If you could play any sport professionally, which team/era would you choose?
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- May 5, 2006
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Andrew Bogut signed for half a million US earlier in the year. Played 11 regular season games and 19 playoff games, starting about a third of them. In total played less then a quarter of total game time in under a third of the games played that year by his team.
Not a bad gig for AUD700-750k.
Not a bad gig for AUD700-750k.
Texas Holdem
Um thats still going back in time.
The money was s**t back then.
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I'm gonna make the big time
Technically my dream to one day play in the AFL could come true but if not AFL probs play for City in the 2017-18 season.
- Feb 24, 2013
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Rather more symbolic of just how much human values & Society have changed for the worse….When past-times & amusements/entertainment become high-value commodities & ambitions.....T.S.Elliot spoke of this point precisely, in his analogy of modernity in this aspect, with that of the Roman Colosseum.
- Jul 13, 2015
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Don't follow baseball closely but always remember hearing about them during that period, it felt like they won 3 or 4 in a row.
How many players won all 3?
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They didn’t actually win any in a row, 3 in 5 years like Geelong 07-11. Spreads out the success at least.
9 players played in all 3.
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- Apr 1, 2005
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I'd be happy to be say the 30-50th best golfer in the world - still pulling around US$3m per on the US tour - fluking a major late in my career to top it all off - banging the odd hostess Tiger style.
Sweep shots are great. Get some variable bounce and every *er skies them or misses them entirely.
I'd probably play darts. Because I'm lazy.
How much time do they get to do anything while travelling though?
If you're a decent tennis player, playing practically every Monday to Satrurday (depending how far you make throguh the tournament), travel Sunday, still trying to fit in training. And an F1 driver or very top tennis pro, you can add all the media demands and having no life of your own to that. Big money if you're good enough (which I'm assuming the thread was premised on) but the demands are hideous.
Mind you, better that than $20/hr with similar work demands - though not the public life ones - in a lot of jobs.
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Disgusting
- May 5, 2006
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Top players earning more than that too. From memory Sydney offered Greg Williams $100k to join them in 1985. He wanted half to stay but Geelong would only pay $45k. When he moved to the Blues at the end of 1991 he was paid somewhere north of $300k per season. He's pretty open about all this, did an Open Mike interview years ago and confirmed the Syd/Geel figures and said "a bit under" when asked if he was on half a mill at Carlton. Warwick Capper reportedly joined the Bears for $350k a year. These are big dollars in the 1980s. A median priced house in Melbourne only ticked over $100k in the late 80s.
The salary cap was only introduced in 1987 and it's no coincidence that the same teams kept making GFs in the 80s. Great WAFL and SANFL players didn't just join Hawthorn, Essendon, Carlton etc for the sake of it. The cap is still rubbery today so all manner of dodgy dealings went on in the 80s and 90s. Carlton are the only eedjits who managed to get caught and not given a slap on the wrist.
Due to how the rules worked at the time Michael Jordan made $33m in his last season with the Bulls when the cap was $27m and the average team payroll was $33m. The salary cap has increased four fold since then and the highest paid player in the comp can "only" get $40m. I don't know what the AFL salary cap was in 1998 (I'm guessing $3-5m given it started at $1.25m and is now $13m) but Kouta was probably the highest paid player ever as a percentage of cap space.
- Apr 16, 2008
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Shaq and Kobe Lakers.
Earn millions, live in LA, win lots and end up with stories for days.
Earn millions, live in LA, win lots and end up with stories for days.
- Feb 24, 2013
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Getting paid Mega bucks just to dump a ball into a hoop, is pretty obscene when you think about it.
Puts a lie to the old adage of 'When are you going to get a real job?'....UnReality bites.
Puts a lie to the old adage of 'When are you going to get a real job?'....UnReality bites.
LA is a dive
But shaq and kobe good
I'd pick the Lakers but in the mid 80s, * me that would have been fun.
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I'd imagine it's not too bad when you're a Laker though.
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I suspect Los Angeles gets more criticism than it deserves.
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I suspect you haven't spent much time there.
Nah its s**t.
