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.

[chiefzilla1501]

Originally Posted by tk13

I don't know if they should make more money, but I thought it was amazing a few years ago when the owners locked them out to get a bigger piece of the pie and nobody batted an eye. NFL owners can pretty much do whatever they want. People are crazy about football.

They would bat an eye if they got to the point where they marched out replacement players. You could replace every single owner and nobody would bat an eye. Replace the players with second level talent, and you get the XFL.

The owners whined about not having enough money to cover expenses. Yet when they were asked to open their books, they refused.

[RobBlake]

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.

False. It takes more skill to catch an oddly shaped ball in all weather conditions with a usually more agile defender hanging off of you. You don't even need to be in shape to play baseball. It takes great hand eye coordination for baseball. Actually, hockey may be the sport that requires the most all around skill.

[Psyko Tek]

Originally Posted by Tuckdaddy

Hell no. They make enough to be set if they are smart. They can easily my buy into successful franchises that don't fail. Even at the vet min they can do this and be set for life. If anything baseball and basketball get paid to much.

what if you go per game?
I ain't gonna do it but the other sports play a lot more games

that I do not watch because they are boring as shit

[Toby Waller]

Originally Posted by RobBlake

False. It takes more skill to catch an oddly shaped ball in all weather conditions with a usually more agile defender hanging off of you. You don't even need to be in shape to play baseball. It takes great hand eye coordination for baseball

it takes very little skill to catch a football then it does to hit a home run. If it's so hard to catch a ball with a defender on you,how come it happens numerous times every week in every game?

[chiefzilla1501]

Originally Posted by RobBlake

False. It takes more skill to catch an oddly shaped ball in all weather conditions with a usually more agile defender hanging off of you. You don't even need to be in shape to play baseball. It takes great hand eye coordination for baseball. Actually, hockey may be the sport that requires the most all around skill.

Maybe some sports require more athleticism. And certain positions require more thinking and instinct.

But hitting a major league pitch is the hardest technical thing to do in sports and it's not even close.

[Buehler445]

If they don't like it they can play baseball? Oh? You're dumbass isn't good enough? Welcome to the real world.

The simple truth is they're worth what they can negotiate. If they could generate more revenue, they could collectively bargain from a stronger position.

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[-King-]

Originally Posted by Buehler445

If they don't like it they can play baseball? Oh? You're dumbass isn't good enough? Welcome to the real world.

The simple truth is they're worth what they can negotiate. If they could generate more revenue, they could collectively bargain from a stronger position.

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[chiefzilla1501]

Originally Posted by Buehler445

If they don't like it they can play baseball? Oh? You're dumbass isn't good enough? Welcome to the real world.

The simple truth is they're worth what they can negotiate. If they could generate more revenue, they could collectively bargain from a stronger position.

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How many businesses are out there in the real world have an authority that actually lets a business owner cap their employees' wages? If there was no salary cap, many of these players would make a lot more money. The salary cap is imposed to create fairness and to create fairness, players have to take a hit.

And you know the players are getting less on this because owners were asked to open their books, and they refused, which can only mean owners have a lot more money to share than they let on.

[Squalor2]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

Relative to basketball and baseball and even hockey players, football players are underpaid. Would you rather stand in center field for 20 years and make $200 million, or get buried running up the middle by 1,500 pounds of steroid defenders, make $20 million, and retire when your knee starts bending the wrong way?

Having said that, football players are overpaid compared to other professions, but that's the perquisite of working in a field where you're essentially a national celebrity to some degree. When you think about most players, though, they're not even really national celebrities. I bet Marcus Peters or Jeremy Maclin or Alex Smith could visit 95 percent of the country in anonymity and they're among the bigger stars of the team.

ahh. remember when you told us about the house you went in and works of art you saw?

you gotta let daface go