Have the large salaries of professional athletes had a negative impact on the athletes or the sports?

December 26, 2009 by admin · 23 Comments
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whoaaaa asked:

My answer yes.
I need some examples for a research paper. So far I have only
Mike Vick- Dog fighting (Having the resources to put something like this together)
Kobe Bryant- Young girls (fame brings attraction and fans, idk)
O.J Simpson?

I don’t know too much about sports, so if anyone can give me some examples I would be very grateful. Thanks.

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23 Responses to “Have the large salaries of professional athletes had a negative impact on the athletes or the sports?”
  1. oh please... says:
    December 29, 2009 at 6:36 am

    Here is something to look at:

    The article examines the idea of athletes behaving badly. From the article:

    It discusses the issues of salaries, and the role they play, but also talk about other issues. Anyway, I think it will help with your paper. oh please…

  2. noitall says:
    December 29, 2009 at 12:21 pm

    professional athletes are hugely overpaid and it makes pro sports big business, useful mostly as an advertising medium. most pros are burnt out by their 30’s, don’t know how to manage money and are easily taken advantage of. pro football players often die young because they’re so huge and on steroids. as a society we should take a good look at these practices and consider reverting to a time when it was sports for sports sake. no-one needs to earn that much, especially if they don’t know how to plan for a time when they will not.

    examples: tennis, basketball, football, baseball. the names are legion. noitall

  3. Russel J says:
    December 29, 2009 at 4:43 pm

    You can order this research paper from professional company. i know a god one. I used to buy research papers from it when I was a student. Check it out: Russel J

  4. scooby doo says:
    December 29, 2009 at 11:55 pm

    Yes the salaries should be capped at a certain level scooby doo

  5. catweazle says:
    December 31, 2009 at 12:59 am

    money corrupts.

    there is no such thing as sport anymore, there is just business.

    when the people who run sport choose what is profitable to do, over what is right..every time, their lack of moral integrity bleeds into the general culture and help to intensify the moral decay in our culture.
    young people absorb the morally degenerate attitudes behind this behaviour, and it erupts outward again years later as total selfishness and lack of repect for anything.

    the media.. tv & film in particular, back this up by broadcasting and validating degenerate behaviour and attitudes as “cool”.

    if all around you the message youre getting is that money trumps every other consideration, and as long as something makes money then its good [as exemplified by the rapaciously capitalistic & morally vacuous culture of the USA], then you will reap a harvest of morally degenerate kids down the line. catweazle

  6. jamesdean2002uk says:
    January 1, 2010 at 11:52 am

    without a doubt, they act like spoilt brats, think they are above the law and park where ever they want, have no respect, whilst hard working people struggle by on a pittance…..its like most things in the world, as soon as politics, religion or money are involved it all goes ti ts up………… jamesdean2002uk

  7. TONY H says:
    January 4, 2010 at 8:15 am

    Footballers should get paid by results maybe then they wouldn’t be on the booze the night before. Which would make for better teams and players, and as for some of the pop stars they seem to get rewarded for improper poor behavior were we would end up behind bars the fines they get is just a bit of pocket money for them no wonder the kids turn out how they do were have all morels gone. TONY H

  8. BrianD says:
    January 7, 2010 at 11:13 am

    No specific examples of rates of pay – however I believe they should be paid a basic and earn the rest as performance bonuses. They may try harder and not just turn up for the game (I am referring of course to footballers, cricketers, rugby union players) BrianD

  9. Andrew O says:
    January 10, 2010 at 4:06 pm

    Gaza, George Best to name a few. Young lads working class all of a sudden have more money than they know what to do with, resulting in going off the rails, the same can be seen in music.

    High wages mean the directors have to find the money from somewhere, meaning ticket prices go up, which means the fan has to suffer. If it wasn’t for the fans the players wouldn’t get paid at all. Andrew O

  10. roy s says:
    January 11, 2010 at 7:39 am

    How can any club justify paying someone £100,000 per week, and yet a nurse or doctor are paid so poorly in comparison. The fans will eventually show there disgust and stop attending matches. Most sports people are very poor role models for our young, with the money and fame should go responsibility, yet all we see on TV is cheating and fowling. roy s

  11. Seckin T says:
    January 14, 2010 at 7:04 am

    Dear Sir,

    If you check the money used in the English Premier League by every club and also their ranking. They do match. So money apparently decide the best club and that is no sport. If you check that for other sports you will see the same.

    Further if you look at the financial health of those clubs, they are not independent and without major support they even won’t survive. Not entertainment but performances rules. Not the public but sponsorships decide if they are succesful. It is a matter of calculation. 20 home matches for competition and plus 10 matches for tournaments times 60,000 people which pay 100 pound. That is 180 million a year. Take also in mind that tickets aren’t so expensive and most clubs haven’t acces for 60,000 people. So financial pressure will be in place. Manchester United isn’t allowed to fail. And a transfer of Ronaldo isn’t about sport. It is about performance, sponsorship and money.

    Another example is the Olympic Medal for Volleyball by the dutch in 1996. The team was sponsored to achieve this by a huge donation. So the volleyballers could train together intensive and just focused for the Olympics. And from nothing they became gold winners. So financial resources did make the succes. Finally it ripped apart when huge salary were offered from international clubs.

    Your question does it have a negative impact on the sport? Yes , if you think about a fair game between equal contesters where just the most skillfull and talented one will and should win. In reality it is more like goliath and david. Can the poor, badly prepared one, but very talented one win from the very rich one and very intensive trained one? Mostly not. Why else are the rich countries dominating the Olympics?

    But if you define sport differently then you can also easily say no. It is about entertainment. Everyone like to see the underdog win against all odds. See the movie ROCKY.

    And any poor country is very proud if one of their athletes have some succes. It is not just sport it is national proud. Defeating the West.

    So salaries are huge because of the interest at stake. Athletes have to perform. Failure can result even in death and imprisonment. South America (COlombia) player did get killed because of making an own goal.

    Is it healthy no. It is very dirty. Blatter said recently that Ronaldo is a slave. And he is true about that.

    Another example is formule 1 racing. The competition is not about the best driver, but the best car. Resources and money decides the quality of the car. In the formule one you have mclaren and ferrari. And runner up sauber and BMW. All the other teams have no input. The driver can make a difference, but it decides more if ferrari or mclaren wins. Put the same driver in a Red Bull and he has no chance at all. Fair not at all. Sport not at all. Entertainment personnally I think hardly. Succesful yes.

    I hope you can get somewhere with this.

    yours,

    seckin Seckin T

  12. flipjcole says:
    January 17, 2010 at 9:22 am

    Just personnal thoughts really. I think too many kids going into high paid sports just see the enormous wages on offer rather than the enjoyment of playing their chosen sport so that is going to cause a negative impact. As for whether they should get that much money I think it boils down to the fact that the club’s get millions in revenue from merchandise sales, tickets sales, broadcast rights etc, etc. Its only fair that the people who actually do the “work” should take most of the money. If they want to address the money impact, I’m mainly on about football, they should either put a max wage amount for the whole team per season (inc share offers etc) as in the American NFL or cap how much they charge for match tickets, merchandise sales etc. flipjcole

  13. BARRY S says:
    January 18, 2010 at 6:00 am

    Yes very bad, the grass root fans are paying far to must where we watch live or on sky we are being ripped of. BARRY S

  14. whataquestion says:
    January 21, 2010 at 9:45 am

    what a question!! it`s the only thing that has truly damaged sport of today, rediculous wages to unintelligent idiots, mainly footballers, it`s not sport anymore it`s big business and also propping up too many foreigners!!! whataquestion

  15. darkdevil150 says:
    January 23, 2010 at 12:23 pm

    I do believe that high salaries in sport such as football (soccer) is destroying the game. I think that football is losing its definition of sport because its become more of a business, theres to much money being spent and even more being made even through the stock exchange, and having players like david beckham in your team means the sales of tickets and merchandise increases bringing dollar signs to people who dont care about sport only making money, take a look at whats happening to christiano ronaldo who plays for manchester united, real madrid want him in they’re team and are offering around 20 million British Pounds for him. I think that no one is worth that much, but then they can make that back in profit from tickets and merchandise, even sponsorship. So yeah basically most types of sport are no longer classed as sport but businesses, darkdevil150

  16. oldgrumpy says:
    January 23, 2010 at 9:12 pm

    The large salaries are certainly having an impact on both athletes and sports.
    The athletes are making all they can, while they can and becoming very rich. They know it can’t last.
    The so-called ’sports’ have become businesses and are slowly being strangled by the money involved.
    It cannot go on too much longer.
    Perhaps we need to get back to the time when ’sport’ meant playing a game, not watching others do the same.
    We’d all be a lot more happy and healthy, while the present gang of underworked, overpaid layabouts would have to have a rethink ! oldgrumpy

  17. Madman says:
    January 24, 2010 at 12:44 am

    Yes, large salaries have had a negative impact on athletes within sports. Athletes tend to follow the money and this is apparent in football with many so called top players who are paid a years wage of normal hardworking people in a weeks wages who tend to move to a club that offers the bigger pay packet rather than being loyal to their club.

    You saw in Italy the match fixing scandal few years ago which had a negative impact on football.

    I would like to see athletes have wages like normal hard working people. It is their day job to be an athlete as it is someone else who sits in the office all day. They can have bonuses if they win something.

    The resulting high wages can also have serious effects on personal lives of athletes such as alcoholism and gambling

    Maybe that is why england always play so badly!

    You can also have a look at sponsorship money in sports for example McDonalds sponsoring the olympics whilst encouraging people who go and watch the olympics to eat their food which we know is far from healthy which can have an effect on the future generations of athletes to be but this is a more complicated subject.

    In conclusion I would say YES, too much money in sport Madman

  18. deansablue says:
    January 25, 2010 at 9:42 am

    In short, large salaries do have an negative impact on both the athletes, the sports, but also those fans who pay to watch those sports too.

    While there can be a negative impact for young professional sports players earning too much too soon. For me these bigger salaries will eventually threaten the existance of certain sports. Without a fan base, professional sport would struggle to exist. Its hard for the average sports follower to comprehend why the rewards are great even if the achievement is low and the ability of that person or team is poor too..

    The problem though, is not those who participate, its those who administrate. They are guilty of selling the souls of some sports purely for greed. Its fine for a sport to have commercial income, but its not fine if there is no structure in place to use that income to benefit the sport, the participants and those who watch the sport as a whole in equal measure.

    I don’t blame sports players taking big money even if its not in line with their ability or a reward for achievement. Someone has to offer that money in the first place for it to be accepted. But whoever offers it, is the one that’s helping poison the sport and its long term future.

    The bigger issue is that quite often part of the costs of running a sport or game are eventually passed down to the viewer or follower/supporter. Are they going to keep paying a higher price every year to watch someone who’s not achieving or performing at a level that’s related to their pay?

    Without the fan base, without an audience the sport dies, not just in popularity, but if people don’t watch a sport, then the lesser future participants will want to take that sport up too. deansablue

  19. shivorny says:
    January 27, 2010 at 12:44 am

    For the athletes that certainly seems to be the case, but as for a negative impact on the sports, apparently not, the sporting business is thriving more than ever. The athletes salaries continue to rise because the amount of fans rise, if fan’s didn’t go to games, there would be no money in sports whatsoever. The money is not just in ticket sales and season tickets like it used to, that only accounts for a small amount of profit, what the income heavily relies on now is marketing and sponsorships from companies like coca cola, but without the popularity from fans they wouldn’t have these sponsorships shivorny

  20. esmerelda v says:
    January 28, 2010 at 9:21 am

    YES, it costs a fortune to watch soccer matches in the UK, largely due the vast salaries of the soccer players! esmerelda v

  21. roulette's fingers says:
    January 31, 2010 at 7:55 pm

    look at the english soccer/footbal premiership for good examples. roulette’s fingers

  22. When? says:
    January 31, 2010 at 11:10 pm

    Yes their salaries are beyond the level where they would have to worry about the affordability of their lifestyle. They can afford everything: excessive alcohol consumption, behaving loutishly in public places, raping (perhaps not so innocent, but it is rape all the same) girls and in general be a menace to the public. Examples? Just Google: loutish behaviour of footballers” When?

  23. parsonsposse says:
    February 2, 2010 at 2:55 pm

    it makes athletes think they are god and above the law it makes me sick and not through jealously either parsonsposse

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