You could use that logic to justify paying shit wages for literally any job. I mean, you could literally use that logic to justify not paying the actual football players a living wage, really.

Wait... a dude whose most marketable skill is punching is a total fucking idiot? You don’t say.

When I lived in the South, I would repeatedly be passed over at bars because I’m a woman, and the bartenders would always assume whatever man was standing around me was buying me the drink. They’d look right at me and then immediately turn to whatever dipshit in a polo shirt just walked up next to me, serve him, then…