Playing which sport professionally is objectively the best career?
Considering the following:
>Pay
>Hours
>Long-term Physical Health
>Tail
>Post-retirement opportunities
Football obviously (association).
In USA: baseball
In Europe: soccer
Baseball
>>67825348
Baseball
>tattoos
Basketball
>good pay
>not a high chance of getting seriously injured
>If you're good you're basically a celebrity in your city
>can collect millions from shoes after you retire
Only shitty part is the hours
Baseball
>No Cap
>Can play into your forties
>Only have to bat a few times a game
>Can become a DH so you don't even have to play defense
Soccer seems like a clear pick. Game is super easy to play, no serious contact, not too many games, good looking women, coaching and club opportunities after, no thug culture internally.
Baseball.
Get ludicrous amounts of money
Get toplay everyday
Almost zero chance of life altering injury
Can play into your 40s
Golf
Some tournaments you can literally make millions by just playing 4 rounds Thursday through Sunday.
a non pitching baseball player who is really good, like miguel cabrera.
t20 cricket desu
>get super famous
>but you're only famous in shitty parts of the world so you can go unnoticed a lot of the time
>get paid millions for 6 weeks work
>can play until you're 40 if you're good
>>67825348
golf
>insane pay if you're good
>most of your time spent is walking or riding a cart
>get to travel around the world
>Post retirement opportunities: Jack Nicklaus
I'm not even that big a fan of golf but if i could be elite in one sport then that would be it.
>>67825446
But you have to be genuinely amazing to make it in golf, the same goes for tennis, it's all on your shoulders, at least in team sports if you're going through a rough patch you have people to pick up the slack.
So many people have stolen a career as a football or baseball player and made ridiculous amounts of money in doing so.
>>67825422
And if your a starting pitcher you only pitch once every 5 days. And if pitch in the AL you rarely even have to bat
Is hockey clearly the worst?
>worst pay
>82 game regular season, up to 16-28 game post season, varying pre-season, lots of travel
>next to combat sports probably the worst on the body
>puckbunnies
>>67825504
you have to be genuinely amazing in all of these sports to make any kind of cash. Unless there's an incredibly high ratio of pro athletes posting ITT then this is just a hypothetical, anon.
>>67825348
Baseball without a a doubt
you do have to play way more games but it's obviously a lot less strenuous than most sports
plus if you're good the money opportunities are better than almost any other sport
>>67825543
NFL players get paid worse on average and they fuck their body up way worse
>>67825543
Football I'd say. guys tend to have longer careers in hockey than in football, where most players retire after only a couple of years. very few have what it takes to be very successful
>>67825543
lot of cocaine though
>>67825441
There are actually a ton of games if you're in a top tier club. There's the league, then domestic cup, then Champions or Europa league. Plus your national team appearances. It can really grind on you.
>>67825575
Become a kicker, get paid millions to do 2 minutes of actual work once a week for 4 months. The only downside is there is no excuse for failure because everyone thinks your job is easy.
>>67825543
best for teenagers/junior players, somewhat awful for NHL'ers. awful in terms of all other professional sports that is
>>67825618
and it's NFL or essentially nothing (cfl kek), where as hockey you could play ahl, or even europe
Be a second choice goalkeeper.
>>67825748
and the big time pressure of a game winning 50 yard kick. People remember missed kicks. Just ask Scott Norwood.
I'd rather be a punter. You screw up on occasion, maybe kick one into the endzone instead of placing it inside the 10, every one curses you out for about 20 seconds and then forgets as the play starts up again.
Baseball
Do fuck all most of the time, travel is easy since you stay in one city for days at a time, ridiculous salaries, and your career lasts longer than the average athlete
>>67825348
Relief pitcher in baseball
>fuck around in the bullpen with m8s
>at most you do 1-2 innings of work a game
>be wealthy enough to live well, but will be able to keep anonymity
Paid while playing - football
Paid for endorsements and post career opportunities - golf and tennis.
Hours - T20 cricket
Long term health - anything non contact
Tail - If you're a pro athlete and aren't averaging 150 scalps a year, you're not really a pro athlete are you.
>>67825348
Who's the whore?
>>67825575
how do NFL players get paid the worst when the sport generates the most revenue?
>>67826564
massive roster compared to other sports, lots of second and third string players that aren't on the same level as starters.
>>67826494
Demi Lovato, can literally see that sluts poopchute
>>67826494
photo says demi so I'm going with this >>67826695
>>67826564
On average. It's a 53 man roster. Every man isnt making Peyton Manning money. The average salary is 1.9 million a year
>>67825348
Soccer. No salary caps and young players don't have to wait until their mid twenties to get paid what they are worth. Minor head injuries. Plus, the first world class American soccer player is going to be a serious icon
not the nfl
>destroys your body
>low average salary
>no guaranteed contracts
>there really arent any minor/lower leagues to prolong careers
>>67825441
>Game is super easy to play
Being a LOOGY
>only have to pitch to one or two guys if at all in a game
>can play for decades
>never have to bat
>have an inherent advantage against most batters you face due to the lefty on lefty matchup
>still make millions a year
>if your team is crap you are often traded mid season to a contender
>>67825348
Is she showing some asshole?
>>67825348
Baseball, and I don't think it's all that close.
Only major US sport without a salary cap, $30 million a year salaries aren't unheard of.
Almost twice as many games as hockey or basketball, but most of the time you're either sitting or just standing around between pitches.
Lowest injury potential of any major sport including soccer, don't have to worry about brains getting turned to scrambled eggs and forgetting your wife's name by the time you're 50.
3-4 games in each city during road trips, more opportunities than if you were only there for a day.
Can play into your 40s then sit back collecting tons of money from endorsements and/or commentary.
>>67825348
Someone adjust the lighting so I can see her asshole
>>67825348
>tattoos
belongs in the trash
>>67825380
This.
>>67825441
>Game is super easy to play
