We've had this conversation here before. Who should get the money if not the athletes? The owners? Unless people stop going to games, buying merch, watching games then the money keeps rolling in. Why shouldn't the people doing the work get their "fair" share? Owners are still making money hand-over-fist even with paying the salaries. There are literally a handful of people in the world who can play at the level of the highest paid athletes and they are mortgaging their future health for our entertainment.
Most of these stadiums are tax exempt, and publicly financed/built. Owners threaten to move teams unless they get the general public to pay for their empires. Its all good, as there are choices made in all of this, but to say a specific athlete is earning that huge pay is ludicrous.
I attend a pro game every so often, as time and money allows, but paying $200 a seat, and buying $50 bucks worth of one dog, and one beer doesn't make me want to go all too often.
I don't blame the player, the owner, or the city. Take what you can get for sure, just isn't really neat for the rest of us.
=$51,000,000 annually
