Just got himself a HUGE extension!!
Derek Carr's $125 million extension makes him the highest-paid player in the NFL
Derek Carr's $125 million extension makes him the highest-paid player in the NFL
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Sports is one of the rare job markets where the employee is paid 100's of times what they would actually do the job for.
If he was offered 100k per year he'd take it, all of them would, what would be the alternative? Go sell insurance or work in IT for 70?
Pretty bizarre if you think about it. An ode to the fleecing of the fan, who for some reason doesn't seem to care.
As you mentioned the fans are the reason these athletes are paid ridiculous amounts of money. Just look at those fans that were paying in to that go-fund me account when Tom Brady was suspended. Really, you're going to pay for a guy's suspension that makes 1000x more a week then you make a year??
Well the bottom line is. If you have a great player you have to pay like that. It's not so much the fans as it is you don't want another team offering your player more money.
Definitely true, it's just a broke system. When the owners tried to break it in the mid 80's with baseball players, the players sued in federal court and won (collusion case). It wasn't collusion as just something simple as the owners all got together and said why are we bidding against each other for something that's not worth it. Courts punished them.
The profit margin to me is just too much at the fans expense, but yet the fans for the most part pay it, so there's no complaint, just something I can't wrap my brain around. The owners shouldn't keep all of the revenue, the players deserve their fair share, the problem is the revenue.
At least imo, a ticket should be $10, free parking, $1 for a hot dog and coke...I really don't see any rationale for what it costs to go to a game. A working man literally has to spend a weeks net salary to see a 2 hour game...just bizarre to me. Not to mention that the teams are now owned by major globalized business' and the markup for the salaries goes deep into other products and goods and services for the owners to keep writing the checks. So it not only fleeces the fans, but just general consumers as well.
Not saying players shouldn't be wealthy, they are unique and nothing wrong with them living an exclusive lifestyle, but there's a difference between being rich, say making 500k per year, and making enough for endless generations of your family to never work, like making 500k per week. Just insane and about as not necessary as anything in life could be.
I'm from New England. I am a Red Sox fan, Celtics fan, Bruins fan, and an Oakland Football Raider fan. My fear with Derek Carr is INJURIES. Last year he suffers a badly dislocated finger, then misses the playoffs with a broken fibula. In contrast, at 40 years old, Tom Brady has never been hurt.
I hope these injuries were just a coincidence and not the norm for the rest of his career.