Soccer

i think football is overrated,
and by football i mean the one you play with your feet
not with your hands

Any sport is overrated when you think about it.

yes but not any sport pays 500000 billion dollars for a single player

I think you are confusing the one with your hands with the one with your feet.

no im not

You get paid more money in American football than in soccer.

i wouldnt know really i know wery little about american football.
the other reason i think football is overrated is that it is so over represented in the sports media.
the biggest reason i dont like football is that i am such a non conformist.

Well to give you an example, a number 1 overall draft pick as a quarterback was given 60 million USD guranteed a couple years back...Before he even played a single NFL game...

F1, tennis players and golf players can all make more than a football player, if I'm correct.

jesus christ monkeyballs

Generally, in therms of salary, the top football players are paid a lot more than the top American football players. Same goes for basketball and baseball. On top of that, football and basketball players generally get a lot more in sponsorship deals. Then there are the two major prize-money sports of tennis and golf, both of which get even more in sponsorship, particularly golf. Formula One drivers trump them all in terms of raw salary/prizemoney, but they tend to get less from sponsorship deals (not a lot less, mind).

Other sporting earnings facts:

• At various points in their career, dozens of sportspeople can claim to have made more money in a year than an entire country. In just 2011 alone, 7 sportspeople made more money than Tuvalu.
• Kimi Raikkonen (an F1 driver) is the only one who can claim to have had a greater raw salary than the GDP of a country, having wages of $51 mil. per year in 2007-09. During this time, he raced for about 75 hours in total, so he was roughly paid $2 million for every hour he was racing. In salary. He earned between 10 and 20 million per year on top of that in endorsements.
• The greatest total yearly earnings were $117 mil by Tiger Woods in 2008, and $101 mil. by Michael Schumacher in 2004. Schumacher was earning $4 million every hour he was racing.
• At one point, buying advertising space on Michael Schumacher's racing suit would cost you $3 million. PER SQUARE INCH.

And do you mean American football players as in those who play American football, or those who play football in America? Because the latter still earn a metric fuckton.

The former, but you are right about the latter.

Sport is fun, when I'm a part of the game. When advertisements and all shit that has nothing to do with sports comes into play, I become less interested. I can't give less of a damn whether or not Ronaldinho makes two shit loads of money on top of a woman's asshole every time he is on a field with artificial grass, I want to either see a good game, or play a good game, that is it.