Well, it has to be somebody, doesn't it?
Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning will end this year as the National Football League's (NFL) highest-paid player, according to a Forbes report released Wednesday.
Manning, a four-times most valuable player in the NFL who agreed to a five-year $90-million contract with the Colts last month, is expected to earn $23 million in total compensation for 2011.
St. Louis Rams quarterback Sam Bradford is second on the list with expected earnings of $18.4 million and New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady is third at $18 million.
A slight superstitious streak in me finds this worrisome. What if earning the most somehow jinxes him? He's getting up there in years for a football player, a
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Leo:
Well, he's CERTAINLY no JOHNNY UNITAS, that's for sure.
The outrageous and actually SINFUL amounts of money these "athletes" garner these days is what turns me the hell OFF of most pro posrts.
When was he last time a pro quarterback WORKED off-season at a CAR-DEALERSHIP, hmm?
Yes, and black people had to use a separate water fountain. Why do conservatives assume that all change is for the worse? Professional football generates enormous amounts of money. It's only fair that the people who do the actual work get a share of it. Well, one change is apparently for the worse: the invention of the CAPS LOCK button.
Thank God he's no Johnny Unitas. That was one ugly crewcut.
AJ
Wow, one of our favorite resident socialists (Littlejohn) justifying a $90,000,000 salary for an already filthy rich white guy? Hmmmmm....strange indeed.
LJ, you also note "Professional football generates enormous amounts of money." Pray tell, why do we always have to pay for their staduims? Just curious.
TZ writes: "Pray tell, why do we always have to pay for their staduims? Just curious."
Pro football generates enormous amounts of money because they soak everybody - the ticket buyers, the networks, the concession customers, and the taxpayers.
And they may need it to pay off Jim McMahon and others who are suing over how the league handled concussions.