And there, ladies and gentlemen, you have pinpointed one of the problems with our society. Because a person is paid an obscene salary and has achieved a certain level of notoriety, their opinion is treated by many people as a pronouncement from Mount Olympus!! Sadly, some of those people can barely string words together to make a coherent sentence (especially true in the case of some highly-paid athletes), yet their opinions are treated as having enormous value.
In a novel entitled, "To Sail Beyond the Sunset", Robert Heinlein predicted this very thing back in 1987!!
I pay very little attention to any of the asinine comments/opinions voiced by either the elite of Hollywood or the professional athletes. There are many more people, much more intelligent and much better educated, to whom I would lend some credence.