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- RichardOvervold, on 05/15/2008, -12/+100I can't believe the Senator is actually considering this.
- JDenigma, on 05/15/2008, -9/+76It just so happens to be that if I'm not mistaken, Arlen Spector is an Eagles fan, a team that lost to the Patriots in a recent Superbowl. Can you say sour grapes?
This is absurd though that this is made into a federal issue and they're getting the government involved just like the absurdity over steroid use in baseball. The sheep who watch their tv and sports I'm sure would be all up to speed and informed on this, but they don't know ***** about the relevant things going on in the world beyond the sports world. - imacommi, on 05/15/2008, -2/+58I don't understand why the Gov. is getting involved with these baseball/football investigations; why waste the money? If people don't like this stuff they can just stop watching the NFL/MLB. I really get tired of hearing about how my taxes are wasted...
- imacommi, on 05/15/2008, -1/+41I can, these people love to waste our money.
- kwelte57, on 05/15/2008, -5/+34Shame on Senator Spector! Is he really that out of touch.
- EllieElliott, on 05/15/2008, -7/+38Hard as Arlen "Haggis" Spector may try,
and as hard as he may wish it,
the Eagles will never be the winner of Super Bowl XXXIX (2006)
The Patriots beat the Eagles 24-21. Arlen doesn't think it was fair and square, prolly it weren't, but life goes on. That game was played.
So hey Spector! how about investigating something more profound; I dunno, like mebbe the Rape of the US Constitution? - sportscrzy33, on 05/15/2008, -3/+25Pretty ridiculous! And you just know that this is going to go nowhere and nothing will get done about any of this spygate BS. I love sports and NFL football is one of my personal favs, but it seems as though there is more bad press about sports these days instead of highlights or God forbid game coverage. You hear more about crime in sports than anything and that is just plain sad.
- inactive, on 05/15/2008, -0/+23Like any government department, if they don't spend what they are allocated for the year they lose that money and will not get as much next year. Pretty basic govermath.
- inactive, on 05/15/2008, -3/+21Sadly this doesn't surprise me.
- NonLeftistDiggr, on 05/15/2008, -1/+16Or they could just stop, have their budgets reduced to figures at least approaching realistic, and we can pay off some of our national debt, or get back what was taken from us by the fed and/or state in the first place.
- NonLeftistDiggr, on 05/15/2008, -0/+14It's true I've seen it in several public sector jobs I tried. Buy office ***** or various tools frantically at the end of the budget cycle if there's any money left.
- RichardOvervold, on 05/15/2008, -1/+14That's the damn truth!
- RuffRidr, on 05/15/2008, -1/+13I'm not surprised by anything with this Congress. They as a collective have just been awful.
- schnikies79, on 05/15/2008, -2/+12No *****. Gas is $4/gallon but lets worry about whether or not Clemens has a needle stuck in his ass.
- vault, on 05/15/2008, -3/+13"We love our sporting teams as much as we love our country"
I don't. Let them conduct their own investigation at THEIR expense. - cryptoki, on 05/15/2008, -0/+8not true. the league should investigate this itself. its their league, not the governments. they broke the rules and were fined right? case closed... next
- musleypope, on 05/15/2008, -1/+11Spector also happens to be the Senator who put forward the magic bullet theory in the JFK assassination.
- Kent4jmj, on 05/15/2008, -3/+12I know decriminalize steroids and let the idiots shoot up all they want. When they start dropping like flies from the negative effects we will not have wasted our time or money on such idiots.
woops wrong soapbox but good points just the same. - swrostmore, on 05/15/2008, -2/+11This is disappointing, Specter is one of the few Republicans on the Senate Judiciary who isn't a complete *****. He called for Abu Gonzales' resignation while the rest of the lot were busy apologizing for his suspicious "memory loss," and he's even done the unthinkable (for a Republican), criticized Bush's assertion of executive priviledge.
- bjornski, on 05/15/2008, -1/+9Take away their anti-trust exemption and let the market decide their fate.
- mikesbaker, on 05/15/2008, -2/+12This is the same ass hole who wanted to give the telcos immunity for illegal wiretapping.
- gaapgod, on 05/15/2008, -2/+13I'm a Republican, a football fan, former Senate staffer, and a supporter of Arlen (who beat the crap out of cancer and is one of the true independent Republicans in the Senate), but agreed. WTF DOES THE US FREAKING SENATE HAVE TO DO WITH FOOTBALL?!?!?!?!!?!?
- JohnnyKinder, on 05/15/2008, -1/+11I am in no way condoning the actions of congress to get involved, but I have read an article as to why they are doing this that made some valid points (again, we should be more focused on getting our economy back on track and stopping the war but..)
Apparently it has a lot to do with the monopoly that professional sports has. When you look at the definition of monopoly (not the board game) Pro sports fits it to a T
They investigate these things because of the money earned/lost due to people cheating sports, ie steroids, video taping signal calling etc. The US government has given professional sports a ton of slack by letting them build these empires, so I can on a very low level understand why they need to make sure things are being run the correct way.
Again, I am in no way condoning the massive waste of money, this is coming from someone who hates the Patriots, but, a lot of people do wonder why congress gets involved, so I hope I can shed a little light. - brjohnson789, on 05/15/2008, -1/+9Never doubt in the ability of the government to waste money.
- KnightMareInc, on 05/15/2008, -2/+10Not only is the NFL a multi-billion dollar business but its a Monopoly that plays quite a large role in local/state economies. Saying its just "football" is pretty naive
- HCviolence, on 05/15/2008, -1/+9They did it. Most Teams did it. Investigation over(and for free too).
- JDenigma, on 05/15/2008, -1/+7I just dugg your comment and now I saw your comment got lowered to 1 so someone just after me, buried you. Hmmm, who could possibly be having a problem with what you said there? ;-) Might we have some Eagle fans lurking in this thread or possibly fans of certain teams like the Dolphins, Bills, or Jets?
This will be an interesting thread with the mixture of sports and politics. lol - ibone, on 05/15/2008, -1/+8Its not an overreaction. The NFL is granted an Antitrust exemption and has been given the right to control the lively hood of hundereds of players trapped in the collective bargaining agreement. Not only that but millions of people gambled billions of dollars on NFL games each year. If the league has corruption internally then the senator has every right to investigate this. You trust the commissioner on the NFL to give an honest investigation that his organization might be cheating? The NFL is not just a game, Hundreds of billions are spent, and the NFL is one of the only companies I can think of given a ***** anti trust exemption status.
- Christ0s, on 05/15/2008, -1/+7i lost a couple hundred bucks on that game I want justice.
- schnikies79, on 05/15/2008, -0/+5You judge people by their party? Screw you.
- dirtyfrog, on 05/15/2008, -0/+5Not that this makes it any better of an excuse but at one point they said the reason the government gets involved with sports like they have with baseball and now football is because apparently these professional sport leagues have an immunity to monopoly laws. The leagues could allow cheating and there is no reason for the league to stop it because of a lack of competition. I guess they could force the NFL into two seperate entities (I guess like the NFL and AFL were) if they felt it needed to be broken up.
I agree with most others that have commented so far though that this is a waste of money and I was completely baffled when congress started interviewing MLB players about steriods. I guess this is why they feel they need to get involved though. - jrefenes, on 05/15/2008, -0/+6The NFL IS violating anti-trust laws. It's been that way since the AFL/NFL merger. Currently the government gives them exemption to anti-trust laws. This is why, although I disagree with the use of taxpayer money given the relevence of the issue, the government DOES have a right to launch further investigations. They already give the NFL tons of slack by granting them exemption from federal law, the government has every right to investigate them when they deem it necessary.
- JDenigma, on 05/15/2008, -0/+5We're already finished. Hey, is anyone smelling smoke?
The sports coliseums
The bread and circuses
The masses of useful idiots
yup - Niallgriff, on 05/15/2008, -0/+5Um..being a republican doesn't necessarily make him a bad person....
- RichardOvervold, on 05/15/2008, -4/+9If you're not angered by this, then there's something wrong with you. :)
You pay taxes for a reason, and that reason is NOT to look at what the Patriots did, or didn't do. - Bonesinger, on 05/15/2008, -3/+8I just want to chime in and say this is stupid, but you guys also have to realize that just because it is a sport doesn't mean its worthless. The NFL is one of the highest revenue grossing sports in the world. They generate a lot of money (some teams are worth in excess of 1 billion dollars - http://www.forbes.com/2007/09/13/nfl-team-valuatio ...
When money starts flying around, the whole "its just a sport" moniker is gone; we are talking about businesses. If Company A was spying and trying to steal secrets from Company B and got caught, wouldn't they sue each other?
That's my view, but I still don't agree with the Senator on dragging this ***** out any longer. - RichardOvervold, on 05/15/2008, -2/+8I can say sour grapes, and if this has anything to do with that Superbowl, it's a damn shame he's in office and allowed to pull the strings on operations such as this.
I don't mind the feds getting involved with steroid use, because those drugs are illegal, but I do have a problem with them getting involved with a broken rule. There was nothing illegal done there, no laws were broken. It's insane. - ajwinder, on 05/15/2008, -4/+10A member of government-allowed monopoly was involved in practices that constitute a scandal and the NFL proper hasn't acted as they should have in investigating it. The NFL is just like any other government-sanctioned monopoly. They are allowed to act independently of the government, but when substantial concern over practices arise, it is the responsibility of the government to act as a regulatory agency. Not seeing where the controversy here is, especially when the amount of money and time this is going to consume is completely minimal. If we were really worried about that, there should have been controversy for months over the republican's using the motion to recommit to tie up important legislation. Or to stall a bill promoting mothers day. The list goes on and on.
- wazzu07, on 05/15/2008, -4/+8yawn
- nalen33, on 08/29/2008, -0/+4How do any of them get re-elected?
- CYR1X, on 05/15/2008, -2/+9What if it was phrased as "One of the hugest corporations in America" as opposed to "football". Change your opinion eh?
- inactive, on 05/15/2008, -1/+5Yes, posting stupid comments on digg all day is a much better way to spend your time.
Dont pretend that you are somehow spending your time better than people who watch Sports, just because you spent your time in the band. - nblsavage, on 05/15/2008, -0/+4Makes you wonder how much 'ol Arlen had on the game :)
- whatthefu, on 05/15/2008, -1/+7This is the NFL's responsibility, not the US Government's. Jesus, it's like they're looking for any excuse to expand bureaucracy these days.
- Plantagenet, on 05/15/2008, -0/+4What a stupid lie. The liberal democrats did exactly the same thing when they held hearings on the baseball steroid charges
- ricepicker4000, on 05/15/2008, -1/+4So... whens the last time Congress has done something that made you think, "That sure is dandy" ?
- JoeVet, on 05/15/2008, -0/+4After criticizing Bush's assertion of executive privilege he then voted to give Bush the benefit of the doubt and held up any investigation. If he was actually doing more than grand standing then he'd be out like Hagel. The GOP doesn't accept individual thought or action.
- mattes5, on 05/15/2008, -1/+4I have felt the same way for awhile even with the baseball steroid investigations. Anyways I like the blog post its got nice libertarian leanings to it :)... very refreshing b/c it seems this site is overran w/ progressive hippies
- JohnnyKinder, on 05/15/2008, -0/+3Hmm, thats not quite the same thing. I don't think you are catching on to the point here. And, yes, if they are a monopoly the government would be allowed to investigate, this would be similar to a publicly traded company breaking sec rules (yes they are similar, perhaps you should read some wikipedia of something) So actually, the NFL has been getting away with murder....
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