"I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective. I don't want a football player who doesn't take defeat to heart, who laughs it off with the thought, 'Oh, well, there's another Saturday.' The trouble in American life today, in business as well as in sports, is that too many people are afraid of competition. The result is that in some circles people have come to sneer at success if it costs hard work and training and sacrifice." These words are spoken by one of the greatest coaches of all time Knute Rockne. He explains how athletes sacarifice everything they got to be the best. He wants athletes to take everything so serious. Athletes train year round so one day they can play in the championship game of their sports. However coming from a huge sports fan I have to realize sports are all just one big game. Their hard work does not justify their salaries in my eyes. As far as I'm concerned there are harder working men and women on this planet who do equal or greater work for one tenth of athletes salaries. As the economy worsens somehow sports salaries still increase. Because of the fascination in athletes salaries increase. We need to regulate sports salaries because athletes don't need all this money and there are more deserving people in this world besides athletes.
             Many people will argue that sports salaries are regulated. In professional sports including the National Basketball Assicoation (NBA) and the National Football League (NFL) there is something called a salarie cap. This says a team can't have a team salries greater than 82 million for basketball. However the team could technically pay all 82 million to one player if the team feels it is worth it. So is this really regulating their salaries? "In the 1997-98 pro basketball year the Chicago Bulls paid Michael Jordan an astronomica
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