Senate Ignores Actual Job To Talk Sports, Again
The United States Congress has nearly run out of people to interview for this whole baseball and steroids issue. (Chuck Knoblauch? Sure, why not?) So, of course, they’re moving on to football. And just like with steroids, they’re a little bit behind.
Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, wants NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to explain why the league destroyed evidence related to spying by the New England Patriots, The New York Times reported.
Great, something else to rile up the Patriots. They don’t need any help, quit motivating them.
Specter said Goodell would be called before the committee to address both the league’s antitrust exemption in relation to its television contract and the destruction of the tapes that revealed spying by the Patriots early in the 2007 season.
“That requires an explanation,” Specter said. “The NFL has a very preferred status in our country with their antitrust exemption. The American people are entitled to be sure about the integrity of the game. It’s analogous to the CIA destruction of tapes. Or any time you have records destroyed.”
Ok, that might be a bit of a stretch. This is a bit of a humanizing turn for the Senate though. Instead of appearing as calculating machines whose only care is for their never-ending quest for more power, they just seem like people bored at work who want to talk about sports. They’re just like you or me, except richer and whiter.
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