[afterwalk]

I wonder what percentage of kids age 8-12 want to become a professional athlete. I bet it's at least 100-1000x than the amount of job opening at the "can make a full time income" level.

In that case it's mostly the parents that subsidize the lifestyle up until college level.

[dehrmann]

I have a high school classmate who played pro football for a couple of years. I never got the impression his parents did that much for him to subsidize foodball; it's not like rich parents trying to train their kids to be world-class squash players. It still could have been a $500-$5,000 per year subsidy, though.