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[Misc] What would you rather have been………..



Questions

Habitual User
Oct 18, 2006
25,508
Worthing
A top rock star or a top footballer ?
 








murciagull

Well-known member
Nov 27, 2006
886
Murcia
Often wondered about this......... Rock star for me.
 


vegster

Sanity Clause
May 5, 2008
28,273
Footballer, play your cards right and you retire at 35 with a pretty decent pension. Rest of your life fishing and travelling. Rock stars have a tendency to be " Retired " at 27 but without the pension.
 






Albion my Albion

Well-known member
NSC Patron
Feb 6, 2016
19,663
Indiana, USA
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Diabetes would still be an issue.
 


wellquickwoody

Many More Voting Years
NSC Patron
Aug 10, 2007
13,913
Melbourne
Rock star.

If one from the top, then you would be truly talented. Wealthy, well travelled, able to set your own work schedule, money coming in from royalties for decades to come. The groupies would be a bonus too.
 




Knocky's Nose

Mon nez est retiré.
May 7, 2017
4,190
Eastbourne
Rock Star.

Drunk? Cheating? Womanising? Badly Behaved? Well... he's a Rock Star!

Do the same as a Footballer and your career will suffer..
 








Madafwo

I'm probably being facetious.
Nov 11, 2013
1,734
Rock star, 100%.

Much longer career, a back catalogue of work that can be appreciated for all time, royalties coming in for eternity supporting the family, travel all around the world.

I'd do it all while being the drummer as well.
 


R. Slicker

Well-known member
Jan 1, 2009
4,490
Well, for his 60th Birthday, the rather generous Paul Heaton put £1000 behind the bar of 60 pubs around the UK, Including the Duke of wellington.
So there's that.

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£1.99

Well-known member
Mar 3, 2008
1,233
This was a question I really did ponder over when I was about 12 years old.
I needn't have worried, I didn't become either.
 




Brok

🦡
Dec 26, 2011
4,373
I don't know why the question is in the past tense. I may be 60ish, but...
I can still kick a football.
I sing like a rock god in the shower.
I can knock out a tune on guitar.


I just need to decide now which one I want to be. :shrug:
 


Barham's tash

Well-known member
Jun 8, 2013
3,728
Rayners Lane
A top rock star or a top footballer ?

So easy. Footballer. The rock crossover opportunities that way are hugely abundant. Not so much the other way round.

In the 60s/70s would have been best when footballers could go on benders and still play at the weekend. Wake up on Rod Stewart’s floor after a heavy two day bender then all outside for a kick about on his Wembley replica pitch outside. Perfect for blowing off the cobwebs/comedown.
 


Questions

Habitual User
Oct 18, 2006
25,508
Worthing
The correct answer was rockstar btw
 


GoingUp

Well-known member
Aug 14, 2011
3,698
Sussex By The Sea
Given the choice, top footballer.

£150-£300k a week & sponsorships, work finishes around 11am from Monday to Friday with a couple months off work during the summer.

Most retire in their mis 30's and travel etc, or fall into another job as a coach or pundit.

You stay fit and healthy too.
 






Baldseagull

Well-known member
Jan 26, 2012
11,839
Crawley
Neither, I wouldn't like the fame, or performing in front of a large crowd. Could probably handle being a Palace player, and being a legend in Croydon, but not anywhere I would want to live or be often.
 


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