Join up and Let’s Stop Overpaying Athletes Once and For All
How exactly is it possible that a single person can make hundreds of millions of dollars for playing a sport? It doesn’t seem fair to me that our most educated citizens, the ones who truly work the hardest, not only don’t get any recognition for doing their job and their service but they don’t make nearly enough money in comparison to top athletes. The answer is to stop overpaying athletes once and for all.
It’s actually ridiculous how much money some of these athletes make, not just over the course of their careers but in the course of a single year. In a good year, Tiger Woods has been known to rake in over $100 million when you include his tournament winnings with his endorsements. That’s more than the revenues for many entire large businesses.
Meanwhile, the rest of us never get to see that kind of money. No matter what field we choose, our earning potential is far more limited. Even the most respected jobs in our country and in our society, surgeons, lawyers and other top tier professionals can only expect to make a few hundred thousand per year. That isn’t shabby, but shouldn’t the most respected jobs earn the most money?
Here’s a fresh perspective for you, do you realize that we as sports fans in our society have actually bailed out our teams and athletes from the recession? Why are sports thriving when everything else is suffering? Because we concede the fact that we have to pay a huge price for sports and that’s the way it is. Sporting games and memorabilia should be affordable like they used to be, we have to join together to stop overpaying athletes once and for all instead of sitting idly by.
Another criticism you might hear is that well it’s because we are willing to pay so much, that’s why the athletes make so much money and that’s not their fault. That’s true, it’s not their fault but that doesn’t mean we should be gouged every time we want to watch a sporting event. Just because we might bitterly agree to something, doesn’t make it right. If ticket prices and food and parking at the ballgames were cut in half, the athletes would still be making millions of dollars, and we’d be that much better off.
The thing is that it’s not even just the top athletes like Alex Rodriguez and Tiger Woods that pull in all of the money. Even the worst players in the biggest sports leagues make more than most businessmen, lawyers and doctors. Consider that the minimum salary in the NFL depending on your experience in the league ranges from about $250,000 all the way up to $1 million. That’s literally the least that a player could make!
Athletes like this earn all of this money without ever having to really work for it. Sure, they honed their athletic and physical gifts into a career. But they didn’t have to pay for college, if they went to college at all. They didn’t have to take out student loans or work hard to finish at the top of their class so they could find a job.
I’ve certainly had my full share of hearing about Alex Rodriguez and Tiger Woods and everyone else and their hundreds of millions of dollars. I say that we stop overpaying athletes once and for all, and the hardworking Americans, spending long weeks in marketing, sales and all other departments reap the dividends.
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