Personal view: pro-athletes deserve the money
Houston Texans defensive end J.J. Watt posing for portraits in the practice bubble across from NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas on Wednesday, July 22, 2015.
February 22, 2017
Pro athletes get so much money and they deserve every bit of it. They have worked so hard by competing in high school to get to college and then to the pro leagues. What I don’t think people understand is there are thousands of people who play in college but only about twenty or less get drafted into the pros.
If you’re lucky and work hard, you might get scouted by pro scouts and if you’re even more lucky and work hard they might take some interest in you. After that you go up against guys who went through all of that too and have to be better than all of them so you might get drafted. Overall, pro athletes deserve the money they get.
They work way to hard not to get paid like they do. The players do not get paid to sit on the sidelines, they get paid to risk it all and play the sport. All athletes are so dedicated to the sport that they risk injury to play, especially a sport like football where contact is the whole game. The psychological stress placed upon athletes is overwhelming. They are constantly worrying about their bodies, because if they get hurt, their career may be over.
All pro athletes are fighters. Most pro athletes have gone through something in there career whether it be injuries or just going through low times, every player is a fighter in that they keep on going.
Every athlete who cares about his/her career will keep on going until their the best because they have come so far not to show that they want it. When athletes come into their respective leagues everything is against them because they are one in thousands of other players who want their spot and will do anything for it.
Anyone in the military works way harder than those losers. Nice article though, it’s cute.
Ur right but they only have a limited years of playing sports
Ur right but they only have a limited years of playing sports
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They do deserve it but same does the military i mean alot of people do
They work way TOO hard not to get paid AS they do.
Ethan,
Thank you so much for writing this article! I noticed that this is a school news website but I don’t go to your school. In fact, we live in different states. Anyways, this article was a big help for an argumentative essay that I’m writing in my Language Arts class. Once again, thank you.
When fans look at professional athletes’ salaries, it’s easy to say they make far too much money for playing a game. After all, athletes earn more money than teachers, first responders, and members of the military. More than half the people in the United States make less than $62,000 a year.Though athletes should make more
Nothing athletes do deserve the pay they get. Same with actors. Overpaid idiots is what they all are.
I think if they actually work hard for it then they deserve the high pay.
I agree because Sport players should get paid more money. Only (0.00075%) of people make it to the pro sport they play. Also celebrities have hard work and not everyone is a athlete. So I think athletes deserve to make more money than the average American.
Nice good job man I agree all the way nice job.
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Truth be told, I really don’t think that athletes need that much money. Yes they do great work, yes they work hard, but the disrespect the right to be able to do what they do. The american flag stands for freedom. Athlete’s do NOTHING to help this country remain free. The LEAST they can do is at least be respectful to all the men and women who fought to allow these athletes to remain free. This means respect the flag, as well as respect the men and women who DIED when fighting for that flag. I don’t care if you don’t like what I have to say, but it’s both the truth and my opinion. If you remember there were multiple wars fought so that the average man could have the freedom of speech necessary to have and voice opinions. Long story short, Athletes should be paid but they should be paid less than the rather exorbitant amounts of money they are paid just to play a sport that people in middle school can play. Athletes are strong and all, but they are no different and no where near as special as some of the other people in this world.
Thanka!!! Doing an Opinion writing.I do disagree with you though.The average salary (per year) for a nurse is about 77,000, while an NFL player is 2.7 Million!
I disagree with this because the military works way harder and risk their lives and the pro athletes just play a game and for example, patrick mahomes $500 million deal with chiefs, even though he’s the GOAT but military deserves more.
They deserve the money they make. Athletes generate the money through sales and many other things the do like merch ads. They not as greedy as some say, they do charitable events.
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People wonder if pro athletes should get there million dollar salary, I think that they should because they had to work hard to get to one of the famous sport that means you have to be the best of the best.