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Are Football Players Earning a Market Wage? RealPlayer Video

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This resource is a RealPlayer streaming video file of professional athlete Jeff Lageman, Defensive End for the Jacksonville Jaguars. In the video, Jeff advises people to compute salaries on the basis of a percentage of total revenue generated by a ball club when judging whether or not professional athletes are over or underpaid. This resource is part of the EconEdLink lesson, "The Economics of Professional Sports: Underpaid Millionaires."

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    Grade: 9 to 12

    Topics: Physical Education, Economics, History-Social Science, Sports and Competition

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