Many people love to watch sports games and they may have one team that they cheer for winning. Some people may argue that professional athletes are paid too much payment comparing what they are doing. However, I strongly believe that professional athletes deserve to get high salary for several reasons. First, they have a great impact on advertisement. Second, lots of people are affected in a good way when they are playing sports.
First of all, advertisement effect by professional athletes is beyond our imagination. Companies do whatever it takes to sell more products. Usually they employ celebrities and in field of sports clothes, sports players are the best model for them. It is a really good combination their products and the image of players. Let me take one example about the effect of professional athletes on advertisement. In every World-cup, companies like Nike, Puma etc. put their all efforts and time to catch teams which would wear their products. Since World-cup games are broadcasted all around the world, there is no better way to present their goods. At that time, Korean soccer team wore Nike clothes all the games. In 2002, since Korean team went round four, all citizens wore soccer team clothes to cheer for them and they bought same clothes with players. After the games, Nike Korea showed their selling record and the record was ten times higher than before the games. Through this experience, I realized that professional athletes are deserved high salary since they have great impact on company’s benefits.
Second, watching sports is a way of enjoying life. Just by watching and cheering their team, people could relieve their stresses and refresh themselves. It is really hard to make others relieve stresses and happy. With only a few people, they affect lots of people. For example, my father is crazy about baseball and he is even a member of baseball fan club. Whenever there is a game in our city, he never misses the games. I feel like the baseball games like magic. This is because he had a disease which avoid meeting others and hate visiting public places. But after he took part in the baseball fan club, his disease totally went away and he was starting enjoying his life back. Of course, not only my father, but also there are lots of people who relieve stresses by watching sports games. In this sense, I totally believe that sports player should be paid high payment since lots of people are affected by their games in a good way.
To summarize what I mentioned above, professional athletes deserve high salaries for several reasons. First, advertisement effect is beyond our imagination. Second, watching sports is a way of enjoying life. |