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I am reading on the ESPN Website about US Senator Arlen Specter [Republican] from Pennsylvania wanting to investigate the National Football League [NFL by its acronym]. It all starts from the fact that the New England Patriots were found to be videotaping the opponents practices and getting caught in the process. It was also found that after the NFL did not pursue the matter, they destroyed the tapes or someone might have destroyed the tapes. The centre of the storm is the former video assistant to the New England Patriots Mark Walsh.
The Republicans and Arlen Specter have nothing else to do but investigate the NFL with the intention of damaging the NFL. For Arlene Specter, it was not enough that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell fining the New England Patriots Coach Bill Belichick Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars. For Arlene Specter, it is not enough that the New England Patriots were fined Five Hundred Thousand Dollars and lose the right to the first right choice in the NFL Draft.
Arlene Specter is a Republican Senator who like most Republicans and Democrats want to destroy all forms of happiness in the United States including sports. Arlene Specter has no right to investigate the NFL while the NFL Competition Committee has applauded how NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell was able to deal with the New England Patriot Scandal. Arlene Specter has no right to interfere with the NFL when he voted against the Coburn Amdt. No. 4036 which would prioritize scarce resources to basic medical services for Native Americans on Valentines Day [Fourteenth of February] 2008, and has received contributions from Blank Rome LLP, Comcast, UPMC Health System, and Kline & Specter.
Arlene Specter should leave the NFL to take care of its own business and make preparations for retiring from Congress and Active Life. After all, he like most members of Congress do not have term limits and have nothing else to do but make the lives of people miserable with their "jokes becoming laws" as Will Rogers once said. WASHINGTON LEAVE THE NFL ALONE!!!!
REFERENCE:
Fish, Mike; ESPN.com: "Specter irked by uncooperative Pats, league in Spygate probe"
Updated: February 22, 2008.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?
Assessed on the 23rd of February 2008
ESPN.com News Services: "Competition committee approves of Goodell's handling of Spygate"
Updated: February 22, 2008, 5:20 PM ET
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?
Assessed on the 23rd of February 2008
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/s000709/
To: Ohio Stranger
If the NFL was looking out for its own there wouldn't be any reason for Arlen Specter or anyone else to investigate them - obviously the NFL isn't paying attention.
Why do you suppose Congress would want to check out what the NFL is doing? If you really think it's because they have an excess amount of time on their hands, obviously you haven't looked at their schedules. There's only one reason why anyone in Congress would care what's going on in Major League Football, Baseball, Basketball or any other sport. Children in our country look up to sports figures as some sort of heroes. Ask a 10-year old who the Secretary of the Treasury is, or which Republican Member of Congress was recently indicted on numerous counts and more than likely you will get a blank stare. Ask them who won the World Series or who won the Super Bowl and you'll be bombarded with more statistics than you can handle.
As long as sports figures on placed on pedestals by the children of this country, Congress has the responsibility to see that they stay above board and keep all their ducks in a row.
P.
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