Are Professional Athletes Overpaid?

Overpaid professional athletes

The topic I chose for my essay is overpaid professional athletes. I chose this topic because I think athletes are getting paid way too much money. Athletes get paid way too much for what they contribute to society. They contribute very little compared to other careers that give so much to society but make very little salaries. The professional athletes that people look up too are most of the time bad role models and the ones who are the real heros don’t get noticed at all. They entertain and are fun to watch but don 't affect our society in any big way. Other careers like doctors who save lives everyday don 't make anything compared to the highest paid athletes. Teachers help build our future scientist
They save lives for a living. They are kind of like a superhero. People don 't really look up to them because they aren’t on tv entertaining them. Children don’t look up to people like surgeons because they 're not scoring an incredible goal or running 100 yards for a touchdown. Kid look up to superstars like Lance Armstrong for example he was an inspiration to people. People from around the world looked up to him for what he had accomplished and all the adversity he went through. He tested positive for performance enhancing drugs. He is paid so much and sets such a bad example for children that look up to him. He is basically saying cheat and lie to reach your goals. Floyd Mayweather a professional boxer has went to jail twice and hasn’t learned his lesson because he thinks he can do whatever he wants. He spends a lot of his money gambling on different sport games doesn 't care because he has more coming in. According to Dan Rafael the last fight he had he earned 32 million dollars just for that one fight. People like that don 't appreciate what they have because they can get anything they want. Tiger Woods is the greatest golfer out there he has unlimited amounts of money. He has kids and had a wife to go with that money. He had everything you could ever want but for him it wasn’t enough. Woods had to spend some of that money on girls having many different affairs with different girls while he was married. Money makes people do stupid things like what Tiger did. Michael Vick was one of the highest paid football players in the National Football League. He was the quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons. The leader of his team and an inspiration to kids watching him on the television. Vick was caught in a huge scandal involving dog fights. He went to jail because of the dog fights and lost everything. What was the need to do dog fights? He had too much money and was bored so he did