Are they getting benefits? I don't see the details but the math sounds like 3-5k per week for 10 weeks, Not sure about that at all. It's all made worse buy how much the QB get paid.
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XFL draft pick Corey Vereen drops out after he finds out his base salary is only $27k and implies the XFL lied about salaries
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While I would run through walls to potentially make ~$50k in a 10 week period, the QBs making nearly a million at the same time is some serious bullshit.
So is the owner of the Jaguars gonna start a competing football league to compete with Vince?
All Elite Football!
All Elite Football!
Also seems people don't know how much minimum wage actually is.
How good they are has nothing to do with whether it's a pro league or not. There are bad, cheap, and mediocre pros in every industry all over the world.
A bad professional sports league is still a professional sports league.
I got 27K working full time as a supermarket stocker and I didn't risk getting concussions or torn ACL/MCL's
Lol Vince cheap
Lol Vince cheap
$27k is literally the starting pay for a full time team member at Target, and next year it will be $31k. You don't get concussions doing that either.
You can't play years in a minor league, wasting your 20s in a sport as damaging to your body as football. NCAA is football's minors.
We hire for 15+ bucks an hour at my job with no experience. By 2021, that'll be the statewide standard (NY). With 40 hours a week, that's 31K+ and people aren't actively trying to rip your head off your body, either. It might not be country-wide minimum wage, but it's definitely the minimum at a lot of places.
For the curious, you can find the current minimum wages by state here:
https://www.minimum-wage.org/wage-by-state
Side note:
I remember many moons and jobs ago when I was making 16 an hour as a supervisor. Now any asshole with no experience can roll out of bed and make 15. lol
Dat Black Friday though..
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Good for him, that doesn't even probably cover the cost of surgery he will eventually need from playing the game.
Yeah it's really bad, like one step up from Vince paying the stations to air the games bad.
Playing pro football is like signing up to bang your skull against a brick wall professionally. On top of that you need to travel to different brick walls across the country. Anyone joining up for those salaries I feel very sorry for them
It didn't die.....it was murdered......while it was on life support.
Seriously the dude with controlling stake took the gambling app and shut down the league
Nah, that's pretty terrible considering time and expenses associated with traveling, the fact that maintaining your body in a physical shape to play football takes a great deal of commitment, and also you're playing a sport that at best, is still going to knock you around and at worst, is going to give you injuries where you won't be working anywhere while healing.
I don't think anyone on this board has said the XFL would succeed.
It seems like no one wants to risk anything serious on the XFL (makes total sense btw) Either its a surprise hit and everyone can start to make a little coin going forward, or it fails like all the rest of them and people will cut their losses by Week 3 and move on.
How do you assume that? Like the AAF had such little funding that they didn't even pay the stadium contracts when they folded.
You figure they had 8 teams with 75 players on them. To even pay them $50k requires $30mil up front. Not including costs like taxes or insurance (which they didn't have but I digress.) This also doesn't include pay for any club personnel, coaches, trainers, etc.
That money goes quickly. These leagues are *not* the NFL in terms of money. And the deal is if you're a player that can't hack it in the pros, you're still going to get paid $50k (in this hypothetical) for about six months of work. There are a lot of people out there who would love that, and it's more than you're going to make playing in a beer league after work
I don't begrudge these players saying the money isn't worth their time. And if they were lied to then that sucks as well. But I'm not really seeing where people expect these leagues to start off by paying everyone six figures before there's even been a snap of football played yet.
Now if this league proves to be extremely profitable like the NFL? Then yeah these guys deserve a cut for being the talent on the field. I just am not ready to crush the league on player salary when nobody even knows if there's money to be had here to begin with.
Well, not to you. Not to me, either. But to a lot of those guys it is. And they're not playing with the assumption of being injured but with the attempt to reclaim glory they last felt in high school or college. McMahon is doing what he does with wrestling— making money off of people chasing glory.
CFL minimum salary is 54k. Average is around 80k.
Edit: That's CAD (exchange rate is around 0.75), but that comes with free healthcare and you don't get dinged that much by the tax brackets at that level (especially with kids).
Idk. The other bonus is for being active, so if you get hurt, I imagine that's gone. And you're not gonna be working any other job during the season, so hope the base is enough to pay your bills for awhile.
"Prove" they got it while playing in the league and maybe. So no, they'll point to college or high school or some other time as the factor, not the XFL.
Minor leagues is where my mind went to. How much do those leagues usually pay though?
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I'm familiar with arguments like these. It's a bit like selling a car with hand-carved wooden interior accessories and whatnot. I understand why the price on something like that has to be what it is, but that doesn't change the calculus on whether I want it for that price.
I totally get why the XFL pays what it does. But if they can't pay more, then they'll probably keep losing players. And they don't have many good ones anyway. The first weekend will likely see injuries (such is the nature of the game), and that means a lighter paycheck.
So there's a bit of "cart before horse" here too. The league wants to pinch pennies until they see some return, but a cheapskate league is doomed from day one. Talent for the bad NFL teams is already hard to watch; the AAF was straight up painful. How many good players (hell, even just mediocre) are going to risk permanent injury for $27K?
It's less than I made at the job I got at the mall the summer after high school in 1994.
I get the jokes but comparing full year worth of shitty retail work to 10 games of football seems weird. Pay still shit though.