Posted on 10/28/2010 6:27:35 PM PDT by Justaham
The National Football League’s political action committee—Gridiron PAC—has weighed in on the hotly contested U.S. Senate election in Nevada that pits conservative Republican challenger Sharron Angle against Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid.
The PAC has given $10,000 to Reid—the maximum it can give in a single election cycle—and no money to Angle, according to Federal Election Commission data compiled by OpenSecrets.org.
The NFL’s PAC also contributed to other incumbent Democratic senators facing viable challengers this year, giving $5,000 to Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas; $5,000 to Russ Feingold of Wisconsin; $5,000 to Barbara Boxer of California; $5,000 to Michael Bennet of Colorado; and $5,000 to Patty Murray of Washington.
In none of these races did the NFL’s PAC contribute to the Republican challenger.
Of the $341,000 the NFL’s PAC has contributed to congressional candidates in this election cycle, $340,000 has gone to incumbents. The other $1,000 went to Brian Rooney, an unsuccessful Republican primary candidate in a U.S. congressional district in Michigan, who is the grandson of Pittsburgh Steelers founder Art Rooney.
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All the more reason to boycott this thug organization and its thug product.
Maybe we should stop handing out welfare payments in the form of buying NFL owners stadiums with public tax money...
Yeah...
I was always a little uneasy on the whole Browns move to Baltimore then suddenly they win the SB and then Art Modell fades away and lets someone else take the team...
Payoff?
Can't prove it but it was a surefire way to get a new team added to the NFL and get two New Modern Stadiums built.
If so many “men” in this country hadn’t had their faces firmly planted in NFL butt-cracks for the past fifty years, the commies would not have been able to seize control and wreck the USA.
It's amazing to see how times have changed... and how effective the triple option is with a lead blocker. I keep watching that video at your link, watching defenders committing to the wrong back... it's just completely awesome to see.
Asides from Navy, who else (recently) has effectively run a 'bone offense?
It makes me sick when my husband turns this crap on TV. Fortunately, he only watches a few Bears games. Mostly he watches college ball, but that makes me almost as sick, too, our colleges and universties being the indoctrination camps that they are. I don’t begrudge him his Illini games, but if he watches another one once in awhile, I leave the room.
Skinner is not a conservative.
...like colleges and universities haven't been cramming communist ideology down the throats of our children for years...
No way. Colleges are the bastion of liberalism in this country.
High school football? No way. The NEA is complicit in the dumbing down of this country.
What's left? Kids playing on a vacant lot?
Other than that, when a quarterback gets tackled in that system it's not one of those horrendous blind-side tackles by a guy 100-lbs heavier than himself, it's by a guy closer to his own size and he sees it coming.
My hubby has always said, football is NOT the same as it was in the seventies. It’s been P-afied if you know what I mean.
Could be the “woman’s movement” that has successfully overinflated incidents of domestic violence (read: DV is called when frowning at a woman), false date rape, state sponsored biomom support (aka “child” support), family court approved alienation of the father right out of the household, slapping all young boys on ADHD meds and yelling “Asperger’s” and “Borderline personality disorder” every time a child wants to exhibit childhood energy, has unduly permeated every area of what used to be “manly” activities.
Football has basically turned into ballet with a ball.
I quit watching when those spineless, yellow-belly, limp-wristed Libtards prevented Rush Limbaugh from buying part ownership in The St. Louis Rams.
Next on my "Go To Hell" list is NASCAR. They can take their ethanol and shove it up their tailpipes.
That's the key line. It isn't so much about supporting liberals, it's about greasing the skids of Congress to get what they, as a corporation want. They support incumbents, because incumbents affect their business right now.
Similar "shock" stories were posted regarding Disney's PAC, but looking at the numbers, again you see that they overwhelmingly favor incumbents, and frankly, were pretty even in Dem/GOP contributions, despite the 'rats holding sizable majorities in both houses.
since i not only cant, but wont afford to purchase the overpriced crap, where do i find the games online ???
Yep, Nascar is about to irritate me into dumping them already. Quit watching football years ago. There was more effort with grandsons in munchkin football on one play than the whole game in the NFL.
What is driving me away from the NFL faster? This BS or Jerry Jones? Too close to call.
That's not necessarily such a bad thing.
Of course, I would never condone such a thing. It is merely something I have heard about. Just did a Search and found this site http://techpp.com/2009/09/10/10-ways-to-watch-nfl-football-2009-live-online-for-free/ I hear the same thing can be done with HBO, not to mention just about every movie every mentally ill liberal in Hollywood submits for our entertainment. Streaming, not downloading.
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