When my TV show, ’Sports Jobs with Junior Seau ’ assigned me to be a ’Sports Illustrated’ reporter for a weekend, I didn’t realize I’d have to squeeze it in around another sports job. I had planned to retire from the NFL to enjoy the cushy lifestyle of a full-time reality TV star, but I wound up getting run over by a bull.

The quote is framed as self-deprecating humor about the gap between expectation and reality in a celebrity athlete’s post-career life. Seau contrasts the imagined “cushy” ease of reality-TV fame with the physical, unpredictable demands of both sports media work and a dangerous stunt or mishap (“run over by a bull”). The joke depends on irony: even after planning to retire from the NFL, he finds himself in another kind of bodily risk, suggesting that public life and entertainment can replicate the hazards and pressures of professional sport. It also plays on the idea that “sports jobs” proliferate for famous athletes, turning identity and labor into a continuous performance.