Packers sign Aaron Rodgers to a record-setting, five-year, $110 million extension...

[BigGameDamian]

This is getting very ridiculous. Sports has become all about money.

Aaron Rodgers and the Packers have agreed on a contract extension, according to an ESPN.com report.

The Packers announced the deal Friday, but didn't say how long it was for or how much he'll be paid.

A source told Adam Schefter the deal is expected to add five years on top of the two years Rodgers has remaining on his contract, and keep Rodgers in Green Bay through the 2019 season.

 

[BrianFromWA]

Re: Packers sign Aaron Rodgers to a record-setting, five-year, $110 million extension

http://profootballmock.com/aaron-rodgers-pay-me-like-tony-romo-or-ill-start-playing-like-him/

Home / Opinion / Aaron Rodgers: “Pay Me Like Tony Romo, or I’ll Start Playing Like Him”

 

[NOVoodoo]

Re: Packers sign Aaron Rodgers to a record-setting, five-year, $110 million extension

http://profootballmock.com/aaron-rodgers-pay-me-like-tony-romo-or-ill-start-playing-like-him/

Haha, good stuff.

Rodgers definitely deserves this money as far as I'm concerned, just like Brees did. These teams make an insane amount of profit when you look at it proportionally to the average player's contract. Rodgers is bringing in most of this income, so why not pay him like a CEO gets paid?

The worst disparity though is seeing guys like Brian Cardinal, sitting on an NBA bench all year, making millions more than most guys who start on NFL offensive lines and take the utmost physical abuse every week. Linemen are very underpaid.

 

[BrianFromWA]

Re: Packers sign Aaron Rodgers to a record-setting, five-year, $110 million extension

Jermichael Finley had a great quote, also:

Congratulations 2 my man @AaronRodgers12. Frankly, he deserves more, but thank you 4 saving some 4 the rest. Every dinner on u sir! Let's Go

 

[NOVoodoo]

Re: Packers sign Aaron Rodgers to a record-setting, five-year, $110 million extension

Jermichael Finley had a great quote, also:

Another good one. I'm surprised the players union hasn't been bargaining harder for a higher cap, guaranteed contracts, etc.

As a fan, I love the financial conditions the NFL has created for these players, but as a human being, c'mon... this is the most physically taxing sport in America, and yet we pay some of these guys like Euroleague basketball players.

Just looking at the Saints' salary from last season, the NFL has 22 starters on every team (not including special teams), yet the Saints only had 29 players making $1+ mill, and 24 of those 29 players only made between $1-5 mill. I say "only" for comparison to the NBA and MLB.

Jimmy Graham, one of the best players in all of NFL football, only made $706,285, and I haven't exactly seen him in too many endorsements, even locally in NOLA.

 

[huevonkiller]

Re: Packers sign Aaron Rodgers to a record-setting, five-year, $110 million extension

They're paid less because of the amount of players on the roster.

 

[NOVoodoo]

Re: Packers sign Aaron Rodgers to a record-setting, five-year, $110 million extension

They're paid less because of the amount of players on the roster.

Yeah, I get that, but it's still not fair proportionally.

EDIT: And I'm obviously not saying "proportionally" in terms of roster size. I'm saying "proportionally," in terms of the amount of income they receive versus the amount of physical strain they put on the bodies, in terms of the amount of income they receive in relation to the amount of profits that are generated through their sacrifices on the field, and also in terms of the way that other professional athletic associations compensate their players who participate in far less physically detrimental activities on a daily basis.

 

[huevonkiller]

Re: Packers sign Aaron Rodgers to a record-setting, five-year, $110 million extension

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=ycn-10423863

NBA was at about 5.2 million, baseball was at 3.2, Hockey had 2.3, the NFL was at 1.9. It makes sense from a cursory look.

The NFL's and MLB's profits are nearly identical believe it or not, probably due to the amount of games.

http://www.freakonomics.com/2007/11/28/nfl-vs-mlb-as-a-labor-market-a-freakonomics-quorum/

Perhaps a more intriguing question to consider is, “Why, from an economic perspective, could this be?” After all, we can’t simply credit the fact that the baseball union negotiators and the N.F.L. owner negotiators are just better over so many years. Thus, it’s worth bringing up at least two factors that explain why the upper hand might “naturally” exist in both cases.

1. Scarcity. The baseball union could have greater leverage because professional baseball players are more scarce. Baseball has 25 professional players on each of their 30 rosters. N.F.L. teams carry more than double (53 players per team) that amount of players on their 32 rosters.

2. Turnover. So many are surprised by the fact that the N.F.L. doesn’t have guaranteed contracts. Well, guaranteed contracts make a little bit more sense in M.L.B. than in the N.F.L., where the average player plays about three and half seasons, roughly two seasons shorter than the average Major Leaguer. This could be because of injuries, or perhaps because owners and team personnel think the difference between a veteran and a cheap drafted rookie is minimal.

Both of these factors could lead one to conclude that M.L.B. owners are forced to care more about cultivating a relationship with their players, while N.F.L. owners, on a larger scale, can afford to tell their players why it’s still so good for them in the N.F.L.

 

[NOVoodoo]

Re: Packers sign Aaron Rodgers to a record-setting, five-year, $110 million extension

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=ycn-10423863

NBA was at about 5.2 million, baseball was at 3.2, Hockey had 2.3, the NFL was at 1.9. It makes sense from a cursory look.

The NFL's and MLB's profits are nearly identical believe it or not, probably due to the amount of games.

http://www.freakonomics.com/2007/11/28/nfl-vs-mlb-as-a-labor-market-a-freakonomics-quorum/

The concept of the NFL playing less games and having more players is not really something that's swept under the rug. I understand that. At the same time though, the teams generate more income (you also have to include the added value to the franchises) by putting their health at way more risk, every time they step onto the field.

This is just talk with no statistical backup, but wouldn't you say that playing half a 16 game NFL season is probably more taxing than playing an 82 game NBA season?

Also, in referencing the MLB, you have to understand that there's no real minor league in the NFL. The NFL consists of giant rosters largely for that fact. MLB teams have a whole system of minor league teams where they pay their guys peanuts. Now imagine every NFL team taking their "bottom 10-20" players and shipping them away to a farm camp and then excluding them from these salary statistics. Would you think they're underpaid then?

Not to mention, the MLB is the biggest sham of a "sport" going these days. Half of those fatasses couldn't run a mile without puking, whereas in the NFL, they've got starting linemen that have to take enough painkillers to kill a giraffe every week, just to go out there and guard against 350+ lbs. men whose only goal is to take their head off... and a lot of them get the MLB's "minor league" money.

 

[KeepOnRollin]

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It is why Charlie Ward and some others played in the NBA instead of the NFL even though they probably would have been slightly better at the other sport. All about the money they would get in one vs the other.

 

[blazerboy30]

Re: Packers sign Aaron Rodgers to a record-setting, five-year, $110 million extension

The amount of physical taxation is irrelevant.

 

[magnifier661]

The amount of physical taxation is irrelevant.

Yeah tell that to the construction worker demanding the same amount of money as the stock broker!