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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: TheSarge on February 03, 2008, 08:12:32 AM
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With the Super Bowl fast approaching, a senior Republican senator says he wants the NFL to explain why it destroyed evidence of the New England Patriots cheating scandal.
"I am very concerned about the underlying facts on the taping, the reasons for the judgment on the limited penalties and, most of all, on the inexplicable destruction of the tapes," said Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., in a Thursday letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.
Specter, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said the matter could put the league's antitrust exemption at risk.
"Their antitrust exemption has been on my mind for a long time," he said in a Capitol Hill news conference.
The matter may not compare to the CIA's destruction of interrogation tapes, Specter said, but he added, "I do believe that it is a matter of importance. It's not going to displace the stimulus package or the Iraq war, but I think the integrity of football is very important, and I think the National Football League has a special duty to the American people — and further the Congress — because they have an antitrust exemption."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/02/01/national/w075533S49.DTL
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Two thoughts on this:
a) Sounds like Spectacle is a Steelers fan :-)
b) If the Senate find it damn near impossible to get any answers from the CIA about destroyed tapes...they'll seem absolutely chatty compared to Bill Belichek.
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Not helping that Arlen Spectacle is the one doing this investigation.
But it could be he's an Eagles' fan too..... the Eagles' still hold the Pats' suspect for their SB win against them a few years ago...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20763414/
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Moon Asks Why a Senator is Wasting the Taxpayer's Time Asking Such Idiotic Questions.
Film at 11.
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Good to see everything is OK with the country so the Senator can go after important and pressing national issues like this.
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Good to see everything is OK with the country so the Senator can go after important and pressing national issues like this.
No joke. What a waste of time.
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Where's the concern about Hollywood's "players"?
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NFL asks Arlen Spectator: Who are you again?
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And then they wonder why their approval ratings are hovering in the teens.
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A.S. needs to keep his nose out of football; these grandstanding DC critters are so damn stupid.
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NFL asks Arlen Spectator: Who are you again?
Ding ding, we have a winner.
:lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :rotf:
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(http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/funny-pictures-congress-monkeys.jpg)
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(http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/funny-pictures-congress-monkeys.jpg)
:lmao:
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NFL asks Arlen Spectator: Who are you again?
Too funny!