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Obama: Change Coming to NFL to Reduce 'Violence'
Breitbart ^ | 27 Jan 2013, 6:29 AM PDT | by Tony Lee

Posted on 01/27/2013 2:02:59 PM PST by Lazamataz

President Barack Obama said if he had a son, he would have to think "long and hard" before he let him play football and suggested he--along with other football fans--watches football against his conscience. "I'm a big football fan, but I have to tell you if I had a son, I'd have to think long and hard before I let him play football," Obama said.

In an interview with the left-of-center New Republic, Obama said football will "probably change gradually to try to reduce some of the violence" and that may allow fans to not have to "examine our consciences quite as much" while watching the game.

"And I think that those of us who love the sport are going to have to wrestle with the fact that it will probably change gradually to try to reduce some of the violence," Obama said. "In some cases, that may make it a little bit less exciting, but it will be a whole lot better for the players, and those of us who are fans maybe won't have to examine our consciences quite as much."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agenda; athletes; bho44; conscience; football; nfl; sonsofobama; violence
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Is there absolutely ANY American tradition or expression of identity that Obama will not ban??!? This petty tyrant, this pure piece of s**t, MUST BE REMOVED FROM OFFICE.
1 posted on 01/27/2013 2:03:03 PM PST by Lazamataz
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To: Lazamataz

The Pro-Bowl is the NFL played with kiddy gloves and it is the most boring thing to watch.


2 posted on 01/27/2013 2:05:45 PM PST by LukeL (Barack Obama: Jimmy Carter 2 Electric Boogaloo)
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The NFL is going to be Flag Football in a couple of years.....The America I grew up in is gone.


3 posted on 01/27/2013 2:05:45 PM PST by jakerobins
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To: Lazamataz

O boy, touch football with rainbow uniforms! That’s tho GAY!!


4 posted on 01/27/2013 2:06:07 PM PST by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: Lazamataz

NFL Gayme Day....


5 posted on 01/27/2013 2:06:07 PM PST by freebilly
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To: Lazamataz

I’m not a football fan, but Rush has been saying this was going to happen for years.


6 posted on 01/27/2013 2:06:24 PM PST by Lockbar (Quality Factory Loaded Ammunition ------- The New Gold)
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To: Lazamataz
We need to ban South Park, because every time Trey Parker and Matt Stone come up with an outrageous and sarcastic overreach by the Barking Moonbat Whacko Liberals to parody... the Barking Moonbat Whacko Liberals decide it is a great idea.
7 posted on 01/27/2013 2:06:29 PM PST by Lazamataz (LAZ'S LAW: As an argument with liberals goes on, the probability of being called racist approaches 1)
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Dear God, the man’s not done evolving yet!


8 posted on 01/27/2013 2:07:18 PM PST by Ouchthatonehurt
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I despise football. I really do. I have never once watched a whole game.

But Obama is seriously insane. Seriously.

9 posted on 01/27/2013 2:07:47 PM PST by Lazamataz (LAZ'S LAW: As an argument with liberals goes on, the probability of being called racist approaches 1)
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If Obama had a son, he’d be just like his dad. A pussy.


10 posted on 01/27/2013 2:08:51 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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Is this a joke? Seriously, is it? I can’t tell fact from fiction anymore, things are that f*cked up.
*shakes head*


11 posted on 01/27/2013 2:08:57 PM PST by cardinal4 (Constitution? What Constitution?)
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Thanks Laz, I gonna show this to my football loving friend who cares nothing about guns or gun bans. Football is his life. Now maybe he will get riled up!


12 posted on 01/27/2013 2:10:22 PM PST by Inyo-Mono (My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them)
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And then after his interview with the New Republic on having to examine his conscience after watching football because of its violence, the president issued a statement celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Roe vs. Wade decision which legalized abortion throughout the United States.


13 posted on 01/27/2013 2:10:47 PM PST by MDLION ("Trust in the Lord with all your heart" -Proverbs 3:5)
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To: Ouchthatonehurt; Jim Robinson; humblegunner; Eaker; mylife; BuckeyeTexan; onyx; LUV W; TheMom
Dear God, the man’s not done evolving yet!

By the end of this administration, you just G-ddamn well know that Obama will mandate estrogen injections in all men.

I am not kidding

Not even slightly.

There is something seriously WRONG with this guy, like literally crazy.

14 posted on 01/27/2013 2:10:59 PM PST by Lazamataz (LAZ'S LAW: As an argument with liberals goes on, the probability of being called racist approaches 1)
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Let’s face it, Baraq sucks.

But it’s the tort lawyers that are going to make this happen.

The NFL faces huge liability from former players who have sustained brain damage. They obviously willingly signed up to do this, but that won’t bother juries and judges.


15 posted on 01/27/2013 2:11:56 PM PST by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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To: freebilly

SOUTH PARK EPISODE 8 SEASON 16: SARCASTABALL

http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s16e08-sarcastaball

Odumbo is randy marsh..


16 posted on 01/27/2013 2:12:10 PM PST by max americana (Make the world a better place by punching a liberal in the face)
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To: Lazamataz

Hey barry, make your daughters play male football, then put them into infantry combat.

You taqiyya deranged bastard!


17 posted on 01/27/2013 2:12:54 PM PST by onedoug
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To: Lazamataz

"Hey you guys...Watch me make the basket."

18 posted on 01/27/2013 2:13:01 PM PST by Slyfox (The key to Marxism is medicine - Vladimir Lenin)
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Stop NFL violence, but not Chicago violence...what a laugh!


19 posted on 01/27/2013 2:14:13 PM PST by choctaw man (Good ole Andrew Jackson, or You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma...)
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To: Lazamataz

The loony tunes that are running cities with murder rates higher than war are telling us how to stop violence?


20 posted on 01/27/2013 2:14:24 PM PST by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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