Athletes deserve high salaries

Andy Huckabay PE 401 January 24, 2001 Missy Frost Are athletes getting paid too much? Maybe they are, but I don't really believe that athletes are over paid. People don't understand how the lifestyle of a professional athlete really is or who would get the money we spend if the athlete's didn't get it. They just see those astronomical numbers and think that it is unfair that us working class people don't make that amount of money. Pro …

…donate to charities. The NFL and the United Way have been working together for years. Athlete's salaries must stay high to keep the level of competition where it is, and keep striving to get better. Why not complain about Hollywood actors getting paid astronomical amounts of money for making a movie. How are they different, they are in the entertainment business and don't have to deal with anything close to what athletes have to endure.