Doug Gottlieb’s Andrew Luck Tweet and its reaction

When the past isn’t forgotten, and a reminder to be careful and classy.

Andrew Luck announced his retirement from football on August 24, 2019 after a somewhat brief career with several highs and injury-plagued lows, which finally got the best of the 29 year-old Colts quarterback.

Not everyone empathized with Luck. Fox Sports radio host Doug Gottlieb tweeted: “Retiring cause rehabbing is “too hard” is the most millennial thing ever #AndrewLuck.”

Gottlieb was a highly-regarded college basketball player at Notre Dame and then Oklahoma State in the 1990’s. But any time he says something controversial, people remind him that, as a freshman at Notre Dame, he stole credit cards. That got him in legal trouble and kicked out of school.

He knows what he did was wrong, made restitution, and overcame it. But because he frequently comes across as the arrogant Smartest Guy in the Room, he can’t live the past down. When he mocks someone with a broken body who’s no longer willing to play a dangerous game, he can get eaten alive.