Are you a sports fan? Do you like ESPN? I’ll quickly change all that by introducing you to Salary Crunch by ESPN.

Salary Crunch allows you to compare your income to those of star athletes in various sports, and see how long it would take them to earn your annual pay by number of games played or statistical marks set. Here’s an example:

I won’t use my own salary (because it pains me to see it in print) I’ll pull POTUS Barack Obama off the bench to pinch hit. The President of the United States of America has a wicked jump shot, but current earns only $400,000. Using the Salary Crunch I see that Washington Redskins defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth earns that tidy sum after playing just .39 games, or making 1.43 tackles. 

So in less than one half of one football game (you can’t call anything that the Redskins are involved in a contest) the Big Al earns more than our Commander in Chief and bailout baron.

Some of the other athletes that you can choose from include New York Giant Eli Manning, Florida head coach Urban Meyer, New York Yankee CC Sabathia and Henrik Sedin of the Vancouver Canucks.

If you are a school teacher, construction worker or taxi driver, most of the athletes will lap your yearly pay just by stepping onto the field. I don’t begrudge athletes their pay; they work hard from childhood to get to the top of their professions. But I do not want to be reminded of how quickly they stack cash once they get there.