Why is it that baseball players do nothing and get paid a gagillion dollars and soccer players get nothing?
397270
Soccer players get nothing?!?!?!?\n\nIn Europe some soccer players make more than any athlete in the USA!!
215738
They make nothing. They play for their school. So basically they are SAVING money instead because they all have scholarships to their school.\nNCAA is all about SCHOOL pride. No money involved.
478386
they pay for player the whole year even if he is injured or a substitute. they pay for him every week unless he make another contract to another team. and about the transfer the player get his weekly salary and the owners team get the money for the transfer.
691647
Maybe because they are one of the top teams in the country.  Behind the Yankees, they are also the highest paid so they should be getting their moneys worth out of them. They also have been kicking butt in the pennant race the last few years.
369032
The top players earn enough money these days to not have to work when they retire.  The less well paid players will often go into management or the media and some will re-educate themselves towards the end of their career.
847068
The NHL and NFL are the only two sports that have  a "salary cap."  Teams are not allowed to spend more than $xx million dollars on their player salaries in a given year.  NFL is around 95 million and NHL is around 36 million this year.\n\nMLB and NBA have "soft caps."  There is a cap, but teams are allowed to spend over the amount.  They will just owe a lot of money in taxes.  NBA also has exemptions to help teams resign their own players and exceed the cap without penalty.\n\nI don't believe soccer, at any international level, has a salary cap.
670039
I assume that you are talking about the players.  In that case it is baseball.  The NFL has a salary cap.  You don't see any football players signing $200 million dollar contracts like in baseball (Alex Rodriguez)
1002211
Many good players get spoiled after they get famous. Look at Ronaldo or Oliver Kahn the goalkeeper from Germany. They start getting paid too much and stop caring about soccer so they don't train as much and hence are not as good or they gain weight.
1733
Because money talks in baseball. Baseball is a kids sport that adults tend to screw up.
414339
Because traditional sports like baseball and football have been played for many years in america. Plus, soccer is dominated more by european players than americans...hard for them to identify with them rather than identify with local (meaning american) stars like michael jordan and Tom Brady than Zidane.
355223
Players need to forget about the money and play for the game and for the fans. And owners need to stop looking at pro sports as a for-profit business. Then all will be right in sports.
387467
At our country, Argentina, is still amateur, and it is forbiden for the clubs to pay their players, you can get something playing for the national team though. I LIKE IT THAT WAY.
504655
The players are the ones. They get the glory, fame, fortune, national prestige, money and awards. What else more? And what do the people get? Happiness, Excitement from watching the game, a hole in their pockets due to subscription of sports channels, sore throats from cheering and another hole in their pockets for buying and supporting the teams they support.\n\nPeace among people?I doubt so. Rivalry and football betting might result in fights like the one when Juventus went against Liverpool and there were riots. \n\nViewers aren't the winners. They just lose more money as compared to the players.
940376
The high salaries for players give specially talented individuals an opportunity to generate an income large enough to help entire communities if they are so inclined. many players give a tremendous amount of money to underprivileged communities. \nConversely, some players are treated as a commodity themselves. This gives them a warped sense of materialism. Playing only for the dollar, and believing the money makes them special.
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Yep. look at Togo most of their country lives in poverty and they want more and more money. They even attempted to boycott their soccer game at Germany because of a pay dispute.\n\nSo although there might be sum who do it for the love of the game they are very scarce.
794047
Some people just really like balls, so they are nactually not watching the people at all. It sure makes no sense for us to work our balls off trying to make a living then go pay a ton to watch a bunch of people do exactly what you are asking about and get paid more for in one year of playing than we may make in a lifetime.\n\nOnce we are all hooked on Yahoo Answers, they will charge as well.
866889
they get loads of dosh......not happy with their extravagent salaries they want bonuses too.......what ever happened to playing for the jersey......every schoolboys dream is to play for their country...now its gimme gimme gimme more money or else i'm not playing.......to me that sounds like premadonna time.....