Posted on 09/27/2017 10:48:53 AM PDT by 11th_VA
Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) on Tuesday called for an end to all federal government support of the NFL amid controversy over players taking a knee in protest during the national anthem.
"I believe we ought to terminate all federal government support of the NFL," Brooks told Breitbart News.
"That would include the termination of any and all advertising that is done on behalf of the federal government — military and nonmilitary — to the extent we do any."
"The same thing with any other professional sport that insults our country and our flag and our anthem as the NFL has done," he added. The NFL reportedly receives billions of dollars in subsidies from local taxpayers and governments, CNN reported in 2015.
And a 2015 report from NJ.com revealed that more than a dozen NFL teams received money from the Defense Department between 2011 and 2014 in exchange for promoting the military during games and other forms of advertisement.
Agreed
Do It Now!
It’ll never happen.
Why should they have it anyway? There are much better ways to F up your money
Please share this so it can hit the news. This is why the NFL is so political now.
‘This is what real locker room talk is’: The NFL’s Joe Lockhart levels a shot at Trump
Joe Lockhart, the NFL’s executive vice president of communications, wasn’t messing around Monday.
A former White House press secretary under President Clinton, Lockhart used surgical precision in leveling a shot at President Trump
Lockhart was a strategist in the Clinton White House during the Monica Lewinsky scandal
Lockhart’s comment shows that sports and politics in the Trump era aren’t going to be untangled anytime soon and, frankly, that’s probably partly why he was hired.
Lockhart, a former TV producer and the son of journalists, joined the NFL in the winter of 2016, replacing Paul Hicks as the league’s vice president of communications. (Hicks is the father of Hope Hicks, Trump’s communications director.) Clearly, he knows just what message he wants to send.
He also happens to have rented his home in Washington DC to a certain former president named Barack Obama.
Is that the same as American gov't support? The same America these assholes are dissing? I don't think my gov't should do anything for anti-American people of any sort.
Tax exempt status? WHY?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If states and local governments want to be used I say let them.
You must end federal support. I don’t want a penny of mine or anyone’s tax money going to them
Yes. We might save a billion. Why should we pay part of the salaries these ignorant players and management get.
The same reason that the big multi-national corporations pay so little in taxes: corruption.
[The only reason the tax-code is as complex as it is is to provide holes for exploitation.]
DO IT!!!!
Why not?
NFL is an anti-American political organization. They can have their free speech, and operate like other leftist companies such as Apple, Google, Amazon, Starbucks; just no subsidies, or tax benefits.
It used to be a proud, American tradition. Now it is neither.
If you want someone to blame, the person to blame this all on is Roger Goodell. He enforces every rule in the rulebook. If you want to wear different colored shoes to honor someone, you will get fined and your team could end up losing draft picks eventually. He let this go, even though there is a rule that players are to stand for the National Anthem with their helmets in their left hand and be respectful.
If he would have simply enforced the current NFL rule on Kapernick last year, they could have said that this is not political, we don’t want to be about politics, but about football. Do it on your own time and we will support you in your endeavor. Instead he let this go and it’s blown up to the point that he has fans and sponsors in an uproar and no matter what he does, it will be perceived as political by one side or the other.
Goodell should be fired by the owners IMO for bungling this on an enormous scale.
Rescind the NFL's anti-trust exemption.
Better yet, remove all federal government support and funding for any professional sports of any kind.
Jerry Jones, the owner of the Dallas Cowboys, keeping with his preference for dramatic flourishes, went further than any other owner when he knelt with his team before the national anthem for his team’s game with the Cardinals in Glendale, Ariz. Before Monday, Jones had been among the most vocal owners in saying he preferred that his players stand for the anthem.The players stood for the anthem, not as Nitsie implies. They didn't kneel 'before' the anthem in the sense of in its face, but 'before' in the sense of preceding.
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