Did Andrew Luck quit the NFL to become a high school history teacher?

Former Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck is reportedly planning to travel the world now that he's retired at the ripe old age of 29. But when he gets back, he may wind up in front of a chalkboard teaching about the world.

Washington Post sports columnist John Feinstein wrote Tuesday that he once asked Luck what he planned to do after he retired from the game — which likely occurred sooner than Feinstein had figured when he posed the question. Feinstein added that he's asked countless athletes the same thing and usually receives cookie-cutter answers: coach, television or radio analyst, scout, front office management. But not from Luck.

The quarterback with an architectural design degree from Stanford University who loves A Song of Ice and Fire reportedly said he thinks he would be quite happy teaching high school history. Feinstein says he had never heard an answer like that before or since, but it's not necessarily shocking. "I love being a football player," Luck once told Feinstein. "But it isn't my identity, never has been." Read more at The Washington Post.

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Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.