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National Football League Backs Reid Over Angle; Invests $340,000 to Save Incumbent Congress
csnews.com ^ | 10-28-10 | Matt Cover

Posted on 10/28/2010 6:27:35 PM PDT by Justaham

The National Football League’s political action committee—Gridiron PAC—has weighed in on the hotly contested U.S. Senate election in Nevada that pits conservative Republican challenger Sharron Angle against Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid.

The PAC has given $10,000 to Reid—the maximum it can give in a single election cycle—and no money to Angle, according to Federal Election Commission data compiled by OpenSecrets.org.

The NFL’s PAC also contributed to other incumbent Democratic senators facing viable challengers this year, giving $5,000 to Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas; $5,000 to Russ Feingold of Wisconsin; $5,000 to Barbara Boxer of California; $5,000 to Michael Bennet of Colorado; and $5,000 to Patty Murray of Washington.

In none of these races did the NFL’s PAC contribute to the Republican challenger.

Of the $341,000 the NFL’s PAC has contributed to congressional candidates in this election cycle, $340,000 has gone to incumbents. The other $1,000 went to Brian Rooney, an unsuccessful Republican primary candidate in a U.S. congressional district in Michigan, who is the grandson of Pittsburgh Steelers founder Art Rooney.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; US: Arkansas; US: California; US: Colorado; US: Michigan; US: Nevada; US: Pennsylvania; US: Washington; US: Wisconsin
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To: Justaham

All the more reason to boycott this thug organization and its thug product.


121 posted on 10/28/2010 9:38:30 PM PDT by Mariner (USS Tarawa, VQ3, USS Benjamin Stoddert, NAVCAMS WestPac, 7th Fleet, Navcommsta Puget Sound)
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To: Justaham
I see this as protection money, and nothing more than the cost of doing business in Obama’s version of the U.S.A. With a potential strike looming next year its best to try and keep the Obamanation’s injustice department out of the mix. Heck,the mafia has more honor and integrity than the punk ass in the White House and his posse of criminals in congress.
122 posted on 10/28/2010 9:58:20 PM PDT by Jay Redhawk
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To: Justaham
I see this as protection money, and nothing more than the cost of doing business in Obama’s version of the U.S.A. With a potential strike looming next year its best to try and keep the Obamanation’s injustice department out of the mix. Heck,the mafia has more honor and integrity than the punk ass in the White House and his posse of criminals in congress.
123 posted on 10/28/2010 9:58:20 PM PDT by Jay Redhawk
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To: Justaham

Maybe we should stop handing out welfare payments in the form of buying NFL owners stadiums with public tax money...


124 posted on 10/28/2010 10:11:20 PM PDT by Qbert
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To: CSI007
"NFL = Professional wrestling. I am certain many games are fixed. Especially playoff games."

Yeah...

I was always a little uneasy on the whole Browns move to Baltimore then suddenly they win the SB and then Art Modell fades away and lets someone else take the team...

Payoff?

Can't prove it but it was a surefire way to get a new team added to the NFL and get two New Modern Stadiums built.

125 posted on 10/28/2010 10:18:28 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: Justaham

If so many “men” in this country hadn’t had their faces firmly planted in NFL butt-cracks for the past fifty years, the commies would not have been able to seize control and wreck the USA.


126 posted on 10/28/2010 10:23:37 PM PDT by meadsjn (Sarah 2012, or sooner)
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To: wendy1946
Excellent link!

It's amazing to see how times have changed... and how effective the triple option is with a lead blocker. I keep watching that video at your link, watching defenders committing to the wrong back... it's just completely awesome to see.

Asides from Navy, who else (recently) has effectively run a 'bone offense?

127 posted on 10/29/2010 12:06:15 AM PDT by Rodamala
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To: Frantzie

It makes me sick when my husband turns this crap on TV. Fortunately, he only watches a few Bears games. Mostly he watches college ball, but that makes me almost as sick, too, our colleges and universties being the indoctrination camps that they are. I don’t begrudge him his Illini games, but if he watches another one once in awhile, I leave the room.


128 posted on 10/29/2010 3:18:44 AM PDT by chilltherats (First, kill all the lawyers (now that they ARE the tyrants)....... would step ince 2006,up)
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To: Beaten Valve

Skinner is not a conservative.


129 posted on 10/29/2010 3:19:56 AM PDT by chilltherats (First, kill all the lawyers (now that they ARE the tyrants)....... would step ince 2006,up)
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To: Biggirl
College football for me!

...like colleges and universities haven't been cramming communist ideology down the throats of our children for years...

130 posted on 10/29/2010 3:27:35 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: scooby321
College football.

No way. Colleges are the bastion of liberalism in this country.

High school football? No way. The NEA is complicit in the dumbing down of this country.

What's left? Kids playing on a vacant lot?

131 posted on 10/29/2010 3:34:34 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (King: "I have a dream"...Sharpton: "I want a check")
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To: Rodamala
The thing which makes it possible for the Navy to run the thing is the fact that their players are interested in careers as Naval officers and not the NFL. The pros were afriad they'd get all their geriatric quarterbacks killed running option play but the reality of it is that wishbone teams don't NEED 50-year-old quarterbacks; in other words, a wishbone quarterback will never HAVE TO throw against zone defenses so that it will not take them 20 yeas to figure out how to cope with NFL zones. When Mildren or Richard Todd threw the ball it was invariably to a receiver with just the one defender trying to cover him.

Other than that, when a quarterback gets tackled in that system it's not one of those horrendous blind-side tackles by a guy 100-lbs heavier than himself, it's by a guy closer to his own size and he sees it coming.

132 posted on 10/29/2010 3:34:46 AM PDT by wendy1946
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To: FlingWingFlyer

My hubby has always said, football is NOT the same as it was in the seventies. It’s been P-afied if you know what I mean.

Could be the “woman’s movement” that has successfully overinflated incidents of domestic violence (read: DV is called when frowning at a woman), false date rape, state sponsored biomom support (aka “child” support), family court approved alienation of the father right out of the household, slapping all young boys on ADHD meds and yelling “Asperger’s” and “Borderline personality disorder” every time a child wants to exhibit childhood energy, has unduly permeated every area of what used to be “manly” activities.

Football has basically turned into ballet with a ball.


133 posted on 10/29/2010 4:52:06 AM PDT by AbolishCSEU
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To: Justaham
Screw the NFL.

I quit watching when those spineless, yellow-belly, limp-wristed Libtards prevented Rush Limbaugh from buying part ownership in The St. Louis Rams.

Next on my "Go To Hell" list is NASCAR. They can take their ethanol and shove it up their tailpipes.

134 posted on 10/29/2010 6:11:31 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Justaham
Of the $341,000 the NFL’s PAC has contributed to congressional candidates in this election cycle, $340,000 has gone to incumbents.

That's the key line. It isn't so much about supporting liberals, it's about greasing the skids of Congress to get what they, as a corporation want. They support incumbents, because incumbents affect their business right now.

Similar "shock" stories were posted regarding Disney's PAC, but looking at the numbers, again you see that they overwhelmingly favor incumbents, and frankly, were pretty even in Dem/GOP contributions, despite the 'rats holding sizable majorities in both houses.

135 posted on 10/29/2010 6:15:15 AM PDT by kevkrom (De-fund Obamacare in 2011, repeal in 2013!)
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To: taketheredpill

since i not only cant, but wont afford to purchase the overpriced crap, where do i find the games online ???


136 posted on 10/29/2010 6:26:49 AM PDT by Gilbo_3 (Gov is not reason; not eloquent; its force.Like fire,a dangerous servant & master. George Washington)
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To: tubebender

Yep, Nascar is about to irritate me into dumping them already. Quit watching football years ago. There was more effort with grandsons in munchkin football on one play than the whole game in the NFL.


137 posted on 10/29/2010 6:47:14 AM PDT by SouthTexas (WE are the Wave - Vote Nov 2)
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To: Justaham

What is driving me away from the NFL faster? This BS or Jerry Jones? Too close to call.


138 posted on 10/29/2010 6:48:41 AM PDT by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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To: wendy1946
. . . . its players are dying of old age at 55.

That's not necessarily such a bad thing.

139 posted on 10/29/2010 6:56:29 AM PDT by atc23
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To: Gilbo_3

Of course, I would never condone such a thing. It is merely something I have heard about. Just did a Search and found this site http://techpp.com/2009/09/10/10-ways-to-watch-nfl-football-2009-live-online-for-free/ I hear the same thing can be done with HBO, not to mention just about every movie every mentally ill liberal in Hollywood submits for our entertainment. Streaming, not downloading.


140 posted on 10/29/2010 9:48:37 AM PDT by taketheredpill (Choice of Two Democrats or an Independent in Second District Virginia)
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