Why Should Football Players Be Paid?

Football, which is derived from soccer and rugby, became a professional sport in 1892, when William Heffelfinger was publically paid five hundred dollars to play the game. Since the beginning of this professional sport, the annual salary has been increasing. Today, the average annual salary of an NFL professional football player is 1.9 million dollars. It has increased a lot just over the last thirty years, since the average annual salary was only ninety thousand in the 1980’s. The salary should not have gone up since the 1980’s. There is absolutely no reason why football players should be paid that much money to play a sport. Because there are very important jobs that help other people and jobs in the entertainment industry that require more advanced qualifications, professional footballs players should not be paid the

The average teacher makes less than an eighth of the yearly salary of an NFL player, for a teacher only makes on average fifty- five thousand dollars a year. It does not make sense that teachers would make less money than football players because without teachers, there would be an absence of people in the workforce. Without teachers, there would be no one to educate people so that they could get jobs. Just like teachers, firefighters have very important jobs that deal with people’s lives, but, unfortunately similar teachers, they make less than a eighth of the annual salary of a football player. Firefighters have a very dangerous job where they work to save people whose lives are at risk, while they, themselves, are risking their own lives. Teachers and firefighters work everyday to make other people’s lives better and safer but are barely rewarded for their hard, important work; whereas, NFL players are being paid millions of dollars a year to throw around a ball for strictly entertainment