be in his shoes?
 
would have been really nice if VY was given some space to sort things out without police, family, SWAT personnel, and psychologists telling all to the press. Let the press dig on their own for the police report and leave it at that.
 
I'm with Pecos. Give me a break, so you don't like your job. Me neither. Mine doesn't pay me quiiite what the NFL does. But I get up every day and do it because I don't whine about everything. Grow up and be a man. You're not exactly doing UT a service when you contribute to the already public belief that players come out of Austin as whiny, self-entitled jerks.

Luv ya Vince, but time to take the man pill, STFU, and play some football.

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This is really all just speculation on someone's speculation and then taking bits and pieces of the result and treating them as facts.

We don't know what is going on there or what is going on in Vince Young's mind. We do know Vince Young didn't get where he is today by not being tough. I'll bet he is plenty tough.

Same thing with him "maybe" not being good enough to be QB in the NFL. That is just BS. He IS a QB in the NFL. Now I have never thought he was the greatest QB alive college or pro but he is damn good. He will be back, he is not done.

Maybe he would be better off on another team but I suspect he will be just fine if he stays where he is.

Anyway you look at it I would be mighty surprised if you have seen the last of Vince Young on the field.
 
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