$88,000,000 dollars

[shit4brains]

$88,000,000

Shaq just signed a contract with the Lakers for $29,000,000/yr for 3 years. Are professional atheletes worth the huge salaries they make?

shit4

 

[Svedish_Chef]

Nope, but since he signed for the lakers again... I am satisfied.

Lakers



Da chef

 

[RisiaSkye]

Breaking News

Athletes aren't "worth" anything. It's a supply and demand market, so the answers are very simple.

Pro athletes for big teams (in cities with big consumerist fan bases especially, like, say, L.A. and N.Y.) get the big bucks because they sell Jerseys, Tee shirts, and game tickets, not to mention soda, underwear, tortilla chips and just about every other damn thing you can imagine. Corporations and team owners (aka Other Corporations) make so much money off of these people that they can afford to share the wealth a bit. It's a symbiotic relationship.

Now for more biology metaphor: both the corporations that own them and the athletes that build themselves into marketing icons are parasites on us, the "fans"/consumers/suckers.

If you want it to stop, don't pay big bucks to watch overpaid no-neck monsters beat each other up on Pay Per View and don't wear the $80 jersey of some guy you'll never meet, let alone know. Your support has no affect on their lives. They just have to say that in order to keep suckering you in to buy more products and put more money in their pockets.

And for Gods sake, don't see Space Jam, eat Doritos, drink Pepsi, or rent Budget just because an athlete told you to do it. It won't make you one of them, or part of some imagined community of Fellow Fans anyway. No amount of emulating the consumer preferences of brand name players is going to make you into an athlete. And no amount of label-sporting conformity will make you feel like you have more friends or a better life.

If you want to watch developing athleticism, there are plenty of Free venues, ones that will even give you the chance to get involved.

But, if you like to watch the game for all its sheer entertainment value, be my guest. Just know that ultimately YOU have to pay to watch them play.

 

[Sammyjo]

Yep...my dad and I have been saying this for years.

Yes, I do enjoy baseball, football, and hockey...but I definitely don't think that these guys are worth all this cash. Hell, did anyone actually SEE the Twins play this year? I support them as a fan. They have pretty much got nothing to work with, no money, no players, no nothing...for me, it's not about some "great" guy...who is probably the biggest prick alive anyway...it's about the game. I continue to support hockey coming back to Minnesota. Why? we got screwed is why. Hell, the North Stars weren't that big of a deal when they were here. The fans always supported the team, but nationally *shrugs*...only upon the change of the jersey and the change of the state did they become a force to be reckoned with. The Vikings...what can I say? they've let us down in the past...most people have no doubt that it will happen again. I just like the game.

But, the only way to continue to see the game, is to support the team financially as well. That means, going to games, buying merchandise, etc....of course, I can't afford to do things like that. But, a happy note for me, there are plenty of other idiots who will.

 

[Merelan]

!!!!!
Holy Shit. Pardon me. You caught my attention there.
Are they worth it? Not answering. But here...
My sister teaches Special Education. She makes $33,000 a year. Her husband is the Principal of a not so small school district... he makes $39,000.
They have your children in their classes/schools. They are helping to form a very vital part of the future of this world. Hmmm.
I guess my parents wish they had encouraged the sports angle more.

 

[BrainyBeauty]

Re: $88,000,000

Are professional atheletes worth the huge salaries
they make?

Not if they play for the Bengals. http://smilecwm.tripod.com/net6/walksmil.gif

Oh wait... you said professional didn't you. Never mind.

 

[Sonora]

I LOVE sports. I will watch pretty much all of them, but basketball, hockey, football and soccer are my favorites. I've traveled all over the US watching my favorite sports teams/athletes.

Now that you know that, very few athletes are worth what they are being paid. The only ones that are paid commenserate with their worth are the ones that are making low 6 figures (I don't mean the 55th guy on a football team either). I'm talking about the athletes that are in the less recognized sports that are the tops in their sport, but because it doesn't get any recognition from TV, nobody knows about them.