Should NFL Players get Paid More?

[Couch-Potato]

I was thinking about how little these guys make in comparison NBA and MLB and came across the below article. What do you guys think?


Giants receiver Odell Beckham thinks the $10.4 million he’s guaranteed over the first four years of his rookie contract is not enough.

“I think that we should make more money, personally,” Beckham told The Huffington Post when asked what he’d change about the NFL.

Beckham says NFL players should get paid more than baseball or basketball players because football is a more dangerous game.

“I understand that basketball plays 80-something games, baseball plays this many games, soccer plays that many games, but this is a sport where there’s more injuries. There’s more collisions. It’s not even a full-contact sport, I would call it a full-collision sport. You have people running who can run 20 miles per hour and they’re running downhill to hit you, and you’re running 18 miles per hour. That’s a car wreck. It’s just the career is shorter. There’s injuries that you have after you leave the game, brain injuries, whatever it is, nerve injuries.”

The truth, however, is that the danger inherent to a profession has little to do with the pay within that profession. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, logging is America’s most dangerous profession. If people were paid according to the risks associated with their jobs, lumberjacks would make more than NFL players. But that’s not how it works.

In reality, NFL players make less money than baseball and basketball players primarily because baseball and basketball have smaller rosters. The players’ percentage of the league’s revenue is similar in all three sports, but in the NFL that money is divided among a much larger pool of players — more than twice as many players as in Major League Baseball and more than four times as many players as in the National Basketball Association.

As a result, it’s unlikely that NFL players will ever make as much, on average, as MLB or NBA players. No matter how much Beckham thinks they should.

[Rain Man]

If the football salaries are lower due to larger roster sizes, maybe the players should argue for decreasing the roster size. I for one would enjoy watching a 15-man NFL roster with 60-minute players.

[Sandy Vagina]

Originally Posted by displacedinMN

no. teachers should get paid more.

I will be lucky if I can hear in 10 years, if the stress does not kill me.

Agreed. Teachers and Law Enforcement.

It's already ridiculous that football players get paid what they do. The people that educate kids and keep civilians safe are getting shafted.

[mikeyis4dcats.]

NBA salaries are the worst. I saw some guy making 70mil the other day I've never ever heard of

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Sandy Cheeks

Agreed. Teachers and Law Enforcement.

It's already ridiculous that football players get paid what they do. The people that educate kids and keep civilians safe are getting shafted.

They get all the publicity, but I think the people doing market research and strategy should be paid more. They make the world a better place by optimizing all sorts of things, and no one pays any attention to them at all.

[Sandy Vagina]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

They get all the publicity, but I think the people doing market research and strategy should be paid more. They make the world a better place by optimizing all sorts of things, and no one pays any attention to them at all.

shit, you got that part right, for sure..

[Toby Waller]

They are already paid too much to run around and catch balls.
They are basically paid to work out.

[Shaid]

Revenue for 160+ games is a whole lot more than revenue from 16 games. It's more dangerous but if that was an issue, you could have played another sport.

[Toby Waller]

Should teachers be paid more?
I'm not so sure. All they do is teach children how to be institutionalized.

I saw this 20 year old on Periscope the other day and he made an interesting point.

He asked to go to the bathroom...I'm not sure what grade he was in?...6th/7/8/9?...teacher wouldn't allow it. So he gets the trash can in class and urinated right there in it.
The next thing you know he's being prescribed Ned's and forced to go to counseling because he's an independent thinker who didn't follow an unnecessary rule.
There may be good teachers but only the ones who teach outside the system

[eDave]

Hard to take this guy seriously when so many haven't seen a raise in years and compensation is going down.

Elitist prick.

[eDave]

Originally Posted by Toby Waller

Should teachers be paid more?
I'm not so sure. All they do is teach children how to be institutionalized.

I saw this 20 year old on Periscope the other day and he made an interesting point.

He asked to go to the bathroom...I'm not sure what grade he was in?...6th/7/8/9?...teacher wouldn't allow it. So he gets the trash can in class and urinated right there in it.
The next thing you know he's being prescribed Ned's and forced to go to counseling because he's an independent thinker who didn't follow an unnecessary rule.
There may be good teachers but only the ones who teach outside the system

He's all yours displacedinMN.

[Amnorix]

Originally Posted by ChiefsCountry

Hitting a baseball and pitching takes more skill than football. Playing basketball is more athletic and more skills than football. Football is more dangerous, but for the most part it doesn't take the skill as baseball and basketball.

[Toby Waller]

Originally Posted by eDave

He's all yours displacedinMN.

Let me guess. He's a teacher and he'll have a hisdy fit about an opinion. I have plenty of teacher friends I know are good.
I also have teacher friends who are so dumb the talk to adults the wah they talk to the 6th graders they teach

[Mr. Laz]

Originally Posted by Pasta Giant Meatball

They get paid more under the table like Brady anyway. Cap circumventing cheating eastwards.

You know they are

Pats will do anything they can to push the rules, they love pissing the league off. They flaunt their cheating and dare the league to get enough concrete evidence to prove it.

Is there any wonder why the league wants to hammer that organization.

[Pasta Little Brioni]

Smelly every one should be paid more....except entertainers and "athletes who are also actors"

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Mr. Laz

You know they are

Pats will do anything they can to push the rules, they love pissing the league off. The flaunt their cheating and dare the league to get enough concrete evidence to prove it.

Is there any wonder why the league wants to hammer that organization.

I haven't come up with a way to stop it, either. You could make the contracts more simple and transparent, but that would only address cheating within the system, not the stuff that happens outside it.

You could enact rules to keep teams from "hiring" former players to front-office positions after their playing days, but that doesn't seem quite fair since a lot of those guys are legitimately working.

Even if you had the league handle payrolls, you still couldn't stop the scenarios where Pat Bowlen gives Elway a suitcase of cash to pay for league minimum.

It's a huge problem, and it's why we see so few teams in AFC side of the Super Bowl over the past few decades. Cheating confers an advantage.