[Dave W]

Sounds to me you are jealous, or a socialist, or you don't understand. The Super Bowl may have only 60 mins on the clock, but it takes a lot of work to get there. To be fair, you can't exclude all the conditioning and prep time. They spend hours and hours watching tape, team meetings, not including practice. Players often report at 6 am or even earlier. During the two weeks before the game, there are meetings with the press that is mandatory or you will be fined by the league, etc, etc and etc. Also, most of them play hurt - it is brutal game.

So to look at it only as a 60 min paycheck is extremely shortsighted and unfair.

[the OlLine Rebel]

It’s still just a game, and they still really only “work” about half the year (in the old days they didn’t make enough and had to do blue-collar jobs part of the year). Then they only can do it for maybe 20 years.

Same way I view just about all athletes.

Must be nice to play around.

[US_MilitaryRules]

Glad you posted that. What a moron to think they walk out on the field and play like pro’s with no practice or studying. And the game is only 60 minutes? lol I could have swore the game was on for about 4 hours! lol Yes they make a lot of money, but so do other people. Me? I don’t watch very many sports. I taped the SB and watched it in about 45 minutes. Only football game I watched all year. My favorite sport is Supercross and Motocross.