Steelers-Cardinals Super Bowl

[Neb-Maat-Re]

Originally Posted by JWS

As place kickers.

That's true.

But I understand Ben Graham is getting about US$75,000 a game.

The average AFL salary is about AU$200,000 a year (about US$160,000) for 22 games plus up to 4 finals. He now gets that for just 2 games - and he doesn't even play the whole game!

As captain of Geelong, Ben Graham may have made more than that while playing, but he wasn't captain, he wasn't even playing any more. Nor was Saverio Rocca or Darren Bennett before them.

I just say good for them.

[LukeA]

Originally Posted by Neb-Maat-Re

As captain of Geelong, Ben Graham may have made more than that while playing, but he wasn't captain, he wasn't even playing any more. Nor was Saverio Rocca or Darren Bennett before them.

Ben Graham isn't 1/10th the kicker/athlete that Darren Bennett was.

[Musicman408]

Anyone know how much the E-Street Band got paid to do the halftime show?

[LukeA]

Originally Posted by Musicman408

Anyone know how much the E-Street Band got paid to do the halftime show?

$0.

The opportunity/publicity is priceless.

[Neb-Maat-Re]

Originally Posted by LukeA

Ben Graham isn't 1/10th the kicker/athlete that Darren Bennett was.

There's people who would say Ben Graham wasn't 1/10th the Aussie Rules player that Darren Bennett was. Melbourne supporters, mostly.

It does surprise me that if 3 retired players can get place-kicking gigs that the NFL doesn't come looking for younger AFL players to recruit - the way the AFL recruits young Gaelic football players from Ireland.

Or Rugby players for that matter, which American football is more like. One of the two kinds of Rugby has place-kicking, don't ask me which.