If I look at sports as a business, it is a very profitable business with limited competition. I suppose I would like to be 'in' when it comes to the money sports generates.
However, I just can't help but wonder why we pay kids multi million dollars just to catch or throw or shoot a ball?
How are these guys really contributing to society? I suppose they help give us something to cheer for when they play on our team. So that we can feel good about ourselves when our team wins, even though we had squat to do with it.
I am just still to this day amazed that a guy that runs a ball through defenders really well, is worth ten times what a heart surgeon makes. Don't get me wrong, I am certainly a sports fan. I just can't help think that we have skewed our society in some way by escalating sports people to the top 1% of all earners. Do we really value Peyton Manning more than we do the doctor that saves our life...apparently we do.
bench warmers make more than doctors.
2007-08-02
20:08:57
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Robert C
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Football (American)