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Why Do Football Players Get Paid Essay

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I don't understand how football players get paid more . It’s just ridiculous. The average private (the lowest rank in the army) according to halftangible.wordpress.com U.S. army gets payed $18,194.That is a lot but not no where near the amount a football player makes.That's not even close to what a football player makes.It might seem like a lot, but let's see the average pay for a football player in the NFL. Itis $405,000.My honest opinon is that how come a football player gets paid more than soldiers if all a football player does is just play for the love of the game while we got soldiers and family memebers out there with there lives on stakes. To me thats a true player.Even if the player doesn't play, he gets that amount of money.Soldiers work all the time, but they don't get paid that much. That …show more content…

There is an increasing amount of soldiers getting discharged. And if the soldier don’t get an honorable discharge the soldier don’t get all of his/hers benefits. He would, how ever, have got some benefits of being a veteran. Because there are more soldiers getting discharged, they will not have enough money to survive . The cost of groceries one week is about $289 that means that on a soldier's salary and if he doesn't get the discounts for a retired vet, or a vet who had been honorably discharged. He will only be able to with stain his family for 6 weeks. So in six weeks he will have to find a job and if he got a dishonorable discharge it a lot harder to find a job with a discharge under his belt. NPR just did a report on this topic in the program, NPR said that “being dishonorably discharged is like a life sentence. you don't get the benefits of a vet with say an honorable discharge so because more and more of our soldiers are getting dishonorably discharged they can't support their family or

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