The Mayo Clinic just announced the results of a study done on 167 retired NFL players. Here is the story. It turns out that 60 percent of retired NFL linemen had sleep disordered breathing. So that means that these beautiful beasts are waking up multiple times in the middle of the night because they momentarily stop breathing. As a result, many of these men can be found looking like this -



The good news is that this study was limited to retired NFL linemen. So the key is to never file for retirement. As long as I remain a free agent for life, I should be able to sleep well through the night.