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Rooney family might sell the Steelers
ESPN | 10/16/2008` | ESPN

Posted on 10/16/2008 5:13:53 AM PDT by scooby321

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I thought the Rooney were biftime Obama Backers?

But don't want to pay his higher cap gains taxes

typical liberal

Let the other guy pay it.

I use to respect them, not anymore.

1 posted on 10/16/2008 5:13:53 AM PDT by scooby321
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To: scooby321

what’s biftime? :P

maybe Rush and other investors will buy the team.


2 posted on 10/16/2008 5:15:35 AM PDT by MAD-AS-HELL (How does one win over terrorists? KILL them with UNKINDNESS)
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To: scooby321

Joining the deluge of Obama worshipping, cabernet-swilling rats leaving the sinking ship...


3 posted on 10/16/2008 5:15:37 AM PDT by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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To: scooby321

Good riddance. They’ve fleeced the city for enough already.


4 posted on 10/16/2008 5:16:25 AM PDT by Wolfie
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To: scooby321

Liberals are fine with helping society... as long as it’s someone else doing it. That’s why they’re big on taxes and social programs. They figure everyone is like them, if you leave them to their own means, they will give and do nothing.

Conservatives want it left up to the individual, because in general, conservatives are quality people who do help.


5 posted on 10/16/2008 5:18:01 AM PDT by brownsfan (Algore makes P.T. Barnum look like a piker.)
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To: scooby321

Do you have a link?


6 posted on 10/16/2008 5:18:55 AM PDT by mmichaels1970 (Stand up for CHUCK!)
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To: brownsfan

Before we crucify Mr. Rooney, perhaps we should wait for, oh I don’t know, some actual news instead of a vanity post with no links whatsoever?


7 posted on 10/16/2008 5:19:14 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: scooby321

This member of the Rooney family is on the right side.

http://www.tomrooney.com/site.html


8 posted on 10/16/2008 5:20:54 AM PDT by Islander7 (This Atlas is shrugging!)
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To: RedRover

Ping of interest.


9 posted on 10/16/2008 5:21:46 AM PDT by lilycicero (ACORN did not register me to text my vote.)
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To: MAD-AS-HELL

What’s biftime? My name’s bif, and it’s biftime!!!


10 posted on 10/16/2008 5:21:53 AM PDT by ovrtaxt ( One useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a Congress. --John Adams)
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“Before we crucify Mr. Rooney, perhaps we should wait for, oh I don’t know, some actual news instead of a vanity post with no links whatsoever?”

Fair enough. If you read my post, it was a generalization because I don’t know much about the Rooneys or their politics. All I know is as an owner he’s been a good guy who his players like.

Oh, and the Rooneys were against the move of the Browns to Baltimore. That’s a plus in my book.


11 posted on 10/16/2008 5:23:13 AM PDT by brownsfan (Algore makes P.T. Barnum look like a piker.)
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To: scooby321

Linky??


12 posted on 10/16/2008 5:23:52 AM PDT by Bean Counter (Stout Hearts.....)
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To: SoothingDave

Gee, it’s more fun to light the torches and get the pitchforks without any real facts, isn’t it? BTW, I thought the Rooney family were good Republicans.


13 posted on 10/16/2008 5:24:01 AM PDT by Obadiah
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Hardly anybody in Pittsburgh is a Republican. Doesn’t mean they are leftists.


14 posted on 10/16/2008 5:26:40 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: scooby321; All
From today's NY Times:

The four younger brothers are also working against their own deadline: they want to sell before the end of the year because they fear an increase in the capital gains tax rate if Senator Barack Obama is elected president in November.

15 posted on 10/16/2008 5:29:49 AM PDT by The G Man (The NY Times did "great harm to the United States" - President George W. Bush 6/26/06)
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...they say old Art Rooney went to Mass every day and never borrowed a dime in his life...I like that....he was a throwback to the time when teams were owned by sportsmen and not multi-millionaires who just want to be somebody.


16 posted on 10/16/2008 5:30:01 AM PDT by STONEWALLS
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I don’t see this story anywhere on ESPN or in any of the Pittsburgh locals. And I’m a resident of western PA so I would have heard something on the news about this because this story has been major headlines since the summer.


17 posted on 10/16/2008 5:30:14 AM PDT by JenB987
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/16/sports/football/16owners.html?ref=football


18 posted on 10/16/2008 5:30:49 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 (Lipstick wearing Okie Moosehead!)
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To: Obadiah

Rooneys staunch Dems. It’s all about the party and it goes back several generations. Not sure they’ve bothered to educate themselves on the actual candidates or issues.

Some of the brothers must sell their team interest because they have other business interests that include legalized gambling, which the NFL frowns upon.

This is old news in Pittsburgh. No idea what the original poster was trying to convey as there was a complete lack of information.


19 posted on 10/16/2008 5:31:29 AM PDT by cjshapi (Proudly posting without a tagline since 2001)
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To: The G Man

OK, thank you for some actual news.

I don’t see the problem here. The article says the 4 younger Rooneys may be worried about tax implications down the road.

It is only Dan Rooney who has come out and endorsed Obama.

The other brothers have not endorsed anyone.

So there is no hypocrisy, as the biftime original poster tried to charge.


20 posted on 10/16/2008 5:36:15 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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