VeteranX
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It is like you were completely ignorant of the world before Trump, almost every year someone compares the NFL owners to slave owners. Sometimes it is a player, sometimes it is someone in the media.
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VeteranXX Contributor
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Trumps sometimes has a hard time articulating
Trump has one thing right about the NFL: It gets too much taxpayer funding - The Washington Post
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And that stadium tax break ***8212; if it was what Trump was getting at (even his own press secretary seemed unclear which public money he was talking about) ***8212; is only the tip of the sports-subsidy iceberg. Even at $200 million a year, the public cost of tax-exempt bonds is dwarfed by the flood of cash flowing from state, county and city governments to sports teams. Here are some of the NFL***8217;s greatest stadium hits:
Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank got $200 million in state money toward his team***8217;s new $1.6 billion stadium, then snuck in a clause that will net him ***8220;close to $700 million***8221; worth of additional tax money over the course of the next 30 years. If the team stays that long, that is: Blank abandoned his old stadium, the Georgia Dome, before it even turned 25.
When sales-tax revenue that was supposed to pay for a new Cincinnati Bengals stadium fell short, Hamilton County, Ohio, sold off a public hospital to make its payments. And taxpayers there may have more expenses in their future: A clause in the team***8217;s lease requires the public to provide for any upgrades that half of other NFL teams have, up to and including a holographic replay system.
New Orleans Saints owner Tom Benson not only got Louisiana taxpayers to spend $376 million to renovate the Superdome, he arranged to be paid an additional $18 million a year for deigning to allow his team to play football there. His team execs built a 13-foot-high statue of Benson for this, as they could well afford to do.
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VeteranXX Contributor
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Originally Posted by MadHatSam
It is like you were completely ignorant of the world before Trump, almost every year someone compares the NFL owners to slave owners. Sometimes it is a player, sometimes it is someone in the media.
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Yeah, but usually isn't ESPN calling them that
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VeteranX
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No they just run Football segments that elicit comparisons to slave auctions.
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VeteranXX Contributor
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Well you stepped off the train there.. excuse me if I don't follow
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VeteranXX Contributor
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okay.. you hooked me. Are you indicating that drafting players is a slave auction?
Edit. I see
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VeteranXX Contributor
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The tweet included video of a segment in which the auctioneer says, "Next on the auction block, we have Odell Beckham Jr."
The fast-paced pitch ends with the sale of the New York Giants wide receiver, who is black, for $34 to a white man the auctioneer calls "Shiny Top."
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Really? This is your comparison?
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VeteranXX Contributor
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They auctioned off a player for fantasy football and that is slavery11!! ???
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Blind BitchXV Contributor
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Originally Posted by SuperTrap
Trumps sometimes has a hard time articulating
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but...but his IQ!
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VeteranXX Contributor
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I don't remember anyone saying they thought Trump was intelligent, do you?
Weird though that he trolled that and got the media in deep **** about fake news.
He is a great troll.
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VeteranX
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It is like talking to a rock.
NFL and slavery comparisons are not new, ESPN was not new to them prior to Wilbon's comments.
Also Wilbon is a commentator and not some corporate suit making the comparison.
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VeteranXX Contributor
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OIC.. that why that one ***** got suspended?
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Blind BitchXV Contributor
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Originally Posted by SuperTrap
I don't remember anyone saying they thought Trump was intelligent, do you?
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yeah, trump did
over & over
that's not "getting trolled", it's a giant man-baby narcissist who thinks that if he says something enough times it'll magically become true
you really can't objectively tell the difference?
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VeteranXX Contributor
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We know he is a narcissist. That is ofn.
I do think he is a troll though
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VeteranXV Contributor
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Originally Posted by MadHatSam
It is like you were completely ignorant of the world before Trump, almost every year someone compares the NFL owners to slave owners. Sometimes it is a player, sometimes it is someone in the media.
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and the one thing in common with all of them?
they are ****ing idiots.
comparing a talented football player that got the opportunity to play with the big boys for millions of dollars to a slave on the plantation is about as stupid as you can get.
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Last edited by havax; 10-11-2017 at 13:30..
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VeteranXX
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Originally Posted by HelenKeller
yeah, trump did
over & over
that's not "getting trolled", it's a giant man-baby narcissist who thinks that if he says something enough times it'll magically become true
you really can't objectively tell the difference?
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Sounds like 6-7 tw posters
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