First off it seems like everyone is trying to avoid a shutdown these days and for some reason or another all those shutdowns are focused in on the hill. Obviously the government has their hands full with their own shutdown but now some people are looking for feds to get there hands into the NFL labor talks to avoid a shutdown on the gridiron.
Obama: I won’t intervene in NFL dispute
Luckily though President Obama seems to realize Washington is too tied down with it’s own problems to worry about the NFL.
President Obama on Thursday dismissed any suggestion he would get involved in the labor dispute between NFL owners and players, which could result in a lockout as soon as midnight Friday.
“You’ve got owners, most of whom are worth close to a billion dollars. You’ve got players who are making millions of dollars,” he said in response to a question at a press conference.
Even though the President has nixed his own involvement in the NFL labor talks it doesn’t mean that federal time isn’t being wasted on the issue. Currently federal judge Doty is heavily involved in the process as well as several federal mediators.
I’m just like every other person I want to see football in September but I don’t want to see it at the expense of government time and effort. I love to see the NFL talk their talks off the hill… Washington’s opinion of football is already bad enough with Dan Synder running the Redskins.
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