11-09-2003, 05:05 AM
I put a null vote because you were obviously looking for a particular answer and were being a bit melodramatic. You think money left over that isn't being paid towards players would somehow magically go to pay government employees? Players get paid by teams. They pay them more and more because the most athletically gifted players are coming at a premium. And the word hero... I honestly don't hear sports stars being called heroes that often... usually they're stars, athletes, greats, legends, but extremely rarely is any one of them called a hero. Dunno gwar, did you just get finished reading a ranting article? This seems sorta out of the blue.