Posted on 05/12/2015 5:52:49 AM PDT by C19fan
It all boils down to Gang Greed. That was how a hero soldier honored by the Jets reacted to news that the team and 13 other NFL franchises were paid by the National Guard and the Department of Defense to salute the troops at home games.
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It should be a teams public service.
A lot of people don’t deserve to live in America. Wish a bunch of them would leave.
Well, with the “measly” salaries the NFL offers, they need some way of supplementing their income. /S
Yes, disgusting. And hard to believe.
So you can pay a Liberal to be moral - got it.
This is to be expected from the NFL. The NFL will turn their entire business model upside down if it will earn them one more dollar. It’s what they do.
The military, on the other hand, should not be spending our money on such foolishness and heads should roll.
But they won’t. Because our government is accountable to no one.
As a league, the NFL cares about money, its “image” and nothing else. Their list of sponsors is endless, and the NFL milks huge sums of money from those partnerships.
But a little clarification is in order: did the Army and National Guard enter into a sponsorship agreement after the league rejected a request to salute the troops on a voluntary basis—in other words, were they told “pay to play” or no deal? Or, did the military simply decide to devote a chunk of the advertising/marketing budget to a sponsorship with the NFL, and they decided on a “salute to the troops” theme?
Obviously, the military shouldn’t have to pay to get the NFL to salute the troops and the league shouldn’t be taking money for that program. But the league sees a dollar sign behind everything and the Pentagon managers who run advertising and marketing know they must spend every dime, or their budget will be cut next year. And what better way to achieve those goals than by entering a big-bucks sponsorship with the NFL?
One more note: someone ought to dig a little deeper and see how many free tickets the NFL “comped” the military as a part of the program and who received them. I have no problem at all with wounded warriors and their families attending a game on the government’s dime, but I’d be willing to bet a disproportionate number of flag officers were in attendance as well.
And that’s one more reason the military was willing to pay up. The boys and girls with stars on their shoulders like the VIP treatment and it’s a fair bet that any general/admiral remotely involved with the sponsorship has been at one (or more) NFL games since the relationship began.
Finally, some of the member teams do good things for the military. When I was an ROTC instructor at an SEC school, I had a friend performing the same duty at Tulane. The New Orleans Saints paid the university’s Air Force ROTC detachment $750 to present the colors before the start of each home game, and allowed the cadets and their instructor to remain in the stadium and watch the game. The money earned from the Saints completely funded cadet social activities that were not covered by Air Force funds. Not sure if that relationship still exists, but the Saints had that partnership with Tulane ROTC for a number of years, and to my knowledge, they never sought any publicity, or demanded any type of payment from the ROTC program.
Not having served in the military, I assumed that protocol was only service members could salute one another. At the very least it would be insulting to be saluted by one who has never served.
Can you imagine a man who served on the battlefield field having to act honored to receive a salute from any celebrity, especially one who was paid to do so?
Disgusting.
Who authorized govt funds for this? And why?
Yes - that is the key question here. If the former, then this is obviously a terrible move on the part of the NFL and the teams involved. If the latter, I don't think it's such a big deal.
The scumbag Patriots are on the top of the list ! Actually it looks like all the teams that complain about the Patriots are on that list.
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