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by steveklabnik 288 days ago
One of my best friends is now in a wheelchair for life, thanks to high school football.

You are always taking a risk. Sometimes it's just that it won't work out financially. Sometimes it's more serious than that. It's a small risk, but non-zero. Even successful football players suffer from much higher rates of mental health issues, among other poor health outcomes.
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wubrr 288 days ago
Just because someone takes risks, doesn't mean they deserve exorbitant compensation for that. Lots of people take risks all of the time for much less. Lots of sports, and even non-sport jobs are much more dangerous than playing in the NFL, and compensated much less.

Complaining about NFL players not making enough money is just funny to me.

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steveklabnik 288 days ago
I didn't say they deserved anything. You said that they don't sacrifice anything. They absolutely do. This is completely independent from a compensation discussion.

I do happen to think that players should probably make more, for the same reason that I think all workers should probably make more, not because of any particular risk reason.

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wubrr 288 days ago
> You said that they don't sacrifice anything.

No, I clearly didn't say that.

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steveklabnik 288 days ago
Sorry, I didn't realize that you were different than the person I originally replied to, who said

> 'sacrifice' what exactly lol?

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