http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/8962080/goodell-earned-every-penny
I read this article on ESPN and the numbers are staggering. The amount of money professional sports (owners, players, commissioner etc.) rakes in is mind boggling.
Dr. Ben Carson mentioned (in his prayer breakfast speech) that part of our problem in this country with regard to education is our priorities being out of whack. We invest more money into entertainment than we do into education. He made a disclaimer early on with this topic. He said he was not saying we should do away with these things or that there was anything inherently wrong with them. But the level of precedence it takes over things that should be more important is alarming. And for the most part he is right. He used the grade school example of the attention and publicity an all state athlete gets compared to a student who excels as much or more on the academic level. His point was the priority is set at a young age, through our actions of overly praising an athlete who excels and not praising enough the student who excels academically.
Thoughts?
I read this article on ESPN and the numbers are staggering. The amount of money professional sports (owners, players, commissioner etc.) rakes in is mind boggling.
Dr. Ben Carson mentioned (in his prayer breakfast speech) that part of our problem in this country with regard to education is our priorities being out of whack. We invest more money into entertainment than we do into education. He made a disclaimer early on with this topic. He said he was not saying we should do away with these things or that there was anything inherently wrong with them. But the level of precedence it takes over things that should be more important is alarming. And for the most part he is right. He used the grade school example of the attention and publicity an all state athlete gets compared to a student who excels as much or more on the academic level. His point was the priority is set at a young age, through our actions of overly praising an athlete who excels and not praising enough the student who excels academically.
Thoughts?
