NFL players lost :mjlol:

[Insun Park]

Agreed. But it's still my favorite sport and will be until it's abolished.

I only played through high school but I grew up in a coaching family so I grew up around SEC football then NFL. Nothing can beat it to me. It's such a vicious, trusting sport

Black men selected by white general managers and coached by white coaches to bash each other's heads in to the enjoyment of a predominantly white audience while the white QB gets all the spotlight win or lose

No thanks

 

[GoddamnyamanProf]

That A-Rod contract

it's really a disgusting thing. Can't see why anyone would play it once it's put that way. Destroys the body from head to toe, does it in the shortest time, pays the worst, and the league treats its players terribly.

They dont have any other option

Everyone knows handegg players are athletes that didnt have the skill to cut it in other sports

 

[IllmaticDelta]

baseball players win the most

Nah, NBA players make more on avg + better endor money

 

[Juggalo Fred]

Nah, NBA players make more on avg + better endor money

Alex Rodriguez signed two $300 million deals. and bums like Pablo Sandoval now gets 22 mil a year to do nothing.

that's all that needs to be said

That A-Rod contract
QUOTE]

 

[Absolut da poet ®]

Shyt ain't gonna happen until those NFL players fight for their rights

When they are willing to boycott, sue, miss games and lockout...

The MLB had their players strike in 1994 there was no World Series or baseball played that summer into 1995...

The NBA had their lockouts playing 50 games in 1999 and 66 in 2012...

Poor Expos ..
Montreal would've been Champs


That '99 Spurs ring with the *

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Alex Rodriguez signed two $300 million deals. and bums like Pablo Sandoval now gets 22 mil a year to do nothing.

that's all that needs to be said

2010

The NBA’s average player made $5 million per year in the 2010-11 season. The average MLB player earned only $3.3 million. The NHL average salary drops even more to $2.4 million, while the average NFL player makes “only” $1.9 million per year.

How Much Money Does an NBA Player Make? - Money Nation

2015

These are the average salaries of players in the NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL. Players in the NBA are the highest paid of the four major sports leagues, while NFL players are the least paid, even though the NFL generates the most amount of money each year of all the sports leagues.

I've been a fan of all four sports leagues for over four decades now. One of the things that has amazed me over the years is the amount of money professional athletes can now make today. Pro athletes made decent money when I was a kid in the 1970s, but nothing like what they can make in 2015. The average pro athlete in any of the four major sports leagues makes more money in one season than the average American will make over a lifetime.

Average salaries in the NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL for 2015

1. NBA - $5.1 million

The average NBA player will make $5.1 million in salary in 2015. That is easily the highest average salary of the four major sports leagues in the United States. NBA players make the most money, on average, because there are fewer NBA players than NFL players, or NHL players or major league baseball players.

NBA teams can have a maximum of 15 players per team. There are 30 NBA teams. So there only a total of 450 NBA players. NBA teams play 82 regular season games, and the league has a long playoff season too, which will generate enough income to pay the players an average of $5.1 million this year.

2. MLB - $4 million

With an average salary of $4 million, major league baseball players are the second highest paid players of the four major sports leagues. There are 25 players on each of the 30 teams in MLB, or a total of 750 players.

MLB teams play 162 games per season, which provides a ton of games for the league to generate income from. MLB revenues from network TV deals that include a game of the week, playoffs and the World Series doubled in 2014, giving each team about $25 million a year more to spend just from that one revenue source. Baseball salaries are only headed higher.

3. NHL - $2.6 million

NHL players make the third most money of the major sports leagues, with an average salary of $2.6 million. There are 23 players on each of the 30 NHL teams for a total of 690 players.

I'm surprised that NHL players make as much as they do. One of the major papers in New York City used to show the weekly ratings of sports games on TV in the New York market. NHL games were always the lowest rated of any sport, and some of the ratings were incredibly low. A Stanley Cup Finals game on NBC in 2007 was the lowest rated prime time program in NBC history.

4. NFL - $2.1 million

The irony of life. The NFL is easily the most popular of all the sports leagues in the United States, but NFL players make, on average, the least amount of money at $2.1 million a year. That's because of two reasons.

Each NFL team has 53 total players. There are 32 NFL teams for a total of 1,696 players. That's almost four times the number of players in pro football than in the NBA, over 1,000 more players than the NHL has, and well over twice as many players as MLB has.

NFL teams only play 16 games in the regular season. That's a just a fraction of the number of games each if the other sports leagues play per year. Less games means less opportunity to generate income.

So there are a lot more NFL players than there are NBA, NHL or MLB players, and the teams play far fewer games. The NFL still generates a ton more income than the other leagues do because NFL football is so much more popular. Plus the Super Bowl alone generates incredible income for the NFL.

Average salaries in the NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL for 2015

but earnings off the field/court is where the NBA stomps MLB/NFL/NHL


Why Baseball Players Can’t Land Big Endorsements

Robinson Cano, No. 4 on the list, pulled in the highest endorsements with $3.5 million in deals with brands. His salary from the Seattle Mariners is $24 million this year.

Below, I’ve re-ranked Forbes’ list based on endorsements dollars to give our readers some context.

• Robinson Cano: $3.5 million
• Albert Pujols: $2.5 million
• Clayton Kershaw: $1.2 million
• CC Sabathia: $1.1 million
• Justin Verlander: $500,000
• Ryan Howard: $500,000
• Jon Lester: $400,000
• Prince Fielder: $300,000
• Cliff Lee: $200,000
• Felix Hernandez: $200,000

Many of those big leaguers, including Lee, Sabathia and Howard, are injured, struggling to return from an injury or far past their prime playing years.

All of this seems counterintuitive to the untrained eye; if MLB players are among the sports world’s highest paid athletes, why are they getting so few endorsements?

The answer to that question is a complicated one that involves globalization, the localization of baseball, TV ratings and much more.

The best point of reference to understand this trend is another Forbes list, The World’s 100 Highest-Paid Athletes 2014. Of the world’s best paid athletes, Lee was only the MLB player to crack the top 30 in 2014.

I don’t know about you, but if I hadn’t been researching this article, I wouldn’t even be able to pick Lee out from a police lineup. And that is baseball’s biggest problem. Not only does it not have much global reach, its national reach is in decline.

Derek Jeter was the last big leaguer to hit it big in the endorsement market. According to Forbes, he’s made $300 million from deals over his playing career, and some say that his endorsement value won’t decrease drastically during retirement.

But Jeter’s $9 million in endorsements a year pales in comparison to other stars around the world. LeBron James made $53 million from brands in 2014. Tiger Woods, even in his sharp decline, pulled in $55 million.

In 2013 James made more from endorsements ($42 million) than MLB’s top 10 combined. Kobe Bryant, whose game took a turn for the worst in ’13, also made more with $34 million in deals.

James, Bryant and Woods all play in sports that have significant global audiences, and their huge endorsements reflect that fact.

MLB, to its credit, has been trying to close that gap with new digital products like MLB.tv and its popular app, but the overarching trends for baseball — even in the U.S. — don’t look promising. I’ll explore that in my next story.



Meanwhile, if you are looking for story ideas, check the Forbes list for players in your market, and also those who might have played at universities near you.

Why Baseball Players Can't Land Big Endorsements - Reynolds Center

The top of the NBA endorsement food chain is led by LeBron James and Kobe Bryant. Both are global superstars who made $42 million and $34 million, respectively, last year from endorsement partners. James has been one of the NBA’s top endorsers since he was drafted by the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2003. His current partners include Nike, McDonald’s, Coca Cola, Samsung Electronics , Upper Deck, Audemars Piguet and Dunkin’ Donuts.

The four-time MVP is the NBA’s top endorser.

Five championships and 18 years of All-Star play transformed Bryant into the most popular player in China with a little help from his main backer, Nike. Bryant also has deals with Turkish Air, Lenovo, Hublot and Panini for merchandise.

The NBA’s top 10 endorsers pulled down $155 million last year by our count. It dwarfs the totals in baseball and football. MLB’ s 10 biggest endorsers earned less than $30 million off the field last year with only Derek Jeter and Ichiro Suzuki (all in Japan) making more than $3 million from sponsors and merchandise. The NFL’s top 10 made $55 million from endorsements, led by Peyton Manning at $12 million in 2013. The NHL lags even further behind with the 10 biggest stars making $15 million cumulatively.

“It’s gotta be the shoes,” Spike Lee told us 25 years ago, as his alter ego Mars Blackmon in a series of Nike commercials. And the gap between NBA players and others in team sports all starts with the shoes. The NBA’s biggest stars can command more than $10 million annually from Nike and Adidas . Nike represents almost half James’ off-court income, and James was the NBA’s leading shoe salesman in 2013 with $300 million in retail sales in the U.S. of his Nike signature shoes, according to research firm SportsOneSource. Rose signed a 13-year, $185 million contract with Adidas in 2012. A $1 million a year shoe deal is extremely rare for an NFL or MLB star. Basketball players move product unlike their counterparts in other sports.

Basketball players can also take advantage of the global nature of the sport. Bryant has made trips to China the past eight years for Nike and he is one of the brand’s main chips in its battle against Adidas in China. Bryant partnered with Turkish Airlines in 2010 and has been featured in commercials with global soccer star Lionel Messi. James’ Dunkin’ Donuts deal is for Asia only, and he entered into a new partnership with Chinese Internet services firm Tencent last year. These deals are not available to football and baseball players.





Source: Forbes

The NBA's Endorsement All-Stars 2014

 

[010101]

its fetti for confetti so fukk football*

 

[Donald Trumps Twitter]

Kent Bazemore and Timofey Mozgov gonna get paid more than Aaron Rodgers and JJ Watt

 

[Blessings]

2010




How Much Money Does an NBA Player Make? - Money Nation

2015



Average salaries in the NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL for 2015

but earnings off the field/court is where the NBA stomps MLB/NFL/NHL


Why Baseball Players Can’t Land Big Endorsements



Why Baseball Players Can't Land Big Endorsements - Reynolds Center






The NBA's Endorsement All-Stars 2014

Thank you...most people here do not know what's an "average"

 

[Regular_P]

How the fukk is Trout not on this list?

 

[ALonelyDad]

Nfl players need to stand up, Nfl makes the most money too, no excuse

 

[DlAMONDZ]

Derozan got 5 years 140M+ and it wasn't even max money

Risk brain trauma for scraps brehs

 

[Gangstar8]

The brain damage prevents them from thinking straight

 

[Vilify]

Derozan got 5 years 140M+ and it wasn't even max money

Risk brain trauma for scraps brehs

And its guaranteed.. Meanwhile the "most talented and promising" young QB in the league gets $87 million guaranteed.

 

[Lord_Chief_Rocka]

baseball players win the most

Nba players have been the highest paid for a while now