You want spoiled, look at the NBA.
Those guys have it so much better than either the NFL or MLB.
Posh layovers, back home, not nearly as much pressure to play hurt (vs NFL) lot more games to "get it back", potential for longer career, summers off, etc.
Oh, and the much better endorsement $$$$ of course.
Good example is recently retired local boy/ NBA journeyman Luke Ridnour. Nice long 12 season career or so, picking up almost 4 million per season (avg). He retires a multi-millionaire in good health, with a long life ahead of him. (Which is great - happy for him/ any NBA player - but I can see why the NFL guys envy that kind of life.)
I've seen former NFL players who had just a few seasons with the pros, who are walking like they're in their sixties when they are in their mid-30's. Played a summer golf tournament/fundraiser a few yrs back that had a few former NFL guys there. One of them a defensive lineman, who was early 40's, already had a knee replacement, two back/neck surgeries, and said he was contemplating surgery on a shoulder that he had been shooting cortisone into for the last decade. And hate to say it, but given how he was huffing and puffing his way into and out of the golf cart, he looked like a heart-attack was just around the corner, too.
He repeated something I've heard NFL guys say about the game they play a few times before:
"Every Sunday, every play is a car crash. Normal person gets in a car crash, they're happy to walk away. We line up and do it again and again and again."
It's a tough game, and nobody who plays it walks away unscathed.
Go Hawks.