Re: NFL Refuses to Run Ad to Recruit Border Agents

On Feb 12, 6:54 pm, "johnny@." <johnny@.> wrote:
> February 12, 2007 1:40 PM
>
> Super_bowl_program_nr The National Football League refused to include a
> print ad recruiting U.S. Border Patrol agents in its 2007 official Super
> Bowl program because they were uncomfortable with "the sensitive
> political nature" of the spot, according to a league spokesman.
>
> The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees the Border
> Patrol, had offered to pay for the advertisment, which was part of a
> campaign to boost the number of agents by 18,000. But money wasn't the
> issue, NFL spokesman Greg Aiello told ABC News.
>
> The ad "was specific to border patrol and mentioned terro rists," he
> said. "The game was in Miami, where [immigration] is a sensitive
> political issue...[it] made us a little bit uncomfortable."
>
> Aiello said the league's discomfort stemmed from the ad's mention of
> terrorism in a program for the high-profile event as well as how it
> intertwined terrorism and immigration.
>
> The league told DHS it would be willing to run a more generic recruiting
> ad but never received a response to the offer. "We take recruiting ads
> from the military that are generic," said Aiello. "We were willing to
> take one from DHS."
>
> The issue came to the attention of Homeland Security Secretary Michael
> Chertoff, who raised it before Congress last week. "We tried to put an
> ad in the...Super Bowl program this year, and it was rejected, much to
> my chagrin," he told a panel of lawmakers.
>
> DHS spokesman Mike Friel said he could not confirm the NFL had offered
> to take a "more generic" ad. He said that other organizations had
> accepted the same ad the NFL rejected, including the NBA, which ran the
> advertisement in its official program for its annual All-Star Game, the
> NCAA, which will publish it in programs for its Final Four championship
> tournament and "Pro BullRider" magazine.
>
> http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/...fuses_to_.html
> --
> Tom Tancredo for President in 2008
> For a Secure Americahttp://www.teamtancredo.org/http://tancredo.house.gov/

All the NFL offers is a bunch of mostly progeny of former cannibals
running up and
down a field with an inflated animal skin. (Look at the criminal
records of those semi-retarded
blacks)

greg

On Feb 13, 8:24 am, theodor...@lycos.com wrote:
>
>
> All the NFL offers is a bunch of mostly progeny of former cannibals
> running up and
> down a field with an inflated animal skin. (Look at the criminal
> records of those semi-retarded
> blacks)
>
> greg



What I don't understand is why we have a culture that promotes shit
like that. No, I don't mean football -- I mean criminal elements of
all stripes and colors! I really don't understand the fascination
with crime and criminals...I find them disgusting, not romantic. Yeah
it's one thing if you're poor, etc. -- though I also think there's
much more than simple economics involved -- but even the well-to-do
thugs are celebrated. Just look at all the play steroid-using
bodybuilders get...you'd think folks want to see real bodybuilders!
But no, they want to see the latest drug-induced biceps...I've got 17"
arms and that comes from working out only half as hard as these pros
seem to...if it takes drugs to add another five inches, I'd rather do
without!

Who was the SB MVP?


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> On Feb 12, 6:54 pm, "johnny@." <johnny@.> wrote:
> > February 12, 2007 1:40 PM
> >
> > Super_bowl_program_nr The National Football League refused to include a
> > print ad recruiting U.S. Border Patrol agents in its 2007 official Super
> > Bowl program because they were uncomfortable with "the sensitive
> > political nature" of the spot, according to a league spokesman.
> >
> > The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees the Border
> > Patrol, had offered to pay for the advertisment, which was part of a
> > campaign to boost the number of agents by 18,000. But money wasn't the
> > issue, NFL spokesman Greg Aiello told ABC News.
> >
> > The ad "was specific to border patrol and mentioned terro rists," he
> > said. "The game was in Miami, where [immigration] is a sensitive
> > political issue...[it] made us a little bit uncomfortable."
> >
> > Aiello said the league's discomfort stemmed from the ad's mention of
> > terrorism in a program for the high-profile event as well as how it
> > intertwined terrorism and immigration.
> >
> > The league told DHS it would be willing to run a more generic recruiting
> > ad but never received a response to the offer. "We take recruiting ads
> > from the military that are generic," said Aiello. "We were willing to
> > take one from DHS."
> >
> > The issue came to the attention of Homeland Security Secretary Michael
> > Chertoff, who raised it before Congress last week. "We tried to put an
> > ad in the...Super Bowl program this year, and it was rejected, much to
> > my chagrin," he told a panel of lawmakers.
> >
> > DHS spokesman Mike Friel said he could not confirm the NFL had offered
> > to take a "more generic" ad. He said that other organizations had
> > accepted the same ad the NFL rejected, including the NBA, which ran the
> > advertisement in its official program for its annual All-Star Game, the
> > NCAA, which will publish it in programs for its Final Four championship
> > tournament and "Pro BullRider" magazine.
> >
> > http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/...fuses_to_.html
> > --
> > Tom Tancredo for President in 2008
> > For a Secure
Americahttp://www.teamtancredo.org/http://tancredo.house.gov/
>
> All the NFL offers is a bunch of mostly progeny of former cannibals
> running up and
> down a field with an inflated animal skin. (Look at the criminal
> records of those semi-retarded
> blacks)
>
> greg
>
>