text: why is it that sports players get paid millions to play a game...look for rest of question inside..? i don't get it.  sports players get millions of dollars to play a game when our police officers and military men and women get paid nearly nothing to risk their lives for us?  is this fair?  i think it should be the other way around.  what do you think? i agree, i am a former us marine and a firefighter hopeful, but we as humans need stimuli, like entertainment, so we pay through the nose to get it, because so many people watch sports. the advertisers pay to sponser teams, and the palyers get alot of that money to keep the games interesting enough to keep the money coming in!!! but yes us marines and firefighters and police and emts should be paid a whole lot more, but then again, the people who are doing it now for such crumby pay, do it because they truely care for mankind, if the money was better, we would have a bunch of asswipes who wouldn't risk their lives...sad paradox.