Former OU Sooner & NFL Retiree Mark Bradley uses Solavei to Fund Life Mission
To Assist Retiring NFL Players And Their Families Financially Make The Adjustment And Transition To A New Way Of Life After Football.
“It’s like a retirement package for athletes and it’s funded by fans and lovers of their sport.”
How does a retiring NFL player transition out of the adrenaline rush and lifestyle of Football’s biggest game and put on a tie and go back to a regular job? Many struggle with the transition ProAthletePlanB.com hopes to help with the growing number of Professional Athletes already benefiting from new Social Commerce industry.
Every year at this time a host of retiring NFL players return to civilian life. They return to their families, their homes, and their future careers; trying to find a new normal that will pay the bills and provide a new adrenaline rush.
But normal can be hard to find, as this 2009 article by Sports Illustrated’s Pablo S. Torre, ‘How (and Why) Athletes Go Broke,’ Sports Illustrated Article How and Why Athletes go Broke shared in points out, it says,
“As many as 78% of former NFL players have gone bankrupt or are under financial stress because of joblessness or divorce.”
“Recession or no recession, many NFL, NBA and Major League Baseball players have a penchant for losing most or all of their money. It doesn’t matter how much they make. And the ways they blow it are strikingly similar,” Torre continues.
This thought is echoed in a recent ESPN Documentary “BROKE” Directed by Billy Corben. More money, more problems. Broke digs into the psychology of men whose competitive nature carried them to victory on the field yet seemed to ruin them off the field.
By leveraging Solavei™ a new Social Commerce company with 120,000 customers that launched in Seattle in September of 2012. “It just makes sense for every Athlete from Little League to the NFL to be funded by Solavei™ and monetizing their future in the new Social Commerce Industry,” he added.
Solavei™ is a social networking and commerce platform that enables users to connect, share and capitalize on the power of social networks. Solavei’s mission is to make commerce less expensive by empowering individuals to earn income on the products and services they enjoy and use every day. Solavei™ pays its members to refer 4G Unlimited Voice, Text, and Data for $49 per month.
Solavei™ launched in September of 2012 and has many pro athletes and celebrities that are singing their praises.
Retired and current athletes and celebrities include: Emmit Smith, Bubba Watson, Shaun Kemp, Dante Wesley, Greg Fassitt, Detlef Shrimp, Michael Dotterer, Mark Bradley, Stephen Baldwin and others that are choosing Solavei™ as their Plan B.
“It just really makes sense,” said Butler, “when you think of aging athletes, in whatever sport, it’s a way they can have a sponsor ‘underwrite’ them, while they’re young, without having to jump through all the corporate hoops that typically come with an endorsement deal and get paid for life.”
Asked if he’d offer Solavei™ to a competitor, one athlete was heard quickly saying, “of course!”
Torre with Sports Illustrated went on the say, “Within five years of retirement, an estimated 60% of former NBA players are broke. In a less public way, other athletes from the nation’s three biggest and most profitable leagues—the NBA, NFL and Major League Baseball—are suffering from a financial pandemic. Although salaries have risen steadily during the last three decades, reports from a host of sources (athletes, players’ associations, agents and financial advisers)”
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