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ALLEN PARK, Mich. -- NFL players have pretty cool jobs -- they’ll admit that.
But they are human and they, too, and sometimes wonder about what it would like to hold other jobs. So that’s where this week’s Question of the Week comes from. If NFL players could switch jobs with someone for a day, who would it be and why?
(I’d switch with George Clooney because ... Clooney.)
Running back Reggie Bush: I’d be President (Barack) Obama. I would like to be and know and see what it feels like to be in that position. It’s such a demanding job that he has. It’s a powerful position but it’s also scary, too, to be in that position. You take all the heat for everything. It would just be cool and unique to experience that for a day, be the President for a day. They should do that. Like give that away, like a sweepstakes or something, President for a day. That’d be cool.
Reporter: So not because it used to be your nickname, introducing yourself on conference calls and things like that.
Bush: I just think it would be unique and cool to experience that, to go through that and see what his schedule is like because I feel like I have one of the toughest jobs. But his job is obviously tougher than mine. Just to see what that would entail and what he goes through, I think that would be pretty cool.
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Wide receiver Golden Tate: I’ve never thought about that because I love my job. Switch jobs with anybody in the world, who would it be? Probably be one of the golfers, Rory McIlroy.
Reporter: Why Rory?
Tate: He’s the best at what he does right now and he loves the game of golf.
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Running back Joique Bell: Megatron, because he is the best in the world.
Reporter: It doesn’t have to be a football player.
Bell: Anybody? Probably Bill Gates. Or Mark Zuckerberg. Because he got richest the easiest. That’s why.
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Cornerback Darius Slay: Oh man, I gotta switch jobs with Morris Chestnut.
Reporter: Why?
Slay: Because Morris Chestnut involves movies with a lot of ladies and I love ladies. And I love to act. I’m going to be an actor. There’s going to be one and two, there is no third. While I’m singing and dancing, I’m going to be acting. So it’s all in one.
Reporter: Have you ever acted before?
Slay: Nah. I feel like I’m acting right now. But it’s my way, it’s who I am. I think my days are acting, but I don’t know. Yeah. I want to be Morris Chestnut, me and him, switch jobs.
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Defensive tackle Caraun Reid: Hmm. Probably something chill. John Legend. He sings, has a beautiful wife (model Chrissy Teigen). That’s about it.
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Linebacker Josh Bynes: My father (Herbert). Just for him to experience something that he never had the opportunity to experience, sacrificing for me and my brothers and my family. Just to get an opportunity to experience this, he loves football and he was my defensive coordinator, my linebacker coach in high school. All his friends say he was one the best linebackers they had ever seen and he couldn’t go through with that because he had me and my brothers kind of early and he chose to take care of his family instead of going off to college. So give him an opportunity to see how this really is, playing in the NFL. Being able to provide for your family as much as you can and just being a positive influence on everybody else to see how it really is and be a blessed individual as I am now.
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Wide receiver Jeremy Ross: I would be someone who tries out exotic resorts, hotels, goes and flies around to Dubai and things like that, the most luxurious places and review them. I love places with a lot of luxury and places I’ve never seen.
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Wide receiver Corey Fuller: For a day? I would, wow, that’s a tough one. I want to give a good answer. I don’t want to go the usual President of the United States. I’m going to go with the President of the United States. Just you get to see what he goes through on an every day basis. We see him a lot but we don’t see the ins-and-outs of everything that is happening and I kind of want to experience that.
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Defensive end George Johnson: Somebody in the food business, like Guy (Fieri). I’m a big food guy. I like food. For some sort of reason I just love food. And I like to taste food. Like do different things with food. So it has to be his job. He gets to travel the country, test different places that people want to eat or go to. I’d trade jobs with him in a heartbeat.
Reporter: What’s the best thing you make?
Johnson: General Tso’s Chicken. That was pretty hard but it was a lot of fun to make.
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Wide receiver Ryan Broyles: I want to be a stock market guru, man. Whoever it may be. I want to go for one day to Wall Street and shadow some successful businessman. It’s something that’s intrigued me ever since I made the NFL, really.