Post-football Years
On 14 February 1986, Marcol attempted suicide by drinking a mixture of battery acid, rat poison, and vodka, which severely damaged his esophagus. To this day, he must have his esophagus stretched as treatment.
Marcol is a resident of the Upper Peninsula community of Dollar Bay, Michigan. He has a wife and three children. He slowly recovered from his addictions, but still suffers from hepatitis C and a heart condition. He works on weekends as a drug and alcohol abuse counselor near his home.
Marcol published a memoir in September 2011 entitled "Alive and Kicking: My Journey Through Football, Addiction and Life." He discusses his childhood, immigration to the United States, playing for the Packers, and his fall from grace.
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“After years of vain familiarity, some distant gesture or unconscious behavior, which we remember, speaks to us with more emphasis than the wisest or kindest words. We are sometimes made aware of a kindness long passed, and realize that there have been times when our Friends’ thoughts of us were of so pure and lofty a character that they passed over us like the winds of heaven unnoticed; when they treated us not as what we were, but as what we aspired to be.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)