Does anyone out there feel that our elite sportsmen and women are underpaid? If you do, please raise your hand.....then click X and get the hell out of my blog.
After reading the paper this morning i was struck down by feelings of immense sadness and sympathy for the poor professional sportspeople out there who feel they are 'hard done by'. Our footballers (aussie football for you yanks) are demanding a bigger cut of the dough because they "risk life and limb to provide entertainment to the public".
I dont know about you, but theres something about that statement that really tickles my gag reflex. If i had known that football was a life threatening sport, i would have brought season tickets yonks ago. Just to see some overgrown thug rushed away to hospital from a fatal football to the groin.
Much more likely, is the scene where a 'elite sportsman' is sitting at home in his jacuzzi with three topless hoes and a bottle of champagne having a post game celebration. He is probably racked with anger about his pitiful salary and not being able to afford that extra ivory backscratcher that he has been eyeing off.
Not knowing if the next game would be his last, the jacuzzi felt alot like death row.....
Even the poorest footballers here in Oz make more in one year than i could in a decade and i have a degree. Somehow this isn't enough for them? They can't manage to pay for their family and their alimony payments for their 'secret children'?
One argument is that Sports people have a shelf life of 10 years and that the money they make must carry them through their whole life.
I tell you what else has a shelf life. MY BACK.
After 10 years back breaking work , i will not have millions of dollars in endorsements to fall back on. No siree, i will have to pick myself up, broken spined, just like every other hardworking joe and make a living by selling drugs to small children.
Lets all put our hands together and pray. Pray that this endangered species known as sportus manus will survive the harsh and cuthroat world that is football.
Big Bloody Sissies.
A-DAMN-MEN! I get so tired of hearing about athelete's and their damn sob stories about how they don't get enough cash! That and the damn celebrities who have the fucking stones to get on stage and pander the blue collar workers for donations for whatever charity they are currently whoring. Makes me want to puke my guts up into my paint stained work shoes and mail it to those phony, disingenuous fucks!!
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