Specter irked by uncooperative Pats, league in Spygate probe

ESPN.com ^ | 2/22/08 | Mike Fish

[Richard Kimball]

I’m kind of tied up right now, but I’ll post more later tonight. Good stuff you’re posting, though.

[ksen]

No problem Richard. I look forward to reading your response.

It’ll probably be tomorrow before I can respond.

[Gondring]

There are three ways into this for a Senator I can think of off the top of my head:

- The teams play in stadiums built with public funds.

- FCC: The games are broadcast on public airways, so the games must be fair; much like the Price is Right.

- The NFL is a monopoly that has been granted an anti-trust exemption.

But the New Conservatism doesn't care about laws, haven't you heard?

[Doctor Raoul]

Play Under Scotish Football Rules...

[visualops]

I think a nightly or weekly news type show would have a field day and great rating if they did an eye-opening expose on what Congress does, and doesn’t do, with the People’s time and money.
I’d love to see a “this week, Congress failed to vote on x-number nominations to such-and-such, spent 50 millions of your dollars on name-your-pork-product, etc etc”.
Most people just are not aware of just exactly what congress is doing (and not doing).
It would need to be presented in a fun interesting way since after a while it would be so depressing no one would watch.

[cherry]

for all we know, Goodell doesn’t want people to really understand what the Pats did....OTOH....maybe its deeper than we think....maybe a real investigation by non-nfl personal would show fixing the games...ala the Stealers over the Seahawks...

[EricT.]

Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 of the Constitution, known as the “Commerce Clause” gives Congress power to regulate interstate commerce. The NFL, being an entity that engages in commerce in between states is engaged in interstate commerce, and therefore subject to federal regulation.

Thank you. I knew someone would have an answer for me. Now that I know he's got a legitimate say in this business, I am happy that he's wasting his time with this crap instead of working hard screwing up the country any worse than he's already done.