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NFL's secret Super Bowl demands revealed
Pioneer Press ^ | 4-1-15 | Joe Soucheray

Posted on 04/01/2015 5:50:26 AM PDT by TurboZamboni

It was noted last week that the National Football League desires an additional $2.8 million in beneficial tax reductions or payments -- beneficial to them -- in addition to the perhaps as much as $30 million in enticements to bring the Super Bowl here in 2018. Mind you, any additional benefits are to be piled on top of the free hotel rooms, the paid-for police escorts, the cases of water and pounds of ice and the scented candles in each suite. I have had delivered to me, anonymously, exactly 153 pages of demands that the NFL has placed in the hands of the Super Bowl bid committee -- an astonishing document, to say the least, and one the bid committee did not want to be made public. On the one hand, we have been told that most Super Bowl bid committee payments to the league will come from private benefactors, all the better to lift up the community in the eyes of the rest of the presumably envious country, even though

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: coercion; nfl; taxes
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1 posted on 04/01/2015 5:50:26 AM PDT by TurboZamboni
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To: TurboZamboni

Tell the National Felon League to go pound sand.

They’ve completely marginalized themselves by repeatedly caving to PC demands.


2 posted on 04/01/2015 5:53:39 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician. Some assembly required.)
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To: Arm_Bears

The NFL doesn’t “cave to” PC, it perpetuates it...

I’m done with them...have been for some time.


3 posted on 04/01/2015 5:57:15 AM PDT by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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To: TurboZamboni

A day will come AB (After Obama) when American spectators will finally grow tired of watching racially unbalanced pro teams.

Basketball and football are the conveyors to big bucks for big bucks. The reputations are tarnished due to the lavishing of wealth on thugs and druggies.


4 posted on 04/01/2015 5:58:53 AM PDT by HomerBohn (God is just, but his justice cannot sleep forever!)
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To: TurboZamboni

Proud to say I never saw a single NFL play on TV last season.


5 posted on 04/01/2015 6:00:49 AM PDT by Ken H
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To: TurboZamboni

It’s April 1 and this is Joe Soucheray ...


6 posted on 04/01/2015 6:03:26 AM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (You're either in or in the way.)
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To: TurboZamboni

Whatever the antitrust-excepted market will bear.


7 posted on 04/01/2015 6:03:28 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Colonel_Flagg

#4 may be a clue in that direction...


8 posted on 04/01/2015 6:08:31 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: Ken H

“Proud to say I never saw a single NFL play on TV last season.”

Thank You, I appreciate the company. After one-too-many BS seasons the “hands up” bidness tore it for me. Enjoyed a season of Alabama foobahl and the few Navy games televised in my area.
Roll Tide!


9 posted on 04/01/2015 6:08:59 AM PDT by Huaynero
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To: TurboZamboni

Is this some kind of joke? Unrecognized satire maybe?


10 posted on 04/01/2015 6:09:04 AM PDT by Banjoguy (Start boycotting the airline industry..NOW! Drive everywhere you can.)
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To: 9YearLurker

While satire, Dallas did not see a financial benefit other than publicity from the Super Bowl. No uptick on hotel rooms, sales tax income.


11 posted on 04/01/2015 6:10:18 AM PDT by rstrahan
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To: Ken H

Haven’t cared since the late 80s about sports.


12 posted on 04/01/2015 6:10:26 AM PDT by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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To: TurboZamboni

They are going down the road of the IOC and FIFA making ridiculous demands. They will continue to make demands until enough say “no more” and they find themselves in the position of the 2022 Winter Olympics where nobody wants to bid other than crackpot dictators. Expect to see only San Francisco and Chicago offering to host.


13 posted on 04/01/2015 6:10:48 AM PDT by Armando Guerra (Cruz 2016)
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To: Colonel_Flagg
Only one of the first seven FReepers get it!

Do I laugh or cry for my country?

14 posted on 04/01/2015 6:11:13 AM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (Historians will refer to this administration as "The Half-Black Plague.")
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To: TurboZamboni

The NFL is becoming loathsome.


15 posted on 04/01/2015 6:11:41 AM PDT by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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To: TurboZamboni

“All NFL personnel shall be addressed as your “Lordship”.

LOL. Happy April Fool’s Day.


16 posted on 04/01/2015 6:15:37 AM PDT by momtothree
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To: TurboZamboni
APRIL FOOLS!....................
17 posted on 04/01/2015 6:16:36 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: TurboZamboni
Capitalism...free markets.The NFL can make any demands they want.If the city thinks it can benefit despite these demands it'll accept them.If not,it'll reject them.
18 posted on 04/01/2015 6:19:42 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Obama;A Low Grade Intellect With Even Lower Morals)
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To: Banjoguy

The numbered claims are April Fools. The 153 page document of Super Bowl demands are very real and were leaked last June.

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/24584008/nfl-super-bowl-host-city-bid-specifications-and-requirements-leaked


19 posted on 04/01/2015 6:21:30 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: HomerBohn
...will finally grow tired of watching racially unbalanced pro teams.

So you obviously think there's discrimination in pro sports.Too many black dudes in the NFL and NBA...too few in the NHL.So can we assume that you also believe that there are too few blacks and women on the Board of Directors at Boeing as well?

20 posted on 04/01/2015 6:24:08 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Obama;A Low Grade Intellect With Even Lower Morals)
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