It's also naive to use logical fallacies, such as personal attacks, in your argument. Just because I don't agree with you doesn't make me naive or childish and it doesn't mean I live in a fantasy world. If you want to argue from an economics standpoint, that's fine. But instead of basing your entire argument around calling me names, how about actually backing your claim with facts and statistics? As I seem to recall children are the ones who usually devolve to name calling during a discussion.
Also, how far are you willing to go this? Should high school athletes be compensated for the tickets sold to their games? What about junior high? How can we pay student athletes at the college level and not extend it to every level? Should we offer children money for their participation in rec league sports? After all, those leagues are making money off our kids!
And I have no idea what other response your talking about. 2 people replied to my post, one of which I agreed with (and I told him I agreed with him, I was not being sarcastic) and the other you...