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This video was uploaded in 2017. Basically stating how much some of the top athletes for each sport make. Then debating whether it is to much or not.

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#OffScriptOn9: Are professional athletes paid too much?

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C- This article was published in 2022.
R- It talks about why athletes make so much money.
A- Bleacher report is the publisher and the images are from Getty images.
A- This article supports my claim because athletes get paid millions of dollars when some people cant even pay there morgage.
P- Its trying to persuade you that athletes get paid to much.

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Two Sides to Every Coin: Are Professional Athletes Overpaid?

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Jimmy Connors plays two tennis matches and winds up with $850,000, and Muhammad Ali fights one bout and winds up with five million bucks...

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Athletes do deserve alot of the money they get for the training and stress of winning all that is alot for one person. Plus there are only so many of them in the world. I just think you should not be getting paid millions of dollars like they do.

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C- This article was published in 2022.
R-It states that athletes aren´t overpaided.
A- This article was published by SNO QAP.
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P- Trying to convince people that they deserve all that money.

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It is almost certain that at least one in your life, you have heard someone complain about how much professional athletes get paid. Yes, at first glance contracts such as Mike Trout's 12 year, $430 million or Lionel Messi's average annual salary around $84 million seem ridiculous. However, if you begin to deconstruct these salaries, keeping in mind the value that the athlete brings to the club, it is clear that athletes are not overpaid, and in many cases even underpaid.

According to Forbes, the Dallas Cowboys are the world's most valuable sports club with an annual operating income of $365 million and an overall valuation at roughly $5 billion. That net operating income includes the $143 million spent on player contracts by the team during the 2019 season, showing just how much of an impact superstars such as Ezekiel Elliott, with a base salary of $10.9 million and Dak Prescott, who made just a $2.1 million base salary in 2019, can have. During the 2018 season these players ranked fourth and ninth respectively in league wide jersey sales, bringing in significantly more revenue for the Cowboys and NFL in that way alone than their base salary compensates for. In addition to jersey sales, Elliott and Prescott, as well as other NFL superstars, bring in significantly more revenue for their teams through attracting TV viewers and increasing ticket sales for their clubs.

Comparatively, the NHL's Arizona Coyotes, who have been historically noncompetitive and lack superstars on their roster are the lowest valued team in the NHL and operated with a loss of $15 million during the 2018-2019 season. Some of the team's financial struggles can be attributed to their location in the non-traditional hockey market of Phoenix, however their lack of star power and poor record in 2018-2019 was the biggest factor in their financially unsuccessful campaign. During the season, they were rarely slotted for nationally-televised games, struggled to sell tickets, and did not have a player in the top 15 of league-wide jersey sales. According to hockey-reference.com, the team averaged a home attendance of only 14,596, or roughly 85% stadium capacity, ranking 28th out of the league's 31 teams.

Conversely, the St. Louis Blues, who also operate in a non-traditional hockey market, were able to lean on their star players to turn in a very successful 2018-19 campaign that culminated in a Stanley Cup championship and a 14% increase in team value, with revenues of $171 million and an operating income of $20 million, according to Forbes. All of this was achieved with their highest-paid player, Vladamir Tarasenko, making only $9.5 million. In terms of jersey sales, the team had two of the top 15 best selling players, Tarasenko (ranked eighth)and Jordan Binninton (ranked seventh), with the latter making only $4.55 million during the season. The value that St. Louis' strong roster of players added did not stop with jersey sales, as the team averaged a home attendance of 18,096, or 98.3% of arena capacity. Additionally, the team gained a significant amount of exposure and TV revenue through its nationally-televised championship run.

In 2018 one of the biggest soccer transfers of all time took place with Christiano Ronaldo leaving Spanish club Real Madrid for Italian side Juventus F.C. for $140 million USD. Ronaldo makes a base salary of $35 million USD, however accounting firm KPMG calculated that despite the massive transfer fee and salary, Juventus makes an additional $85 billion USD annually as a direct result of the acquisition. In addition to increased ticket revenues, television deals, and sponsorship agreements, which were included in the calculations, the firm also noted the immeasurable impacts on Juventus' global brand that Ronaldo and his 204 million instagram followers represent. Having the world's most famous athlete as a part of the club will allow it to expand and establish its brand globally through essentially free social media advertising.

In addition to all of the quantitative factors that represent the exponential value that athletes add to their clubs when compared to their salaries, there are also many qualitative factors that suggest athletes are not overpaid. Playing professional sports is incredibly difficult and statistically very unlikely. According to scholarshipstats.com, any given high school basketball player has a 1 in 1,860 chance of going pro, with 1 in 764 for baseball, 1 in 603 for football, and 1 in 835 for soccer. Like any profession, the more selective and difficult it is to get a job, the higher the compensation.

Additionally, by fulfilling their job duties, professional athletes are innately at a very high injury risk when compared to the average occupation. Not only can injuries have severely negative effects on pro athletes' lives, but they can potentially end the athletes' career and income stream. As is the case for almost all sources of risk, the higher the chance, the higher the compensation. This is certainly true for professional athletes.

While professional athletes are heavily compensated for their profession when compared to an average salary, they are certainly not overcompensated based on the value that they add for their respective clubs, the difficulty of making it pro, and injury risk that they face.

Works Cited

As.com. "KPMG Estimates Ronaldo's Huge Financial Impact for Juventus." AS.com, Diario AS, 23 July 2018, en.as.com/en/2018/07/23/football/1532375027_664379.html.

Stein, Dan. "Why Pro Athletes Aren't Paid Too Much." Bleacher Report, Bleacher Report, 3 Oct. 2017, bleacherreport.com/articles/55644-why-pro-athletes-arent-paid-too-much.

Warner, Ralph. "The Top 10 Selling Jerseys of 2018." NFL.com, National Football League, 3 Jan. 2019, www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000001007569/article/the-top-10-selling-jerseys-of-2018.

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It is almost certain that at least one in your life, you have heard someone complain about how much professional athletes get paid. Yes, at first glance contracts such as Mike Trout's 12 year, $430 million or Lionel Messi's average annual salary around $84 million seem ridiculous.

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Most athletes wind up getting injured while playing there sport. They still get millions of dollars and even if you dont get injured they still get millions of dollars. That is some of the reason poeple think athletes arent overpaid.

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C- This article was published in 2022.
R-The different opinions are how much athletes should get paid.
A-The publisher of this article is FLEX wordpress.
A-It supports my claim by saying lots of people have been thinking about athletes getting paid to much especially with the pandemic going around.
P-Trying to convince people that athletes are overpaid.

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Professional athletes get paid a tremendous amount of money for the services they provide. Amidst the global pandemic, a question has been raised about whether or not professional athletes are overpaid. Despite the millions of dollars they receive each year, throughout the rest of this article, I am going to argue why professional athletes are overpaid (for the most part).

First, let me establish some context. All four major United States professional sports leagues (MLB, NFL, NHL, and NBA) have a league minimum for the value of contracts teams can hand out to players. For example, Major League Baseball recently saw its minimum salary raise $8,500 meaning the new minimum salary is $565,500 in the year 2020. This means that every player on a major league roster for the upcoming season must make at least $565,000 or a prorated number based on that number if a player gets called up midway through the season. The minimum player salaries for other leagues are as follows: $898,310 for the NBA and $700,000 for the NHL. The NFL is unlike other leagues in that they have a minimum salary that increases for each year a player has been in the league but as a rookie, the minimum salary is $495,000.

The public is typically not concerned with the minimum salary players are given, and instead, they are more concerned with how much the top athletes make each year. ESPN.com created a chart that listed out the salary of every NBA player and at the top of the list for the 2019-2020 season was Golden State Warriors point guard Stephen Curry. Curry made $40,231,758 during the 219-2020 season and was one of 45 players who had a salary higher than $25,000,000. According to statista.com the average NBA salary for the 2019-2020 season was $8,320,000. This number is surprisingly low considering 82 players made $15,000,000 or higher during the same season meaning that there is a large pay discrepancy inside the league. The top players get paid a substantial amount of money, while the bottom players receive the minimum or just above it. I am aware that the stars are the players who generate more revenue for the sport and the owners, so it makes sense that they are getting paid more than other players. I just have a problem with how much more these players are getting paid.

As briefly referenced in the previous paragraph, star players generate a ton of revenue for the league. Leagues are able to market their star players which can boost ticket sales, can potentially lead to networks fighting over broadcasting rights, and merchandise sales. Looking back at the 2018-2019 seasons (seasons that were completed before COVID-19 hit) these sports leagues generated billions of dollars. The MLB generated roughly 9.9 billion dollars, the NFL generated roughly 15 billion dollars, the NBA generated 8.76 billion dollars, and the NHL generated 5.09 billion dollars. These 4 sports league collectively generated around 38.75 billion dollars for the United States economy over a year's span which many people state as a reason for athletes getting paid so much, but in reality, even the athletes making the minimum are making more than first responders, doctors, and other vital people. Athletes spend so much time perfecting their craft and keeping their bodies in peak physical condition, but they are not and will never be more important than workers like healthcare workers, first responders, etc. The purpose of sports is to entertain millions of viewers, and because of that, I believe that some of the top athletes are being paid too much as their contribution to society is much less than other workers who get paid much less.

I asked 12 friends whether they believed professional athletes were overpaid and 8 responded yes and 4 responded no. There was a common consensus regarding the idea that players making the minimum salary were not overpaid, but that the highest-paid athletes made too much money. Common reasons to support their claim were that nobody needs that much money and also that they do not deserve to make that much more money compared to teachers, doctors, first responders, and other healthcare workers. The 4 people who did not believe athletes are overpaid stated that athletes put so much time and money into their profession that they deserve the high pay levels and also that in today's capitalistic economy, the athletes are just using the system to their advantage and that they are doing nothing wrong.

In my opinion, professional athletes are overpaid. They provide viewers with entertainment for months out of the year, but ultimately I do not believe anyone needs to be making more than 15 million dollars per year. I believe more money should be given to more important workers or the excess revenue can go towards charities to help get people back on their feet or research cures for the numerous diseases prevalent in our society. I have no problem with athletes making less than 15 million dollars per year because I recognize the value they bring to the economy and the countless hours they spend working to become the best. Ultimately, there is no right or wrong way to answer the question of whether or not professional athletes are overpaid, each person has their own perspective and everyone is right in their own sense. This topic may be revisited in the upcoming years as the average salaries of athletes continue to rise each year but in the time being, let's just sit back and enjoy the sports we love.

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Do professional athletes get paid too much? | Pro/Con

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The drama over Ben Simmons puts tens of millions of dollars at stake — and that’s just one player’s salary, for one season. Meanwhile, ticket prices are soaring.

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When you are a big shot professional athlete you could be the face of products. Patrick MaHomes and Aaron Rodgers are in the state farm commercials.

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This video shows on average what an athletes would make for each sport. This video was uploaded in 2014. Then stating if athletes make to much compared to a regular worker. How they would feel to make that much money.

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Do professional athletes get paid too much money?

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This goes for all the sports but if you play in the NFL your average salary is 1.75 million but if you do good and seccueed you are getting paid 5 times as much.

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If you become a pro athletes you are alreday considered rich. You can sit on the bench the whole game and you still get millions of dollars. This picture shows a baseball player for the Cardinals who won the game and is now surrounded by money.