02-13-2023, 01:14 AM
(02-12-2023, 03:38 PM)Nately120 Wrote: I'm not knocking Flo..that's my point. Commercials don't pay as well as NFL QB salaries, so if Burrow takes less it's to win, not because he thinks having X number of SB rings will lead to him being the next Flo.I wasn't intending to be rude to begin with, so, if that's how you took it, apologies. That's cool as hell about the song, congrats!
2 million a year isn't 51 million per year. Of all the narratives we have going, the one where Burrow takes less money now because he can make it back making commercials is the one that requires the most speculation on our part. But I get what you are saying. Amusingly, I have a song I wrote in like 10 minutes that got enough surprise instagram and tik tok reels to bring in not much money, but more than I expected to make seeing at it was 10 years after I made the song. Money wise, that song made me about as much as I took in working in 2011. I have a much better job now, if you were worried about me.
Though, a counterpoint:
I went and looked for what the top NFL endorsement earners made, Yahoo had an article this last September of the top 10 in the NFL's earnings and there's an article from Forbes further backing Brady's outlandish number which, at $52 Mil/year, does actually top the $51 Mil/year you suggested.
Now, Burrow is no Brady, no one is, but looking at the rest of the list? Mahomes was making $20 Mil/year (that's going to go up), Russell Wilson $14 Mil/year, Dak Prescott is getting $12 Mil/year?!? (HOW?! What has he done?!), Aaron Rodgers gets $11 Mil, none of that is chump change.
Point is, there's great money out there in endorsements if the opportunities arise. I'm not even arguing that Burrow should take less because of it or anything like that, what he wants to do is his business, not mine.
Sources:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/justinbirnbaum/2023/02/01/tom-brady-has-retired-again-heres-how-much-he-earned-in-his-career/
https://www.yahoo.com/video/15-nfl-players-most-money-191616252.html?
