Why Do Professional Athletes Deserve The Big Bucks?

Do Professional Athletes Deserve the Big Bucks? Have you ever heard of the green-eyed monster? William Shakespeare’s Iago was probably the first to use that term in all of human history in the play Othello, when he said, “Oh, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.” --- Othello, William Shakespeare
So, the green-eyed monster is the beast of jealousy, as in “green with envy.” If you are human, that …show more content…
They stayed after normal practice time to get better-- in junior high, in high school, and in college. They worked really hard. Plus, these athletes are not paid based on the imaginary abilities of the normal “couch potato” fan. They are paid based on the reality of how they stack up against their competing sports peers, who are normally the greatest athletes at what they do in the world (“6 Reasons Why Professional Athletes Are Not Overpaid”). Victims of the green-eyed monster really need to think about that before they start wanting to transfer the athlete’s money to themselves. Plus, using logic, the real reason professional athletes are paid high wages is because the entertainment market in competitive sports is extremely large. Sports fans pay big bucks to go see them play in stadiums, and advertisers pay high dollars to be associated with them on TV. Plus, and this is really important, the money that they make comes from private enterprises that are willing to pay for those athletes’ abilities. Abilities that are always equal to what their employers feel they are worth (Callahan). These athletes are not paid by the government. They are competing for all they are worth in a market driven economy, not being paid by what taxpayers think they are