You make how much?

Let me preface this by saying I am a baseball and football fan.

However, professional athletes are overpaid for what they do. What is it they do? Practice, play games and sign autographs. Is that really worth multimillions? Sure, they are great at what they do, but they make more money than teachers. Teachers spend 9 ½ months out of the year teaching our future. This doesn’t include all of the schooling they had to go through (is there baseball or football school?), spending 8 hours a day with the children and spending extra hours each day, plus the summer, planning lessons.

According to USATODAY.com the average NFL player makes over $1 million and the average NBA player makes $3.7 million. The average MLB player makes $2.6 millon (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7409653).

Now the average teacher only makes $47,602 (http://www.aft.org/salary/index.htm). Doctors, who SAVE lives, spend 10 + years in school, get horrible hours until they prove themselves, make approximately $200,000 per year (http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2004/TiffanyYam.shtml).

Why don’t we cap professional athletes salaries, put it back into the state so we can fund education? I heard once (or a million times) that children are our future. Same concept for professionals in the music and entertainment industry.