Is it really the job of congress to regulate the rules of NFL football???

[CelticFan9200]

Im not sure.

[Malevolent]

Um...NFL is not just a game but a huge business. The government has the right to regulate, supervise, and if necessary, take control of the free market economy. And if it weren't for them intervening, we wouldn't have known that the Patriots cheated since 2000. Goodell wouldn't have given us the full report and the truth if it weren't for the Congress.

[mg192mg192]

Some people think it is because the NFL has an Anti-trust exemption. That is to say, if you suddenly received 20 Billion dollars, you could not simply decide to open have an NFL team, like you could decide to start a new cruse line. So they feel when these special concessions are granted it is the duty of congress to keep an eye on them.

That said, any Congress man waisting his/her time and our money investigating the NFL should take a long slow drive across Iraq in an unarmored Humvee. If they had spend half the time they have spend investigating steriods in baseball making sure that our troops had good gear, or even better didn't get us into this mess in the first place we would all be better off.

[sgoldperson]

Amazing how ONE Senator, out of 100 so a mere 1%, has a meeting and people think that is ALL Congress is doing that day. That isn't even all Specter was doing yesterday, oh and as ESPN pointed out his schedule included Veteran's affairs issue, State Privacy laws issues, and the mortgage issue toward the Elderly and poor. That is the great thing about our Congress, they can do multiple things in the same day. Oh and the War is just that a WAR, that means that it is up to the Commander-In-Chief to lead it. Last I checked the CIC is the PRESIDENT not a Senator. Want me to go on correcting you? Alright short answer is that the NFL is a Corporation. They are given an Anti-Trust Exemption by CONGRESS. He suspects something isn't right about this and so he wants to look in to it. If the NFL isn't running it's buisness properly, and we have reason to wonder, then there is reason to take the exemption from them.

[MarsHill]

Professional sports are a big-money business. It is the government's job to prevent anti-competitive practices in any large corporation. Had the SEC decided not to investigate Enron, imagine what corrupt business practices and financial losses would have continued.

[Nemesis4029]

Hey, we need equal time for America's two major past times: football and baseball (aka steroid club). You can't seriously think these guys in Congress are going to take their marching orders from the Constitution and tend to business when they can haul in ATHLETES and show off how much they know about the game, do you? Somewhere between forking over money for the "bridge to nowhere" and passing resolutions about whose special day it is you need a break and we all know sports is the best!
And don't worry, with the energy issues and need for fuel efficiency and the rising popularity of NASCAR, its day will come--soon.