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Deion Sanders "Coach Prime" Now At Colorado
The average NFL salary is close to $2 million, but players were not always so well compensated. In fact, for much of football's history, players often worked secondary jobs in steel mills, on ranches or as salesmen to make ends meet. The only time a player takes a "second" job now is on TV in the hopes of getting a career once he has hung up his cleats. The high salaries were won through decades of battles with owners as well as due to football's ascension to the status of America's favorite sport. Red Grange While paid players predate the formation of the NFL in 1920 by several decades, most players were paid on a per-game basis. In 1926, Red Grange changed that when he signed a 19-game deal with the Chicago Bears that earned him roughly $100,000. That was the first large NFL contract. Changing Times During the next few decades, player salaries depended on their star quality and the teams they played for. Some teams were stingy with money, while others paid in other ways--in the late 1950s, Baltimore Colts often got free beer after games. Starting around the late 1950s, players demanded a league minimum, but that fell on deaf ears. The average player at the time was getting less than $6,000 per season. The Financial Breakthrough The Players Association finally won recognition in 1970, and the owners agreed to a $9,000 minimum salary for rookies and $10,000 for veterans. The minimum salary crept higher through the 1970s. Salary Wars Rival leagues often helped escalate salaries. In the 1960s, it was the AFL, followed by the WFL in the 1970s and the USFL in the 1980s. Salaries jumped due to bidding, including the famous John Brodie case where he was offered close to $750,000 to go to the AFL. He had been making $35,000 in the NFL. The Big Money The NFL strikes in 1982 and 1987 led to an explosion in salaries because the players won the rights to get more team revenues as well as the ability to bargain collectively. That helped average salaries go from $198,000 in 1986 to almost $800,000 by the start of the 1993 season. Tuesday, March 4 Updated: March 24, 12:36 PM ET USFL made an impact in three-year run By Greg Garber ESPN.com "Every NFL player that's getting paid right now ought to thank the USFL," said Irv Eatman, an offensive tackle for the Philadelphia Stars and today a Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach. "That's where it started to proliferate." Bart Oates, a Stars teammate of Eatman's and later a Pro Bowl center for the New York Giants, agreed. "Track the league's average salary and see what happens in 1984," Oates said. "Put it on a chart and watch it spike." Done. The NFL's average salary in 1983 was $152,800. A year later, after the USFL began paying fat salaries and creating a bidding war with the NFL, the average salary was $225,600, an increase of 47.6 percent -- the largest jump in the league's history. -
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Dead-on. But, contrast that with the dominant political ethos of the moment: Elon Musk: "the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy." Two two competing approaches aren't "different paths to the same destination," they are polar opposites. Metaphorically, we are arguing between "should we douse ourselves in gasoline and light ourselves on fire, bathing in the cleansing flames? Or should we NOT light ourselves on fire?" There's not really a middle ground. And right now (see yesterday's post string), we are in full-on self-immolation, because when I light myself or others on fire, it makes stupid libs scream "NO!", and that means I'm winning. The right approach doesn't mean that hard choices can't be made. It doesn't mean that people won't end up being hurt, one way or the other; in imperfect systems (as all systems are), that's inevitable. My bigger-picture fear -- and current conclusion -- is that we have to put empathy aside for the moment. First, we have to fight back and defeat the monster that is hate and cruelty. And that....requires dirtying our hands. I sure as shit never wanted it to be this way, but here we are. -
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22% of men (incl. Kevin) don't realize that a chimp would fucking wreck them
Is this some kind of DnD joke or do you not actually know what a gorilla is? -
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22% of men (incl. Kevin) don't realize that a chimp would fucking wreck them
Even if 25 men could get near him at once he would destroy them.
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