25 Big-Name Athletes Who Are Now Working 9-to-5 Jobs

Cade McNown

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Southpaw signal-caller Cade McNown coveted a La La Land lifestyle more than recognition on the field. The 6-foot-1, 210-pound McNown, a 1998 consensus All-American who procured that year’s Johnny Unitas Award, was chosen by the Chicago Bears out of UCLA with the 12th selection in 1999. The lefty Bruin professed that he abstained from premarital sex coming out of Westwood. However, once in the Windy City, McNown became a regular at Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Mansion near Beverly Hills.

While at Hefner’s, the 1998 Pac-10 Offensive Player of the Year began having adult relations with Playmates Brande Roderick and Heather Kozar. The Bears’ C-level executives tired of McNown and sent him to the Miami Dolphins in August 2001 for a sixth-round draft choice in 2002 and a conditional seventh-round selection in 2003. Predictably, McNown drowned as a Dolphin and he was deemed unemployable on the gridiron by the age of 25. The 41-year-old McNown began working for Lourd Capital Management as its vice president in June 2013.