[Hatteras]

Roger Goodell is hiding something. This Walsh fellow better watch his back. Specter may have gotten involved because he felt his team was slighted, but with each rock he turns over, something slimy scampers out. The fine and punishment never made sense from day one. Now, I'm starting to see why.

[CDHart]

Why are senators getting involved in football?

Carolyn

[Petronski]

Goodell v. Specter...

Pity they can’t both lose.

[Hatteras]

"• Specter said he was concerned to learn from Walsh's attorney that an NFL security representative, Dick Farley, had been investigating Walsh. Specter said: "I confronted them on that, and Goodell says, 'Yeah, he [Farley] works for us. Yeah, he is a security guy, but we didn't know he was investigating him.' "

Sure, Roger.

[Trailerpark Badass]

The future of our nation and culture, as well as the Republican party, hangs tenuously in the balance, and this clown is going on about foootball?

[InvisibleChurch]

I forget, why is the US government involved in the NFL?

[TChris]

It seems Sen. Specter is jealous of Waxman over the baseball hearings and has decided to dabble in sports himself.

Congress makes me physically ill.

[Paleo Conservative]

Maybe the Senate should have Goodell water boarded?

[Boston Blackie]

Specter’s single bullet explanation doesn’t pass scrutiny either.

[weegee]

WHAT DID THE BURGLAR DESTROY FROM THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES????

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Roger Goodell is hiding something.

Maybe, and I'm certainly no fan of Belichick or the Pats. But I can't think of a single good reason for a US senator to concern himself with this.

[Enchante]

SPECTRE, you jackal!!!! Why aren’t you busy grilling the treasonous House leadership in the media over how they just left town to allow a critical anti-terrorist measure to expire tomorrow night??

Everyone should read Andy McCarthy’s great column today in Human Events, about how after 12 midnight on Sat. it will be much more difficult to monitor OVERSEAS terrorist communications — the losers in the House slipped out of town and didn’t pass a bill, but of course Arlen SPECTRE is infinitely more concerned about a sport than about American lives around the world.

[Richard Kimball]

To all asking why Congress is involved with the NFL, they have every right to be under the commerce clause in the Constitution. I'm at work, on break right now, but will post more later. Suffice it to say for now that when the McLaren Formula 1 racing team was caught with information from rival team Ferrari, they were fined $100 million dollars and had all team points removed.

The Patriots penalty was no penalty at all; it was akin to fining me $2. Goodell destroyed the tapes and covered up. The NFL has anti-trust exemptions and functions as a cartel. That league needs an enema.

[Rummyfan]

Does Arlen Spector realize what an ass he is? I guess not.....

[Eva]

Nah, Specter is getting involved because he doesn’t want the Democrats to take all the blame for interfering in sports management. Specter just wants the Republicans to look as foolish and the Democrats.

[bvw]

Improper allocation of governmental resources, a reach outside of the charter granted Congress by the People.

[Wuli]

we have judges who think ‘judicial independence’ means they can legislate

and legislators like specter who think they can assume the role of the courts

if ‘spygate’ is a legal issue it is a legal issue for the teams, the league and, if truly needed, duly appointed prosecutors of the executive - not our senators

it must be a slow-media season for specter

[sono]

Specter’s magic bullet doesn’t pass scrutiny either. Let’s call it a draw and move on.

[EDINVA]

What is this fascination of our Congress with sports anyway? But that there were equal oversight on Congress. Specter and Leahy and the rest of them are pathetic jerks.

[Lost Highway]

We’ll all remember exactly where we were when we first heard the news.