Why Are Professional Athletes Too High

Evidence: “From the perspective of it governing body, the NFL, the game is a multi-billion- dollar product. And those of us who love it are not innocent fans rooting for our teams to prevail. We’re consumers. Our money and attention are what subsidize the game.” (p 42)

And if they think that they deserve all that money because of injuries, for this reason, maybe they shouldn’t play at all if they think they are that injury prone. Athletes aren’t even acquired because of skill level, it’s all about popularity or how much money they make. They don’t even work for an entire year and still get paid millions just for entertaining people. Why use all that money on something we don’t need when we can focus most of it on more important things like teachers or policeman or firefighters. Something that really matters. In conclusion, athletes should not be paid more than they are worth.

The National Football League (NFL) is an example of the incredibly successful industry generated by the sport. This business has been, and continues to be, the highest earning sports league in the United States. Average revenue that a franchise earns in the NFL is 286 million dollars, with the closest industry trailing behind being Major League Baseball (MLB) averaging almost 50 million dollars less (Gaines). Another aspect to observe with this comparison is putting in proportion how much more is made per game since football has significantly fewer games. The NFL creates its leading revenue in only a 16 game regular season, whereas the MLB falls short after playing 162 entire games. Putting this into perspective, an NFL team generates an average 17.8 million dollars a game, but an MLB team generates only 1.4 million dollars a game. Revenue

NCAA College Football Makes Money then so should the college players. The NCAA and its most well-known teams make a profit along with The University of Texas made over $100 million in profit in just a year of 2011. With so much money coming in you would think at least 25% would go to the players, the players are expected to do slave labor without a cut? This whole debate is coming down to fairness. The logical reason why the college football athletes don't get paid is that most of them got full ride scholarships to college, I understand that they are there for education, not money and the sport doesn't have enough money to pay the college athletes but even a small percentage of some kind of income would be generous. There are athletes that get their jersey sold for mounts of money but get nothing from it. The jersey they bleed, sweat and cried on gets sold to the

While growing up in the state of Texas I was introduced to National Football League (NFL) at a very young age. Not only was I obsessed with great players like Emmitt Smith and Michael Irving, I had a more finical appreciation for the lucrativeness associated with the NFL. My young adulthood as well as my teenage years was spent playing and learning football with the aspirations of hopefully making it to the NFL. Unfortunately, my playing days ended with tryouts at Texas Tech University, but my love for the game has remained stagnant over the years even till this day. The NFL today is Americas most watched sports league and has taken the crown as the most lucrative and unique economic force in sports. Forbes offered approximations stating that on average, the NFL generates more than $6-9 billion a year in revenues alone. A third of the individual franchises in the league were appraised at over more than $1 billion while the other franchises average nine figures or higher. The NFL as an organization generates its revenues through a multitude of ways ranging from huge television contracts, in-stadium ticket sales, advertising ads paid for by sponsors and merchandise. Their business model unlike most other leagues, is centered on a hard salary cap on player contracts which provides cost certainty with its sponsors. In this paper, I will examine the economic and historical narrative associated with the growth of the NFL’s

The league is also in the process of try to ensure their five year deal does not expire with DirectTV and other satellite providers. The NFL has already showed they are on top of the mountain by occupying the top eight most watch spots on TV last year. “A new labor deal. The 2011 collective bargaining agreement ends in 2020. Labor peace is essential for the league’s economic growth. Expect Goodell and the owners to start trying to get a new deal done sometime well before the current one expires (Burke, 2013). The NFL is working on signing with Verizon to incorporate their own mobile network that will be worth somewhere around 1 billion dollars over five years. This product will enhance the game by allowing the fans to watch more games on the move from cellphones and other mobile devices. The NFL is working on make their fantasy football league more competitive and competes with ESPN and Yahoo. “The NFL’s fantasy game, at 3 million players, is still well behind ESPN and Yahoo YHOO -2.19%, which have an estimated 14 million and 12 million player, respectively (Burke, 2013)”. The league’s fantasy football league can be worth around $100 million dollars. Last but not least the NFL is try to expand the game into more countries; this process may result in other teams that will bring more viewers and more revenue.

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.

College football is the staple of any good Saturday. More than 216 million viewers decided to spend their Saturdays watching college football during the 2013 season (NFF). The NHL (national hockey league), on the other hand, had a feeble 1.73 million in its best year (Bibel). Now it seems almost ridiculous that these hockey players are getting million dollar payouts while the college football players are competing for free. This brings up the hotly debated discussion of whether or not college football players should get paid. According to how much money the college football industry makes compared to other paid sports, the college players should clearly be getting paid.

Athletes in the major professional sports are getting paid far too much. The New England Patriots quarterback named, Tom Brady is a perfect example on the amount of money one elite athlete can make in the National Football League. These athletes are having millions of dollars that are being tossed all around them. The salary amounts is a good representation on something terrible about our society. The large amount of money that these athletes are making may not always go to good use. Many athletes are overpaid and selfish. This issue matters to young athletes in the United States; while many athletes claim that the amount of money they are making is fair, evidence suggests that the amount of money that they are making is ridiculous, and that is why I believe one day professional athletes will not make as much money as they are making now.

Per an agreement reached in 2006, the National Football League annual profit of $9 billion was to be distributed between the owner and players. With $1 billion going to the owners in the form of compensation for “cost credit.” These cost are expenses such as stadium enhancements, promotional undertakings and efforts to improve the NFL brand domestically and internationally. The remaining $8 billion will be divided with 59.5% being used to for players’ wages (i.e. Rookie salaries, free agency market, and veteran players). However, in lieu of the lockout that occurred at the end of the 5-year agreement, March 4th, 2011, the league and its players have come to a stalemate in the negotiation process moving forward.

Overall, players’ receiver between 47% and 48.5% of total revenues (Lackner). After the last CBA negotiations the media and the public slammed the NFLPA for their negotiating skills. Yes, the players received better post-retirement packages, such as medical care, pensions, and transition programs. To create a better quality of life for players past their playing careers. However, in order to receive these benefits the NFLPA conceded in their negotiations in dividing the AR among the players and owners (Volin). The NFL owners used the poor economy to their advantage and were able to leverage that when get 52% of all league revenues. Leaving the players with 48%, which experts said was a poor deal by people in charge of the

First, people enjoy playing it and they get paid doing what they love. 1696 players play in the pro football league and on average they make 1.9 mil a year.That's not starting, plus 1st string position make more money. And the highest player paid was Ben Roethlisberger getting paid at 48.9 million a year.And most football players on average help out the community with their money and help people that can’t take care of themselves or pay for surgery that people need.

The crowds they bring in during games and how they play will determine their popularity and skill which determines their pay. As Chris Mueller stated, “ If we stopped going to games and buying officially-licensed merchandise, then these numbers would obviously have to go down to balance out the budget.” If everyone were to suddenly lose interest in the NFL, their profits will decrease a lot which will lead to loss of players, showtime, and ultimately the

Football is enormous business. Thirty-two franchise teams make up the National Football League. Each team had an average net worth of $1.43 billion in 2014 - that is $45.7 billion total, up 22% over prior year (Ozanian, 2014). Driving the organization are the fans and sponsors, who financially support their teams. The fans and sponsors call for wins at all costs. Negative behavior off the field became acceptable as long as players continued to contribute to winning. That issue alone caused the National Football league to perform a volte-face.

However, there is a problem with increasing rights fees being paid by networks, funds are not bottomless. At a certain point the sports industry will plateau and as we are seeing financial resources are being pulled from sports with lower rating to finance the network's bid for the highly rated events like the Superbowl. This is also known as a zero sum industry, where one event/league will benefit while another suffers. The NFL is currently taking in about $550 million/year from 4 different networks respectively. The price tag is not that high because of the extensive amount of game air-time, but because of the perceived value. Networks are teaming up with their own programming to compliment the short NFL season to bring in more ad spots and rightly so. The NFL as a league also knows the value of their product and realizes that networks are still willing to pay these incredible rights fees. After all the networks are already paying twice as much as their last contracts. However, who suffers in the zero sum game? The worst case or ratings influencing the general public