Odell Beckham Jr. Makes Salient Point In Arguing That NFL Players Don't Get Paid Enough

By Jerry Landry

You shouldn’t get mad at NFL players for wanting more money, you should get mad at NFL owners for not compensating them at their value.

Most NFL contracts are skimpy on guarantees. Outside of a signing bonus, a player’s wages are earned upon survival — paychecks are substantially “game checks” and are contingent upon recent performance. Play or be played, fight through pain or go home without severance.

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In a column for the Huffington Post, the New York Giants‘ Odell Beckham Jr. offered an intelligent and economical perspective: “I understand that basketball plays 80-something games, baseball plays this many games, soccer plays that many games, but this is a sport that’s most-watched in America. A sport where there’s more injuries. There’s more collisions.

It’s not even a full-contact sport, I would call it a full-collision sport. You have people running who can run 20 miles per hour and they’re running downhill to hit you, and you’re running 18 miles per hour. That’s a car wreck.

It’s just the careers are shorter. There’s injuries that you have after you leave the game, brain injuries, whatever it is, nerve injuries. And it’s just something that I feel as if there’s no way someone who — even if they did their three or four years in the league — should have to worry about money for the rest of their lives.”

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Yes, some professional athletes waste their money in exorbitant ways — but at least in this case, Beckham wasn’t wasting his breath.

Jerry Landry is a writer for www.RantSports.com. Follow Jerry on Twitter at @Jerry2Landry, “Like” him on Facebook or add him on Google.

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