Sports Illustrated's 50 highest paid American athletes...

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In all, the 2011 list features 19 NBA players, 17 baseball players, eight NFL players, three NASCAR drivers and three golfers.

Kind of makes me sick to see guys making so much money for playing a 17ing game for a living.... which, I'm sure, many of us currently have to pay to play in various ****** rec. leagues.

After looking at the top 10 and glancing through the rest, here are some interesting things I noted:

-The highest paid athletes have utterly ridiculous endorsement deals. I guess for athletes that people give so much **** to (ex. Tiger & Lebron) we sure as **** pay attention to what they endorse.
-Tiger is still at #1 at over 62 million, 60 million of which is strictly from endorsements. I wonder what he would have made if he hadn't recently discovered vaginas.
-Of the players with salary based earnings (NFL, NBA, MLB), Baby Lebron'bron makes the most total, 44.5 mill (14.5 mill in salary and 30 mill in endorsements)
-Matt Ryan at #8 is gonna make $32,250,000 this year, and only $450,000 comes from endorsements. I had no idea he was already banking so much, and its basically in salary alone.