Essay Why Pro Athletes Should Be Paid

Pro athletes are the highest paid occupation in the world. For What? For them to run down a field score and touch down or skate down the ice to score a goal, or even stand at base hitting a ball out the park. All though things are what we as kids do growing up, so why do they get paid so much as adults to do things we all did growing up? Athletes get paid too much for what they do, no matter if they play the whole game or are injured; they still get paid the same amount of money. It’s just a sport for us civilians to sit back and help entertain us. So why should they get paid so much money. Difference in income between athletes; teachers, and even other every day civilians who work very hard for their money and what they have. We live in a world that says you cannot get a job after high school without a college education. A lot of these pro athletes went to a college, they had to attend classes. So as for their professors and teachers along the way who have helped them get their education that we are told that we need, we are not making these pro athletes finish …show more content…
The packers signed Arron Rodgers new contract in 2013 for 5 years having him paid $110 million dollars, making him the highest paid player in the NFL. He got hurt two weekend ago playing the Vikings, so he is out of work so like normal people you would have to file a workmen’s comp claim correct and wait for it all to go through getting paid. What about when cops get hurt in the line of duty or what about the men and woman that are fighting to protect our families gets hurt and gets a honorable discharge. They don’t get the same amount of pay to finish out the year. Well not for athletes they are still paid their yearly salary no matter is they play two games or the whole