When he first got drafted, I was a big fan of Jay Cutler. Going to Vanderbilt instead of a college football powerhouse like LSU or Florida or whatever, he had to work really really hard to get noticed by the scouts.
He had this "I get no respect" chip on his shoulder that made him tick and wanted to prove everyone that passed him up wrong.
Getting drafted 22nd after Vince Young and Matt Leinart, he went on to do better than both of them after 2 or 3 years in the pros.
Now instead of being the underdog all his career, Cutler now thinks he's the shiite and is getting all butthurt at the possibility of getting traded. Offended, he cried and pouted and played operation shutdown until he got his way.
He's no better than that douchebag, eli manning, who cried about not wanting to play for San Diego when he got drafted.
I don't mind that atheletes get paid millions of dollars, since they risk their careers (lives even!) with every game and the owners get hundreds of millions of dollars* in profits from their performance (the players make a very small fraction of the total profits).
What pisses me off is when these players develop a sense of entitlement and think that they are above the team. I was hoping that Cutler would have been traded to the Lions where he can spend the rest of his career getting dropped to the ground by opposing DE's. Instead, I guess I can hope that he spends the rest of his career in mediocrity with the Bears.
* Note: The NFL Salary Cap is somewhere around 120 million dollars in salary each year, which is somewhere between 50-60% of the total revenue made each year by the owners ( i think an average is taken to determine the cap). The average wage of an NFL player is around 1 million a year, which comes out to around 0.5% of the team's revenue. If you're s superstar, you might get 10 million, or about 4% of the teams revenue.
