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Topic: Obama: Change Coming to NFL to Reduce ´Violence´ |
Obama: Change Coming to NFL to Reduce ´Violence´
Breitbart Sports, by Tony Lee
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Posted By:Dreadnought, 1/27/2013 10:18:58 AM
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| President Barack Obama said if he had a son, he would have to think "long and hard" before he let him play football and suggested he--along with other football fans--watches football against his conscience. "I´m a big football fan, but I have to tell you if I had a son, I´d have to think long and hard before I let him play football," Obama said. In an interview with the left-of-centerThe New Republic, Obama said football will "probably change gradually to try to reduce some of the violence" and that may allow fans to not have to "examine our consciences
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Lawsy0, 1/27/2013 10:23:28 AM (No. 9142125)
Rush was right.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Dallasobg, 1/27/2013 10:25:18 AM (No. 9142132)
Rush has predicted the end of football as we know it. He´s probably right. The NFL will soon be forced to take women and give them linebacker jobs.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
privateer, 1/27/2013 10:27:27 AM (No. 9142139)
Just keep alienating various segments of the population, you hen-pecked loser. And this is a career at which young black men have a better chance than whites--- and of enjoying a multi-million dollar salary.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Nimby, 1/27/2013 10:32:09 AM (No. 9142150)
For a girly pants who never played football in his lifetime, he sure spouts what the game should be!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DARling, 1/27/2013 10:33:06 AM (No. 9142153)
If you had a boy in Chicago, you´d think long and hard about even letting him leave through the front door.
You know that people hit each other in football. That´s like suing someone after the fact because you got your nose broken while boxing.
Life has risks. People make choices. People still choose to smoke since the 1964 warning, and still sue the tobacco companies. It is a crazy world we live in.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
safesword, 1/27/2013 10:33:14 AM (No. 9142154)
man alive....this loser is a pansy indeed...oh no!! someone might get hurt!! the humanity!!!..lol...idiot
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
TakeBackAmerica, 1/27/2013 10:35:14 AM (No. 9142160)
Never cared much for football, but care even less for the Marxist takeover of every part of American life. It ain´t your job, Zippy.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
birddog, 1/27/2013 10:35:32 AM (No. 9142162)
You have daughters...change the rules so that THEY can play on the Frontlines of the NFL. In fact, just pass an executive order that Mandates proportional representation not only of women but of transgended and transexuals...add the NBA while you´re at it.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Words have Meaning, 1/27/2013 10:36:54 AM (No. 9142165)
I thought he said if he had a son it would look like Trevon. Now if he had a son he would have to think long and hard about letting him play football. He sure spends a lot of time thinking about guys.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Nimby, 1/27/2013 10:38:51 AM (No. 9142169)
BTW Mr. President! Nothing precludes you in having a son,who you can mould him as a Trayvon or a football player or anything else that you choose to. Please stop running the lives of hard working people, whose taxes have given you and your extended family a "moochful life".
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
kar120c, 1/27/2013 10:40:09 AM (No. 9142171)
Typical empty, valueless statement from Mr. Obama. If he had a son he would not let him play football. But he doesn´t have a son. And football will "probably change gradually to try to reduce some of the violence". But he is still a "big football fan". Got that?
No wonder he won´t release his college transcripts.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Rubinski, 1/27/2013 10:48:45 AM (No. 9142194)
Is there any venue this self-appointed master-of-all-things won´t stick his fat face into?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
safesword, 1/27/2013 10:49:28 AM (No. 9142196)
#9 gets post of the day!! LOL!!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Patchy Groundfog, 1/27/2013 10:57:18 AM (No. 9142213)
Having an opinion about Obama´s opinion is a mistake.
The question is: why are we interested in his opinion on any sport or leisure activity in the first place?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
farmwife, 1/27/2013 11:18:55 AM (No. 9142258)
More pronouncements from the One. He wants us to know that while he watches football, he´s not like the rest of the Neanderthals that watch the Superbowl and beat their wives and girlfriends during the commercials. He won´t hire women, or pay them the same way he pays the men, but he wants you to know he´s not like the Neanderthals who have declared war on women. He eats burgers and fries, but he wants you to know he´s not like those Neanderthals who eat junk food. And on and on. Your typical metrosexual.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Chuzzles, 1/27/2013 11:19:06 AM (No. 9142259)
To take a stab at the question #14 poses, I would say that we have a better chance of getting a correct opinion from the slacker on sports than we do on ANYTHING regarding policy of anykind from this guy. After all, he spends more of his time on sports than he does his job now doesn´t he?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
jeffreyabigail, 1/27/2013 11:38:20 AM (No. 9142295)
Hey, for once he´s right! Other than kicker or punter, I would not encourage my son to play football either. I would not stop him from playing, but the track team or basketball team is a much better choice.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
tnorling, 1/27/2013 12:03:10 PM (No. 9142331)
OMG. I agree. Is there any subject upon which this piece de merde won´t make some fatuous statement? Oh yes, well criticism of Islam, but other than that?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
heartsurgeon, 1/27/2013 12:14:19 PM (No. 9142345)
Cue up the trial lawyers...this is a tried and true method for poisoning the well of public sentiment against the evil NFL owners. This same tactic has been used against physicians, to promote malpractice suits, against car companies like Toyota, you name..you frighten a sector into spending money on lobbying, lawyers, and campaign contributions to stave off meddling by congress. Meanwhile, the trial lawyers attack like wolves from the sides,trying to thin the herd. Demonization is the tactic. Of course who pays for this? The ticket buyers and fans. I´m guessing Obama prefers soccer...
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
FunOne, 1/27/2013 12:27:26 PM (No. 9142366)
If there is any change to the NFL, it should be to eliminate the African ritual dances every time one of the players does something well that he gets paid millions of dollars for doing.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
stablemoney, 1/27/2013 12:31:21 PM (No. 9142372)
Will Obama nationalize the NFL in his second term? Where does government authority end, Obama?
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
busterman, 1/27/2013 12:35:14 PM (No. 9142385)
What this country needs is a ´Lucy´ to this ´Charlie Brown´.
Was that racist?
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
WAN2, 1/27/2013 12:45:49 PM (No. 9142414)
For civilization to progress, real men must be hobbled.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec, 1/27/2013 12:51:38 PM (No. 9142425)
Yes Barack, we know you wouldn`t want your son to play football. We saw you riding that girls bike with the sissy helmet.....
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
controlfreak, 1/27/2013 12:53:18 PM (No. 9142430)
"Think long and hard" Uh, maybe Obama wasn´t thinking about football.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
youngtexan, 1/27/2013 12:56:06 PM (No. 9142433)
Well, I have no sympathy for the teams and fans that endorsed and voted for the Won.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Philipsonh, 1/27/2013 1:32:45 PM (No. 9142479)
Why do we care what Obama thinks or says. He not NOT represent me in any way. He is responsible for dropping BOMBS on innocent people overseas, even Americans. Tell me THAT is Constitutional. I have ZERO interest in him. The NFL players are on the field VOLUNTARILY and they know the risks involved. ( Tell the President that most of them love to play ! ).
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
WIBadger, 1/27/2013 1:35:03 PM (No. 9142484)
Hold on...Lemme guess....In place of blocking & tackling, players will be required to tell the opponent to get out of the way or be subject to having their feelings hurt with harsh language.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
jimboendaatl, 1/27/2013 1:43:38 PM (No. 9142495)
I´m so glad the POTUS is on the case, it´s not like he has anything better to do.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Dante, 1/27/2013 1:48:52 PM (No. 9142503)
If you had a son, barry, he would be doing synchronized swimming rather than football.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
jalo1951, 1/27/2013 1:52:02 PM (No. 9142507)
It must be wonderful to have all the answers to all the problems and all the questions ever posed to mankind. We no longer have to think for ourselves ever again.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
chicodon, 1/27/2013 1:58:41 PM (No. 9142523)
I´m surprised he didn´t recommend they change to flag football.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
eorsc, 1/27/2013 2:24:05 PM (No. 9142560)
It is like watching a train wreck, #14. We can´t look away!
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
nonsense, 1/27/2013 2:38:37 PM (No. 9142582)
#2 are you thinking of anyone in particular for the female linebacker job?
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
tusker, 1/27/2013 2:41:39 PM (No. 9142587)
Bow-Boy, our resident pansy and consummate wossie, has once again...spoken...having never served either in the military or with any contact sport unless you include communism, socialism and community organizing and hanging curtains contact sports.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
JAN, 1/27/2013 3:14:09 PM (No. 9142658)
Would he send his daughters into combat in our military?
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
Caveman, 1/27/2013 3:32:52 PM (No. 9142694)
I don´t think this idiot should have anything to say about sports, but I can not stand football, and I wouldn´t mind seeing it go away. Maybe, just maybe, then I can have a meaningful conversation for more than 30 seconds before someone wants to change the subject to last nights game. UGH! Morons with their bread and circuses.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
JudithC, 1/27/2013 3:38:53 PM (No. 9142700)
How does he feel about the number of NFL teams who wanted to draft FLOTUS as a line backer?
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
the maggster, 1/27/2013 3:58:53 PM (No. 9142734)
Barack Obama, mind your own ##!!% Business. Get the He11 out of our PRIVATE lives. You opressive Jerc.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
Reality, 1/27/2013 4:27:17 PM (No. 9142779)
Maybe he can get his new Sec Def And SOS to work on the problem. Given their track record I guess the games could be decided before the kickoff by having a Palestinian woman and and a Dink soldier negotiate the final score. Of course all bets would be won by 0lamer contributers.
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
mercedesops, 1/27/2013 4:39:10 PM (No. 9142809)
And if Obama had a son he wouldn´t let him be a US Marine either--well maybe after Panetta and Generals Dempsey and Amos have feminized it.
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
enemyofthestate, 1/27/2013 5:13:48 PM (No. 9142877)
Liberals seek to control every little aspect of individuals´ lives-- the light bulbs we use in living room lamps, the shopping bags we use to carry groceries, the cars we drive, football, the entertainment many of us cherish, and what we say, even our very thoughts. Liberals want to silence all criticism, no matter how valid, of protected groups, particularly muslims, blacks and gays. For libs, nothing will ever be enough. They are relentless. Do as I say, not as I do. Hypocrisy.
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
franq, 1/27/2013 5:31:31 PM (No. 9142910)
Rat own, #28.
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
artman1746, 1/27/2013 8:42:09 PM (No. 9143194)
Shut up and start with Democrat corruption first. Then you can spend some time reading the Constitution and perhaps enroll in an Economics 101 class. After that we´ll allow you to inquire about the rules in football.
Oh yeh, and when you stop wearing mom jeans.
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
garyhope, 1/27/2013 9:31:26 PM (No. 9143264)
As one of the toughest line backers to ever play in the NFL for the Pittsburgh Steelers, Jack Lambert once famously said, just have the quarterback wear a dress. Maybe Obama would know about that being a sissy momma´s boy. What a pathetic sissy nick name for a kitty cat.
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
ColonialAmerican1623, 1/27/2013 11:26:52 PM (No. 9143377)
The maven has spoken and we know Bo knows.
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