Sports stars are paid too much money

Let's get started. I'll be arguing that professional athletes make too much money. First, I'll compare the salary of American football player Jamon Brown to other jobs. Jamon Brown makes an average of $810,815 a year. [1] Let's use the salary of a police officer to put that perspective. We'll call him Joe. Joe makes an average of $48,815 a year, a fraction of Jamon's pay. [2] What about a job in the Navy? Depending on your position, you can make somewhere in between $28,982 to $135,807. [3] So someone fighting for our country is making less than a professional athlete? They're risking their lives. 96.5 out of 10,000 deaths is the rate per year of people serving in the Navy. [4] In high school football only 12 deaths occur a year and those are the highest statistics for deaths in the sport, even in professional football. [5] So why does a professional athlete make more than the average person enlisted in the My mother and father were in the Navy. And in the case of my father, he spent a total of 15 years in both the Navy and the Army. I was their first born child and we had to go on food stamps due to the poor household income. Things didn't get better when my brother was born a year later. My mom resigned to stay home with us. But we had more problems than our household income. My dad suffered from PTSD and my mother with anxiety all because of their time served. We weren't given any slack. And when we had to move all over the country and had to survive off of minimal income these pro athletes were rolling in money? While my family suffered because my parents decided to serve others were living scot free because they were part of the NFL? Why? Anyway, others who save lives are paid significantly less than others in the entertainment industry. It takes years of experience and training to be an athlete and a police officer alike, but would you rather that salary go to a football player or Joe the police officer? When you think of it, we really don't need professional sports. They're a source of entertainment for some, but they aren't necessary when it comes down to it, but we need police officers. We need a justice system to ensure that we aren't consumed in anarchy, yet police officers make less than athletes because of the entertainment industry being very profitable. We can use the Monet that professional athletes make for better things. We can use the $22,133,333 yearly salary of Joe Flacco to raise money for diseases, to feed the hungry, to build a school in Africa, to house the homeless, anything. [6] We can build 1770 schools in Angola with Flacco's yearly salary alone. [7] We can feed 1472 families of four for a year with that money. [8] Why can't we make a change with that much money instead of tossing it in the millions to people who can do without the excess? In conclusion, professional athletes should be paid much less due to the points above. I look forward to your opening statements of the debate. Thank you. Peace. Citations [1, 6]. http://www.spotrac.com... [2]. http://www.payscale.com... [3]. http://www.payscale.com... [4]. http://www.google.com... [5]. http://www.nydailynews.com... [7]. http://illinoisreview.typepad.com... [8]. http://www.usatoday.com...