Should Athletes Be Responsible For The Rising Salaries Of Athletes

Do you think that athletes are overpaid? Well there is a debate on why do atheists get paid then most firefighters and cops. And multiplet of different jobs. Also tho it talk about why they need that money and how they spend it on other stuff.

In thirteen years of golf, Tiger Woods has made over a billion dollars making him the highest paid athlete ever. He has been the highest paid athlete now for five years in a row. We all know that many people in the world watch him play every weekend and admire him, but is the amount of entertainment he provides really worth 128 million dollars a year? Tiger is only one of many professional athletes who are extremely overpaid. “People forget that sports is entertainment,” says Leonard Armato, a sports agent. Although professional athletes provide entertainment for millions of viewers around the world, they are overpaid because the millions of dollars that they make could be distributed more evenly throughout society and go to things of a

Twenty-five million dollars made per year. Over one hundred fifty-four thousand dollars made per game. Over forty-seven thousand dollars earned per at bat. Sounds a little ridiculous, does it not? That is what current Texas Ranger shortstop Alex Rodriguez earns to play the game of baseball (azcentral.com). Baseball is a game that children have been playing in schoolyards and fields for the past one hundred years. It may not be a game anymore. On the Major League level it has become a business. This is where the problem starts.

When sports exploded in the 1900’s athletes were paid like regular working citizens. Most athletes had to work over the summer to keep their mortgages paid. In present day, professional athletes are dished out astronomical salaries in exchange for their play. Many of these athletes have the opportunity to be set for life within the first years of their contracts. Eighteen and nineteen year olds are given multi-million dollar contracts. While these athletes are getting paid these ridiculous amounts of money, we have millions of hard working public service members that are getting the tiniest fractions of some of these contracts. In comparison, “each basket

It would be great to make 31.3 million dollars a year. Adding an additional 47 million dollars in endorsements for simply playing a game that an athlete loves. Michael Jordan, along with several other professional athletes, think getting paid millions of dollars is perfect. In the 1996 season, after playing 3,106 minutes, Michael Jordan made 170,000 dollars a day which is the equivalent of 160.97 dollars a second (Christian Science Monitor). Another unbelievable statistic is Mike Tyson's earnings in his match with Peter McNeeley. In a single second, he made 281,000 dollars (Christian Science Monitor). Alex Rodriguez will be paid $29 million this

Athletes are paid huge sums of money to play sports. First, the average Cubs player earned over 6 million dollars in 2012. Next, some MLB players will earn more in one game than the average American household makes in 10 years. An NHL Blackhawks player earned over 124 million dollars in 13 years.Why should athletes get paid so much to play a game?

I believe that people that play sports in college should be paid because people in college struggle a lot for their living expenses. It is very hard in college to pay for tuition, living expenses, etc. People say that some nights they go hungry without food. I believe that it isn't fair for hard working athletes that risk getting injured to not get paid for their sports. Sport athletes should get paid more for their time in athletics because they are the reason colleges get money from the tickets and merchandise.

When professional athletes get drafted or picked for a team, there is a chance that one player can get picked or drafted for over a million dollars. Some NFL players get paid multimillion dollar salaries for just playing football for entertainment. Odell Beckham Jr. signed a contract for the New York Giants for $10,406,198 just for 4 years. These kind of athletes don’t need to be paid so much money for playing on the field. Professional athletes do not need to be paid so much money for playing a professional sport.

Should Professional athletes and entertainers have high salaries? Did you know that the average Major League Baseball player earns a salary close to 3.2 million dollars a year? Shocking right? But is it too much? Should professional athletes and entertainers should be paid high salaries?

Professional athletes should not earn as much as they currently do because their contributions the global community are not as critical to societal function as other jobs like teachers and doctors.For example according to the text “... each two-point basket that Kobe Bryant scores earns him the equivalent to the average classroom teacher's yearly salary” (Bhagat).Teachers groom the youth of the future while some professional athletes just do different movements with a ball.Some jobs require a lot more dedication and responsibility if Kobe Bryant did not make a shot or had too many interferences no one would be in danger or be worse off. If President Obama made a bad decision it could put millions or even billions of people in a hard situation.

Australians have always taken great national pride in their prowess across a variety of sports from netball, to cricket, to swimming. But the country’s performance has become more inconsistent in recent years amidst tough competition and higher sports spending by rival nations (Financial Times, 2016). This has sparked vigorous debate about what funding system we should use and where this money is best spent. Some consider Britain’s Lottery Fund as a better alternative to our own, which is a national lottery that funds the majority of the UK high-performance sport’s. (The National Lottery, 2015) Advocates of adopting this system believe it would help to fund our elite athletes to compete more successfully at an international level and also assist getting our country out of our current health crisis by encouraging

It is probably believed that sport adepts deserve to be more well-paid than other experts. The high salary advocates these celebrities going through arduous trainings. The hard exercises and fervent games lead to high-pressure competition and the potential risk of trauma, the implication has long term impacts compared to their relatively short

Who do you think earns more money, a soldier going out into war fighting for this country’s freedom or a professional soccer player? If you thought it was the soldier, well you’re wrong. Many professional athletes and entertainers earn large sums of money, even more than doctors or soldiers and things like that. To me, I honestly don’t think that is right because these professional athletes and entertainers don’t risk their life or help others in any way, there are more important jobs out there, and most of these people honestly don’t really care about the money at all.

First of all, athletes and entertainers get paid an excessive net worth, only to play a game. Players for sports associations, such as the NBA or the NFL, get paid over two million dollars a year. That is an excessive amount of money to be awarded for dribbling a basketball down a court or catching a football.

People that don’t play sports or that are not interested in sports often ask, “why are athletes being paid more than the men and woman that risk their life every day to protect our country”? On average, NBA players make $5.15 million, MLB players make $3.2 million, NHL players make $2.4 million, and NFL players make $1.9 million per year (Huffington Post). During or after an athlete’s career, they may suffer career ending injuries or begin to suffer from either a mental or physical illness. Common mental illnesses from these sports are concussions and common physical illnesses can be from knee injuries to ankles injuries. The really good players will sell a lot of seats and that’s how organizations make money. Although many people believe that police officers and people who protect our nation should be paid more than athletes. Many people believe that athletes are being overpaid and that their job isn’t hard enough