You totally missed my point (ETA, most likely because I did not express it well). I'm just saying the market is what it is. I personally think it is ridiculous that professional sports is such a huge market, but it is, and people (owners and players) generally get compensated accordingly. That is, they get paid what the market bears.
Posters here have expressed their opinion that CEOs should not get paid what they do, relative to other employees, but they do. Why? The market. Boards think it is worth paying more to get "good" CEOs, and there is competition driving the salaries even higher. Is that right? To many, it is not. The only way to change it, though, is through regulation of the market, and that gets tricky.