Posted on 05/10/2011 1:14:58 PM PDT by Colonel_Flagg
Obama is on Wilf’s contribution list:
http://www.newsmeat.com/sports_political_donations/Zygmunt_Wilf.php
Yup. Self righteous and indignant.
Me too, actually. I re-read my note to you and it was way too snarky. Just color me still upset about Stuart Smalley. I apologize.
Somehow that doesn't surprise me.
Yep. Amazing how easy it is to volunteer other people’s money.
Are you actually (seriously?) implying that without the taxpayers getting raked over the coals and shaken down to pay for a new stadium, professional sports wouldn’t exist? Gee - tell that to the REAL sportsmen who pioneered the sport... Who played in the rain/mud/heat, who didn’t get more wealthy than most third-world dictators. Who’s love for the game is what kept them going, providin excitement for the fans, all without give g them the bird. It’s a GAME. If teams want big, $Multi-billion monuments to their hubris, then let them pay for it.
Just seems ironic for governments to fork out such cash for a bunch of spoiled, over-paid schoolboys to play a game.
And this from someone who occasionally likes to sit down and watch a good football game (but is also why I prefer college over the NFL, though the NCAA is starting to hunk and act like the dictatorial NFL.
Morning update: Stadium is expected to cost only one billion dollars according to the Vikings. But hey, we can tailgate.
It is disappointing how easily it is to make the inner socialist break through the conservative veneer.
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