As we were talking about misleading narrators and depicting what the underlying meaning is, we led into talking about athletes. The mythology unit really coincided with athletes. It all started with Michael Vick. The question brought up was if he “broke” the myth that athletes are untouchable by the law. Since he was sentenced to 23 months of jail time, obviously he did not, at least with the case with him and the dog fighting. Everything that happens within the professional athletic world is surreal and strange to me. Although they put a lot of wear and tear on their bodies, I don’t understand why they are paid as much as they are. There are so many other jobs that people have that make the world a better place and save lives and do actually good for the country, but they don’t get paid nearly as much as they should or as much as the athletes. I love sports and I could only watch sports for the rest of my life but I don’t think that the athletes deserve how much they get paid. Most of the time and with most of the money they earn, it is not even put to good use. The athletes buy multimillion dollar houses, hundred of the thousand dollars worth of cars, and it is all blown away. They should save it and use it for things that are necessary, not just things they want. I think that the main reason for it is that some of them come from families that had almost no money and now they don’t know how to manage the huge pay checks that they get because they don’t look at the big picture of life. Overall the money needs to be put towards better uses, before it all gets to the athletes and once the athletes have it.
What is your take on it all? Do you think that the athletes deserve all of the money they get? How else do you think the money should be used or distributed?
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I think that athletes deserve all the money they get for a simple reason. If sporting events like the super bowl are profiting hundreds of millions of dollars, where should the money go. Only to the owners and coaches, but not the athletes?
This almost relates to my post about the economy. Well we wonder why things are going haywire. I am not saying that this is soley the reason why money is being tossed around, however money is not spent the right way in America. I don't think that just because these athletes are good at what they do does not mean that we should be dishing out millions and millions of dollars to them. I think they are over paid. The NBA recently PAID a player millions of dollars to leave them alone! I think that is bogus...
I think that the athletes deserve money, but not as much as they are paid. Obviously they are putting strain on their bodies and will not live as long so they are paid a lot to compensate for their pain and suffering. I think that every athlete that gets paid a certain amount should have a charity and they have to put a certain amount of their paycheck to that charity every time they get a pay check. I think that the athletes can pick the charity and they can put in more money to the charity if they want to, but this is the way it should be. They should share their wealth with the less fortunate.
A comment back to Max, I am not saying that the coaches should get all of the money instead of the players, but all of that money that is beign tossed around throughout all of the organizations of professional sports can be put towards other things.
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