Athletes/Actors and Soldiers

I played many sports growing up, but until we watched the video in class Monday I never realized how closely people related them to war. I always just thought of them as a game and it was fun to play, but especially after seeing Kellen Winslow's reaction where he said he was a soldier and that the game was war, I find it completely idiotic. How can someone who gets paid millions of dollars to catch a ball and run compare himself to a man or woman, who is completely underpaid in my opinion, that may be put in a hostile situation in a foreign country with terrible living conditions and no idea if they are going to survive or not. I know that sometimes after a big game your emotions can take over and you say things that you don't always mean, but Kellen Winslow's interview made me think he had one of the most idiotic rants in sports history.
This prompted me to look up other athletes and actors who have compared themselves to soldiers. While I did not find anything like Winslow's rant, I found some interesting stuff. In December 2010 after his team struggled against the Jacksonville Jaguars, then New York Giants safety Antrel Rolle responded to his team being booed by the harsh New York fans by saying "when soldiers come home from Iraq you don't boo them". How embarrassing for him. Famous actor Mark Wahlberg basically sums up all my thoughts when he was asked about actors comparing themselves to soldiers "For actors to sit there and talk about ‘oh I went to SEAL training’? I don’t give a f--k what you did. You don’t do what these guys did. For somebody to sit there and say my job was as difficult as being in the military? How f--king dare you, while you sit in a makeup chair for two hours". I couldn't of said it better myself, Mark.