Athletes Should Be Paid

Athletes are paid way too much. It’s not fair. Their job is to play games. They throw balls around, run a little, tackle people, beat people up, and earn too much money for it all. People like doctors and teachers earn less than many athletes, which isn’t right. Doctors save lives and teachers set barriers for the future of our world. Meanwhile, some athletes spend much of their season benched, but don’t lose any money. Athletes should be paid less because being a professional athlete doesn’t take a lot of education, they don’t contribute much to society, they don’t spend their money well, and there isn’t a good opposing argument.

Athletes did not have to get a lot of education for their salary. The highest paid professional athletes can

Athletes spend a boatload of cash and often go bankrupt. The reasoning for this is because they get paid a lot and assume that they are going to earn more money down the road too, but that's typically not the case. The average pro-football player’s career lasts only 3.5 years, according to the NFL Player’s Association. Football players are mainly the ones not making good financial decisions. 78% of NFL players are out of money within two years of being out of the game. Football players aren’t the only ones, though, the same thing happens to 60% of NBA players within five years of retiring from the game. So where does all of their money go? Some athletes spend it on drugs and alcohol. In fact, this has become such an issue that the NFL started requiring rookies to attend a four day crash course on dealing with all of their money. Besides that, young, new, rich, athletes throw away their cash on things they don’t need. One particular example, Vince Young, spent 5,000 USD a week at the Cheesecake Factory during his rookie season. That’s about 200 meals. In one week. For multiple weeks. However, that’s nothing compared to spending 6,000 USD at a TGI Friday’s in one night. He also bought 120/130 seats on a commercial airline flight just because he could. In six years he blew 26 million dollars, which is more than the average american will make in their whole life. Another athlete that has made bad decisions is Gilbert Arenas, and though he continues to get payed, he’d be broke by now if it weren’t for his incoming money. He made 22 Million USD in a season, and is still getting paid. But, he is spending money irresponsibly. Arenas takes his car to a 675 USD car wash. He’s got a personal shark tank, which costs 6,500 dollars a month to maintain. He even has over 2,000 pairs of shoe sin his closet. Overall, athletes getting extremely rich so quickly it can hurt them. Many start their short careers when they are young