Do Sport Athletes Get Paid 2 Much?

[Redskin Warrior]

Wow I started a thread that went a different way from what I was talking about.


i was saying does the huge pay days contribute to the Pacman & Vick actions and attitude does it corrupt there minds?

[Skinny Tee]

Originally Posted by Redskin Warrior

Wow I started a thread that went a different way from what I was talking about.


i was saying does the huge pay days contribute to the Pacman & Vick actions and attitude does it corrupt there minds?

What you're talking about is involves parenting. All the ill actions of those players were choices they made with a cause and effect decision making process you are supposed to learn when you are younger.

They made some decisions that were probably, for their sake, not the best to make. Anyone who has developed a rational sense of cause and effect would have probably been able to steer themselves from those actions.



Sounds way too preachy but a viable answer for your intended thread subject.

[BrunellMVP?]

Originally Posted by Redskin Warrior

Wow I started a thread that went a different way from what I was talking about.


i was saying does the huge pay days contribute to the Pacman & Vick actions and attitude does it corrupt there minds?

Well, how else do you judge payment? Seems to me in almost anything you do, if you are the cream of the crop, you get paid a lot of money. How many people play football? millions. how many play football professionally? Thousand? of those professional players, how many have massive contracts? maybe the top 15 at each position? how is this different that most jobs out there? the elite get paid.

[jsarno]

Originally Posted by Redskin Warrior

Wow I started a thread that went a different way from what I was talking about.


i was saying does the huge pay days contribute to the Pacman & Vick actions and attitude does it corrupt there minds?

Well, to answer that question, it is yes. It has certainly contributed. Money does corrupt people, and to make matters worse, these athletes are told they are gifted from a young age. They are told they will be a pro athlete and only to focus on that, so they avoid essentials such as education and train more in their respective sport. Granted not all do this, but a lot do. So the fact that a lot are uneducated and blindly rich...well that's a certain recipe for disaster. Also, we put players that don't deserve respect on pedistals only cause they are a good athlete for our team. No common person could live up to our perceptions of how these athletes should carry themselves, but we still unfairly hold them up above others. These athletes have the "rock star" persona because we hold them in such high regard. So of course it corrupts their mind.