Over Paid Professional Athletes

Baseball was once said as America’s favorite past-time.  Today baseball is nearly forgotten due to the on growing love of football. According to www.mlbtribune.com ,“The NFL brings in about 2.2 billion dollars a year in revenues from television versus the MLB earns about 340 million.” That’s a lot of money towards our falling economy a year.  At least 64% of adults watch NFL every week, according to www.marketingcharts.com, and that is not including the many young adults who love the sport. On average an NFL player and MLB player can make about 2 million dollars a year; which is an educated guess. Men and women who risk their lives every day, Fire Fighters and Police, barely break 50k a year and that is an average; some make less. Also men and women who teach our children and teenagers the basic schooling needed just to make it in the real world usually barely breaks 40k a year.  Along with the nurses who in the hospital save lives every day as an RN the average salary is 50-60k or as an LPN is about 30-40k. Has anyone thought about the doctors who go to years of school to learn how to save people from cancer or even a dog from losing its leg? Doctor’s live comfortably with their average salaries minimum of 100k. Athletes today are way over paid by making millions and millions every year and they still want more. Chris Johnson is a running back for Titans was fighting with his team because he wasn’t being paid “enough.” Who does this? He catches a ball, he runs, and sometimes makes a touchdown.  This man who more than likely doesn’t even have a college education to fall back on if his athletic career falls deserves to get paid almost 20 million dollars a year but a man or woman who just saved another humans life barely gets paid enough to live comfortably. Money is what makes the world go around in today society.