Amazing, ground breaking and shocking." Those are words to describe the inflation in contracts in the world of sports. As player salaries increase higher than gas prices, the quality of the teams is down. It seems as though the only reason professional athletes play is for the money. It's like a race to see who can manage to get the largest amount of money. I believe athletics are only a game, so why should athletes get paid so much? Television stations sometimes try to promote some athletes. The athletes let the money go to their head, so they keep asking for more.

It really seems obvious that athletes get paid too much. Some athletes are extremely good, but there are very few professional athletes that deserve as much as they ask for. Most professional athletes get paid more than any president ever has. Does that seem right?

Every year we hear of some new name, some new player in the sports news getting a new record contract which sets a much higher mark and blows away the high from the year before. So we ask who's fault is this that theses men and women are getting paid more and more? Most fingers point our way, the peoples way, the fans way. We are the ones that go to these sporting events pay $50 dollars for a ticket, pay a $100 dollars for a jacket, and $20 dollars for a cap of our favorite teams. We are the ones who support these teams and the players. The reason ticket prices keep going up is because money is needed to pay all of our great players. It doesn't help that they know that we will pay these ticket prices no matter how ridiculous they start charging.

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