Michael Thomas Twitter Exchange with Underhill (1 Viewer)

[MV2]

Exactly. We pay someone who can throw, catch, pass, shoot, hit, act, perform, entertain us.....$25+ million a year, yet we pay $35 thousand a year to people who teach, protect, save us, rescue us....WHAT THE HECK IS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?!?!?! Our culture is so azz backwards.

Don't get me wrong, I love watching my Saints, but the salaries are way out of control. It's still a GAME! Chess, checkers, Tetris, are games. Should we pay the people who play these games millions of dollars also?

Average Salary in the U.S. Average Salary in the U.S. (2022) $53,490 per year According to the latest data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the annual mean wage for a full-time wage or salary worker in the United States is $53,490 per year or $1,028 per week (for a 40-hour work week). Let's bump that up to $100,000 per year for sake of argument. Multiply that times 55 years work expectancy = $5,500,000 earnings life time.

The average length of a player's career in the National Football League (NFL) is relatively short, with the average career lasting around 3.3 years. The league is considered one of the most physically demanding sports leagues in the world, with players regularly exposed to hard hits and collisions. This leads to a high risk of injury, and many players are forced to retire early or miss significant time due to injuries. Taking this into consideration, a player should earn $5.5 million after 4 years. Players who last longer should get paid more accordingly. That should be the standard for all sports. Just my opinion. Oh, and they should get health insurance for life after they have completed 5 years of the NFL as a bonus.

I'm sure baseball contracts must make you sick to your stomach.

 

[DavidM]

I see forecasts of him getting a one year $10m prove it deal. Seems reasonable for whoever gets him.

I'm assuming heavily incentive laden to get to that number.

 

[tarusman28]

He would need to take a pay cut, which similar to Carr, he has no incentive to do with a $60m guarantee kicking in 2-3 days after the league year starts.

I agree. We can't expect the Saints to keep Thomas on the team on his current deal. That's too much invested in a player that haven't played any significant time since 2020.

 

[SaintsFan11]

I don’t at all construe MT’s tweet as indicating that he’ll be around next season. Hope I’m wrong, and that he’ll renegotiate a team friendly deal.

 

[KCWhoDat]

I don’t care if he stays or goes anymore…I really could care less now.

 

[St. Geezy]

For what it's worth...

 

[CajunSaint08]

I'm sure baseball contracts must make you sick to your stomach.

None of this makes me sick, but for most of you not to realize how azz backwards this country is makes me really want to cry. WWI veterans (if any were alive today) and WWII veterans must really wonder what the hell happened to this great country of America that they fought so hard to protect.

 

[SigFreudianSlip]

Man, I’m not tryn to argue who deserves what but you make top money and not play for three years, you aren’t a victim.

Totally agree but everyone is a victim now. Just where we are.

There is no restructure to be done with his contract for the upcoming season. That was done at the end of the 2022 season so that part of the cap hit was taken then. He has a minimum salary and just a 250k roster bonus due for 2023.

. I read wrong then as I thought he was due some crazy money if on the roster after a certain point in the next month or so. I admittedly don’t know cap ins and outs tho.

 

[CajunSaint08]

It's basic economics. Football generates revenue that supports their salaries. The other jobs you mentioned are paid from tax revenue which has to be taken from people mostly against their will (lottery aside). If you weren't paying the players then the money just goes to the billionaire owners. If you tax any football related revenues more then the price will go up. Owner's won't cut into their profits. I.E. tax tickets $10 more then ticket prices go up $10 more.

It's the same principle as taxing a grocery store. The price gets passed on to the consumer.

You can say it a thousand different ways, but to pay a player $60 million for one year to throw a football is just idiotic. We as a country are stupid. And we wonder why inflation is going through the roof. Just doesn't make sense.

 

[livefromDC]

You can say it a thousand different ways, but to pay a player $60 million for one year to throw a football is just idiotic. We as a country are stupid. And we wonder why inflation is going through the roof. Just doesn't make sense.

Please lay out your socialist agenda. How should we re-direct that $60 million? Who gets it?

 

[WhoDatPhan78]

You can say it a thousand different ways, but to pay a player $60 million for one year to throw a football is just idiotic. We as a country are stupid. And we wonder why inflation is going through the roof. Just doesn't make sense.

The money the NFL brings in has to go somewhere. I don't have a problem with the players getting a good chunk of it.

I think the issue must be with how much money entertainment brings in, but the only people to blame for that is the people who are willing to spend so much on entertainment, which is all of us.

 

[DavidM]

Exactly. We pay someone who can throw, catch, pass, shoot, hit, act, perform, entertain us.....$25+ million a year, yet we pay $35 thousand a year to people who teach, protect, save us, rescue us....WHAT THE HECK IS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?!?!?! Our culture is so azz backwards.

Don't get me wrong, I love watching my Saints, but the salaries are way out of control. It's still a GAME! Chess, checkers, Tetris, are games. Should we pay the people who play these games millions of dollars also?

Average Salary in the U.S. Average Salary in the U.S. (2022) $53,490 per year According to the latest data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the annual mean wage for a full-time wage or salary worker in the United States is $53,490 per year or $1,028 per week (for a 40-hour work week). Let's bump that up to $100,000 per year for sake of argument. Multiply that times 55 years work expectancy = $5,500,000 earnings life time.

The average length of a player's career in the National Football League (NFL) is relatively short, with the average career lasting around 3.3 years. The league is considered one of the most physically demanding sports leagues in the world, with players regularly exposed to hard hits and collisions. This leads to a high risk of injury, and many players are forced to retire early or miss significant time due to injuries. Taking this into consideration, a player should earn $5.5 million after 4 years. Players who last longer should get paid more accordingly. That should be the standard for all sports. Just my opinion. Oh, and they should get health insurance for life after they have completed 5 years of the NFL as a bonus.

Capitalism. The word you are looking for is capitalism. Which leads into a discussion that isn't really suitable for this board, but that's what this is. Market driven capitalism.

If it really troubles you, it's not the soldiers who fought in World Wars you should be thinking about, but a system that directs wealth in ways that aren't always so palatable to the many of us working to stay above the line. Lose your job? Sink. Get sick? Sink. Can't keep up with the cost of living? Sink.

 

[Optimistic Ozzy]

You can say it a thousand different ways, but to pay a player $60 million for one year to throw a football is just idiotic. We as a country are stupid. And we wonder why inflation is going through the roof. Just doesn't make sense.

I look at it this way: What makes our country so great is a player can make 60 million a year throwing a football.

 

[WhoDatPhan78]

I look at it this way: What makes our country so great is a player can make 60 million a year throwing a football.

I wouldn't go that far.

I mean, it's not great that someone who can throw a football can make as much as 1200 teachers.

It is what it is, but great it's not.

 

[stooge]

None of this makes me sick, but for most of you not to realize how azz backwards this country is makes me really want to cry. WWI veterans (if any were alive today) and WWII veterans must really wonder what the hell happened to this great country of America that they fought so hard to protect.

Why are you on a football forum talking about war veterans and the state of the country?