The NFL Is Tax Exempt Trade Organization
If you can get Congress to the dirty work I guess you can be anything you want to be. The NCAA is a tax exempt organization because it claims to be organized for educational purposes and the NFL is a trade organization.
Both of these organizations benefit a great deal from the way the tax law treats them. Some coaches of big time college basketball don't want to pay their schools to be required to pay players and are perfectly happy to collect outsize salaries and money from shoe and equipment companies for using their products. The scholarships the players receive can be significant benefits to the average players and their families but in more than a few ways the NCAA uses an antiquated idea of amateurism to exercise a control over participants that strikes me as a kind of plantation mentality.
The revenue sports pay for the other sports or so the story goes. If you are good enough to get on TV and fill the stadiums and sky boxes and play in major bowl games, the athletic program can pay for itself. Otherwise, your team may need to volunteer for paycheck games where the school gets paid handsomely for letting its players be live tackling dummies. Florida A&M received a giant paycheck for getting clobbered by Ohio State, ditto Savannah State, ditto FIU and more than a few other schools.
I'm a big fan of college football but not as big a fan as I was. I'm just not as naïve as I used to be and realize what a sewer sports can become.
The National Football League is now our national pastime and it is no wonder that players want their money and they want it now. Careers are short and dangerous. Ask Junior Seau and Dave Duerson how those headaches are, whoops, they're dead. Maybe you should talk to Jim McMahon but you'd better hurry because his memory is slipping and says if he had it to do all over he would have played baseball. Steroids and all things considered I guess.
I will be watching the University of Miami play Georgia Tech this afternoon.
Given all the stuff that is going on in the world and the fact that marijuana is a large cash crop, the Amish have a mafia, and one minute congress is cutting funding for the NIH and then wanting to exempt its research from the shutdown I hope you will excuse me from being a little confused. And I never played more than touch football.
Both of these organizations benefit a great deal from the way the tax law treats them. Some coaches of big time college basketball don't want to pay their schools to be required to pay players and are perfectly happy to collect outsize salaries and money from shoe and equipment companies for using their products. The scholarships the players receive can be significant benefits to the average players and their families but in more than a few ways the NCAA uses an antiquated idea of amateurism to exercise a control over participants that strikes me as a kind of plantation mentality.
The revenue sports pay for the other sports or so the story goes. If you are good enough to get on TV and fill the stadiums and sky boxes and play in major bowl games, the athletic program can pay for itself. Otherwise, your team may need to volunteer for paycheck games where the school gets paid handsomely for letting its players be live tackling dummies. Florida A&M received a giant paycheck for getting clobbered by Ohio State, ditto Savannah State, ditto FIU and more than a few other schools.
I'm a big fan of college football but not as big a fan as I was. I'm just not as naïve as I used to be and realize what a sewer sports can become.
The National Football League is now our national pastime and it is no wonder that players want their money and they want it now. Careers are short and dangerous. Ask Junior Seau and Dave Duerson how those headaches are, whoops, they're dead. Maybe you should talk to Jim McMahon but you'd better hurry because his memory is slipping and says if he had it to do all over he would have played baseball. Steroids and all things considered I guess.
I will be watching the University of Miami play Georgia Tech this afternoon.
Given all the stuff that is going on in the world and the fact that marijuana is a large cash crop, the Amish have a mafia, and one minute congress is cutting funding for the NIH and then wanting to exempt its research from the shutdown I hope you will excuse me from being a little confused. And I never played more than touch football.
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