I am so sick of this Arlen Spector crap

markymark550 wrote:

It's ok, I mix events and dates up all the time...


Back to Spector...just looked up some info on him and found this isn't his first issue with the NFL as a Senator. In 2005 he wanted the Eagles and the NFL investigated for how they handled the TO situation. In 2007 he wanted to repeal the law that allows the NFL to sign TV contracts on behalf of all 32 teams. Also, this year he wanted to get religious organizations declared exempt from NFL copyright laws. I had no idea he tried to do those things. It would seem he's out to get the NFL for anything that he can, but then you see that he's received over $150,000 in campaign donations from Comcast (who has a dispute with the NFL over TV rights) and it all makes sense. He's just gotta keep those dollars coming in.

he is also the dbag that came up with the 'single bullet theory' of the Kennedy assassination so his head has been up his ass for over 40 years.

chromiam wrote:

He wanted to TO situation investigated to see if the Eagles and NFL were conspiring to keep TO from playing football and earning a livelyhood..... do I agree with it?? no but I can understand the need for it when a governmentally exempt company is keeping an employee from doing their job.

As for the TV contract thing, it could be a Comcast thing but wouldn't it be nice to know that EVERY game your team plays will be locally broadcast, whether or not you sold enough tickets or happen to play on a Thurs night late in the season.

Wtih TO, after his suspension he was deactivated, but with pay, so any argument about keeping him from earning a living didn't hold any merit. They might have kept TO from playing the rest of that year, but shouldn't organizations, even governmentally exempt organizations, be able to discipline their players in a manner that is ok within the laws of Congress and within the bylaws of the organization? He was just raising a big stink about nothing.

Sure it would be nice if every team's game was broadcast locally and/or nationally, but since the law is already in place, don't you think the legality and anti-trust issues would have been discussed/debated during the law's creation? Again, he was just making a big stink of it, but in this case I think it was backed by Comcast...maybe not directly by them, but I'm sure he knows how to thank his supporters. If he could have won that, I'm sure he realizes how much their contributions would grow.

markymark550 wrote:

but regardless, it all has become over-exhausted and tiresome to continue to read/hear about it all the time

agreed...