Death, Sex & Money - The NFL Made Me Rich. Now I Watch It... Sometimes.
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2017
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Two and a half years ago, former NFL cornerback Domonique Foxworth told me about leaving football behind. Now, it's a part of his life again—in a way he didn't see coming.
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| 0:00.0 | Every other phase in my life was very clear that I wanted one thing. |
| 0:05.0 | And I just got off of the treadmill, so to speak, and there was no, like, clear, like, I need to go there. |
| 0:14.0 | This is death, sex, and money. |
| 0:20.0 | That's death walking on the beach. The show from WNYC about the things we This is death, sex, and money. |
| 0:22.4 | That's death walking on the beach. |
| 0:25.9 | The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot. |
| 0:27.5 | So that's where my priorities are right now. |
| 0:28.1 | Sex. |
| 0:29.9 | And need to talk about more. |
| 0:32.7 | Keep the small bills on the outside and call me if anyone gets drunk. |
| 0:34.6 | I'm in a sale. |
| 0:40.8 | Dominique Foxworth used to play in the NFL. |
| 0:45.2 | I talked to him about leaving football behind about two and a half years ago, |
| 0:48.7 | and it stands as one of my favorite episodes we've ever done. |
| 0:52.4 | With the Super Bowl coming up, we thought we'd share that with you again, |
| 1:00.1 | along with an update about what Dominique is up to now. Because when we talked before, Dominique was about to start his last year at Harvard Business School. He was in his early 30s, and he was looking ahead to life without |
| 1:05.4 | football at its center for the first time since he's suited up for peewee football as a little |
| 1:10.3 | boy. Turns out, Dominique says, now, hopping off that track was harder than he thought it would be. |
| 1:16.6 | We'll have that update at the end when he tells me, among other things, why he quit the high-paid executive job he landed right out of business school. |
| 1:24.6 | When we first spoke, Dominique was in Baltimore, his hometown. I was in Baltimore. right out of business school. |
| 1:30.8 | When we first spoke, Dominique was in Baltimore, his hometown. |
| 1:32.4 | I was in New York. |
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