Why Do NFL Players Get Paid?

Yes, Athletes get paid too much money. Accordingly to the article,from LeBron James making 71 million dollars and the President does not make as much money as LeBron James. Nurses, and other people who save lives do not make as much money as LeBron James.

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.

Football is a challenging sport that not many individuals are blessed with the skills in order to play. As stated in the article “ Top 10 Reasons College Football Players Should Get Paid “ Players who stay in college for four years might sacrifice a year or two of earnings In order to stay in school long enough to earn a degree” , you must be dedicated to your grades and credits you need to succeed. There are by far 100 reasons why college football athlete should get paid. They invest about 50-60 hours a week and lower to 40-50 hours a week once the season and classes begin along with 12 -15 hours of weight training and 15- 20 hours a week getting ready for the spring season. They invest their blood, sweat, and tears just to do what they love and put their all into it in order to have a chance to get drafted to a better school and pursue their dreams. There are thousands of foundations that are invested in the colleges make money off of the players but the individuals that are actually doing most of the work, the real hard work, don't and that's unfair and yes we all know sports are not meant to be fair but when it comes to your career you have to do what you have to do. Let's talk more about the other factors that claim why college football athletes should get paid. majority of the coaches make $53.4 million in salaries and 0% goes the athletes.

Jimmy Garoppolo will make 42.6 Million dollars more than Oklahoma QB Baker Mayfield. Baker Mayfield was voted the best player in NCAA football and Jimmy Garoppolo was a 2nd string QB at the beginning of the year. Jimmy Garoppolo make 469 times the average american male’s salary. Baker Mayfield is going to college for free but he still deserves a portion of the money that the college makes. Colleges can make a upward of $100 MIllion from 1 sport and what do they do with all that money? Yes they may have expenses but they still have money left over. NCAA athletes deserve to get paid because for the most part their statistics are better, they make money for the college, and they are the future.

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.

There are many reasons why people argue over if to pay football players, but one thing can 't be denied and that 's that these athletes make a lot of money for colleges. The

Even “NFL-ready players” who are only one year out of high school have little choice but to play college football in order to maintain and showcase their skills until they’re “old enough” to play professionally. This process limits the players to have to play at the collegiate level where they won't receive any compensation other than a scholarship despite the potential they have (Mclaughlin). It is common in other sports such as soccer and basketball to see athletes straight out of high school playing at the professional level and receiving pay for their work (Neuhauser). These football players who are considered NFL ready should receive a salary to compensate for the money they could have been making in the NFL. The NCAA keeps member universities from offering players a salary in excess of room, board and tuition. The NCAA is effectively a cartel — an organization of independent entities that acts as a cohesive unit — to which all who want to play football professionally must donate three years of service

Think of it as if the coach is a professor and the players are the students. A student isn't going to get paid for showing up to class, studying and getting a good grade on a test, so why should college football players get paid to show up to practice and play some games? With huge profit that college football brings in, it is easy to give coaches a nice salary. Some coaches can get paid as much as just short of 6 million dollars. But, should the players get a small percent of that? Gonchar states, “The N.C.A.A. classifies Division I football players as amateurs, not professionals, student-athletes, not employees, which is how colleges get away with paying them nothing.” So, that's how coaches can get paid and not the

Have you ever wondered how much a NFL player gets paid? Well, he at least gets paid more than a firefighter, a cop, and a soldier! They don’t even save lives. Every time a cop saves a live the barely get paid.

Their scholarships are somewhat paid for if not given a full ride for free. So some people think that they need to get paid a salary for playing like a contract in the NFL. My point is that they don't need more free money shoveled right to them. Rick Burton (Professor of Sports management at Syracuse University) when asked if college athletes should receive pay “No but College athletes are already payed with their education” (U.S News Opinion)

Finally, the football business is private, no public money pays for the bills so why should we care about how much are the players paid? It is a sport that is enjoyed by millions of people and it is known everywhere so it is maybe true that these players are worth the money, that their talent deserves this money.

College football is one of the biggest revenue sources for a collegiate institution. Football makes millions of dollars every year. In 2008 the University of Iowa made $81 million in profits from football; while spending a fraction of that in expenses ("College Athletics Revenues and Expenses - 2008"). If teams are making so much money year after year, why doesn’t some of that go to the players’? College football is a full time job, but at the moment the players are not getting paid. I am persistent that football players should receive some money outside of their scholarship. They work harder and longer than any other students on campus that have jobs.

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.

If I could pay someone $25 million a year to get him/her on my team and generate $30 million, why not hire that player? The salary cap for the NFL is $102.5 million per team, and we currently have 32 teams, so we the public are paying 3.28 billion to those teams. Currently America is in a 11 trillion dollar debt, if athletes could get paid $150,000/year then we could save 1 billion dollars a year. The monetary worth of athletes exceeds the value that any one individual is actually worth. League officials should be using salary caps, negotiations, and legal tactics. Athletes' salaries are in increasing problem for the economy of our modern world. Although the sports have their own equal distributions, the overwhelming salaries of the leagues' highest paid players have made the average of salaries higher and higher each year.

The reason MLB players make so much is because there are 162 games per team a season not including the playoffs. Where as in the NFL there are only 16 games not including the playoffs. With baseball players playing multiple games per week & football players playing one or two games a week but usually one the money start to add up. It has also been argued that college athletes should be paid for what they do. While the NCAA is completely against collegiate athletes getting paid. However, that does not stop some players from getting money. Houston Texans running back Arian Foster came out and said in an interview that while playing football at Tennessee he took money on the side because he didn’t have enough money to eat. “My senior year I was getting money on the side.”- Arian Foster. “I really didn’t have any money. I had to either pay rent or buy some food.”- Arian Foster Also just last season Texas A&M Quarterback Johnny Manziel was put under investigation by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) for supposedly receiving money for a large amount of autographed memorabilia that he signed. The NCAA is completely against collegiate athletes receiving money.