A Sports Question

Miami Marlins player, Giancarlo Stanton, recently signed a 13-year/$325 million contract.  That is an absurd amount of money!  In fact, during his press conference after signing his contract, a reporter informed him that his new contract will pay him roughly $69,000 a day for the length of his contract.  That is beyond absurd.  This got me to thinking.  What comes first - a player in one of the major sports signs a one billion dollar contract?  Or the Apocalypse?

In the past two years, seven sports stars have signed contracts worth over $200 million.  That's a lot of money.  In fact, that's more money than you can spend unless you really don't understand how to manage your money, and if you have that much money, you can definitely afford a good money manager.  Ten years ago, players were only signing contracts in the 100 million dollar range.  So, at this rate, I can only assume that a player will sign the first billion dollar contract in the next 30 years or so (I have nothing to base that on, just guessing).  With that in mind....

When will the Apocalypse occur?  In the next 30 years?  Depends on what we are talking about.  I can only assume that at the rate computers are improving, we could see the machines take over in that same time span.  So, that brings me back to my original question - what comes first?  A billion dollar athlete?  Or robots becoming our overlords?  It really could go either way.

"Guess what kid, one day you will either grow up to be the first guy to ever have a billion dollar contract, or have your brains eaten by a zombie.  It really is 50/50."