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7/3/09

Tiger Woods is highest paid American athlete - Top 50

In case you were wondering what kind of obscene salaries athletes pull in, here's the 50 highest paid American athletes. Be jealous.

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Tiger Woods tops the list, but the real interesting stuff comes later. For example, did you know that Steve Francis made more than Tom Brady last year? Wow.

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7/3/09

Pat

8	Whoa now... they all pay a LOT of taxes. If you really don't think they deserve the money, then don't spend any of YOUR money on cable bills, game tickets, team-related merchandise, or any products that they endorse. By feeding the monster with your hard-earned dollars, you're helping to give them these exorbitant salaries.

7/3/09

twins_10m

0	Come on no way A-Rod deserves that much!

7/3/09

mk_donley

0	DADBURN!!! Did the NBA players dominate this list or what?

7/3/09

THE_Smoot

1	Lol at Matt Schaub being on the list.

7/3/09

Heyhey1970

1	Long-Term contracts seem like a good idea, but once you go past 3 or 4 years, you're asking to get burned.

7/3/09

annilee60

0	looking for a crash course on how to drive a white ball into a hole with a silver club of some sort. By the way , who's Bogie???

7/3/09

Diablorain

0	jUNIOR IS RANKED RIGHT UP THERE...NUMBER 11 :)

7/3/09

streetballer123

0	That is some interesting stuff

7/3/09

Pat

8	Whoa now... they all pay a LOT of taxes. If you really don't think they deserve the money, then don't spend any of YOUR money on cable bills, game tickets, team-related merchandise, or any products that they endorse. By feeding the monster with your hard-earned dollars, you're helping to give them these exorbitant salaries.

7/3/09

fourtime7

0	wow a pujoios only 13 milliion a year? nice. most of these people don't deserve this much money 15% should go back into the town into which they reside at/

7/3/09

llama5492

1	Salaries that don't Make sense: Tiger Woods' and Phil Mickelson's salary is crazy. And Shaq and Garnett should not be getting more than Kobe.

7/3/09

srvntofjesus

0	take the last 3 digits off, and add 10,000 that would be about right.

7/3/09

0	nice pic

7/3/09

frenchy62

1	To think that Steve Francis made over $20 million. He may go down as the most well-paid unemployed person of all time.

7/3/09

Surge

1	I think Matt Stafford will be #3 on that list next season.

7/3/09

gobigblue1960

1	Looks like alot of overpaid basketball players.

7/3/09

Bashfulblue

1	To all you Dale Jr haters........He is laugh all the way to the bank at you

7/3/09

nder

0	fully agree

7/3/09

nder

0	Bye

7/4/09

INDIA_ki_JaI_Ho

0	well they get paid for what they have achived so far and noting else

7/4/09

Jay_B

0	Pat wrote: Whoa now... they all pay a LOT of taxes. If you really don't think they deserve the money, then don't spend any of YOUR money on cable bills, game tickets, team-related merchandise, or any products that they endorse. By feeding the monster with your hard-earned dollars, you're helping to give them these exorbitant salaries. Exactly right my man!!

7/4/09

Pat

But they DO deserve the money. It's called capitalism. As long as everyone is willing to pay hundreds of dollars to see them play, and hundreds more for their cable packages to watch every game, and buy the jerseys, hats, t-shirts, etc, they deserve to see the money from those things.

Think about it... that money has to go somewhere... should the owners get it? Or should the players? You know they're not just going to lower their prices, because everyone is buying their product, so there's no need to. No one else in the country lowers prices with high demand.

No matter what anyone says, and no matter how much it doesn't make sense, they really do deserve the money, because they provide a service that a lot of people are willing to pay a lot of money for.

Whether or not they pay taxes is between them and the government... but I would pretty much guarantee that anyone who makes that kind of money, the government is doing everything they can to get their hands on as many of their dollars as possible.

7/4/09

dec82343

0	llama5492 wrote: Salaries that don't Make sense: Tiger Woods' and Phil Mickelson's salary is crazy. And Shaq and Garnett should not be getting more than Kobe. I agree 100% Kobe is close to another Michael Jordan!!!!!