Is it true that NFL players make more money than NBA players (per minute)?
831093
Yeah, but NFL careers are on average only 4 seasons. Body takes a pounding. I doubt anyone calculates pay per hour/minute...besides you are just talking game time. NFL players practice and study film way more per week than NBAers. Plus off-season they have a zillion workouts from actual working on their own to mini-camps etc.
372257
Biweekly\n\nAndy (Orange County): Paul, love your columns. I have a question that I've wanted to know the answer to. I work a "regular" day job, get paid every two weeks. When you're making athlete money, do you still get paid every two weeks? It's just hard for me to imagine making a bazillion dollars a year and getting $300K deposited into my B of A account every two weeks (maybe a little less for you). Thanks. \n\n\nPaul: Oddly enough, yes. The absurdity of the biweekly checks is exacerbated by the fact that NBA players are paid only during the season. So, the $14.7 million is compacted into a six-month period. And, while my salaries have always been at the minimum possible level (I think the Bulls actually asked for some money back), the minimum in the NBA is hardly pauper-worthy and the checks are still surprising. \n\n\nThe math, though, on the aforementioned $14.7 million is fun. Off the top of my head (engage correction instinct, any and all nitpickers), that comes out to about $1.2 million gross every two weeks. Even after taxes and all the other nonsense, the take-home is still around $600,000. Every 14 days. Not bad. \n\n\n(It should be noted that our hero -- the guy making the $14.7 million -- is also buying a whole bunch of port-a-potties in Iraq with his tax dollars. Oh, and missiles used to kill people for no reason.)
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MLB has the highest average salaries, I believe, at $2.5-$3 million.  The NFL has average salaries close to $1.5 million.  The NBA and NHL are also in the $1-2 million range.  I'm quoting these from memory, as I've seen the numbers before, but they may have changed since I read the article.\n\nNote that the best players get payed quite a bit more than that (some are over $20 million).  All of the leagues have minimum salaries in the $300k-$500k range.
910930
It isn't new man. The just played Arena Bowl 20. It is just now getting more popular and there are now alot of independent league. The Arena Football League itself though is kinda old though. Anyway they make little in the AFL and even less in independent leagues. For example we have an indepenent league around here, the American Indoor Football Association(just changed from the AIFL, the L was League) and the players make $300 for a win and $250 for a loss. So in a season they make less then the league minimum for a rookie, heck the rookie proably can make almost as much in a game. So if you can't cut it in trhe NFL but love football and are good then you drop to the Arena football league.
1045992
Well, here's the thing.  If you think players are making ridiculous amounts of money (and I agree), what about the owners?  The owners are the ones that can afford to pay them this money.  On the one hand, I'd rather see the players make more money than the owners; however, I do think they are overpaid considering they are only playing a game.  \n\nRemember in Field of Dreams when Shoeless Joe says, "Man, I did love this game. I'd have played for food money. It was the game... The sounds, the smells. Did you ever hold a ball or a glove to your face? ..... It was the crowd, rising to their feet when the ball was hit deep. Shoot, I'd play for nothing!"  That's the kind of love for the game that has been missing in recent years.  It became about contract years and free agency, not just pure, simple love of the game.\n\nShould they get paid?  Yeah, it's their job.  Should they be paid millions of dollars?  I don't think so.  My job can be just as dangerous.  I have just as much chance getting injured as a player.  Do I matter less because I'm not in the limelight?  I'm having trouble walking right now because I got banged up at a softball game Wednesday night, but I'm still going to be heading to work in about an hour and a half, getting paid $10/hr to help people shop.  I don't expect to sit down and still get paid today.\n\nThe good thing is that a lot of players do not blow all their money on themselves.  Many of them have set up foundations and charities to help the underpriviledged.  I don't mind those players making a ton of money.  In fact, I'd rather see those players make more than anybody else for the simple fact that they have more to give away.
160069
I played basketball most of my life.  I coached basketball for a few years after palying.  But Football is much much better. If you take what a sponsor pays for a 30 second comercial during the superbowl and what sponsor pays for ten 30 second comercials during the 7 game playoff, its still like half.  Basketball (The NBA) isnt what it use to be.  A business is only as good as it employees.  Its also hard for people to relate to BBall players.  They dont like them.  I dont know what its like to be a black guy from the ghetto who now makes millions of dollars.  And I dont think a Black guy who lives in the ghetto can relate either, since he doesnt have a million dollars.  The NFL is great and getting better.  Also have you seen an NBA draft lately.  I cant pronounce there names.  They draft alot over seas and from highschool.  I could go on for days why basketball stinks now of days and football is good.
242820
its pretty stupid if you ask me. Pro sports players make tons of money just to play games. \n\nBut our school teachers, police officers , fire fighters. and any other person that is a God send to a community, doesnt make much money at all.\n\nis it sad that we have our ideas of heros and role models backwards in this country? I think so!!!!
199042
ok not sure but i think that bellichick makes around 2million maybe more so i figure coaches make around the same\nbut maybe they are paid depending on their winning percentage.
139065
I think everyone of them is way overpaid. this country would survive if sports stopped. but if all the hard working americans said to hell with it and stopped working nothing would get made no money would be made and the sports players wouldn't get paid at all.
864551
G'day Resst,\n\nThank you for your question.\n\nSoccer requires more energy and stamina because most players are on the pitch for all of the game. In higher profile games, they have extra time. American football players spend approximately half the time off the ground not to mention all of the time outs in the game.\n\nI won't compare the skill levels of the game because both games require different skills.\n\nThe injury levels of American football would be higher because it is a contact sport.\n\nThere are also games like rugby and Australian rules which demand the stamina of soccer and the durability of American fooball.\n\nRegards\n\nI w
757892
YES!! Not just football either. professional athletes get paid an obscene amt of money...oh, are they saving lives and changing the world?  Doctors earn their salaries.  Nurses,policemen, and all civil employees need a bump up.  No family of an American soldier should have to be on PUBLIC ASSISTANCE in order to care for their families.  Something is egregiously off center here.\n\nlike I said...obscene.
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Well, the NFL is the best organized league in the world, and as the most organized league it is the most profitable. If teams and owners were not earninjg big amount of money, they wouldn´t be paying big salaries. Football players are incredible athletes that compete during 6 hard football season months! But a team woulnd´t be paying 100 million in salaries if they weren´t recieving much more. Tickets, merchandise (in and out of stadiums), TV contracts, sponsorship deals amount for such a profit that they can afford those big salaries. True, players go through a lot of pain during and after the season, but i guess rugby players do also, and they aren´t recieving the same salaries. Also, i believe salaries are way too high, but as long as the owners are making money, they will be going for better contracts to attract the best in the business.\n\nGolf ain´t that bad sport. Last Sunday someone won 1.3 million for 4 days of work at the course... not bad! Tiger has a 20 plus million contract with Nike. I believe he has made Nike win more than that or else he wouldn´t get a new contract!
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i can not tell you whether USA is best in the NFL or NBA because NFL or NBA is played in USA only. you need to compare with some other countries in order to know who is the best. after i catched several year of NFL and NBA, i decided to leave it because it is sport games played and enjoy by one country only. \n\nwhat i can tell you about USA football team is they will not able to stand among elite team of football in near future according to perfomance of USA team in FIFA Football World Cup 2006 in Germany. \n\nthe big college scholarships and the dream of big money in NFL or NBA is only little compare to huge sum of money involve in football worldwide. there are more than billion people play football and it involve multi-billion dollar each year globally. \n\nin order to not make you confuse what i wrote here, football i mean here is the sport games played with leg and not hand.
700769
Hey that is my idea. The only difference is I go to a sports stadium and if the home team wins I will ask for a dollar from as many people as time permits. At the end of the night I can rack up about $300 to $400 dollars. It's a great way to obtain extra income.
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much higher revenue for the city.\n\nThe group that bought the Texans and Browns paid roughly $700 million each for the teams.  NFL revenue sharing is over $100 million per team per year.  Ticket sales, memorabilia, concessions, etc. all generate money that is poured back into a community.\n\nThe city of St. Louis spent hundreds of millions of $ to build a stadium before the Rams even left L.A.  Obviously they would not have spent the money if they were not convinced that it would have a huge positive impact on the city.
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Seeing that basketball has already garnered considerably more international fame than football, it won't be much longer.\n\n      Young kids and grown people both love basketball. And not just america, but around the world. although since football is one of those anchor pastime sports, it will probably take a few more years. But if the NBA continues to showcase great young players and climatic seasons like just last year, then it might be sooner than most people think.
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Last year £786 million in wages alone was paid to 2,347 professional footballers, that's roughly equivalent to the GDP of Mongolia in 2005. Of that sum, £583 million went to Premiership players. And the likes of Steven Gerrard and David Beckham are reported to earn over £100,000 A WEEK – that's more than £5 million a year - not bad for playing a bit footy.