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<blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 517607"><p>Your numbers sound about right. Let's see what that means.</p><p></p><p>Player = $800 per game x 12 games = $9,600/year plus whatever nominal amounts they got for training camp and 6 preseason games back in the day. Careers then were shorter than they are now to boot.</p><p></p><p>Household = $70/ week x 52 weeks = $3,640.</p><p></p><p>So the average NFL player made 3x the average household in 1958. In today's $, that's about $150,000/year relative to the current median household income of $50,000 (which includes a ton of single-person and small households and a ton of people below the poverty line). The typical middle class income is closer $70,000.</p><p></p><p>Those guys old guys knew a short career in football could never carry them through for a lifetime, let alone into middle age or a kid through college. They worked in the off season and worked after the football career was done even if they had not squandered their money.</p><p></p><p>Today, the median cap number on the Packers is about $800,000. I'd guess that approximates the median cash payout per year. The mean pay is north of $2 million/year. The typical players today makes the equivalent of 7 times what those 1958 players made.</p><p></p><p>Hammer on the current guys for majoring in "general studies" (if they even manage to graduate), blowing their dough as fast as they make it, and having no pot to p*ss in by age 40. But there's not much of an argument in hammering on the old guys.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HardRightEdge, post: 517607"] Your numbers sound about right. Let's see what that means. Player = $800 per game x 12 games = $9,600/year plus whatever nominal amounts they got for training camp and 6 preseason games back in the day. Careers then were shorter than they are now to boot. Household = $70/ week x 52 weeks = $3,640. So the average NFL player made 3x the average household in 1958. In today's $, that's about $150,000/year relative to the current median household income of $50,000 (which includes a ton of single-person and small households and a ton of people below the poverty line). The typical middle class income is closer $70,000. Those guys old guys knew a short career in football could never carry them through for a lifetime, let alone into middle age or a kid through college. They worked in the off season and worked after the football career was done even if they had not squandered their money. Today, the median cap number on the Packers is about $800,000. I'd guess that approximates the median cash payout per year. The mean pay is north of $2 million/year. The typical players today makes the equivalent of 7 times what those 1958 players made. Hammer on the current guys for majoring in "general studies" (if they even manage to graduate), blowing their dough as fast as they make it, and having no pot to p*ss in by age 40. But there's not much of an argument in hammering on the old guys. [/QUOTE]
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