I should point out that I don't have any especially strong feeling about high pay in (some) professional sports. I was really just turning around the OPs wording.
Nice theory but it's not how it actually works in the real world. The method by which the
perceived value of American Football player is calculated is entirely differently to that for, say, a professional tennis player, vastly different again to us regular salaried workers and different again to a number of other fields.
Anyway, here we're talking about the Superbowl game pay which I believe is the same for all the players on the winning team, regardless of the scale or quality of their individual contributions (and they say Americans don't do Communism
). It's interesting that this article chose not to look at Brady's "normal" in-season wages.