Professional Athletes: Should They Get Paid?

My third and final point is the amount of years played in each sport. Despite a salary like Donovan Mcnabb's, you would be at high risk of injury if you played football, and one injury can ruin your whole career. The average years played in the NFL is 3.5 while the average years played in the NBA is 6.5. This is a three year difference, which could mean a lot. For instance, if I take Mcnabb's 2005 season salary, one of the highest in the NFL, and multiply it by the average number of years, it comes out to be $31,321,500. Don't get me wrong, that is a great amount but if you multiply just the average of the NBA's salaries by the average number of years played it comes out to be $31,850,000. This is $528,500 more overall.

The NFL players are playing the sport they want to play so they should be paid less. NFL players get paid $420,000 a week, they should get paid $100,000 a year for playing what they want to play. For example Derek Carr is getting paid about $820,000 a year. Some people have good jobs and they don't get paid that much in year and a half. Matthew Stanford eats paid about $135 million

Players that are in the pros make the big bucks. Some of the top notch players in each sport make millions and millions of dollars. For instance Albert Pujols plays baseball and is arguably the best player to play the game right now and signed a 9 year contract that is worth over 200 million dollars! Football fight to get bigger salaries because they feel the need to get paid more since they have a greater risk of getting injured. Baseball the players don’t argue as much as football players when it comes to salary.

Aaron Rodgers, Tom Brady is both getting paid less than $35 million dollars each year, all three of them are MVP winners and Super bowl winners. Aaron Rodgers has won two MVP awards, been an all-pro for five years. Tom Brady one of the best quarterbacks of all time has won the MVP award two times and the NFL’s offensive player of the year award twice. Tom has also won his team 4 super bowls since he has played in the NFL. Super stars aren't getting paid enough because people who sit on the bench still get paid large salaries, first string players get paid top salaries, and the MVP winners get paid the most.

Pro NFL players earn an average of 2 million a year only from playing in games. They can produce up to 1 million from commercials. From playing along with being in commercials a single player can earn an average of 4 million a year. They receive enough money that they can buy mansions and multiple cars.

There is no doubt some of the highest salaries in America belong to professional athletes. Whether it’s LeBron James’s $19.3 million dollar salary with the Cleveland Cavaliers or Matt Ryan’s $42 million dollar deal with the Atlanta Falcons, professional athlete’s salaries prove just how valuable the players are to whatever organization they are a part of. (Forbes.com) In 2014 the average professional football franchise was valued at $1.4 billion and the average professional basketball franchise was valued at $1.1 billion so it’s no wonder why athletes can be paid such high sums of money.(Forbes.com) Besides professional sports American’s love college athletics, college football in particular. Drawing in an average of 44,997 fans per game

Corruption, scandals, suspensions, firings and a systems that is systematically flawed all the while the fact of the matter is that the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a organization that is bringing in billions of dollars each year yet the labor force generating the money gets a scholarship that many athletes believe doesn’t pay enough for everything that is needed on campus so this leads the author to have to take a look at if athletes need to be paid. I will outline numerous problems that are going on in college athletics and possible solutions to problems. I will take a look at the scholarship itself

One of the lucrative activities that many colleges use are their sports. Just as their professional counterpart, crowds of people pay to see their favorite team, or in this case college, go against a rival team. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), reportedly made billions of dollars in revenue off college sports. Though, this aroused a serious issue, as none of the college athletes, the ones who made such a revenue possible, never received any of the profit. As college sports grows ever more popular, should they start paying their athletes? The answer is yes they should for the athletes as they put a lot of work, many of them live in poverty, and colleges makes profit

NFL players should not be making as much as people that save lives and change the world deserve more. “The President ,who makes critical decisions that affect the entire world every day only makes $400,000 a year”. All these NFL players do is entertain the public and that has no impact on the world at all so why do they make more than the President of the United States? That’s a question that no one has been able to answer with a good reason behind it because it makes no sense.

IF you don’t think athletes are overpaid your whole opinion about that will change after reading this. There is no reason a person should be paid over 20 million a year unless they discover something new like a disease or cure for cancer. You should be paid like 10 million per year not 150 on average.Normal people only get like 75000 a year but nba people get 50 million. Or there are most NFL players getting overpaid so its very bad on the payroll. The NFL and NBA need to get paid less with there association it is very bad with there system.

The question of should student athletes get paid is an argument that is growing in debate in recent years. Mostly pertaining to college Football and Basketball. Especially when the revenue generated from these sports rival those of its professional counterparts. Some would argue that receiving a full athletic scholarship is payment enough. Or, student athletes are no different from any college student working their way through college. However, these student athletes are not guaranteed full scholarships and deal mostly the same pressures of athletes that make their living playing these sports.

$29 million, to do half the work that someone with the same occupation as you. Doing half the work should probably mean half the normal pay, but it 's not. Being paid $29 million for any type of work should probably involve running the most prestigious company in the world, or being the first to find the cure for cancer. Not even close. Imagine being paid $29 million to play baseball, and not even the whole season. Welcome to the life of Alex Rodriguez. Alex Rodriguez 's salary in 2013 was $4 million more than the whole Houston Astros roster, making him the highest paid baseball player for the 13th consecutive season (Blum). Although the talent of professional athlete or professional teams should be rewarded through their salaries, there

Some people think players don't get paid enough when statistics say they do. Some players even complain about their earnings. To start the players that get paid the most are the most well known players and the top professional league to get paid is the NBA. The NBA’s average player made $5 million per year in the 2010-11 season. Top professional players such as Kobe Bryant, Sidney Crosby, and Alex Rodriguez make from $9 million to $32 million dollars depending on how many goals, hits, or field goals they make.

Picture this, you’ve been working the same job for 21 years and you’ve been promised a promotion to CFO of the company. This new promotion will come with a yearly salary of $2,000,000. Then one day, you’re on your way to work and you get into a car accident and break your leg. You spend the next year recovering and going through rigorous physical therapy, finally your recovery period is over and you feel great. You go back to your boss ready for your promotion, except he says to you that they’ve found someone new and won’t be giving you the promotion that you were promised. In fact, the company won’t even need you working anymore and have laid you off. This turn of events leaves you with no plan B because your whole life has been working towards

Two of the three highly controversial arguments with NFL players is league minimum pay and guaranteed money in contracts. Being that all money in an NBA contract is fully guaranteed, and in an NFL contract it is only partially guaranteed. For example, Colin Kapernick signed 110 million dollar cotract extension over six years, which would seem bigger then Draymond Greens new 5 year contract of 85 million dollars. Except that Colin Kapernick is only guaranteed 61 million dollars, compared to Draymond Green who is guaranteed all 85 million dollars in his contract. The NBA’s rookie salary is bigger then the NFL, With NBA starting salary being at 525,093 dollars and the NFL starting salary being at 435,000 dollars. Even in the veteran category the NBA salary beats the NFL, with