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Report: NFL Explored Options to Relocate Super Bowl if AZ Gov. Didn't Veto 'Religious Freedom' Bill
Breitbart News ^ | February 27, 2014 | Breitbart Sports

Posted on 02/27/2014 9:50:25 PM PST by This Just In

Hours before Republican Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer vetoed the controversial "religious freedom" bill on Wednesday that would have allowed businesses to refuse service to individuals, including gays and lesbians, based on religious grounds, the NFL started exploring options to potentially move the 2015 Super Bowl from Arizona if Brewer signed the law.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: boycottarizona; corporateliberalism; gaybullies; nfl
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To: This Just In

They didn’t have a contract? The NFL now writes or vetoes legislation?

Looks like it, doesn’t it, Jan Brewer?


41 posted on 02/28/2014 1:40:49 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: cherry

Probably about the time you and others make the connection and stop voting for lesser evils that empower them. Because as long as the NFL and pro sports orgs are fear free for their tax status, they will keep pushing further and further.

And lesser evil politicians will never hold that against them. Can’t have it both ways Cherry. Bummer huh?


42 posted on 02/28/2014 1:48:24 AM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: This Just In

FUNFL.

I gave up on them years ago. I haven’t watched or listened to a game in over 20 years.

Before that I used to have a pair of season tickets.

One day, I just said, “Screw this!” and never looked back. It’s nice to not be stuck in front of the TV every Sunday. That instantly made college football much less interesting and now I have my Saturdays free, too.

The older I get, the less I need to be “entertained.”


43 posted on 02/28/2014 1:59:02 AM PST by Right Wing Assault
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To: This Just In

I wonder how many will stop watching NFL because it’s getting too gay.


44 posted on 02/28/2014 2:22:15 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: This Just In

Jan Brewer would have vaulted to frontrunner in the 2016 Presidential election had she signed the bill.

And the NFL could pull out of the United States for all I care.


45 posted on 02/28/2014 3:57:44 AM PST by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (HELL, NO! BE UNGOVERNABLE!)
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To: This Just In
Jan Brewer's political epitaph:
"I Sold My Soul for the Super Bowl!"

46 posted on 02/28/2014 4:02:02 AM PST by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (HELL, NO! BE UNGOVERNABLE!)
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To: This Just In
The arrogance involved with this is simply stunning. I hope that the backlash to this is such that they get message that a significant proportion of what their ‘fan base’ consisted of are exactly like the commenters on this forum... outraged and they are going to take the actions of tuning out and dropping out.
47 posted on 02/28/2014 4:23:26 AM PST by hecticskeptic
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To: This Just In
Honestly folks, I know this area where the games going to be played. The folks who depend on this type of event activity have been on a downhill roller coaster ride the past 5 years.

I can easily see the desperate pleas to not risk the Superbowl.

Westgate business owners have taken a beating and the mall is barely staying above water with all of the hockey drama and other financial disasters, like every day since obama was elected.

I'm not saying I approve of Christian persecution, but I'm absolutely seeing where financial pressures might compel the governor to find a way out of signing the bill into law.

48 posted on 02/28/2014 4:26:13 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: This Just In

It’s an outrage that the NFL threatens a state over a political issue regardless of the issue. Talk about bullying!


49 posted on 02/28/2014 4:34:23 AM PST by From The Deer Stand
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To: Caipirabob

There was a walpo ANALysis of Arizona politics reprinted in the local rag today. The summary would be: Arizona is GOP ultra conservative territory filled with homophobes and racists who believe the missing link in the white house was not born here. Brewer only vetoed the bill because the NFL threated to pull its game over the anti fag bill (of course it was mischaracterized). No mention of course that both senators from that state are not conservatives rather just some anti GOP rhetoric citing that their older population tends to be socially conservative, a new stigma.


50 posted on 02/28/2014 4:39:37 AM PST by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: a fool in paradise

There’s another lawsuit where two gay Texans are trying to get married. This is a full assault using the judicial system because the legislature and the voters won’t legalize it.


51 posted on 02/28/2014 4:50:45 AM PST by peyton randolph (Show me the man and I will find the crime. - Lavrenti Beria)
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Hey nfl... you are banned from my TV and my home forever... embrace satan and infect all of your players with aids... it will happen and no one will feel sorry for you or your players. We are also going to lobby our next Conservative government to remove your tax exempt status. You are barred from any political activity being a 501C3 corporation and you fat cat billionaires need to pay if we slobs must pay. Your free ride has its wheels coming off.


52 posted on 02/28/2014 5:04:48 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS! BETTER DEAD THAN RED!)
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To: peyton randolph
What is actually happening is, each time the homosexuals do what they call “winning a battle”, it speeds up the demise of this Nation. While the open practice of homosexuality is not the only degeneracy, once it has its camel's nose under the tent, it opens the flood gates for other abnormal and degenerate acts and practices. If you don't believe me, read history. Beginning with Sodom, every civilization that has embraced the practice of homosexual acts and deeds has fallen.
53 posted on 02/28/2014 5:06:23 AM PST by sport
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To: This Just In

The NFL blacklisted Tim Tebow, too.

The religious faith freedom bill is contrary to who the NFL is these days.


54 posted on 02/28/2014 5:06:46 AM PST by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: PGR88

Taxpayers pay for a stadium so that millionaire football players can be watched by millionaires in their VIP boxes while average people can pay thru the nose for tickets.
makes sense to me.


55 posted on 02/28/2014 5:08:31 AM PST by Yorlik803 ( Church/Caboose in 2016)
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To: plainshame

You mean the tax exempt NFL that has a tax free status?

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It would be interesting to learn the content of the convos between the WH and the NFL in recent years.

First, we learn that the NFL is helping to push Obamacare, and, lately, they seem to be really working overtime on the homosexualists’ agenda.


56 posted on 02/28/2014 5:09:42 AM PST by Bigg Red (O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! Ps 8)
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To: cherry

You go to church on Sunday right? Their games are on Sunday. They need to de-Christianize you so you’ll watch their pitiful product. They’ve been competing with Christianity since their inceptions.


57 posted on 02/28/2014 5:13:01 AM PST by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: gleeaikin

That’s a false dichotomy if ever there was one.


58 posted on 02/28/2014 5:14:10 AM PST by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: RPTMS

But do the important people make money? Will Brewer make money? Will her donors?


59 posted on 02/28/2014 5:15:04 AM PST by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: cherry

when will the NFL stand up for MY rights as a Christian?....why is okay to discriminate against me and my kind?????

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I am pretty sure they are working very hard for the other side. Not a fan of professional sports, and, fortunately, the husband does not watch much football any more. But I have seen enough in the last few years to detect the momentum in the NFL’s effort to work against Judeo-Christian values.

Their half-time shows have gotten increasingly sexually explicit over the past few years, for example. Now, we have the emphasis on homosexuality.

Yet people continue to watch. They complain about these issues but will not boycott the NFL.


60 posted on 02/28/2014 5:16:04 AM PST by Bigg Red (O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! Ps 8)
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