Aaron Rodgers and New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees earned the most among all NFL players this past 12 months — based solely on their earned salaries, bonuses, prize money, appearance fees and licensing and endorsement incomes. Brees earned $51 million, while Rodgers was right behind him at $49 million — Rodgers' recent contract extension [...]

LombardiAve  wrote:

Three things come to mind: 1. The people on top SHOULD be on top (Romo and Rice maybe being slight exceptions). 2. Athletes in general are way overpaid. However, we have economic freedom/free enterprise capitalism, so great, that's what the Law of Supply and Demand says they should make. 3. Of all the names on there, WE - Packer fans - got the best bargain of all in Aaron Rodgers. A resounding YES to the question they ask at the end of the article.

Originally Posted by: texaspackerbacker 

In the game of football, talent puts you on top. In the game of life, there are many variables that put some on top and others in the toilet. Football is a level playing field, whereas life is not. But you're a right winger and wouldn't understand or acknowledge this fact.

Originally Posted by: Dakotat 

Very interesting. I'm closer to agreement with you than you know in the level playing field or not in life in general. Not to turn this political or anything, but I've had my run-ins with the silver spoon crowd, and I generally lost the battles - the reason why I'm not a helluva lot closer to the top than I am. Another reason, of course, is laziness hahahaha. Pertinent to this thread, however, is that fact that I was basically without talent, in terms of sports or anything else that derives big income.

You like to talk about a "level playing field"; It doesn't strike you as just a little bit unlevel, the fact that neither you nor I can throw like Aaron Rodgers or dunk a basketball or hit a 95 mph fastball? I can live with that unlevelness because I believe in the law of supply and demand - if there was a bigger supply of NFL-quality QBs or agile 7 footers or whatever, then they wouldn't earn so damn much money. In that sense, it's fair, but I sure wouldn't call it level. I'm 5'11; I can dribble and handle a B-ball a little bit; I can shoot 3's lights out even at my age; I always figured I could really be Dirk Nowitzski - if God had just made me a foot taller hahahahaha.

Originally Posted by: texaspackerbacker 

But I'm quite positive God created you enough to more than get by in life, that lessor people would like to have! Everything is relative. We demigod professional athletes because they are very special human beings. The problem with most of them is all the short cuts they are allotted in other aspects of being a human being. And that goes for all the folks in entertainment industry as well.

Originally Posted by: Dakotat