I agree and feel the same way, I have always thought that professional athletes were WAY WAY over paid. I remember my sports days in school, and I was very good, and I did it because it was FUN and self rewarding. In my Jr and Sr year when I led our conference in rushing yards and had my name and # in the newspapers and on every other window of our local businesses prior to Friday night games, the younger kids looked up to that and wanted to be that. There was no taking a drug to make yourself perform better, it was all honest blood sweat and tears and working on the farm 7 days a week thru the summer and off season to get at the level I was at.Originally Posted by PitOnTheProwl
I graduated summer of 2000. Summer of 2001 I was talking to four different recruiters. Three were from colleges for sports scholarships ...... The other was from the United States Navy. At around 9am on Sept. 11th 2001, I made my decision which recruiter I was going to choose. By Nov. 4th 2001, I was on a plane on my way to boot camp. (You'll never see a sports recruiter work that fast)
I was gone for 4 years doing what I believed in, doing things that I now will only talk about with a few select individuals, and other things that I will never disclose to anyone. Believe me, that holds more stress than ANY multi million dollar paid athlete will ever come close to fathoming for any game or contract.
Luckily for me when I returned home I still had much the same respect and admiration from my community as I did when I left, more than any high dollar famous name and Jersey would ever bring.
Besides the fact that both Woody Hayes and Cy Young were both from my hometown ..... There was no room there for another superstar
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