Listen, people who play football should get paid to play football. There is an incredible gap between how much old rich white people get paid to own football teams and how much, on average, players actually make. When we think of football players and how they relate to money, we most often think of the likes of Sam Bradford, making many millions of dollars on multiple contracts just for being in the league. But the typical football player’s story is more like: scraping their way through college often racking up debt because they’re not allowed to make money, getting drafted in a late round where the rookie scale is relatively low, getting their bodies wrecked playing on and off for 2-5 years, then getting phased out of the league and entering the workforce as a physically limited and untrained 30-ish-year-old who’s likely to develop significant disabilities in their middle age.
I love that California is not letting the NCAA make millions of dollars off of vulnerable young people putting their bodies on the line without letting those young people take care of themselves and their communities. And I hate that nobody made the Chargers pay Melvin Gordon. If you think they shouldn’t have to pay Gordon because Austin Ekeler is playing well, then you just believe two people should be underpaid to play RB for the Chargers. That’s highkey bootlicker mentality.
Survivor: KC
Locks: CHI, PHI, NE, KC
Underdogs: LAR, BUF, TB, ARI
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Dangersquirrel vs the NFL 