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NFL says no to promoting Obamacare
Washington Post ^ | June 28, 2013 | By Sandhya Somashekhar and Lenny Bernstein

Posted on 06/29/2013 8:58:16 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee

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To: Brad from Tennessee

Why should the NFL be promoting anything political?


41 posted on 06/29/2013 11:40:35 AM PDT by ReformationFan
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To: wastedyears

If I could not find an alternative sport model as an example would that excuse these millionaires pickpocketing of tax money from my wallet to theirs?

Is it required to have at least one sport to exalt? It’s just a big business entertainment venue, whatever your sport.

I’m not a fan and I object to having to pay for their stadiums when I buy a beer, or rent a car, or pay via the 100’s of other mechanisms they’ve dreamed up to avoid having to pay for themselves.

Sorry comrade, but that’s socialism from one side of their mouths asking the public to build a stadium, and capitalism out of the other, paying huge salaries, mega-millions for the biggest stars. Maybe they’ll move the season start up this year, the masses need ever more and more distracting these days.


42 posted on 06/29/2013 12:14:27 PM PDT by wrencher
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More than one game a week for football is too much, what with plays that last only a few seconds on average, and jogging on and off the field, vs hockey where play could go for minutes without a whistle.

What have they dreamed up that you pay for, so they don’t have to pay for themselves, aside from stuff like plates and beer with teams on them?


43 posted on 06/29/2013 12:33:59 PM PDT by wastedyears (I'm a gamer not because I choose to have no life, but because I choose to have many.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

The NFL is too busy promoting homosexuality to be concerned with 0-care.


44 posted on 06/29/2013 1:14:16 PM PDT by MAKOTHEDOG
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To: Alberta's Child

“NFL owners have no reason to get into bed with this administration on this nonsense. In fact, NFL teams are among the businesses in this country whose owners should be most strongly opposed to a stupid Federal law that mandates insurance coverage that these businesses already offer nearly all of their employees anyway.”

The major sports leagues are exempt to federal anti-trust laws by the good graces of congress. So, it’s smart on their part to not pick a dog in this fight.


45 posted on 06/29/2013 1:19:52 PM PDT by snoringbear (E.oGovernment is the Pimp,)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Maybe JC Penney would help roll out ObamaCare... (Glad to see the NFL doesn’t want to give the finger to the half of Americans who are conservative...)


46 posted on 06/29/2013 1:22:02 PM PDT by GOPJ (... liberal anger - - the privileged wheeze of entitled brats ... Greenfield)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

If the NFL or NBA succumb to the pressure, I will NEVER watch another game again.


47 posted on 06/29/2013 1:45:36 PM PDT by PAR
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To: MuttTheHoople
Look for an IRS audit of Roger Goodell.

Along with the owners and the NFL. The Liberal Messiah does not take dissension lightly.

48 posted on 06/29/2013 2:27:03 PM PDT by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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To: wastedyears

I guess these 1/2 billion $ things they use, called stadiums, have escaped your notice?


49 posted on 06/29/2013 7:57:56 PM PDT by wrencher
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To: wrencher

I don’t watch football. And kinda don’t care what their stadiums go for, either.


50 posted on 06/30/2013 2:30:38 AM PDT by wastedyears (I'm a gamer not because I choose to have no life, but because I choose to have many.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Promoting 0bamakare is bad business, and the NFL knows it.


51 posted on 06/30/2013 3:02:11 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: wastedyears

Think the point being made is in many cities the taxpayers have helped pay for those stadiums. Like it or not.


52 posted on 06/30/2013 3:11:35 AM PDT by John W (Viva Cristo Rey!)
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To: COBOL2Java

Headline of the future:

Sebelius Declares Football too Violent and Dangerous - Regulations Coming


53 posted on 06/30/2013 5:22:02 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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