Why Are Athletes Overpaid

Are Athletes Overpaid?

After a gruesome day at work, you drive home and settle onto the couch, then open your weekly paycheck of a thousand dollars. As you celebrate, you grab the remote and turn on the television to Fox News. They mention the weather, something about a new law, and finally something that catches your attention. The news reporter said Lebron James had just been offered 30.96 million dollars. Unbelievable, right? It is very common for athletes to roll in the dough, and the amount of money they make needs to decrease. For instance, athletes make more than the president, they are paid for enjoying themselves, and can even have a wealthy living after their game-playing days. First off, athletes are paid for partying and game playing. Not only are they paid for the games they are at, they are even paid for the games unattended too. Sure, these athletes overwork themselves for a couple weeks, but when off the job they live the high life. Athletes party, drink, and get into all the trouble they can. What makes this worse, athletes think they can just pay off any victim or police man in their way. In their young adult heads, they won’t be thinking about any future, just the present.

Football athletes that play for the NFL get paid roughly $375,000 to $20 million according to an average player contract. This makes our president’s yearly paycheck of $400,000 seem like pocket change. Furthermore, in Major League Baseball an average player earns from $400,000 to 32 million. Since all players have a commission based income, even the ones that sit on the bench can earn as much as 31 million. Overall, a professional athlete’s career earns more than important people, and something must be