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Originally Posted by Brock
The average NFL salary is 900,000 dollars. It isn't an exorbitant salary unless you're talking about top tier QBs. Secondly, this viewpoint that "they play a game" keeps getting brought up. Yes, they "play a game", a dangerous game, a game that takes a significant number of years off their lives, and significantly affects the quality of those years they have left. They trade those years for money, and I don't understand why people think they should just take whatever line of bullshit the owners throw at them.
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Ok, by your logic the average NFL salary being $900,000 coupled with the average NFL career being 3 years....that works out to them making 2.7 million over their careers. Pardon me if I don't get out a hanky to cry for them. I'm pretty sure a high percentage of this board could survive quite well on 2.7 million dollars for 3 years service. You think a police officer or soldier would be ok with that? After all they have pretty dangerous jobs too.
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Originally Posted by Dave Lane
I've never understood they get paid to play a game crap either. Eminem gets paid 10's of millions a year to sing, and he really hasn't in like 5 years. He never took an NFL hit in his life. He too is the product and gets maybe even 100's of millions a year yet no one is bitching about that.
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That's a whole other thread and as a matter of fact I think that's BS too, but again that's another thread. I'd rather like to see Eminem take an NFL hit.