Do you think professional athletes are over paid?

Well they spend most of their time training and drinking Energy drinks, taking steroids which are called performance enhancement powders and then go for Protein shakes and pump iron the whole day or run around the field over and over again and then stretch and get it over and done with in two hours and then spend the rest of the day reading or sleeping amongst other stuff. And a day before the main event go to a pub and take a beer or two to hide the traces of the steroids and go over to ace the track and get rich doing that.
There is a difference, they use what they do just for a short while as they destroy their bodies at a young age and use the money accumulated to keep themselves alive at a later stage as they batter their body beyond repair.
While artists on screen and in music do practice throughout their lifetime and only get paid when they have sponsors and cut record deals or movie deals. There is no money that comes through beyond that essentially making them paupers. They all have great big names but no money to fund anything but themselves. They have lean mass to keep strong and are infact more sturdy than the athletic counterparts.
I was a professional athlete and gave up just when I saw steroids introduced into swimming. I escaped it but my friends were not too lucky one put on excessive weight and the other went down with chronic tendinitis, fat, depression and is unable to have a family because of this.
This girl was a poor girl who did it to bring her family up and had no idea of the complications as she had to pay for a T3T4TSH test almost every month and her body was just too painful to touch.
What they are doing by paying high amounts is taking out the natural sport from the body to introduce synthetic enhancement which have health ailments and that is what they fund for by paying such high prices for them.
Cut their pay and then bring back the natural life to sports and watch people live longer with less hype as there are many people around who are better than who and what they are. I love to recognise these people who naturally train and come up in life rather than demand for high pays and develop an attitude just to get endorsed and then crash out when their body starts to give way and then the spending of money kicks in.