This is really great. Finally the Senate is tackling p) an important issue in this country during these trying times! http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/football/nfl/10/29/nfl.tv.ap/index.html Glad to see that they have those pesky little problems like the wars in iraq and afghanistan taken care, not to mention that bailout deal taken care of so they can worry about these important issues.
Obviously, as long as there are troops abroad, and the economy is not completely and totally perfect, not a single person in Congress should ever mention anything else.
No no this is good. The more the Senate works on garbage like this, the less time they have for screwing up the economy, voting to be President Bush's lapdog, voting to spend our money, voting to send Americans to die, and all that stuff. Please, spend four months on this.
Specter is alleged to be in the pocket of Comcast. At least to a half million or so. He's been hitting at the NFL for some time due to their dealings with DTV that gives them a huge advantage over the cable industry. If a company loses out on a business deal to another company it's nice to know they can just hire a Senator to change the rules. Specter is the most well known tool, but I would like to know if their is any hidden motivations for Leahy and the others.
But you know Senators probably get a lot of letters and calls about this. Spector's office probably gets a ton of calls from Johnstown PA when the Steelers games aren't on TV.
This is another reason why I have basically no interest in the NFL. Unless you're a hardcore fan, you don't have much of a choice to casually watch and keep up with the league. On any given Saturday I can see about 20-25 college football games on Dish Network. There are barely more NFL games on TV than there are EPL matches.
I think they should remove their antitrust exemption anyway, if only for when they ********ed over the USFL.
