I'm so glad that with a world of impeachable offenses and a war on, the Senate cares about football.

[Rabrrrrrr]

What a goddamned crock.

Why does the senate care about baseball steroids?

Why does the senate care about whether the Patriots spied earlier in the year?

THEY ARE NOT SENATE CONCERNS YOU FUCKING INCOMPETENT JACKASSES!

Goddammit, you fuckwits, why don't you just do your fucking jobs?


http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hp6zbpT9ttEypWNRpKC4R8lRK4-QD8UKDQKO0

Sen. Arlen Specter and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell could meet next week to discuss the league's investigation into spying allegations against the New England Patriots.

[Rage for Order]

1. NFL has a Congressional anti-trust exemption

So the integrity of the league is their business. There are certainly more pressing issues, but if the NFL wants to retain their special status they need to answer the questions presented to them.

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. I don't see how a "spying" allegation has anything to do with the anti-trust exemption.

Waste of taxpayer money, waste of the government's time.

Personally speaking, I think the senate interferes in this shit because they worry about votes and want to look like they're actually doing something, and gives them a chance to get autographs.

[Rage for Order]

3. Well, the NFL is immensely popular

Which means tens of millions of people will notice if Congress gets involved in any way. This helps Congress by giving the illusion that they are doing something productive. However, the fact that the NFL operates in largely publicly funded stadiums and does so via an exemption from anti-trust laws does make it Congress' business. Of course, they could do it in such a way so that it wouldn't look like media whoring, but Congress rarely acts in that manner

[treestar]

4. That they could even spend a second on these trivial concerns

Without impreaching Chimpy and Cheney shows how idiotic we are for electing these bozos to high office.

We have to learn to elect real people, whether they look like "Senators" from Central Casting or not, rather than being so damned shallow.

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. Absolutely.

I realize, as the other poster said, there's a certain level of oversight needed because of the exception to the anti-trust law.


But the rule should still be that the NFL (or whatever sports franchise) deals with its own shit, and only until there is division and an inability to solve their own problem should the senate be involved.

Fucking waste of time.

Total testimony to how this country is utterly fucked - every fucking newspaper has a DAILY sports section, but a weekly arts/entertainment section (and even that is mostly dedicated to pop bullshit and other ignorant crap) and a weekly science section, the sum total of those two sections per week still being less pages than the Tuesday sports section. Our senate gets involved in sports, but when Gore wins A FUCKING NOBEL, THANK YOU, there is zero response, except to call him an intellectual elitist and other disparaging remarks, because clearly the only people who win Nobels are the worst people in the world because, God forbid, they use their brains instead of wearing NFL related sweatsuit "outfits" to the mall to by shit they don't need. In fact, whenever any American wins a Nobel, there is zero response. But the Giants win a fucking football game, and NYC gives them a fucking ticker tape parade and the president calls them in the locker room.

[BuelahWitch]

14. A kick and a rec for you, Mr. Rabrrrrrr

:thumbsup:

[Senator]

6. K&R&ImpeachNow

[SoCalDem]

7. OMG.. you mean they might have to quit investigating Baseball now?

and all the beefy fat-headed bat-swingers? ..and start investigating camera-toting, lip-reading he-man football guys?

How WILL they manage to all run for election, and raise cash, and "do lunch"..and still find time for these earth-shattering hearings?

[yorgatron]

8. all sports should be played by amateurs.

get rid of pro sports entirely.

[onenote]

12. because in a free society that would be appropriate, how?

[madinmaryland]

11. No. Roger Clemons testified yesterday.

:shrug:

[SoCalDem]

13. HEY.. they could COMBINE them..and have them all show up in uniform

During lulls, they could run a few plays..hit a few buckets of balls..have autograph signing sessions..

a guy could come in with hotdogs & peanuts..

and maybe Fox Sports could cover it and have one lucky fan in the audience attempt a field goal or something...or maybe blindfold the guy and have him try to hit a fastball....

[lonestarnot]

9. K and gawdamn R

[4_TN_TITANS]

10. What else do expect a Republican Senator to do?

He sure as hell can't fix anything meaningful.

on edit: more government focus on where the big bucks are

[KG]

15. what? politicians grandstanding over a trivial issue? who'da thunk it?