What is wrong with this picture? Are our priorities so mixed up? In today’s society, I feel that common hard working citizens such as firefighters, police, and teachers are being cheated out of the pay they are due, while actors and professional athletes only work half as hard, and get paid way more than them. It is important, in examining this issue, to consider the salaries, training, and dangers.
Salaries for well-known professional athletes are among the highest received in the United States. For example, in 2006-2007 Lebron James, a professional basketball player, earned $5,828,090 and a seven year shoe deal with Nike worth more $90 million. Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees has a contract guaranteeing him $252 million over ten years. In contrast, the average
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Exposure to heat can be very dangerous to male and female firefighters. Women firefighters are more likely to be at risk of bladder and prostate cancer from being exposed to fire and smoke everyday. Males tend to contract lung cancer. That is another reason I think actors and professional athletes shouldn’t be paid more than a firefighter. Firefighters work longer hours and they do it for a better reason than athletes and actors. That’s why I am reasoning that firefighters should be paid more. Police officers enforce the statutes, laws, and regulations that are created by government to protect life and property. A police officer’s job is to respond to crimes in progress, patroling assigned areas to maintain public safety, interviewing witnesses and suspects, apprehending fugitives, collecting evidence, writing reports, and providing testimony in court. A police make about $27,400. My second reason why I say actors and professional athletes are being paid too much is because police are responsible for all these things, while risking their life. Actors just act on stage and become
Firefighters, police officers, and military personal should be compensated more than other people because they risk their lives every day to keep citizens safe. It is never right just to view people as dollar signs because when you do this, you do not treat them like a humans and have no regard for their families. Taking both into consideration can account for the lack of resources while also understanding the emotional distress the families will go
Money Hurts College athletes attend post-secondary schools in order to receive an education and to participate in sports. “Student athletes participate in an organized competitive sport sponsored by the educational institution in which he or she is enrolled. Student athletes must typically balance the roles of being a full-time student and a full-time athlete” (“Student athlete” 1). Additionally, some people believe athletes should receive a salary. However, paying college athletes hurts the school, the sports, and the athletes.
There are many things that these athletes deserve to have and seems only right for them to have most of them. Anything they can get will be great progress. All of these options could work, but they will all take time. There are positives and negatives to everyone. The one thing each athlete needs is to feel secure if they get injured while playing the sport they love. They need to feel that since they went all out for their sport and their school has their back and will honor them for their hard work and not let them suffer with medical bills or losing a scholarship. An athlete is a one of a kind person so why shouldn’t we treat them like
Should college athletes be required to graduate with a degree, before they go to the pro’s? I believe that all colleges should make it mandatory for their student athletes to graduate before they are allowed to go to the pro’s. Only a small percentage of student athletes go on to have a career in professional sports after college. The few that are lucky enough to make it to the pro’s usually end up playing for a couple of years and then end up not being able to find work. College athletes should be required to obtain degree’s because not only does it allow you to have something to fall back on if you can’t make it to the pro’s, but it also can show pro sports teams that you are a mature individual, and your education is important to you as well.
“Sports specialization refers to the exclusive participation in a single sport, most commonly on a year-round basis” (Kauffman). For many athletes, this means that training schedules no longer have an off-season (Kauffman). Early sport specialization is characterized by participation in a specific, intense training program for a single sport at an early age at a competitive level (“Journal of Physical Education,” n.d.). Ages that are considered for early sport specialization include 3-12 years old. “Approximately 45 million children participate in organized sports, and many participate at earlier ages with sport specialization” (Callender, n.d.). With this participation gradually increasing in the U.S. adolescents, sport specialization including
Pros and Cons of Athletes Being Paid Today in the sports era, there are some of the most talented collegiate football and basketball players. The real question is ‘should college athletes be paid’? Some of the players are so good that people think they should play on a professional level to where they should be paid. There are more people who believe collegiate players should not get paid; than those who believe they should be paid while playing a college sport.
An 18 year old, fatherless youth just found out she is pregnant. Does this sound like the start of a success story? Thanks to athletic scholarships, universities, and the NCAA it is. Kaneisha Atwater gave birth to Andarious Fulton on December 31, 2011. “He was one of 333,746 babies born to teen mothers in the U.S. in 2011 and one of 275 in St. Lucie County, home to Fort Pierce, where the median household income is below $30,000 and the violent crime rate is nearly triple the national figure.” (Burnsed) Thanks to athletic scholarships, and other assistance athletes receive Kaneisha received a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice. “Kaneisha said she wants her son to see that there’s more to life, and wants to get him out of Fort Pierce.” (Burnsed)
The topic that I have chosen is how externalities of a professional sports team affects the city, town, or state that it is in and how also it can increase or decrease the economic value of the current place that it resides in. There are plenty of professional sports teams in America, and some cities even have multiple teams inside of them, such as Boston, New York, Atlanta, etc. With numerous sports inside of the United States, the demand for a sports team is required; with this type of demand it could be beneficial or harmful for whichever city that it exist in.
The controversy of athletes being overpaid dates back to 1922, when well-known baseball player George “Babe” Ruth received $50,000 within the first year of his career. Ruth’s extensive wealth was bolstered by dozens of endorsements (Saperecom). As it is shown in figure 1, in the Fortunate 50 Tiger Woods takes the number one spot for highest paid athlete. Tiger’s salary for 2011 is $2,294,116 and like Babe Ruth, his endorsements exceed his salary earning $60,000,000 making his total $62,294,116 (Freedman). It’s crazy to think that 89 years ago professional athletes scarcely made more than the average person today. This is of course not counting the inflation that has occurred since the years which Babe Ruth played baseball.
Now Mr. Roberto Hinojosa contends that professional athletes are overpaid. Citing U.S. Household Income stats for 2012 he explains that teachers,
This is an argument you can find anywhere. ESPN, Sports Center, and even on your local news channel, college athletes getting paid is more of an argument then most people think. Some people usually jump to conclusions, “They shouldn’t get paid!”or “Aren’t full ride scholarships enough?” Well, there are many more facts and statements to go with this. It can be a major topic to argue about, because there are really some good counter arguments to change people's ideas, including me. Usually some colleges can’t afford it, supposedly, and that the pride and heart of the athletes are lost because money overcomes on where they are and what they do. Maybe that could be a topic, but it would be great to pay for the best in the league, have it more competitive, and to have more than one team, instead of Alabama, win a championship throughout the years.
Americans believe that athletes, celebrities, and CEOs are the highest paid jobs in America. This belief is true however the average income of these three jobs is nowhere near what the perception is. Athletes are the most confusing when it comes to pay since people do not factor in that an average professional is only 4.85 years, NFL is 3.5 years, MLB is 5.6 years, NBA is 4.8, and NHL is 5.5 years, (RSVLTS, 2013) United States Bureau of Labor Statistics stated that an average income for “athletes and sport competitors” was only $47,710 (BLS, 2017). People believe that athletes are only the stars you see on television, but this is not the case. Athletes are risking their health for that paycheck. They spend a majority of their lives in the gym or on
A men or woman wearing a helmet and gear to protect the country should be getting paid more than someone who wears a helmet to hit someone in the same country as him or her. (www.debate.org/opinions/should-the-military-get-paid-more-than-athletes). Men and women of the United States of America that serve and protect our country to go overseas and leave there family should get paid more, not that they want millions they just deserve more pay then someone who goes and plays sports. (www.debate.org/opinions/should-the-military-get-paid-more-than-athletes). 85% of this website say yes they should be paid more then what they do
It may be true; such people like the president of the United States and doctors don’t make a fraction of what a celebrity makes on one movie. Many can argue that people with the occupations such as a doctor who saves people lives on a daily basis, should be paid more. In like manner the president of the United States only makes 400,000 dollars a year. As compared to an actor that works on a movie for six months at a time, gets paid millions of dollars. Another argument that I have come across, is that some people say that teachers have to work eight hours a day, 5 days a week and ten months out of the year. Teachers are important because they reach out to kids, getting them ready for life. On the other hand, society sees a football player only is around for entertaining purposes. People see it as a teacher is only making 40,000 a year, while a football player makes over forty million.
Pros and Cons of Children in Sports On Friday, October 18, 2013, Aledo High School and Western Hills High School squared off in a football game. It was a great game for those rooting for Aledo High because they won the game 91 – 0. At the time these two teams played, ESPN of Dallas/Fort Worth had Aledo ranked number one in the state in class 4A high school football. With a massacre like that, one may ask if the Western Hills Football team knew why they had lost so badly. Would this game have made state and national news if it had been played but no score was kept?