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Show me the money: CFL players’ salaries
TORONTO – Professional athletes may evoke images of lavish lifestyles and massive contracts, but when it comes to the CFL, players really might be playing more for the love of the game.
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That’s because an average player’s salary in the CFL lags way behind those in other professional sports.
Take the CFL’s American counterpart, the NFL. According to Forbes.com, the top-paid linebackers in the NFL, Dwight Freeney from the Indianapolis Colts, pulled in $19 million USD in 2012.
What did one of the top quarterbacks make in the CFL?
According to a Winnipeg Free Press report from January 2012, Toronto Argos quarterback Ricky Ray got $400,000 CAD.
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The CFL doesn’t disclose salary information so it’s hard to say exactly how much players make.
But according to one report from the independent CFL database called CFLDB.ca, the Collective Bargaining Agreement set the minimum base salary for CFL players at $43,000 in 2011 wi