The Importance Of Professional Athlete

s it fair for professional athletes to be held to a higher standard? In today’s society, professional athletes are looked at as role models to the youth. We love and praise them whenever they win, but as soon as they do something they are not supposed to be doing off the field we no longer show them support. Everywhere they go they have all eyes on them waiting for them to make a mistake or misbehave, then it will be publicly broadcasted to the country for everyone to scrutinize them.
Professional athletes such as Tom Brady, Lance Armstrong, Tiger Woods, and Barry Bonds were all the most dominant player in their sport at one point in time, now they all face criticism and scrutiny for their actions on and off the playing field. Professional
The realistic truth is that it is tremendously difficult to become a professional athlete. Out of the 321.3 million people in the U.S there are only 14,900 professional athletes” (U.S and World
Population Clock; Occupational Outlook Handbook). The truth is it gives children an unrealistic hope to become a professional athlete. In today’s society professional athletes are looked at as celebrities.
Children see these professional athletes with all this fame and money why wouldn’t they want to be just like them? Instead of wanting to become a doctor, a teacher or even the president, they waste their dreams on becoming a professional athlete. When their dreams of becoming a professional athlete do not work out, they will be stuck with not a clue to do with their lives. For some children their dreams do come true and they become professional athletes.
Although some professional athletes can be role models a majority of them are not who you want your children to look up to. Yes, they are very successful people, but what they do when they are not playing the sport is not ideal to how role models behave. If all we seen was how athletes perform on the court or field then everything would be okay, but with the rapid use of social media we see