I have a friend who used to play in the nfl. He got knocked of the team by a really catastrophic leg injury and the next year that team won the Super Bowl, and the guy who made the game winning catch was playing his position for him. He couldn’t handle it. Didn’t do anything remotely football related for years. Didn’t talk about it, didn’t play, didn’t watch. It wasn’t until his kids wanted to play that he got back in, but that tore him up bad