Norfolk Southern Conductor Turns Down Offer From NY Jets

I'm sure somewhere at some point, somebody asked you this hypothetical question: Would you rather have a high paying job that you didn't like as much or wasn't as secure or take a lower paying job that you loved?

A 24 year old conductor-trainee with the Norfolk Southern Railroad declined an offer to sign with the New York Jets for the remainder of the season.

After a brief stint earlier with the Jets and Ravens at safety, former Mississippi State standout Keith Fitzhugh said that he'd prefer to remain at his present job than risk further uncertainty at the end of the season with the possibility of an NFL lockout looming over next season.

According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, while Fitzhugh is thinking long-term with his job at Norfolk Southern, he's also pursuing another childhood dream.

"Just hearing the horns getting blown, how fast they were rolling, it always looked cool," Fitzhugh said of trains that rumbled along Tara Boulevard. "I was like, ‘Man, I want to get up there. I want to ride.'"

"You can't play [football] when you're 40 or 50 or 60 years old," Fitzhugh said. "But you can get on a train and you can ride."

Good for Keith- it probably was a difficult decision for him. You don't always see this sort of long-term thinking from some of the veterans in the NFL, let alone a guy who's not even 25 yet.

[Thanks to Just A Grunt over at Jammie Wearing Fool for posting this]