03-11-2024, 07:02 PM
(03-11-2024, 03:57 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: That's a huge assumption to start off with.
Uzomah who you made the focus of your post was heading into his age 29 season. In just 2 years in New York, he nearly doubled his career earnings from the previous 7 years.
Tee Higgins has currently earned $10m and probably lost 40%+ of that in taxes. His career could end in 2024 at any given time. The Bengals would move on from him without a second thought if he couldn't play football anymore. He watched a man die on the field, he was teammates with guys who saw a man paralyzed on the field. His mind isn't thinking of some nonsensical $150m vs $125m, his mind is thinking $31.8m vs $60m ($10m + whatever guarantees he would get on a contract extension). Guarantees over multiple years is all you can trust.
Tee Higgins isn't us. You have 50 years to work if you want to, you're not going to suddenly become unemployable in your career field in your 30s. He also has a talent that is incredibly rare and incredibly in demand from people who are willing you pay tens of millions of dollars. We don't. Trying to put regular folks in NFL players shoes is always a silly endeavor.
It's only silly because you're not seeing the vast amount of money and how a little more may or may not make a difference. e.g. the regular person can retire off 3 million, something he will make in 2 games lol.
And yes in many other career fields you can become unemployable as you age.
You are underestimating the power of 100 million dollars vs. what you and I make. Forget how much more he makes past that. At some point, you don't need more money! But most players, like others in this thread have said including you, only really care about money. They will trade a better chance getting a superbowl ring for it, which I think as fans is really the only reason we watch, the chance to win it all; as we watch players who don't care about that as much as we do. There is so much money in the NFL you can't have it performance based, imagine everyone is paid a minimum and only those who win the superbowl get paid more. Would work like that at most other jobs lol. Once you get paid guaranteed dollars, what's stopping someone from not trying as hard? They've already shown they don't care about the ring as much as the paycheck, and now you're trusting them to start caring about the ring. A funny quandary in pro sports.
