Yes, really. Nobody promised this guy 4 million dollars a year for life when he was born, nor is that part of his set of fundamental rights as a human being. He was in the entertainment industry, and made himself poisonous to the public. He isn't being punished for hitting his wife/fiancee by having money taken away; he's being fired from his job as an entertainer because the public has cried out that they no longer want to be entertained by him.
But that doesn't mean he has to live out the rest of his life without being gainfully employed. He has 30 or 40 good earning years left if he sees fit to use them. If he's especially motivated and creative, he can even use that time to earn far more than he did playing football. He probably won't, but let's not confuse that with the idea that his ability to support himself has been permanently severed. Men lose professional football jobs all the time because they don't help the team entertain their clientele -- i.e., they don't make the team more likely to win. He just lost his because he hurt the team in pursuit of that goal in a somewhat different way.
He'll get on with his life just like the rest do. Or he won't. I won't shed a tear either way, just like I didn't when the Falcons cut poor Cupcake.
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