Are NFL Players Paid Too Much? The average NFL player’s income per year is 1.5 million dollars‚ but the highest paid player now is Drew Brees of the New Orleans Saints. His pay is 31 million dollars not counting bonuses of any sort. Are professional players that are part of the NFL paid too much? Some might say that there are doctors and people like the president that really do save people’s lives and help and that they should get paid millions. Then people like me saying that no they are not
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of the most popular sport in the world. Salaries and transfer fees are getting higher by every transfer period. There are many people who consider that making such fortunes for running after the ball is absurd. It is hard to give any reasonable argument against that. In moment of greatest recession from World War II‚ clubs as Real Madrid and Barcelona bought their most expensive players‚ Gareth Bale‚ Luis Suarez and Neymar. Bale’s transfer is highest in the history of this sport and fee for getting
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Should the use of performance enhancing drugs in sports be legalized? PRO (yes) | CON (no) | Bengt Kayser‚ MD‚ PhD‚ Professor of Exercise Physiology‚ and Alexandre Mauron‚ PhD‚ Professor of Bioethics‚ both at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Geneva‚ Switzerland‚ along with Andy Miah‚ PhD‚ Reader in New Media and Bioethics at the School of Media‚ Language‚ and Music at the University of the West of Scotland‚ UK‚ in their Dec. 2005The Lancet article "Viewpoint: Legalisation of Performance-Enhancing
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boxing can lead to brain damage” (Kayser‚ Mauron‚ Miah S21). This point however is irrelevant because these are known risks and are partially unavoidable in the nature of the sport. There are precautions however that can be taken while training to minimize these risks and athletes are fully educated on how to treat or prevent sports-related injuries. The same cannot be said for the risks of PEDs. “Many athletes currently using steroids and other dangerous PEDs are probably unaware of the full extent
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Laws Of Life It takes a lot to make up a good player. In both school‚ and on the field you have to be respectful‚ trustworthy‚ responsible‚ fair‚ caring‚ and overall a good citizen. Sports and schooling/education tie in together with being all the parts of The Laws Of Life. We’re just starting to fly right now as youthful students. Later on through life‚ as we start to grow older‚ and more mature‚ we will have a higher set of expectations. We follow some of these expectations and for the rest
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Athletes Are Overpaid What would a typical person do for a million dollars? Who would not want to be paid millions of dollars to play a sport? Most people would agree that athletes are overpaid due to them seeing what athletes do with their money Athletes are overpaid because there are more jobs which require more effort and deserves to be paid more‚ most of those athletes do not live up close to their pay‚ and the money could benefit other matters. First off‚ in the whole world
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one of the biggest‚ if not the biggest‚ question that surrounds the world of college sports. The answer‚ quite simply put‚ is no. Allowing universities to pay students athletes to participate in sports would require a complete overhaul of the NCAA rule book. At this stage‚ too many questions need to be answered: how much would athletes get paid? Where would the money come from? Would athletes in certain sports get paid more than others? This is just the tip of the iceberg. The amount of time that
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watch them. Many of us even get special packages that cost about $50 extra programmed on our televisions to watch these spectacular athletes play or actors act. I mean it’s not like you get paid for playing sports in high school. You don’t make great money if you’re not a professional athlete. They deserve all the credit and hype they get; you have to be very good for someone to imitate you in the backyard or quote a line from one of your
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or not professional athletes are overpaid. In the present time athletes are being paid phenomenally large amounts of money for their entertainment. It is my claim that all professional athletes are overpaid because they do not offer society an essential function that improves or enhances our world in comparison to other professionals such as medical doctors‚ lawyers‚ and teachers. Society does not value entertainment enough to warrant such high salaries such as those of many professional athletes
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’s 105.6 (1992): 65. Academic Search Premier. Web. 5 Feb. 2013. In this online article I found from Academic Search Premier‚ it explores various professional athletes and their annual income. It is directed towards anyone interested in sports and athletes’ incomes. I would give this source credibility because Trent Frayne was a legendary sports writer whose career stretched over 60 years. In “The Ultimate Goal: The Almighty Buck” Frayne writes about different athletes ranging from the MLB
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