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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSaints QB Drew Brees tweet compares the NFL to the Bush Administration
"If NFL fans were told there were 'weapons of mass destruction' enough times, they'd believe it. But what happens when you don't find any????,"
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/09000d5d829f28fe/article/drew-brees-tweet-compares-nfl-to-bush-administration
The back story to this is that the New Orleans Saints got busted in a "bounty system" - the defense contributed money into a pot and money was given out based on big hits and people being carted off the field. Apparently this is not rare but the Saints were warned by Roger Godell (NFL Commissioner and Bush kind of guy - Goddell's wife is or was on Fox News). Yesterday the players who were suspended for 4 weeks to one who suspended for all of next season (without pay) were shown the evidence that the NFL had at league offices.
LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)Notably head injuries and the ACL.
So this is exactly like WMD, only if there was a recording of Saddam and his goons sitting around having a meeting deciding what weapons to order from Acme Dictator Supply and records of who pitched in how much on the order. So exactly the opposite of what he's trying to suggest.
It's a good thing Drew Brees can throw a football, because he sure can't manage to make a convincing argument.
zbdent
(35,392 posts)still had the 1991 UN seals intact, and the "weapons of mass destruction" that were touted as being .001 seconds from being used on our troops NEVER EXISTED ... but then, the true believers (those who profit/stand the most to gain) said that the fact that they didn't find any was PROOF that they existed because the WMDs were shipped off to, I believe, Syria. Where, of course, they aren't being used on those rebelling against the government.
Just had to get that off my chest.
rufus dog
(8,419 posts)If he was a liberal I would get it, I think.
Is he trying to say that like the Bush WMD lies, the NFL keeps lying about the bounty program?
Little confused because I heard he is a RW idiot Hannity follower.