NFL & politics

by simonjv on Sep 18, 2009 11:16 PM EDT

Maybe I should not post this sports is usually a good escape from politics... but I thought it was an interesting article about NFL & political support... a good read regardless of your support....

The article by politico

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/27299.html

The study which i find way more interesting by opensecerts.org

http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2009/09/politicians-score-significant.html

please respond with good educated thoughts if you do choose to respond

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for twenty years, you’d really expect those numbers to be higher.

you're all posers. i hated bratkowski before it was cool.

by Raging Clue on Sep 19, 2009 3:43 AM EDT reply actions

No surprise...

“The Indianapolis Colts’ all-universe quarterback Peyton Manning in 2007 cut a $2,300 check – as did his wife, Ashley — to Republican presidential candidate and former Sen. Fred Thompson. Manning also contributed $2,000 to President George W. Bush’s 2004 re-election campaign.”

Douschebags support other douschebags.

"Ryan, Things in here don't react too well to bullets." - Marko Ramius

by TarZander on Sep 19, 2009 12:55 PM EDT reply actions

But for the educated thought...

this is no surprise – millionaires tend to support the Republican Party. Since the league depends on exemptions from anti-trust laws and other deregulation type policies (exclusive rights to DirecTV for Sunday Ticket even though it was illegal for baseball to do the same thing) to pad the owners’ bottom lines, it is not at all surprising that owners would support the Republican party more. I would expect the players to be a fairly representative sample of the U.S. population as a whole, however, making their political leanings more split (like the country).

"Ryan, Things in here don't react too well to bullets." - Marko Ramius

by TarZander on Sep 19, 2009 1:00 PM EDT reply actions

Pork and Pigskin

I agree that its not surprising how owners want to donate to GOP candidates. Rich people should want to donate to the GOP. I’m sure that a surprisingly large amount of players donate GOP, too. Why not? They’re millionaires! They SHOULD be supporting the GOP. Its the people in the stands who support the GOP that I don’t understand. I don’t want to make this too political, but I don’t get it.

by Anim8rguy on Sep 22, 2009 6:25 PM EDT reply actions

People who support the democrats cannot understand why anybody supports the republicans. (Or sometimes they think they can understand why “rich people” do, but they don’t really.) And people who support the republicans feel the exact same way about people who support democrats.

You know why that is? Because politics is basically a religion. Neither side will ever prove to the adherents of the other religion that they were really right all along. In part this is because NEITHER side is EVER completely right. And in part because no amount of proof will convince the “true believers” of the other side anyway. Add in a few other minor reasons and there frankly is no hope to ever get a resolution to this argument. Which is why I’m glad it seems to come up so rarely on these boards.

by FriarBob on Sep 22, 2009 10:08 PM EDT up reply actions