Comments on: Champ Bailey fears for 2011 season

By: azwildcats96

azwildcats96 — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 22:13:32 +0000

@chapnastier – Entitlement? LOL Athletes and doctors get PAID a lot of money because they possess RARE skills or abilities in most cases. Doctors train and go to school for years, pay a TON of malpractice insurance and student loans for medical school. Most athletes, not all, but the elite ones TRAIN constantly and put their bodies through a lot. Stop being jealous because your either A) too stupid to have a high paying job or B) not athletic enough to be a professional athlete.

By: raven4life21

raven4life21 — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:28:23 +0000

see champ… why you gotta go and resign with the Broncos?? i was hoping that the Ravens would try and scoop you up… oh well… c’mon Asomugha

By: chapnastier

chapnastier — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:23:10 +0000

@touchdownroddywhite

Excellent justification. Since you make more you are allowed to spend more and live less responsibly than people who make far less. Entitlement much?

By: touchdownroddywhite

touchdownroddywhite — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:02:39 +0000

@polegojim -

Many people could make it for many years on that kind of money. But a doctor making 350k a year is almost certainly going to have much higher living expenses than a 40k a year factory worker. When your house payment is 40k a year, it’s just as hard to sustain without income as a dwelling that costs 10k a year for somebody with a lower typical salary.

Athletes are not even close to the only people in America who spend 99% of their earnings each year. They just happen to spend it on more expensive stuff.

By: polegojim

polegojim — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 14:34:56 +0000

@azwildcats – ‘minimum’ is about $350,000

Yeah, it would be a crying shame, but I think me or my doc could STRUGGLE and live TWO years on that.

By: polegojim

polegojim — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 14:32:16 +0000

Hate to say it but the more this saga unfolds, the more I support the owners.

Free market society and capitalism dictate that he who puts up the money and takes the risks gets the profit.

The owners are all alone dealing with red ink. I haven’t seen these same players forking over their capital to help when teams are upside down.

By: azwildcats96

azwildcats96 — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:41:41 +0000

There’s a lot of players that play for the minimum. Ask you doctor if he would be hurt financially if he wasn’t able to work for a year.

By: chapnastier

chapnastier — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 12:56:34 +0000

Yeah Champ, most people who get paid a $350,000 – millions per year definitely cant make it for a few months without a job. I can only imagine what the lowly unemployed service workers in this country are going through.

Player arrogance is baffling.

By: mike83ri

mike83ri — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 12:52:57 +0000

Deny it all you want, but the fact that he’s admitting the players need the owners and the owners don’t need the players is EXACTLY the same reason the owners are claiming leverage, and exactly why the profits shouldn’t be split 50/50. Supply and demand. They can find other football players who will take less (and still make a boat load of money) while the players aren’t going to have a comparable salary in the UFL/CFL.

The NFL’s success is only in small part because it has the best players of the three leagues.

By: philriverslovespenis

philriverslovespenis — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 12:21:13 +0000

@ buttchargerdillon: Speaking of bitches, maybe if your uber talented QB wasn’t such a bitch, he might’ve led that incredibly talented team to a SB by now.

By: titsburgfeelers

titsburgfeelers — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 09:49:11 +0000

Thank God. I am So happy champ is going to stay. We as bronco fans have been through allot in the past few years. Champ stayin shows some stability and hope. Broncos for life!!

By: chargerdillon

chargerdillon — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 05:25:00 +0000

Champ’s comments “There’s a lot of players out there that need this game.” Is the nice way of saying there’s a lot of young dumb athletes who have already been handed riduclous amounts of money and havent made wise decisions with it

Players need to get real with their money and owners need to stick it to them like they already do the fans

Oh and Champ’s a bitch

By: steelybills

steelybills — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 05:03:47 +0000

Last year = Not day one

By: thespeaker08

thespeaker08 — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 04:46:17 +0000

@hrmlss

Duh.

By: ndgarretjax

ndgarretjax — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 04:41:41 +0000

Would he still get the guaranteed money even if there is a work stoppage?…

By: jc1958cool

jc1958cool — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 04:17:22 +0000

he should be more worried about his QB and his team! neither one is very good!

By: graham wieja

graham wieja — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 04:15:37 +0000

champ, you’ll be tied for first place if there’s no football. seeing as you’re a denver bronco, that’s about as good as it’s going to get for you in the next 4 years…

By: hrmlss

hrmlss — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 04:12:16 +0000

his new 4 year contract probably has bonuses tied to the 11 season!