The Rebel Faction

I'm of the opinion that all players of super-popular sports in the western world are far overpaid for what they do. Randy Moss is going to get over 5 million next year. I can't even begin to imagine what you could spend five million on. My biggest dreams currently top out at maybe five hundred thousand total.

The guy is a complete spoilt child who needs a bend over and paddle.

Overpaid and under skilled. He's good at running fast and catching a ball, and mooning the crowd. Woooooo....

Demos, there is however one very apparent justification for professional athletes and high profile entertainers to get millions and that's the fact that they generate so much revenue. Movie stars generate hundreds of millions dollars for the studios that they work for. Athletes generate hundreds of millions of dollars for the teams they play for, their sponsors, etc. Sure there are many positions which are not paid according to their necessity. Janitors for instance.. what would we do without them? To be honest I don't want to know. But does that mean that they should get paid millions? No of course not.

Yes teachers and doctors are both very important professions, possibly some of the most important. But the bottom line is unless a teacher works for a private school or a University they probably aren't going to get paid the big money. Why? Because their jobs in themselves don't generate income.

As for the whole Randy Moss mooning the crowd thing everyone just needs to get over it. The NFL is a game, just like the NHL and all other professional sports. Is it so wrong for the players to have fun? You probably don't know the reasoning behind the mooning. At Lambeau Field where the Packers play (which is where the Moss mooning took place), Packers fans gather around the visiting teams' bus at the end of the game and moon them on their way out. Moss was just throwing it back in his face, I thought it was pretty damn funny. Nothing to make a huge deal about. Now if you want to get upset about something like Randy Moss walking off of a field in a game which they still have a chance to win with 3 seconds left, which happened a week after the mooning, then I'm all for some criticism.

Football's a game, nothing to get upset about.. unless the Chargers lose their first playoff game in 10 years when they were heavily favored to win. In that case it's OK to be severely pissed off.

Yes teachers and doctors are both very important professions, possibly some of the most important. But the bottom line is unless a teacher works for a private school or a University they probably aren't going to get paid the big money. Why? Because their jobs in themselves don't generate income.

All they need are corporate sponsors.

You still took the time to post when you could have realized that nobody cares.

Pretty much the story of your fucking life, isn't it?

You just made a very good point, professional athletes are paid highly because they are the elite of the elite. People shell out millions upon millions every year to watch them or to buy the products they endorse. So yes it has a great deal to do with the revenue which they generate because if they didn't then there would be nothing to fuel their ridiculous pay checks. Nearly everyone has the capacity to become say a teacher if that's their goal but to become a professional athlete is far more difficult.

There are doctors and teachers who get paid depending on what exactly they do. But I have a feeling that when you refer to teachers you're talking more about public school teachers and yes I can agree that what they do is very important. If people paid $50 dollars to sit in the cheap seats in your local chemistry class then teachers would be making some coin too.

Really the only way to make athletes get paid less is to start ignoring them. Look at the WNBA for example, they're professional athletes but the top performers get paid what less than $100k a year? Not a bad salary for most people but considering what other professional athletes are getting paid it's a pittance.