Professional Athletes Get Overpaid Essay

Although some professional athletes don’t get paid a lot for what they do, some of them get overpaid for what little they do. Some athletes get paid $13.5 million dollars a year for amusement, while our president and commander chief of our country only gets paid four hundred thousand dollars a year. We all know that’s messed up. Our president does way more than these athletes for our country, and all they do is entertain us.
Most athletes spend their money on ridiculous things such as, cars, houses, etcetera. Most of them have huge mansions, ferraris, lamborghinis, and range rovers when they don’t even need them. They could have a decent sized house and they could still have nice cars, but not some of the most expensive cars in the world that are shipped from foreign countries. …show more content…
They spend it on helpless people in Africa that starve everyday and don’t learn anything. A man named Ndamukong Suh gaver his original college two million dollars for the athletic department and six hundred thousand dollars to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Engineering to endow a scholarship. And Eli Manning A dedicated Hurricane Katrina volunteer, the Giants quarterback also raised two and a half million dollars for the University of Mississippi Medical Center’s Children’s Hospital and recently donated one million million to the University of Mississippi Ole Miss Opportunity Scholarship fund.
Some athletes spend their money on cars, jewelry, houses, clothes, and many more things some athletes have a heart and spend it on the greater good. Remember Mr. Simpson had all that money and fame, he threw it all away and hatred and murdered three people. The bad thing about that is that he didn’t even plead guilty. Other athletes spend their money for the greater good. Athletes should only get paid a lot if they're going to spend their money for a good cause