re: Why does society perceive playing football earns the right of payment?

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Why does society perceive playing football earns the right of payment?

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Because it's total horseshite that the NCAA and schools pretend these are amateur athletes. The schools are making money hand over fist off their backs and have created an artificial barrier stopping the players from properly reaching their earning potential. Saying "Well they get paid with a scholarship, room and board, and an "education" that may or may not be worth the paper the diploma is printed on is a farce.

Johnny Manziel should have been given a piece of every single one of those #2 jerseys A&M sold b/c he is the only damn reason people were buying that number.

It should be fine for USC to get a home and job for Reggie Bush's mother just like can happen when a company headhunts a high level worker from another part of the country.

Jeremy Bloom should have been able to keep playing WR at Colorado while taking sponsorships to fund his Olympic free style skiing career.

The NCAA even made UCF kick returner Donald De La Haye shut down his fricking YoutTube page b/c he was popular enough to earn money off of it.

This is all total bullshite. Let players earn money off their likeness. Let them take sponsors. Let schools better their entire family if they want a student that badly. Let them earn money from side jobs they are talented at.