Ladette said:
Pfftt, you should hear the stories about how much some of these guys drop at casinos when they come to Vegas during the off season. That's a drop in the bucket to a guy like him.
Now i'm depressed because i'll never be able to party with Lebron James.
This person speaks the truth.
I was in Vegas about 6 months ago, I walked up to a $100 minimum bet roulette table just to see how people were playing it (I am a poor college student) so I was quite curious how more rich people played the same games as I did, but I played for less money. Anyhow, I was there and a rather famous basket ball player walked up, I was told he was a famous basket ball player, I didn't recognize him but I don't watch basket ball at all, he had a possy of 4 very well dressed folk just walking behind him. He bet $200,000 on red. The ball landed on black and he walked off as if nothing had happened, it didn't even seem to phase him, as if this thing happened all the time. If he wanted to lose $200,000 he could have given it all to me! I would most defenitely not pay it back.
Point is, athletes in the USA get paid way too much in my opinion. It is rather rediculous.
Especially when someone who is important for oh I don't know lets say your life's safety when flying, gets paid like shit. Pilots make jack shit compared to what they used to in the USA in the mid 60's and 70's, the average pilot gets paid 70k a year now. While athletes who do no more than throw a ball well and run well get paid in the multiple hundreds of thousands and sometimes millions of dollars a year. This shit depresses me, ugh oh well.