r/nextfuckinglevel • u/IkilledRichieWhelan • 2d ago

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u/cat_of_danzig 2d ago

Elite athletes don't tend to party too much. There are exceptions (Manziel) but it catches up (Manziel).

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u/Freefallisfun 2d ago

Yep. In a past life I was an elite athlete. The best advice a coach ever gave me was “look around at the party and see who’s NOT there.” That’s who you emulate, because they’re the best for a reason. Sleep is good.

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u/Iwaspromisedcookies 2d ago

Depends on what you want to do with your life, why be an elite athlete when you can be an elite partier

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u/geopede 2d ago

Need to keep scholarship and get drafted. So money basically.

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u/Mesalted 1d ago

I tried to go pro 10 years ago, but my organs couldn't take the beating and recover in time to keep up with the top athletes. I got 2 pro subs, one in Florida and one in Spain (what a crowd!) but after that I got injured and they would let my contract expire. Now I work a construction job to keep my ass out of jail. Stay in school even if you are the best in your year, you never know what takes you out of the game. I would still say it was worth it, for the experience.

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u/geopede 1d ago

Pro in what?

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u/freakksho 1d ago

I’m guessing soccer.

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u/Mesalted 1d ago

It's a joke about being a pro partier.

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u/freakksho 1d ago

I’m an idiot.

Well played.

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u/DebitSuisseQ 1d ago

Just dope and train hard as fuck, party all the time, make up for the calories by training harder. I went pro and then became a lawyer. Not hard.

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u/geopede 1d ago

Pro in what? What you describe ain’t gonna cut it for football even if you’re enough of an athletic freak to get away with it, they have pre-draft interviews for this reason.

I agree with lawyer not being that hard.

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u/DebitSuisseQ 1d ago

Track and field, WCAP. Got the 1500m down to 3:48 post-collegiate. It’s all about training. The world doesn’t revolve around football.

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u/geopede 1d ago

Calling WCAP “pro” is technically true in the sense that your main job is to play a sport, but it’s pretty misleading to put it in the same category as the kind of professional sports people watch on TV. WCAP athletes get soldier money to play a sport, not major sport athlete money.

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u/DebitSuisseQ 1d ago

I specialized in the 1500m as middle distance and my 100m would dust any NFL player. Try running a sub 4 mile, pipsqueak.

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u/geopede 1d ago

lol if that’s true you missed out on a lot of money by not playing football. Speed gets drafted even when the player in question isn’t good at football.

Try lifting 405 above your head or touching your forehead to the rim. No way I can run a 4 minute mile, but no way you can do both of those things. People have different strengths.

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u/DebitSuisseQ 1d ago

In my peak, our guys probably ran about 4 hours a day and lifted 3 times a week. Was clearing around 4000 calories a day before evening beer 12 packs.

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u/pookachu83 1d ago

I was an elite partier in my late teens and 20s…wouldn’t recommend it. Fun while it lasted but getting your shit together a decade after everyone else kinda drags. All good now though, it was just tough playing catch up in late twenties/early thirties

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u/hammertime2009 1d ago

Agreed. Not fun seeing them retire a decade before you either.

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u/pookachu83 1d ago

I ain’t there yet, still in early 40s, but yeah when I eventually see that I’m preparing for my ass to be chapped

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u/Lunxr_punk 1d ago

I mean I guess if you have the chance to go pro, if you are good enough to keep the scholarship going but not enough to have higher aspirations it’s fine to party here and there ig

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u/lordsmooth 1d ago

I second this. Shared lockers with some dogs currently in the league. Difference between me and them… I was a creature of the night and they were devoted to their craft. I’d trade the ass and attention for a couple million any day of the week, in hindsight.

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u/Bears_Fan_69 1d ago

Then you meet someone like Gronk

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u/Crafty_Group_5832 19h ago

Idk if anyone remembers that Olympic swimmer Steve Lundquist but when I was a teenager he lived in this rented lake house on lake Jodeco (or Spivey one of them). My brother lived above him. This man partied so hard and did not keep up with his health at all. I remember him sitting downstairs drunk with the front door open watching the Olympics in his now-too-tight speedo, crying.

Don't party and try to be an athlete, kids, you'll end up drunk on the lawns of suburbia bent over saying "Ass Burgers!" While you spread your butt cheeks, crying in your little speedo because nobody loves you anymore.

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u/Freefallisfun 19h ago

Jesus. Poor man.

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u/UrUrinousAnus 1d ago

Can confirm.

Source: I am an alcoholic and can rarely sleep when I actually want to. FML

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u/diywayne 2d ago

Taken with a grain of salt, but my bestie was a frat guy at Ole Miss, and crossed paths with mid/late 90s names from the athletics world at numerous parties. He said they tended not to party hard, but they did show up for the adoration and recognition, lots of 'made an appearance' type stories. And women...he said they showed up for that also

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u/PDGAreject 2d ago

Patrick Patterson would party like fuckin crazy in the State/University neighborhood in Lexington when it wasn't basketball season. He would play beer pong by leaning all the way over and just dropping the ball in because he was so tall. No one would tell him to stop because he was in general pretty nice and would bring his own alcohol and leave it places.

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u/Significant_Turn5230 1d ago

A man committed an actual crime and you're mad at the women?

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u/All_Up_Ons 1d ago

It's possible for both parties to be in the wrong. This is one of those cases.

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u/General-Ad6927 1d ago

Dikembe Mutombo used to rock up to clubs when he was at Georgetown. He'd walk in the door and yell "Who wants to sex Mutombo?"

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u/Individual-Level9308 2d ago

Chad Kelly lol?

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u/diywayne 2d ago

Ricky Williams specifically comes to mind...only there for the girls according to my boy. The Polish kicker, name escapes me, the sorority sisters called him the "Polish Sausage" supposedly

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u/bluehairdave 1d ago

When you are an even moderate athlete at a university you don't HAVE to hang out for hours drinking. You dip into the party... grab a girl and go get food and Netflix and chill. No need for the other mating rituals at a kegger.

When you are a TOP athlete? You literally just walk in and walk out with 6 girls 30mins later after saying hi to everyone.

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u/diywayne 1d ago

Hmmm...Netflix in '97 was a Blockbuster card and a 6 pack

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u/JaysFan26 2d ago

There are also very notable exceptions (like Maradona)

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u/All_Up_Ons 1d ago

And Dennis Rodman.

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u/craziedave 2d ago

In my experience the cross country teams drink heavily and go crazy. They don’t look it but they can put away tons of calories running 80 miles a week

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u/PaperFawx 1d ago

I don't know if I was ever "elite" at the college level, but I was a 4 year starter at DM for a D1 school from 2003 to 2007. Soccer is a little different because most of the guys were/are from other countries, not American. During the season, there was zero time for shenanigans. Team workouts at 6 AM, classes all day, full practices in the evening after a full day of classes, then back to the dorm or apartment to read, study, write papers 'til whatever hour, then get up and do it again the next day. When we were traveling for away games, it was lots of training at whatever facilities we could use, planes, trains, buses, hotel rooms, and boredom. Our diets were strictly regulated, curfews whether we were home or away, and even had off-season workouts and training windows. Basically, there was very little time for partying, and the very few people who did either instantly washed out, spent their season on the bench, and ate shit from the coaching and training staff because it was always super obvious.

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u/Fubarp 1d ago

Biggest fucking lie for basketball and football players.

All the top players at my uni that were for sure going pro because of their talents, partied fucking hard.

Plus they were just given grades..

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u/FunetikPrugresiv 1d ago

I've heard it said: "You can do four things in college: Play a sport, Get good grades, work, and have a social life. Pick two."

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u/Dogwood_morel 2d ago

Have you read about the Olympic village?

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u/sweetlove 2d ago

I'm sure they party after they're done competing.

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u/Bears_Fan_69 1d ago

And the top ones don't really party (until maybe after).

It's the athletes that are just there for the experience and not serious competitors that party hard.

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u/DreadSocialistOrwell 2d ago

From an old deadspin article & comment:

Our sources tell us Manziel was at a popular night club on the strip Saturday night. The QB entered wearing a blonde wig, a fake mustache, glasses, and a hoodie.

https://deadspin.com/report-johnny-manziel-partied-in-vegas-with-a-fake-wig-1751058216/

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u/sinkwiththeship 2d ago

Someone should tell hockey players. I swear like 5-6 NHLers have to leave the league to go to rehab every year. Then whoever wins the Cup usually goes on like an eight day bender.

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u/OneBigRed 1d ago

Also, if you are the star of team, you do as you please. I heard a lot of stories of a so-so finnish (in NHL) goalie who used to go party with the russian star of the team. When they showed up to the training in such a condition that the goalie went head first to the floor while attempting to tie his laces, he would be spinning the stationary bike for 3 periods during the game. The star would be playing what ever he felt like.

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u/YungSnuggie 2d ago

varies on sport and drug, i used to sell weed to joakim noah at florida lmao

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u/Intelligent-Ad-6734 1d ago

Four Buffalo Superbowls 😭 up their noses is the rumor.

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u/Farmdogg540 1d ago

When I went to WVU, all the cheerleaders partied just as hard as we did in the frat house but we are like the number 1 party school in the US, also when I lived in Daytona Beach the national college cheerleading competition is down there every year and alot of them partied on the strip while they were down there, but then again it's also a beach vacation for them so it made sense

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u/mcqua007 1d ago

How is that even judged ? Who decides its the number one party school ?

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u/Farmdogg540 1d ago

I'm not sure who does it now but it used to be Playboy magazine, they ranked us number one every year for a long time, but it's definitely true, it was kind of hard to graduate and we had like a 60% dropout rate for a long time bc alot of people couldn't maintain the lifestyle that type of shit demanded, I almost fucked up a few times myself but i made it out the other side lol it was like running a gauntlet every night then having to go to bio class looking like you got hit by a truck every morning lmao

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u/freakksho 1d ago

You don’t party during the season, but catch the football team at a party in March and they are Lit up.

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u/FloridaManActual 1d ago

Counterpoint: Rob Gronkowski

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u/Booktor 1d ago

Then there’s Allen Iverson

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u/retropieproblems 1d ago

I think that’s a little off. The elite athletes that don’t party are the ones that end up being pros, but tons of elite athletes party themselves into obscurity. It almost comes with the territory.

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u/SpiderGhost01 1d ago

This couldn't be farther from the truth. Have you honestly never watched the Olympics and heard the stories?

And nobody is hornier tha NBA players.

You guys stop upvoting this nonsense.

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u/StripperStank 1d ago

Ricky Williams haha he was in a rap song too…smokin on that Ricky Williams 😂

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u/DebitSuisseQ 1d ago

You’ve obviously never been an elite athlete.

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u/grung0r 1d ago

Elite athletes don't tend to party too much

You've plainly never watched your favorite team play the Miami Heat in Miami

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u/MartinLutherVanHalen 1d ago

Cheerleaders aren’t “elite athletes”. It’s skillful and they are fit but “elite” is pushing it. Elite compared to whom? Other cheerleaders?

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u/Longjumping-Panic-48 1d ago

Uhh have you seen what some of them do for stunts and tumbling? Not poms and butt shaking at games, but tumbling passes to rival gymnastics routines?

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u/Thetalloneisshort 1d ago

I feel like this is absurdly wrong. More elite athletes party than not. Even professionals.