Are athletes paid too much or too little?

[Randy]

Is there too much money in sports? Are athletes paid too much or too little?

 

[Nebulous]

Wouldn't it be great to make nearly $110 million a year simply to play a game?

 

[passenger]

Yes.
Too much! Way too much.

 

[Nebulous]

Yes.
Too much! Way too much.

Then they do all these paid endorsements and get millions more.

 

[Vaeve]

UFC fighters get the shittiest pay of all time, even the top 10 ones barring maybe McGregor.

 

[Nebulous]

UFC fighters get the shittiest pay of all time, even the top 10 ones barring maybe McGregor.

....and their bodies get torn up the most.

 

[Vaeve]

....and their bodies get torn up the most.

Let's fight in the Octagon, Neb.

 

[Nebulous]

Let's fight in the Octagon, Neb.

Bring it on beezy

 

[Smiley]

Is there too much money in sports? Are athletes paid too much or too little?

Definitely too much. They don't really do anything useful, nothing that benefits the human race as a whole.

Take soccer players, for example. What do they do? Chase after a ball and kick it around while tons of beer guzzlers watch them do it from their couches. And that benefits the human race... how exactly?

 

[passenger]

Definitely too much. They don't really do anything useful, nothing that benefits the human race as a whole.

Take soccer players, for example. What do they do? Chase after a ball and kick it around while tons of beer guzzlers watch them do it from their couches. And that benefits the human race... how exactly?

Do the sports "games" kind of remind you of the olden days at the Roman Coliseum?

 

[Smiley]

Kinda, but there are no lions. Maybe have lions chase athletes to give them a reason to run for their lives?

 

[passenger]

Kinda, but there are no lions. Maybe have lions chase athletes to give them a reason to run for their lives?

Then there's the very sporty Gladiators. Then there's the old west having public hangings for crowd-pleasing ENTERTAINMENT.
Then there's

 

[Smiley]

Spoiler

 

[MamaFrankie]

Too much, like all celebrities.

 

[PGen98]

The men, most definitely. The women? Could do with a little more, but not too much...I feel they make about what athletes should make.