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Published on 01/02/2013 at Wed Jan 02 11:28.
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The average career length of an NFL player these days is around just three years. Sadly, many of those players find themselves out in the cold once their careers end, and the ones that do not save their money are stuck up the creek without a paddle.

Even players that are fortunate enough to have long NFL careers often end up filing for bankruptcy, after mismanaging their incomes throughout their careers.

This is not the case for former Denver Broncos kicker Jason Elam, who saved up a few pennies during his seventeen-year career.  Elam is a licensed commercial airplane pilot, author, the Director of Israel for E3 Partners Ministry, a hunter, fisherman, Alaskan home owner and former NFL star.

Basically, he’s living the life.

Last weekend, Destination America aired a TV segment on their show “Buying Alaska” which featured Elam and his wife looking to purchase an Alaskan home. Footage of the show, pointed out to me by BroncoTalk’s Josh Temple (@Crosshare77 on Twitter) can be seen after the jump.

We can’t confirm if Elam bought this particular house, but his listed location on Twitter is “Alaska or the Middle East,” so we assume the Elams do have a place up North.  It’s easy to deduce that Jason is living in Alaska these days by his tweets, which often resemble something along the lines of this:

Elam was a three-time Pro Bowl selection, three-time All Pro selection and two-time Super Bowl champion during his career and booted a 63-yard field goal to tie an NFL record while with the Broncos (Elam spent two final seasons in Atlanta before signing a one-day contract in Denver to retire a Bronco in 2010). The guy has done it all.

Kudos to Jason, who set himself up to be successful in his post-NFL career. His career is one from which many young players can learn.  Granted, Elam was a kicker and blessed to play for seventeen seasons, but he was wise with his money.  And that is paying dividends today.

  • http://www.facebook.com/jeffrey.koch.5 Jeffrey Koch

    wow nice to see a former bronco doing so well, he was always a very valuable part of the team

  • herc_rock

    Everyone should read fatsis’ book. There’s good stuff on elam in there.

  • http://twitter.com/jheath_DEN Jon
  • Doom92

    He was just on TV on a show called buying Alaska or something close to that. The wife and I watched it; it was about him and his wife buying their house up there. They looked at three (on the show any ways) and then had to make a decision on one of the tree. They picked an amazingly awesome place called the “Rock House” went for right at a Million. He can fly his plane in and then ride right up to the dock in front of it. It was killer…

    Though his wife does look more like his MUCH younger cousin…lol.

  • http://twitter.com/jheath_DEN Jon

    I think that house is in the video…

  • Doom92

    Video??

  • http://twitter.com/jheath_DEN Jon

    That is embedded in the blog post above.

  • Doom92

    Yep… Da on me, I didnt even see that. But yes that is it.

    And yes they bought that one…

  • steve slot

    so many retired pros are broke,glad to hear a success story about pro athlete and family, congrats.love ur house in alaska.