Pros And Cons Of Professional Athletes Overpaid

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This Article is cool because it tells the readers about the athletes and if there paid. Readers do you think that their overpaid. These athletes make too much money than the president of the United States. They get paid a lot. Athletes are overpaid and it is kind of ridiculous. Athletes in Football are offered long term contracts for loads of money and they don’t save people.

I Think the reason they’re overpaid is because they’re professional athletes they are what people watch they are the reason sports is a thing yet people who risk their lives are underpaid. For example Tom Brady makes 36,000,000 dollars A YEAR. The top 3 athletes in basketball are paid so much they are basically loaded.

The Jobs like the police, doctors, teachers, nurses

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