Originally Posted by patentcad
>>His pay packet alone from USPS was worth over a million bucks <<
Oh that's impressive. Particularly when the top soccer player on the planet just signed a deal worth a reported $50 million annually, Arod on the Yankees (and a few other top players) make in the vicinity of $20 million + as do top basketball players. Sports is a business and the success/popularity of any pro sport translates directly to player salaries.
Please read this slowly so you will understand. Soccer/Baseball/Basketball all have a paying audience in the stands. Those people bring in a lot of revenue. Cycling doesn't have a paying audience. If it did the revenue would be massive, T-Mobile is the best funded team on the planet and it's budget is less than what ARod's annual salary is. If the Yankee's annual budget was 15 million do you think they would be giving ARod 25mil? You need to have some perspective on this, which I know may be hard for you, but give it a shot.
Besides my point about LA's salary was to counter the fact that you said it took him 7 Tour wins to make his money. What you said was factually incorrect.