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MIB

Nov 29 2005, 11:56 AM

Story here.

So Congress might now launch an investigation into whether the NFL should lose its anti-trust status, eh? Thank God there aren't any more important issues for the Senate and Congress to deal with right now (oh, like the Alito Supreme Court nomination, the budget, the war...).

Next on Congress's agenda: Is the NBA overstepping its authority with its new dress code?

George Twins fan

Nov 29 2005, 12:53 PM

Christ I wish we would just up and revolt against our entire government. The things these idiots clog up their time with to try and distract us from the real issues of the day! Ugh!

shep71

Nov 29 2005, 12:59 PM

But wait, did he forget for which party he plays...he's for big business (the Eagles, the NFL), not the workers (T.O.). Oh when his Republican brothers and sisters find out about this!

PhillyFan

Nov 29 2005, 01:08 PM

Where was he when the NFL and the Birds were asking the taxpayers to spit out millions for the new stadiums in Pitt/Philly?

theodoresdaddy

Nov 29 2005, 01:16 PM

I'm sure that TO makes more than most of the management with the Eagles

sorry-can't feel sorry for some ass**** who makes millions a year for playing a kid's game

George Twins fan

Nov 29 2005, 01:26 PM

Well I could feel sorry for him if I thought for even a nanosecond that he was the mistreated party. I wonder what the Senator thinks/knows about how TO mistreated the Eagles?

TO reminds me of a former employee of mine. I had to give her her performance evaluation. After giving her numerous verbal warnings, I wrote her up for being late 38 times in 6 months. Her response? "What about all the times I wasn't late". And when she was informed she wouldn't be getting a raise, she was completely dumbfounded. Unreal. She actually filed a grievance against me, which she thankfully lost.

shep71

Nov 29 2005, 01:49 PM

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FireMikeTiceNow:
Well I could feel sorry for him if I thought for even a nanosecond that he was the mistreated party. I wonder what the Senator thinks/knows about how TO mistreated the Eagles?

TO reminds me of a former employee of mine. I had to give her her performance evaluation. After giving her numerous verbal warnings, I wrote her up for being late 38 times in 6 months. Her response? \"What about all the times I wasn't late\". And when she was informed she wouldn't be getting a raise, she was completely dumbfounded. Unreal. She actually filed a grievance against me, which she thankfully lost.

Off-topic, but now you are suppossed to pump someone up for meeting their minimum requirements. Like getting to work on time is above and beyone...incredible.

If it wasn't football, TO would have been fired a thousand times over, long before he was finally suspended by the Eagles.

hockeyTom

Nov 29 2005, 02:24 PM

If this should make it all the way to some ridiculous subcommittee, as Specter claims, it will be a gigantic waste of taxpers money. Maybe the Senator doesn't have enough on his plate yet.

Adam

Nov 29 2005, 06:19 PM

First, TO got the support of the Reverand Jesse Jackson, a Democrat, and now has the support of Senator Arlen Specter, a Republican. Isn't it nice how he can bring the two major parties together?

Maybe tomorrow, instead of speaking on the "progress" being made in Iraq, President Bush will offer his insights on the Owens' situation.

~Adam

George Twins fan

Nov 29 2005, 06:53 PM

Terrell Owens-Uniter!

Joe in Philly

Nov 29 2005, 11:42 PM

Specter is actively supporting the re-election of Dick Santorum. So Arlen is just supportive of all kinds of scum.

George Twins fan

Dec 3 2005, 08:22 AM

Remember when we were kids and our parents or teachers would tell us soemthing like "Well apparently you don't have enough to keep you busy." I think this kind of applies to our fearless leaders in Congress (I guess Iraq, poverty, rebuilding New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, political corruption and all isn't enough to keep them busy). Well now Congress wants to look into the \"deeply flawed\" college football BCS system.

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Calling the Bowl Championship Series \"deeply flawed,\" the chairman of a congressional committee has called a hearing on the controversial system used to determine college football's national champion.

A House Energy and Commerce subcommittee, charged with regulating America's sports industry, announced Friday it will conduct a hearing on the BCS next week, after this season's bowl matchups are determined.

\"College football is not just an exhilarating sport, but a billion-dollar business that Congress cannot ignore,\" said committee Chairman Joe Barton, a Texas Republican. Barton's panel is separate from the House Government Reform panel that tackled steroids in baseball.

The committee announcement called the hearing, scheduled for next Wednesday, a \"comprehensive review\" of the BCS and postseason college football.

\"Too often college football ends in sniping and controversy, rather than winners and losers,\" Barton said. \"The current system of determining who's No. 1 appears deeply flawed.\"

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