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2012-03-23 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Senate will investigate NFL over 'bounties' for injured players

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Posted by Besoeker 2012-03-23 07:41|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 parliament of clowns...

Posted by Broadhead6 2012-03-23 09:28|| 2012-03-23 09:28|| Front Page Top

#2 Well, they're in Teddy Roosevelt mode.

Posted by Eric Jablow 2012-03-23 09:50|| 2012-03-23 09:50|| Front Page Top

#3 This is the Democrat-controlled Senate. Pretty much anything they do is going to be the wrong thing anyway, so they might as well busy themselves with pointlessness until the Republicans take over in November.

Posted by trailing wife 2012-03-23 10:49|| 2012-03-23 10:49|| Front Page Top

#4 Did they not realize the NFL took care of it? Pretty harsh penalties too.

Keep out of this, assclowns.

Posted by DarthVader 2012-03-23 12:29|| 2012-03-23 12:29|| Front Page Top

#5 Here is your do-nothing Senate, Mr. Obama.

Perhaps they will find a way to state it was a post-Katrina attempt to reinvigerate N'Orleans.

So its Bush's fault.

Posted by swksvolFF 2012-03-23 12:43|| 2012-03-23 12:43|| Front Page Top

#6 Question: under current laws - if you pay someone to physically harm someone else, is that felony assault?

Posted by Mercutio 2012-03-23 13:21|| 2012-03-23 13:21|| Front Page Top

#7 Not for sports people, they are special. If I was high, ran over a traffic cop, and was caught with a bag of weed in the glovebox, what would happen to me? This particular WR got traded and a raise.

Caught with a gun in a NYC club? Diddled an underage gal? These are just the one's we know about.

I think in a way, they are already being paid to perform actions on other people which outside the field would be assault.

My question would be what does the players' union think about their own putting out hits on their own.

Posted by swksvolFF 2012-03-23 13:51|| 2012-03-23 13:51|| Front Page Top

#8 That is, one of the major points of the NFL PU was that the owners were not doing enough to protect the players, both equipment and rule wise, why there is the crappy new kickoff system and the vulnerable hit penalty, extensions of previous roughing passer/kicker and unimpeded to the QB.

So you have the NFL PU pointing fingers at the Owners, to the point the game is somewhat ruined with no real kickoff, yet here they are beating each other up on their own conscience (bonus, yes, but they could choose not to participate, and maybe for the most part they did).

Posted by swksvolFF 2012-03-23 13:56|| 2012-03-23 13:56|| Front Page Top

#9 I used to think congress should mind their own business in these types of matters. Now I think like TW. If they are busy dicking around with trivial matters, they aren't passing liberty restricting laws. Oh I forgot. Big daddy doesn't need congress any more. He'll just issue another decree (exec. order). So why not put on another geek show for the masses to have something to talk about? Smoke and mirrors. Bread and circus.

Posted by Lowspark 2012-03-23 16:12|| 2012-03-23 16:12|| Front Page Top

#10 Except they aren't dicking around. They are capturing headlines.

Posted by swksvolFF 2012-03-23 17:07|| 2012-03-23 17:07|| Front Page Top

#11 Precisely. Smoke and mirrors. Bread and circus. See everybody. swksvolFF gets it.

Posted by Lowspark 2012-03-23 17:37|| 2012-03-23 17:37|| Front Page Top

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