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Originally Posted by painekiller
Get your numbers correct and then talk. Kieth can explain this better, but the base salary for a rookie is 310k, it goes up every year to the ten year mark where it is in the 800K+ range.
An undrafted free agent player does not make the big bucks unless he hangs around for a while.
And the average playing life of a player is still only 3 years, most NFL players never make near the money you are asserting. Now a few on every team make huge money.
But the average life of a man who played in the NFL is still shorter than the man who did not play in the NFL. The injuries to the joints, backs and head lead to very low quality of lives for these guys.
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OK if it's "just" over 300K a year that's big, big money by my standards. And pro football was never meant to be a man's life-long career, only something he did a few years of his youth, maybe around 10 for a small minority. Anybody who's fortunate enough in the first place to be born with enough raw athletic ability is just plain lucky, after that if they work hard enough to develope their skill the money they get is more than fair reward for their efforts. Even if it's only a few years at just over 300K annually.
High risk from injury ? Tell that to the guys who work the deep-water rigs in the Gulf and the coal-miners back in W.Virginia.