Why is there a crap ton of professional football players who become actors? But there are so few baseball. Bob uecker is the only one who comes easily to mind.

While there are 5 that readily come to mind who played football.

Google backs this up.

I bet it's even worse for hockey players.

Those smiles. Oof.

Kurt Russell > The Rock

Oh no! How will they survive on sports income?!

Language barrier

Not many well known baseball players with that kind of star power.

Hi, Im Brett said:

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Not many well known baseball players with that kind of star power.

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Now do the NBA


Which, technically, also includes Chuck Connors

for a player whose famous enough to make that transition: football career is over a decade before a baseball career, minimum. If you're a really good baseball player you stick around until your mid 40's trying to make a case for HOF induction by clearing benchmarks.

Keith Hernandez did some stuff besides seinfeld i think

Much higher % of football players have English as their first language.

Kareem-Abdul Jabarr!

Johnny Berardino also a former baseball player on the Rifleman with Connor's.

Mongo like candy.

...only pawn in game of life.

Tex Cobb

NormanEH said:

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It's this. I'm guessing they enjoy out-sized pop culture notoriety in their regions of origin.

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...only pawn in game of life.

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Ha!

One of my favorite movie quotes:

"What did you expect? 'Welcome, Sonny?' 'Make yourself at home?' 'Marry my daughter?' You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know … morons."


For the record, I hold farmers in very high regard.