With the end of the 2010 NFL season nearing completion, thoughts of next-year are already brewing. The National Football League Players Association, NFLPA, and the NFL have an agreement that is set to expire in March of 2011. Currently the "players get 59.6 of designated NFL revenues." However the owners opted out of this agreement, "arguing that they have huge debts from building stadiums and starting up the NFL Network have made a profit impossible." Both parties appear to be complaining about one simple thing, money and I, for one, am tired of professional athletes constantly whining for more and more money.
The minimum salary in the NFL is $285,000, but this amount increases as the player completes more seasons. The median salary of a person living in the United States is $48,201. Discussing a lockout of the 2011 season is ridiculous. All the NFL athletes are already overpaid, but the NFLPA still pushes for higher salaries. The leading figures of the union are acting no better than a spoiled child. If they don't get what they want, they pitch a huge fit and stage some sort of ridiculous, unrealistic protest. I am tired of these protests and want to see sports return to the good old days. These being where professional athletes wanted to entertain not receive ridiculous amounts of money for what eventually boils down to a simple game.
