It’s a contest of mentality, and physicality, of the highest order. “I know plenty of you have cried, who hasn’t”…it’s not about the average person, and he they may, or may not act, you’re talking about a physical and mental game, of which anything less than the pinnacle of strength, speed, agility, mental toughness, coordination, and a specific gene, will result in failure.
Well, except for the gene part, which lacking it means that you can have all the other things in spades, and still will never be able to compete in professional football, or any other professional sport that requires athleticism, or speed, or power…even professional golf.
We are talking about the highest of the high, of human specimens…not an accountant, or engineer, etc. It’s different. Different physically, different mentally. You can’t compare how Joe Blow rando would tend to react to something, to how a professional athlete should react to something.