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Originally Posted by ubertuber
Those two standards have nothing to do with each other. With teachers, your version of good is really "much better than adequate". With running backs, your standard of good is "excellent even among the best in the country".
When you stack the deck like that it isn't surprising that "good teachers" are easy to find and "good running backs" aren't.
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You haven't followed Bears football for the last 20 years. We haven't had an adequate running back since then.
My point is that NFL running backs are harder to find, by a couple of order of magnitudes than teachers, and great ones get another order of magnitude thrown in.
Then add in that NFL running backs are revenue generators, people pay to see them play, to have their adds when they play, to buy team merchandise with their name on it. Honestly I have no idea how the numbers work out, but they must because they couldn't pay them if they didn't.
As such a NFL player should and would get more than a teacher. Hes an entertainer by nature, and can entertain more people than any teacher can teach.
Now if you can figure out a way for one guy to teach 10 million people for an hour then you can start to see that sort of pay out.
Really its simple jealousy. This 'athlete', most likely not very intelligent, poorly educated despite his rubber stamp college degree, is making more money than pretty much 99.999999% of the country. I find it somewhat irksome my self that one of these guys makes in one year what I might make in a life time as a doctor, but hey so what? It doesn't make what I have less.