Stop it With the Salaries

Are athletes in the game for the fun of it anymore, or is it all about the money now? It seems like playing a sport from the time you were a kid, all the way through your thirties and getting paid for it would be a dream come true. But if you look at professional athletes in today's game, it is all about the money. What is the point of playing for a team in today's major leagues? Money. Plain and simple most of the players are there for no other reason than for the pay checks they are getting. Players do not find any enjoyment in playing any more but rather just for the amount of money that they make in a year. Of the top 5 highly paid athletes, they averaged 59,039,766.40 a year for 2010(SI.com). That is just such a huge amount of money, and there are many other things that could be purchased for the average American off of that. On the average that is making nearly 1,135,380 a week and that is far more than many people would be what most people would make in their entire life. How is that justifiable to pay them that much money? Making more in a week than many people make in a lifetime is the reason that so many athletes just do not care. When being named to the all-star team, many athletes to not even want to play in the game. Rather, they see it as an honor, but would not like to play in the game. They get a boost in pay for making it to the game but why play in it? I believe that money has gotten in the way for professional athletes and it is no longer about the love of the game. Instead, it is just like everything in this world. We do it for the money. Take some of the money out of the game and get back to the real reason to play the game, love.