Help with essay, football knowledge

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Originally Posted by skinster

I'm writing an essay about seemingly impossible dream jobs and why they are impossible. My dream job is an NFL GM, but despite the fact that there are only 32 of them, another requirement seems to be having actually played football at a reasonably high level. Before I say this, I'd like to know if anyone knows of any GMs/front office guys that didn't play football or grow up in a football family that could disprove what I say?

A very small percentage of GMs played at a high level.

The thing is getting a foot in the door is really difficult and once your foot is in the door, you kind of have to be better than 98% of your peers to be able to climb that ladder quickly enough. The easiest way to ascend to a power position such as GM is to do it in a league that's small now, but will be big later. That's how the Mike Shanahan's and Sean Payton's of the world got their starts: they got in with really big name guys before they were big name guys.

I think being a GM is an attainable goal for someone like you or I, but being an NFL General Manager is probably not attainable. Broaden your search. If you are good at it, people will pay you boatloads of cash to make their decisions for them.