Imagine you are a hardworking doctor or lawyer, and you aren't getting paid the amount you should be. Other people like you who are bettering our community aren't getting paid the amount they should be, and all of your tax money is going towards paying for athletic stadiums. Doctors, teachers, government employees, police officers, firefighters, and lawyers should be receiving the money that athletes receive. Professional athletes provide entertainment for society, but I believe they receive an unreasonable salary. Overall, athletes are overpaid because all they are doing is playing a game to entertain while other more important professions are making much less, they don't contribute to society, there are better places to use the money, and the money received could be used to pay for more useful causes that would benefit our society.…
One reason i feel they are not overpaid is they had earned to be there they had earned to be playing on that field. Also the better you are the more the teams are going to want to pay for you to be on their team. I also know that athletes had injuries that can cost up to $70,000. Like Paul George when he snapped his leg is basketball that costed approximately $65,000 dollars for surgery. One example is Tom Brady he is a 5 time super bowl champ quarterback.…
How much money does a hard-working, very rewarding person such as a doctor, firefighter, someone who risks their life to fight for freedom, or even the president of the United States of America make? Only a fraction of what Cam Newton, quarterback of the Carolina Panthers, makes. Sports involves at least two competitive opponents that compete against each other for entertainment purposes. Millions of people come to watch these events every year, and even one-third of the United States watched the Super Bowl last year. But does this mean that athletes should be paid the astronomical amount that they are?…
What do LeBron James, Serena Williams, Inbee Park, Usain Bolt, and Peyton Manning all have in common? Other than all being very popular, they are some of the most successful athletes that are currently active to this day. From Olympic Track and Field sprinters to professional Golfers, these athletes have worked hard to make millions. In this grouping of athletes, one of them earns the most money, and is one of the highest paid athletes in the United States. Each sportsperson has accumulated well over a million dollars from their current profession.…
Although most people think athletes should make as much money as they do, others think they shouldn't make so much. Athletes get paid millions and even sometimes billions of dollars per game. I'm going to use my favorite player, Lebron James. Lebron gets paid 30,963,450 dollars a year. Lebron is the top paid player in the NBA.…
The average salary of a professional NBA player is about 5.15 million dollars. When one takes this massive amount of dough and compares it to the average salary of a middle class citizen, which ranges from 42,000 dollars to 125,000 dollars, one would notice that the NBA player makes substantially more than the average citizen. Professional athletes should have smaller salaries because jobs that save lives get payed way less, ---, and the money they are getting could be used to help the community. When looking at the paychecks of athletes and the paychecks of people in the military or people who are doctors, you would realize, the athlete gets more money. This is completely and utterly absurd.…
What would our lives be like if we got a trophies for doing what we are required to do? People should not get rewarded for doing what they are suppose to do. In addition if we are going to be giving out trophies we should make them mean something. Secondly everything in life should be earned, sometimes your best is not good enough, and that should drive you to want to do better. Some sport organizations have a "Trophies for all" policy.…
i think that many professional athletes should get high salaries, because they work really hard to get into any sport. Plus they have to do their very best and the other reason why i think that they should get high salaries because they have to train very hard whenever they have to go all the way through college and get an scholar ship. Although they the athletes have to work very hard to get their scholar ship, but they work very hard to get all of their money because they choose to do it and to make their life way better from when they were little kid. to make their parents very proud to finish school and live in a big mansion or a big house.…
It’s the beginning of the college football season, and with a new year of sports, the annual debate of whether these highly talented athletes should be paid rises along with it. Starting with reasons of why they should be paid, they make thousands of dollars for their school, and uplift it in a way, bringing it popularity and a good reputation yet they don't get remunerated for their hard work. It is also disputed that with the number of grueling hours of work put into practice it makes nearly equivalent to a full-time job but without pay. On the opposing side, people disagree, reasoning that the athletes do get rewarded considering the free 250,000+ dollar education for free, popularity and fame, and a much higher chance of getting into pro football for being in an amateur league. The real question is not if they should be rewarded for their work, but if they're rewarded fairly for it.…
Why so many athletes go broke You’ve probably all heard about how athletes go from rags to riches overnight when they sign their huge multi million dollar contract. But you probably haven’t heard is how a lot of them blow the money very quickly after retirement. 78% of NFL players face bankruptcy or serious financial stress, just 2 years after leaving the game and 60% of NBA players face the same injustice 5 years after retiring.…
Have you ever wanted to become a pro athlete? What's not to love? They are all really strong, they get to play sports all the time and they get a lot of money. Some people question if an athlete should get high salaries. Athletes should get high salaries because they donate a lot of money to charity and hospitals, athletes work their entire lives to get into pro leagues and only some players get really high salaries.…
Athletes need the money to pay for medical bills and enough to suffice for the rest of their lives. Athletes have short careers. Athletes work hard to inspire and entertain us. Athletes deserve their high salaries. Don’t you think?…
The world of men’s college athletics is intense; full of testosterone infused, ultra-competitive athletes and corrupt coaches all vying for a spot in the nation’s biggest championships. So what does this amount to? A friendly bunch of folks all participating in games for the fun of it? While this might be the case for few, the majority of college athletics is much more complex than that. It is a billion dollar business, fueled by a few thousand young men with the carrot of their lifelong dream-becoming a professional athlete, dangling over their heads.…
In all, athletes are being overpaid immensely. Professional athletes get paid a tremendous amount compared to the working class. The average salary for a professional athlete is into the millions, while the working class gets about $40,000 a year or less. This outrageous,…
Beads of sweat down your forehead fall onto your shirt as you go beyond what seems humanly possible. Top level athletes give it their all everyday always training or endorsing products for training and so on and so forth. Also, to do what they do at a professional level against many other competitors shows the amount of dedication they have. Athletes for sure deserve high compensation for the work they do, They devote their life to the sport , Bring entertainment to millions of people, and if it isn't an easy job. My first reason why Athletes deserve high compensation is because they devote their lives to a sport.…