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Published 15:06 8 Sept 2017 BST
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The Rhode man has had plenty of club success but has been a victim of his circumstances when it comes to county, with all due respect to Offaly they aren't a football stronghold.
But anyone that has seen McNamee play will also know just how good he is, a player that would walk into any team in the country and probably be thrown the captain's armband too, he is a leader and is extremely talented.
At 31-years-old, McNamee has called it a day, he'd given Offaly his best years and no longer has anything to prove.
A busy man, McNamee has his own business and is looking forward to the future. It's time to focus on his own professional career and see what life is like outside of inter-county commitments.
The former All-Star nominee was on the latest episode of the GAA Hour and was asked what he'd do during his retirement from Offaly football and said something of interest:
"The first thing I’ll probably do is book a holiday for early next year to actually go away or maybe a summer holiday or something because it’s something I’ve never been able to do," he told show host Colm Parkinson.
"There’s loads of things I’d love to do, I’d love to go to the Superbowl and go to Wimbledon during the summer and there’s other sports I have a massive interest in and just to go and to go and experience those things and those occasions that is something I’m really looking forward to doing."
It's something that most of us take for granted, a summer holiday.
Whether it be slaving through the college year while working a part time job saving up or working full time counting down the days, weeks and months until the next trip these inter-county players can't do that.
They have league games throughout the spring and then championship in the summer and the problem with that is that you don't know when you'll be finished, there's no planning.
The youthful years of McNamee has passed by without the J1 rite of passage or an interrail, it may be a first world problem but it is still a massive sacrifice.
The trend now seems to be reversing, Jack McCaffrey spent a year abroad as part of his studies and Tom Devine missed an All-Ireland final this year opting to go travelling for the summer instead. It's good to see.
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