What are they thinking?

The NFL draft is coming - very soon. Then the circus will begin. Now, before I go any furhter I am not a big professional sports person. I would rather watch college and even high school sports before I watch professional sports. I have a couple of personal reasons:

1) I'd rather watch guys who have everything to gain and nothing to loose rather than watch guys who believe they have everything to loose,

2) It's hard for me to watch guys who make more than the coach - how do you discipline a guy who thinks he's worth more to the team than the leader?,

3) Professional sports is about the money - don't think so where is the NHL these days? Why has there been strikes in baseball and football? M O N E Y!! I don't blame it all on the players. Owners and agents play as big a role as anyone else.

Again, I know I'm a bit biased. I'll admit it. I will also admit the fact that there are exceptions to every rule. There are players who would play just because of the love of the sport. And I also concede that we live in a captalistic societ and people go into business to make money.

With that said, the circus will begin soon . . . very soon. What do I mean by that? As players are drafted negotiations will begin. And as negotiations begin salaries and bonuses will be set. And for some ungodly reason first round draft picks will make more money than anyone else in the league. Here's the problem. What have they done to prove they can play in the NFL? I heard a statistic on Cold Pizza the other day - 50% of first round drafts picks don't last in the NFL. YET . . . somewhere the precedent was set to pay them more money than most players who have established themselves already as qualified, gifted,experienced players. Think about this for a minute. Imagine some recent graduate coming into a corporation and demanding more money than his supervisor, manager, or executive level boss would make. We would just laugh our brains out. Yet this is exactly what happens in professional sports, especially the NFL. At least baseball has the minor leagues where players go to develop and prove themsleves. YAAAHHHHH!!!! It drives me crazy. Where are we headed?

So when your ticket prices go up check out the salary of the most recent draft pick. I could on, but the veins in my neck are beginning to stick out. In closing, let me encourage you to watch the draft, then watch the circus begin . . . bring in the clowns!!!