use the consumer would rather buy the product if their favorite athlete were supporting it. This is a major source of income for the athletes that they receive. Many athletes take time out of their vacationing to make commercials. Who really pays the athletes salaries? The majority that pay for their salary are the fans (Athletes Salary). When you buy food, souvenirs, tickets, etc. Now if you go to the mall and buy clothes or cologne, you might be promoting the salary of an athlete (Bryjak 67). The fans continue to pay extremely high prices for tickets because they want to be entertained (Bryjak 67). You have to pay the price for the entertainment but is it worth it? The other side of the story is the corporations that pay the owners. They just make the wallets of the owners inflate. Owners then use the money to pay the athletes from their pockets (Bryjak 67). So much money is transferred from one hand to another, that much of the money lands back to the owners or where it started. I dont like having high salaries for the reason being that the fans have to add more money for the fees that they will charge for their tickets (Athletes Salary). This is just another excuse for the owners to increase their wallets.Is there love present for the game or is money the true love of the players. Many of the young players are thinking of money rather than their future. Many players have gone straight from high school to the professional level after being drafted. They dont look towards their future after their sports career. They are getting long term contracts that will probably let them survive on it for the rest of their life. 20 year-olds dont deserve this much money for playing a sport on the professional level. Kevin Garnett is going to be paid 126 million for six years (Kindred 63). This raises some question that in the college level athletes are demanding pay for their contributions to the school (Bagnato 1). They fee...
