Bella*chick
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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.So you are telling us that this is all just a big coincidence and that Spector is just merely very upset at how the scandal of videotaping from a non-designated spot by a team in September should somehow necessitate the elimination of the NFL's Antitrust Exemption?
I'm saying he's just pissing them off ... that's all. The spygate issue to gain leverage angle will go nowhere on his part and nowhere on the speculation front. I'm saying this issue is a non-issue and it's inane ... just media fodder.
I'm saying he's just pissing them off ... that's all. The spygate issue to gain leverage angle will go nowhere on his part and nowhere on the speculation front. I'm saying this issue is a non-issue and it's inane ... just media fodder.
FWIW, I don't see how Comcast benefits from rehashing the whole "Spygate" thing.
Hearings on the league's broadcast agreements with NFL Network and Sunday Ticket? Sure. But Spygate? To me, that simply reeks of a Senator trying to gain points with the shallow end of the Pennsylvania gene puddle.
I agree with you when you write "I'm saying this issue is a non-issue and it's inane ... just media fodder". In my opinion, Arlen Specter doesn't throw around the words "terminate antitrust exemption" very lightly. He's playing a very dirty corporate game. $101,000 in one year can evidently buy a Senator's soul.
Spygate is a pretty weak reed from which to attack the NFL and its antitrust exemption. Steroid use was a violation of the law, filming an opponent's signals is not, nor is destroying those films. Spector won't get the assistance of anyone else in the Senate unless the Pats beat the Giants so badly that Hillary feels compelled to join in. I wonder why Spector didn't bring T.O. before a Senate committee to investigate why Owens undermined the Eagles.
Folks, spygate is a total red herring. Specter has made it his mission to take any NFL issue that comes up as a potential challenge to the NFL antitrust issue. In 2005, he was trying to turn Terrell Owens' case into a potential antitrust violation:
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2240403
He doesn't care about football or the Philadelphia Eagles. He's trying to chip away at the NFL bit by bit on behalf of Comcast, and it's completely transparent.
Wow, Great job Mooch! Another example of why these pieces of sh*t hate the internet. How's a scumbag like Specter suppose to do business if everyone can so easily disseminate his ulterior motives. I fear the days of a free and open internet are numbered.
That's awfully thin. Spector's a U.S. Senator. He can look into revoking the NFL's anti-trust exemption if the mood strikes him - he doesn't need an excuse. Hell, Senator Kerry threatened to look into it because the NFL initially balked at moving the Pats/Giants game from the NFL Network.Arlen Spector brings up antitrust in a thinly veiled threat to take it away from the NFL if they don't fess up to whatever he's trying to get them to fess up to.
Goodell and the League soften their stance on the Comcast issue because they want this thing to just freakin' end already, seeing as the damn tapes are destroyed.
Arlen miraculously drops the investigation and says all is well.
That is how it would benefit Comcast.
That's awfully thin. Spector's a U.S. Senator. He can look into revoking the NFL's anti-trust exemption if the mood strikes him - he doesn't need an excuse. Hell, Senator Kerry threatened to look into it because the NFL initially balked at moving the Pats/Giants game from the NFL Network.
Welcome to American politics.The fact that it now seems that Specter pulls he Antitrust card every 3 weeks on the NFL points to this being an ongoing corporate extortion by Comcast. How they get away with this is a crime.