The mind of professional athletes...
Posted by Drew Stoerrle - Crush Grafix at 4/9/2008 1:30 PM and is filed under uncategorized 
Can anyone tell me what goes on in the mind of a lot of professional athletes? Whenever you turn on Sports Center, you bound to hear a story about how some athlete is unhappy with their contract. How they feel they are under paid. Are these people serious.......
By no means am I saying that their chosen profession is an easy one. You have to be in top physical condition to be a professional athlete, (unless you are a major league pitcher...), You are away from your family quite often, and there is always the risk of a career ending injury. However, to sit there and tell us that the 8 million dollars that you are going to make this year isn't enough..... have you lost your mind????
I can name at least three professions that in our country are most definitely under paid. The first would be our teachers. These people help mold the minds of our future leaders, yet the starting salary for a teacher in the city of Philadelphia is somewhere around $32,000 per year, an athlete that makes 8 million a year is making more in one day than some teachers are in a year. The second profession would be police officers. These are the men and women that try to keep the streets safe for our children to play in. Their starting salary is in the neighborhood of $42,000 per year (Philadelphia), and they may be getting shot at! Finally the third profession, and some may say the most important, is our Armed Forces. These people put their lives on the line day in and day out so that you and I can enjoy the many freedoms that we have in the U.S. In 2006 if you were a Staff Sgt with less than 2 years of experience at that level, your yearly salary was less than $22,000! News flash to all athletes, this is what it means to be under paid!
Before these athletes come out and say that they are under paid, maybe they should stop and think about a couple of things. 1) What about those people that I mentioned above, they definitely have a tougher job than we do...
And 2) We are getting paid a lot of money to play a GAME that we played for free most of our childhood, for no other reason than the love of the game!
By no means am I saying that their chosen profession is an easy one. You have to be in top physical condition to be a professional athlete, (unless you are a major league pitcher...), You are away from your family quite often, and there is always the risk of a career ending injury. However, to sit there and tell us that the 8 million dollars that you are going to make this year isn't enough..... have you lost your mind????
I can name at least three professions that in our country are most definitely under paid. The first would be our teachers. These people help mold the minds of our future leaders, yet the starting salary for a teacher in the city of Philadelphia is somewhere around $32,000 per year, an athlete that makes 8 million a year is making more in one day than some teachers are in a year. The second profession would be police officers. These are the men and women that try to keep the streets safe for our children to play in. Their starting salary is in the neighborhood of $42,000 per year (Philadelphia), and they may be getting shot at! Finally the third profession, and some may say the most important, is our Armed Forces. These people put their lives on the line day in and day out so that you and I can enjoy the many freedoms that we have in the U.S. In 2006 if you were a Staff Sgt with less than 2 years of experience at that level, your yearly salary was less than $22,000! News flash to all athletes, this is what it means to be under paid!
Before these athletes come out and say that they are under paid, maybe they should stop and think about a couple of things. 1) What about those people that I mentioned above, they definitely have a tougher job than we do...
And 2) We are getting paid a lot of money to play a GAME that we played for free most of our childhood, for no other reason than the love of the game!
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