Finally I believe athletes deserve all that they can be paid because it is their job. By this I am assuming that like most people athletes want to be paid as much as possible for what they do, just like anybody else, and I don" believe that just because they make more they should have to have a different set of rules.
We will start by looking at how difficult it is to become a professional athlete. I feel that this is an important aspect in determining how much one should be paid. The simple reason for this is supply and demand. Now you might be saying by this logic shouldn't the president make more that his $250 000 per year when an athlete like Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Farve makes so much money the president would have to serve 42 consecutive 4-year terms to make the same amount. Well the response to this is how many kids are practicing addressing the nation at age 8. Millions of kids play sports each year across the united states and currently there are only about 2000 professional athletes. To give a better statistic according to MLB statistics of the players who are drafted each year in the MLB draft only 8.3% make it through the minor leagues to the major league level. That means that even once you reach a level that you are being paid to play baseball you statistically only have a 1 in 10 chance of making it to the major league level. Other than just the statistical data there are a number of factors involved in becoming a professional athlete. Some of these factors aren't even controlled by the individual. If you look at the simple factor of sex, there has only been one female to play in the NHL, Manon Rheaume, a goaltender for the Tampa Bay Lightening. She had a very brief career however she is still the only female to play in one of the four major sports. Another factor is size and body type, for instance in basketball a player in the NBA can be considered small at 6"4".
