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Yes and people have no problem paying these people millions of dollars a year for what? Throw a ball around and you are an instant millionaire. Raise the ticket prices? Who cares. A beer is 9 bucks (I really don't the real price) and so is a hot dog. People can afford it and go in DROVES.
Yet, the second someone says: We need to raise taxes .25 or .50 percent to pay our teachers more, fix the classrooms, and buy new equipment, these same people riot in the streets. Can't pay a teacher money, but they have no problem paying some idiot crook whatever they want to throw a ball around.
Funny thing is that tax increase never makes it into the teachers paycheck no matter how many lies are spewed. Actually the last half cent sales tax in my county they dropped on us "for the teachers" ended up building a new football stadium for the hi skool team. People did scream but too late. LOL
How original. With 30 teams and rosters of at least 40, you are bound to have a felon or two in the league. Add in socio-economic policies and the athletes upbringing and you have a Molotov cocktail waiting to happen.
No we have hi profile athletes who "make the news" when something happens. When a few players from the local dart league get in trouble nobody cares much.
Pro athletes are just as much crooks as politicians or shady investment bankers. It's ashame that people see you as a weirdo if you don't follow professional sports.
But no one will ever accuse this forum of letting the facts get in the way of a good thread...
Maybe in raw numbers because after all these are college graduates but there are some very violent offenders like Ray Lewis, Michael Vick and his brother. There are some real gangsters in the NFL.
Just think of the even larger numbers of athletes attending institutions of higher learning. One of our local colleges dropped their football program and opened a medical school, smart decision. Many of these players in division 1 programs don't belong on a college campus.
By the way I have to laugh about the NE Patriots indicating they were releasing Hernandez anyway, they knew nothing about this case
You can blame it on the easy ride they've all had all of their academic and social lives ...they are treated like royalty by idiots from grade school on out...easy grades and things handed to them left and right that they do not deserve in the least...sports is one of the biggest wastes of time that humans can involve themselves in imho.
Sports are a great release from the daily stresses in life. I personally love watching football, but you are right, people treat these athletes like they're some sort of god. Not to mention a lot of them go from dirt poor, to instant millionaire over night, and they're young. Unfortunately the end result for a lot of them is that they end up broke down the road from all of the money they blew during their playing days.
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