NFL Football Is Hurt by the Recession. Good
By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
Finally, a silver lining to the economic slump: The NFL is hurting financially:
NEW YORK (AP)—The recession has hit the NFL. The league said Tuesday it is cutting more than 10 percent of its headquarters staff in response to the downturn in the nation's economy.
Commissioner Roger Goodell announced the cuts in a memo to league employees. The NFL is eliminating about 150 of its staff of 1,100 in New York, NFL Films in New Jersey and television and Internet production facilities in Los Angeles.
I cannot stand most (not all) professional sports. But the more a sport glorifies overt machismo and intellectual nullity, the more I dislike it. I recognize I'm in the stone-cold minority on this one, as football is among America's favorite sports. Fans need to recognize there are many of us out there who find the hero worship of macho, meat-headed, tobacco-spitting men while young women dance around them in short skirts, well, offensive. So, cut, NFL, and cut again, please.
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wow
You are sad people lol no one cares what she has to say. Sports are sports, part of americas culture. get a clue
Give this chick a break
I disagree with her. But I'm not mad at her either. Like everything in life, the issues are more "textured" rather than black and white. Somehow she has convinced someone to cut her a check for spewing nonsense - and I'm sure she has an audience (like Ann Coulter) who totally agrees with her uneducated, uninformed comments.
Rather than rail against Football – why don’t you put that self proclaimed intellectual superiority to some other good use?
don't listen to these meatheads
I'll just jump in here and defend you. The NFL can suck my left nut, and I could give a flying crap about grown men who play a game for a living and make millions of dollars per year parading around in multi-hued tights and a bunch of padding that only a gigantic wuss would consider wearing while playing a real 'sport'. The NFL blows, I hope they go completely under, and that all of you tools who are so caught up in living vicariously through sports stars have to go and get actual damn lives. Thank you very much.
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