Should Professional Sports Players Get Payed More Than Soldiers

Have you ever wondered how much NFL players get paid? NFL players get paid about $140 million in 6 years. I will be talking about why I am against NFL players getting paid more than anybody else including soldiers. Professional athletes shouldn’t be paid more than people who save lives.

In a country who prides itself on a capitalist economy based on private ownership, trade, competitive markets, and wealth accumulation there are still many places where it can be seen that this type of economic system is not allowed for everyone. One of those places is at the NCAA who brings in extreme amounts of money through selling the broadcasting rights to athletic events and selling tickets at the championships. An example of this is the TBS deal to broadcast march madness from 2011-2024 which only lasts 3 weeks each year signed for a staggering $10.8 billion (Wilbon 1). With that type of money being made off of just one deal and plenty more to go around the question should then be asked why are college athletes not getting more compensation than just their scholarships with all the money that is being made off of them? This question has brought up intense debates due to college athletics’ being considered amateur sports and because of the complexity it seems it would take to actually be able to pay all athletes fairly. However, living in an economic system based solely on supply and demand and with the clear abundance of funds in the NCAA, college athletes deserve to be paid.

The average salary for a first round draft pick in the National Football League is $27,946,656. The average salary for an E-1 enlisted soldier is $18,802. The disparity has existed over many years because of a cultural difference. Should active duty soldier’s salaries be at or near the same as professional athletes?

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

A CPL in the united states army only makes about $10-$13 an hour for defending our country really? I believe that a person defending our freedoms and our rights and keeping us safe should make more money than a person with a helmet defending a football. The average NFL player makes about $1.9 million per year for defending a football. On average 7.63 % out of 100,000 players sustained injuries from 2007-present. Only 8 football players have ever died from playing football. 2,356 died from 2001-present in 1 war alone.

University’s draft athletes to work within the NCAA, a, multi-billion dollar industry that regulates players to the point of management. All television revenue, ticket and jersey sales, promotions and other sources of income goes to everyone involved in the business except for the athletes creating the worth. According to USA Today Sports in 2014, the NCAA had total revenue of nearly 1 billion during its 2014 fiscal year, well beyond the revenue generated by the NFL, and NBA playoffs. (NCAA nearly topped $1billion in

I think that athletes should get more money then soldiers. Therefore, the soldiers fight for their money but athletes work just as hard as the soldiers do. Professional players should get more because they generate money, intertain people, and make little kids dreams come true. The work that soldiers have to do to get money, athletes can do the same thing.

Do pro athletes deserve high salaries. Yes or no why do you agree or disagree? If you think yes explain why, Is it because of their risk of getting hurt or dying, or just because you they its a great idea to give them high salaries. Is it a good or bad idea? I myself agree that its a good idea cause of they are risking their lives and bodies just for 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

Most American people like sports. College Sports have been growing up every year and universities and athletes are more competitive every year. The NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) was founded in 1906 to protect young people from the dangerous and exploitive athletics practices of the time and continues to implement that principle with increased emphasis on both athletics and academic excellence (NCAA 2012). The NCAA make and apply the rules in college sports. One of the most pressing issues in Today’s sport world is if College athletes should be paid. Sports such as baseball, football and basketball generate giant amounts of revenue every year and has become the NCAA in a multi-billion

Should college football players get paid. Yes they should,i'm saying this because they work just as hard to get to get to college as pro's did to get where they're at. Also college football is more interesting to watch than pro ball.

The star player on the soccer team, slowly, walks not trying to win the game. No matter what the score is he knows he will revive a shiny trophy at the end of the game. With different effort, the player could improve and turn into an even better player. Recently, there has been debates over whether kids should receive participation trophies. I believe that there should be no more undeserved trophies given to players.

Do athletes deserve a better salary than a person currently in the military? No, they don’t. Many professional athletes get paid millions of dollars. Some people think that these athletes are overpaid. Athletes are being paid way too much because people who are in the Armed Forces get paid less, all they do is play a game, and when they retire they could instead go to lucrative jobs.

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.

There are many arguments in the realm of sports and athletics. One of the most controversial issues in today’s sports society is whether basketball and football college athletes should be paid for their performance. With the value of professional athletes skyrocketing, college players deserve compensation. The value of college basketball and football players is underestimated compared to that of professional athletes of the same sport.