What the fan doesn t realize is that the high priced contracts are not the only thing that drives up ticket prices. In fact high stadium leases as well loss of revenue have cost some sports franchise to relocate. This has become a big problem recently in sports due to the fact that more and teams are moving. For example in the National Football League in the past three years, the Browns have moved out of Cleveland to become the Baltimore Ravens and the Raiders and Rams have both moved out of Los Angeles to Oakland and Saint Louis. The latter has become a huge problem do to the fact that it has left the National Football League without a team in one of televisions largest markets.
Television plays a huge part in the big money contracts of today.
You may be asking yourself how well the National Football League, Major League Baseball, National Basketball Association and National Hockey League all have television contracts with the major networks for billions of dollars. With this extra money floating around the teams can sign players to bigger contracts. This proves my point again that the athlete is just getting his piece of the pie and how can anyone in their right mind fought them, because you would have to be an idiot not to take all that money if it was shoved in your face. I feel athletes should try to get as much money as they can, because the fact is that athletes careers last only a short time, about four years on the average, this means that in a blink of an eye their livelihood could be over. Meaning that most of these guys who do not have college degrees would be broke if they did not invest wisely.