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Senate to hold hearing on bounties

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New Orleans Saints -- Senator Dick Durbin sets up hearing on bounties in NFL - ESPN

WASHINGTON -- The Senate wants to grill the NFL about bounties. And the NBA, NHL, NCAA and Major League Baseball are invited, too.

Sen. Dick Durbin is setting up a Judiciary Committee hearing about bounties in professional football and other major sports in the wake of news that New Orleans Saints players received extra cash for hits that hurt particular opponents.

The assistant Senate majority leader, an Illinois Democrat, said Thursday he wants to examine whether federal law should make such bounty systems a crime.
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Hey, Dick, by law blocking and tackling are assault, too. Are you going to make arrests for that?

Anything to distract from the realities of your crippling debt, high unemployment, and general incompetence, I suppose.

I swear, Chicago will elect anything.
 
Hey Dick,

How about holding hearings on how to submit a budget.
 
I read the title an thought it was going to be about bounty hunters. lol
 
i'm uncomfortable with the senate wasting time with anything related to sports, and i'm also uncomfortable with any tax money going to keep bloated professional sports teams afloat.
 
The fed **** up pretty much anything it involves itself in, Leave football alone. A crime? Players deliberately try to injure other players when theirs no outside cash incentive involved, it's just the competitive nature of the game. You can't change that.
 
Typical Washington BS. Focus on anything but what the people actually want you working on.

Same ****, different day.
 
muciti said:
An investigation needed to be done. And it was. By the NFL. They took care of it. That should be the end of the discussion.
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I agree. This is s a waste of time.
 
If they are rewarding player for purposely injuring their opponents then there should be criminal charges filed.
 
Yes - don't get me wrong: if something of this nature has happened then, yes, it should be addressed.

But I don't remotely get how or why it's a Congressional concern.
 
jamesrage said:
If they are rewarding player for purposely injuring their opponents then there should be criminal charges filed.
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Shouldn't that be a job of the Police and DA's in those jurisdiction and not the Senate or even Congress?
 
The NFL is a private business. They took care of the matter themselves. Why the hell does the Senate need to bother with it?
 
EagleAye said:
The NFL is a private business. They took care of the matter themselves. Why the hell does the Senate need to bother with it?
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The Feds have oversight on all professional sports because of the monopoly waiver. Same thing with baseball.

In this case, unlike steroids in baseball, the league actually did an investigation and levied fines/bans/etc. The Senate's discussion, despite being a valid course of business, is not needed and is a waste of time.
 
This is about the last thing on the face of the earth that any part of the Federal government, much less the Senate, should be investigating or involving itself in.

Any Senator climbing onto this bandwagon should be put in stocks on the national mall and flogged.
 
They're just trying to make up for the fact that they didn't do anything about what was going on in the Superdome during Hurricane Katrina.
 
Complete garbage...reminds me of the steroids debacle which they still haven't solved in baseball. Worry about the government, government.
 
Blue_State said:
Complete garbage...reminds me of the steroids debacle which they still haven't solved in baseball. Worry about the government, government.
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If the government didn't perform these high-visibility inquests, they'd be hard-pressed to explain their paycheck.
 
Excon said:
Shouldn't that be a job of the Police and DA's in those jurisdiction and not the Senate or even Congress?
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If the police and DA were doing their job then I would think congress and senate would be looking into these bounties in the first place.
 
Government should limit itself to the powers named in the Constitution, which include banning gay marriages and censoring the Internet.
 
jamesrage said:
If they are rewarding player for purposely injuring their opponents then there should be criminal charges filed.
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So what do we do with boxers? MMA fighters? Pitchers who throw at hitters? Hockey players who fight? Flagrant fouls in the NBA? Nascar drivers who intentionally bump an opponent into the wall?
 
Erod said:
So what do we do with boxers? MMA fighters? Pitchers who throw at hitters? Hockey players who fight? Flagrant fouls in the NBA? Nascar drivers who intentionally bump an opponent into the wall?
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We fine them, suspend, or even fire them - etc - all pertaining to the rules of the team, organization, commission or league that governs their sport.

Senate uninvolved.
 
jamesrage said:
If the police and DA were doing their job then I would think congress and senate would be looking into these bounties in the first place.
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Sure they would. Congress launches investigations into any hot-button issue where there's political hay to be made, criminal investigation or no.
 
Hey Dick,

Are you going to bring the New Black Panther Party in for questioning?

Didn't think so.
 
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