AW1Steve
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Joined: 3/10/2007 From: Mordor Illlinois Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: USS America There are generally the same complaints about "overpaid" professional athletes in most sports, in most countries. The way I look at it, they are only overpaid if the fans, advertisers, television broadcasters, and personal endorsement contracts are not willing to spend that much money on them anymore. When that happens, the market will correct itself, and salaries will come down. That is the way of free enterprise, and I don't begrudge athletes earning the most they can. We may individually value the skills they have more or less, depending on our personal interests, but they have a marketable skill and there are few who have that level of skill/talent. IMO, there are individuals within a sport who are overpaid, but only relative to others in the same sport, based on their contributions. I do have plenty of problems with athletes who do not appreciate what they have, but that's an entirely different problem. Over paid athlethes? Well , considering that they are destroying their bodies for our amusement, and don't have that many years to earn a lifetimes salary , I'm not that bothered. But sport clubs/teams that shake down their home cities for new stadiums, and other "sweetheart" concessions, with no garuentee of a fixed term to play in that stadium, there I have a problem. Governments, small and large , should stay out of sports.
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