Superbowl Quarterback Rematch: Manning Wins One Important Contest

We are all idiots for paying the ticket prices we do to help them make insane amounts of money.

I played the game for 15 years because I loved it. Hurray for people like Bobby Jones, in the sport for love of the game. Today it is a business and 157 Million will be paying to watch tomorrow. Times have changed. And change is not always for the best.

I dont begrudge anybody their money
I do sometimes wonder about the HUGE difference in earnings in this country
There is no more middle class,,yet 18 million to throw a football

Americans will never learn. Professional sports is trendy and over rated! Its just a game. One will loose and one will win. And repeat the same next year. The salaries of these players is stupid! Screw the GAME!

Wonder how many hungry kids this would feed or how any good teachers could be hired??Just goes to prove where our values lie. Wonder what the equivalent pay would have been for the Roman gladiators???? Anyone remember what happened to that great empire??

Banks stealing trillions from the US people, Bernanke destroying the dollar, politicians making us slaves to their every desire and ALL people care about is sports and Hollywood. When we die as a nation we will certainly have had it cming.

Gladiators , nothing more , nothing less........We're not far removed from the Roman Coliseum , lions are far more hungry today , but the spectacle of brutal & violent competition is still a huge part of the human condition !!! Let the game begin...................

The 99% giving their money to the 1%. Reminds me of holiday sales where the 99% fight each other in order to be the first one to give their money to Chinese manufacturing. Then we cry to our politicians when we don't like the consequences of our actions.....

50 years ago my father took me to see my first pro football game. We went to see the New York Titans (New York Jets today). The tickets were $4 dollars apiece. We sat up at the top with the pigeons. But I went to a pro game at age 5. I thought I would do the same with my kids when they were older. Well, that came and went. Tickets to see the N.Y. Giants at the old Meadowlands Stadium back in 1984 were around $40 apiece, plus parking ($10), plus food and drinks came out to over $70 per person. Needless to say, I could not afford that amount of money for all my kids, wife and myself. So, my kids never had that experience that I had. Why? Because people continue to pay any price to see their team or favorite player.

I don't care who the player is, NO ONE is worth $10 million a year. And to add insult to injury, football players don't play "all-year". They play for 6 months. So in theory, their making $20 million dollars a year. To put things in perspective. The doctor that will save your live one day makes anywhere from $250,000 to $2 million a year. Another example: the Commander in Chief (our President) makes $200,000 a year.

So, you can agree that you folks who continue to pay outrageous prices to see a game in person is ruining any chance hard working people like me will have to afford to see a game as well. Your priorities are out of whack. I love sports more than anyone, but paying $250 for ONE game plus all the other expenses that go with going to a pro game is NOT smart financial thinking. Paying athletes millions upon millions to play a GAME is just as dumb.

its the fans that make and brake celiberites wether in sports or other wise.if the socalled fans of either team stopped watchin football the both qbs would be in soupline

I guess they can't afford to eat out.

Manning can buy a lot of jumbolia crawfish pie and gumbo with that much money.

Wonder how much they pay to Uncle Sam , New York and Mass., two of the highest tax states in the country ? Obama needs them to pay more !!!!

$97.5 million over six years........thats a lot of pig skin.

WHY ARE YOU TELLING ME THIS?
WHY SHOULD I CARE HOW MUCH PROFESSIONAL ATHLETES ARE PAID?

When u play its a sport,, when u pay to watch others get paid to play, its sports entertainment, like Running MAN.. Lets see some head get crushed then feel sorry that these guys get hurt!!!!

Not bad to play ~20 games. How much time do they actually do anything? Ball gets snapped to them and they get rid of it. They guy on the other end does all the work. They probably don't "work" for 10 minutes a game. (30 minutes average for each team's offense to be on the field - clock runs most of that time while team is in huddle, walking to the ball, etc.). Coaches call the plays, players just have to execute. Back and forth - like tug of war. Really a simple game. I think people just get off on the hitting (and more so, the Super Bowl Commercials). Do they deserve the money? I think they get paid too much for doing nothing, but as long as people are willing to fork over at least $80 for the cheap seats into the $1000s for the 50 yd line lower seats, then they should get it. Supply and demand.

We all need to send them food baskets for support !

Why do you think a hot dog cost $89 dollars at the stadium? It could be worse you could be a Met fan.

Understand these men take a lot of pain now and in the future, but it is a sport. Think most professional sport players make too much. I can stand out in left field, catch a few balls through the summer, scratch my crotch and call it a career? And get paid very well, Not!!