god shamgod
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Every athlete is blessed.Even the scrub nikkas getting the league minimum get paid more than doctors,judges and most ceo's
Do We Really Grasp the Idea Of Getting PAID To Play A Sport??
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Marvel
Psalm 149:5-9
Yep...the fact is anybody with two brain cells can work an assembly line at GM or flip a burger. Not everybody can be a pro athlete. These athletes were blessed with athletic/physical gifts, support system, and an opportunity and a lot sprinkled in hard work and determination to make it. Missing one or two of those and you will be hard pressed to make it to the next level. Dude like Mugsy Bogues, Earl Boykins, and Nate Robinson try even harder. These guys are blessed. I don't its an accident that they are where they are even if we think some of the suck.
You seriously gonna sit here and tell me playing QB in the NFL is easier than a regular 9-5 job.Bruh you shermed up right now.
No Tom Brady wouldnt trade jobs with us because he is good enough to be an NFL QB. If he has worked hard enough and has the talent to play in the NFL why would he want to do anything else? Thats a dumb ass statement you made bruh.
Matt Bonner can drain 3's all day and he worked hard to be able to do it. Can you beat him in a 3 point contest? If it was easy then you would be out there shooting 3's. He wasnt born able to shoot.
LOL at you watching the Mayweather fight talking about "Man Mayweather getting 45 million to fight, i work harder than him and i beat Lil J ass last week".
If being a pro athlete is so easy compared to your job, why arent you a pro athlete? There are countless sports out there that dont require height so whats your excuse?
Oh, so now it's about NFL quarterbacks, there are hundreds of shytty "average" 9-5s in America, jobs that are ridiculously hard. You and I have a complete disconnect, I don't give a fukk how hard a job seems if I'm getting paid millions to do it. By the way, Tom Brady is also 6'4" he's taller than 95% of the male population in the US.
Matt Bonner is 6'10", he can get his shot off and over defenders in large part because of his height
This guy could beat him in a 3 point shooting contest - Can you please tell me why such a dead eye shooter never made it to the league? I'll give you a hint, he's not tall and he's not quick. But if it were simply about hard work, he should have been there, right? After all he teaches NBA guys how to shoot. Please name all the sports in America that pay millions for you not to be athletically gifted in some way. I am not athletically gifted, I am an average athlete in every sense of the word, please point to the sports where someone like me would truly excel. All of these pro-athletes are gifted in some way, sure they put in hard work but they are athletically a cut above the rest of us. There's very few straight up "average" athletes you can point to. If you have kids, they gonna end up hating you after they fail to make it to a pro league, putting in all that hard work while some freak of nature works half as hard and goes much further.
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@ you finding the most extreme comparisons, here I can play that game too, you telling me Tom Brady has a harder job than these guys - 
Hmmm, concussions, a couple of guys chasing you and million dollar salaries vs black lung, being dirt poor and the earth collapsing down on you, decisions decisions.
You're moving the goal posts like a muthafukka right now, you strictly want to talk about Quarterbacks only when the MLB and NBA have guaranteed contracts. You got a dude like Gilbert Arenas who isn't even in the league anymore STILL getting paid by his former team
There are a lot of NBA players completely half assing it right now, everyone can name a couple, you got dudes coming back out of shape as fukk 20-30lbs overweight cause they have the contract security. Then, when it's time to reup and sign that next contract they bust their ass, we've seen it hundreds of times now. I have no problem with them getting paid, I say take the billionaires for all they have, but don't sit here and tell me they have it so hard.
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It'd be dope if we could channel this anger at the rich and wealth inequality at the people who are holding us down. instead we focus on the handful of talented hard working underclass who manage to rise to the top.
TrapHouse Rock
All Star
Hmmm, concussions, a couple of guys chasing you and million dollar salaries vs black lung, being dirt poor and the earth collapsing down on you, decisions decisions.
You're moving the goal posts like a muthafukka right now, you strictly want to talk about Quarterbacks only when the MLB and NBA have guaranteed contracts. You got a dude like Gilbert Arenas who isn't even in the league anymore STILL getting paid by his former team
There are a lot of NBA players completely half assing it right now, everyone can name a couple, you got dudes coming back out of shape as fukk 20-30lbs overweight cause they have the contract security. Then, when it's time to reup and sign that next contract they bust their ass, we've seen it hundreds of times now. I have no problem with them getting paid, I say take the billionaires for all they have, but don't sit here and tell me they have it so hard.
this is a tough post, i dont know how someone can come back to this
it's not that they don't put up hard work, its just not any harder than the hard work normal people put into their 9-5. for every fukk you mention at your job coasting in his 9-5, theres a practice squad offensive lineman with no hope making double to triple that guys salary
Brown Ant
Hunter-Gatherer
These dumb bytches in here trying to say being a professional sport player is tough. It's SO easy. All they do is exercise and that benefits them grandly.
Being a Pro Athlete isn't easy. It looks easy to the average person because you only notice when the college QB is drafted and signs that big contract. But u don't see the +10 years he put in to get to that point. Training and studying the game is a process, getting drafted and signing that contract is the event. Then u factor in the career to keep that contract, I wouldn't say it's easy at all.
You have to be an exceptional talent to be a pro athlete. An above average high school athlete has much more competition to get to the NBA than your above average high school student wanting to go to college to become a engineer. That's why the payoff in the NBA is much more. Also, when u entertain/help/produce for millions, u will make millions. It's simple math.
With that said, working a 9-5 ultimately is more difficult IMO cause of the time it takes away from your life. Time is the most precious thing and being an exceptional athlete can buy you the time to live more of your life vs. working away your life. You could eventually retire at 35/40 if you are a multimillionaire athlete and use your money wisely. Your average 9-5 worker will have to continue to work until he's 65 and still not have much to show for it.
You have to be an exceptional talent to be a pro athlete. An above average high school athlete has much more competition to get to the NBA than your above average high school student wanting to go to college to become a engineer. That's why the payoff in the NBA is much more. Also, when u entertain/help/produce for millions, u will make millions. It's simple math.
With that said, working a 9-5 ultimately is more difficult IMO cause of the time it takes away from your life. Time is the most precious thing and being an exceptional athlete can buy you the time to live more of your life vs. working away your life. You could eventually retire at 35/40 if you are a multimillionaire athlete and use your money wisely. Your average 9-5 worker will have to continue to work until he's 65 and still not have much to show for it.
USSInsiders
Banned
Said this shyt already, but damn. That's literally a fun day at the gym playing ball and working out and these men get paid to do that.
MegaTronBomb!
Power is in my hair nikka
I always say the best job in sports is an NFL kicker. You get 700k just to kick a football. These dudes come into training and practice for 30 min. Then go home.
Depending on the coach, they're there as long as everyone else....and have to hit sleds and all that.
Kickers don't always get special treatment.
Absolut
Legal Bookie
what nfl coach is wasting practice time with their kickers taking part in tackling drills?
Man yall crazy thinking everything is easy.
Everything isn't glitter and gold.
Everyone isn't a star either.
I know some one in the nfl he was eating good for 3 years not a star but a contributor.
He got married last year had twins.
Dude works hard breh but he was dropped from the team.
The team actually picked him back up cause they really fukked with him.
They traded him for a late round pick.
He was then dropped from his new team.
I mean what do you do breh?
His wife is nothing but a teacher
He wasn't a big club goer so I think he saved his money.
Everything isn't glitter and gold.
Everyone isn't a star either.
I know some one in the nfl he was eating good for 3 years not a star but a contributor.
He got married last year had twins.
Dude works hard breh but he was dropped from the team.
The team actually picked him back up cause they really fukked with him.
They traded him for a late round pick.
He was then dropped from his new team.
I mean what do you do breh?
His wife is nothing but a teacher
He wasn't a big club goer so I think he saved his money.
Youhadasparkwhenustarted
Superstar
Breh for a second I thought you were starting to insinuate that all that separates athletes from regular joes was work ethic, but I can kind of co-sign some of what you're saying. But I'm sure the people you're saying would be assed out competing for a minimum wage job year in and year out, would show a whole lot more work ethic and dedication if they were competing for a multimillion dollar job instead, and some of these athletes who show such extreme dedication in their respective sport, might not be able to make it through a 9-5 job they hate
we can't discount the mental aspect of things here, Being a professional athlete may be a more physically arduous job than any 9-5 no doubt, but it's a hell of alot easier to do something you love for hours on end, versus something you loathe and do just to get by, and takes more dedication than you're giving it credit for. so in the end the "harder" job really just comes down to semantics a bit.