But while bonding with his family, he missed his ties to his former teammates. The common language. The shared experience. And there's nothing better than that. So when you sit on a board, like I did, and you get all these fancy guys who really aren't that smart, they just have some money . . .
Sport is different.
When you get out of sport, you get kind of lonely, not knowing who your friends are, or why they are your friends. Fewer attach themselves to you. The cheering stops for all but the legends. Marino sounds as though he might too, if he could. Sidney Moncrief, a former Bucks guard, has been retired a decade.