Why is it that some children aspire to be a professional athlete? It might be because you have a fun job, but what about the money? The average professional athlete makes over a million dollars a year. That might be why some children want to be athletes. It's really unnecessary for someone who plays a game to make that much money (Hoffman, Greenberg, 3). <Tab/>The highest paid player in American sports …showed first 75 words of 1084 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1084 total…are in fact underpaid. But no one should make millions of dollars just to play a game. Any number of people can say that watching a sports game is quality entertainment no matter how much the players make, but sports does nothing other than make a fan of a team happy for a few hours. Until athletes start doing something noticeably significant to help this world, they can't be making more than the average American.