Mike Vick Project/ Professional Sports Salaries

I dont watch too much tv outside of sports, the news channels, and my home improvement shows lol. This post is two fold. First I want to touch on the Mike Vick project and an article that i read while i got home a lil while ago dealing with professional sports and their high salaries.

The Mike Vick show is great to me. Having grown up in an "urban" area Ive seen dog fights on many occasions. Im not here to argue wether or not dog fighting is good bad indifferent or whatever. The reason why I like the show is that its honest brutally honest at times but honest. When his whole situation went down I paid attention to how it was gonna go down. I was surprised at the sentence but understood that he was made an example of maybe because of his celbrity and race. I have had a million conversations about the topic and half the people think he should have been locked up longer and others felt it was too long. For the rcord I believe that he didnt deserve all that time. All the sports radio stations had callers call up and say how sick he was and that he was a monster and all that. These people were seriously actin like he was the grim reaper himself. His situation showed me that people cared more for the animals rather than human beings. It messed me up and dont understand it at all. People talkin bout he sick and mad that he is able to resume his career. There have been countless people make money while in jail and when they get out so I didnt see the fuss. Maybe Im just as sick as him.

I had the opportunity to read an article today that said that the NBA may loose $400 million this year due to the economy poor ticket sales and such. Apparently in 2011 their CBA (collective bargaining agreement) is to run out and they need to approve a new one. There is a similar issue that may hit the NFL as well. The issue is that the owners want more of the revenues as opposed to the players getting a huge chunk of the pie. SO I finnish the article and I see all of these comments and they borderline if not racist in their nature. To sum up the comments they basically refered to the players as rich thugs and they didnt deserve to get all that money to play a game. I'm sittin there like these people cant be serious. In my mind I dont get mad or upset when these players make some wild salaries or even what they do with their money. Its not my business. These people obviously have the talent and have taken it to the highest level to compete at that highest level. I mean this can be a direct contrast to slave owners and their plantations. Back then they kept 100% of the profits and barely gave their "workers" andything so its an evolutin of sorts. The owners are trying to take more of the stacks ($$$) and leave the players with a small piece of the pie. Some might think thats cool but i dont. The players put themselves on the field court whatever and they make the leagues they play in. If there are no players will the sport thrive. I asked a coworker this and they said that if the NFL had a strike they would still watch the "replacements" but Im like damn whats the deal with the product thats being put on the field. Whats the point with all that. Just my opinion.


Peace