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Reading Morbid's response to the Anotoine Wells bankruptcy thread got me thinking. Who else thinks that professional athletes are way overpaid? Is it fair that they make millions of dollars just for playing sports, while LEO's, firefighters, and paramedics are lucky to make $50k a year?
Now, I'm not saying that it's not difficult to play sports in front of millions of people, but do they really deserve the money they get? I mean, they're not waking up at 3 am to pull a drunk out of a ditch because he wrecked his car on the side of a snowy country road, or responding to a breaking and entering, or pulling people out of a burning building; is what they do REALLY worth millions of dollars?
I just thought it'd be interesting to see what MF OT thought.
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These guys are making someone, actually a lot of someones, an ass load of money. They are making entire cities ass loads of money. Its only fair they get paid and paid well for the profit they're helping to rake in. How much that should be, I dunno.
Maybe the LEO's and EMT's and such are just terribly underpaid?
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Think how many people made a schit load of money off of Antoine Walker blowing through $100million dollars
Pro ball players become a business unto themselves when they are pulling coin like that and they in turn support staff, manufacturers of Escalades, Navigators, Benzes, etc. with their salaries. To say nothing of the millions they donate and raise for charities.
The free market dictates that that is their fair market value because their are very few people who can do what they do. People love the schit out of watching sports and they are the show. Why shouldn't they get paid?
Just imagine where the full link mink coat industry would be without the brothers in the NFL & NBA.
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Last edited by fastbackford351; 10-28-2009 at 08:49 PM.
I think college players not making any money is a problem. The ones at Alabama are making millions for someone else also.
One of the linebackers for the Carolina Panthers makes 1 million a game...I picked him up in fantasy football and he averaged about 500,000 dollars a tackle before I dropped him.
One thing I like about college is that there is more emotion than pro. You see a guy make a tackle in a pro game and get up showboating then realize he just got paid 200 grand to make that tackle.
On the other hand it is a dangerous sport. I heard something on the radio today that I thought was kinda funny.
They were talking about the Washington Redskins and Cambell the qb. They said that Peyton Manning has been sacked 4 times and hurried 12 times this year. Cambell got sacked and hurried more on LAST SUNDAY than Manning has all year.
As people have said; if they pull in money, they get money. Trust me, the athletes who don't bring in money (see the AFL, AHL, ECHL, AAA AA and A baseball, and all the rest) don't get paid that much money. Now there are other issues there about making money (like public money for stadiums, tax breaks, and all the rest) but generally if you make money, you get money.
However... there might be a bigger question... does there reach a point where your salary should NOT reflect the amount of money you bring in? This happens in many profit-generating areas, and especially in the BIG money generating areas... look at the typical Goldman Sachs big wig, for instance... yeah, they might make Goldman 20 million in a year, but should they be given a million or two of that? Or should we, as a society, try to somehow connect salary with perceived societal value? Should the woman who works at Child Protective Services, trying to get kids out of abusive situations, 14 hours a day in the dirt, be paid more than a basketball player because there is some inherent value to the profession that tossing a ball through a hoop does not have?
Big question indeed.
Last edited by Lord Ashram; 10-28-2009 at 09:22 PM.
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Pro. Athletes Overpaid?
