Is your NFL team Republican or Democrat?
Another big football weekend is coming up, and what better way to ruin the fun than to drag politics into the discussion?
Have you ever wondered if your favorite NFL team is predominantly Republican or Democrat? Me neither. Frankly, I wouldn’t care if the Detroit Lions — the team I’ve been stuck with for over 40 years due to a bad geographic draw at birth and an unwillingness to move over 50 miles away ever since — carried the torch for the Workers World Party if they could win just one game!
But if you did care, there’s this via Politico:
NFL owners, team officials, players and coaches have overwhelmingly favored Republicans with their political contributions, according to a study released Thursday by the Center for Responsive Politics.
The report, which reviewed contributions dating back to 1989, found that combined contributions from players, owners and officials on 22 of the 32 National Football League teams have given more cash to Republicans than Democrats, and that several teams have given more than 90 percent of their contributions to the GOP.
The San Diego Chargers blew away the rest of the field with $2,455,200 in total money contributed, with most of that coming from team owner Alex Spanos, who has given more than $2 million, almost all of it to Republicans.
No other team’ made total contributions of more than $1 million, though 19 others gave at least $100,000.
The Houston Texans contributed the second-highest amount after San Diego, sending $615,256 of its $623,456 total to Republicans. Next came the Arizona Cardinals, who gave 75 percent of $337,096 to Republicans.
The contributions of all 31 NFL teams — 32 if you count my semi-beloved Detroit Lions — are in this report.
The NFL’s PAC seems to have favored Democrats, but I hope the league doesn’t lean too far to the left. Otherwise the games will be mandated to end in a 0-0 tie, the officials will confiscate all gate revenue, borrow from future concession sales for “touchdown stimulus programs” and you’ll have to give half your tailgate food to Al Gore or else it’ll be 140 degrees at game time.
The owners, though leaning mostly right, aren’t all Republican. You already may be aware that Pittsburgh Steelers owner Dan Rooney endorsed Obama/Biden last year — even going so far as to perform slight alterations on their logo for one game:
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AT least being a Lions fan you KNOW that every season–nay–every Sunday will be an exercise in futility.
Try being a Bills fan. Whether it is four consecutive Super Bowl losses, or losing an 11 point lead in the last 5 minutes of the first game of the season against the most hated team, there is nothing worse than being strung along, only to have your hopes and dreams (and subsequently your TV remote) smashed at the last second.
That logo above looks to me to be done by a Conservative, or GOPer. Putting the faces of Obama and Biden on it, and altering the spelling of the team name from Steelers, to Stealers? I agree!!!
I remember quite a few players coming out for Obama, as well having BDS, but, interestingly, when it comes to their own contracts, they want as much money as they can get, and, in some cases, more than they deserve. Like most liberals, it is always about penalizing someone else.
Brilliant! Let’s put the Chicago Bears on field with the Democratic Congress.
Arizona doesn’t count. That money probably went to McCain, Kyl and Flake who are nothing more than assistant Democrats.
So, the actors, comedians, writers, directors, TV stars, singers, etc. have all gone political…and now the NFL?? Well, just as I don’t go to movies made by moonbats or concerts performed by moonbats, I wouldn’t go to sports events if they became politicized. There is no reason to inject politics into these things! None!! I used to enjoy the late night shows…when they were actually comedy and actually entertaining. Now they just make my blood boil. Even a couple of shows I used to watch faithfully, I no longer watch…Rachel Ray and Martha Stewart. Ever since they started having moonbat guests and making off-hand comments that were unnecessary, I just stopped being interested in them. The final straw with Rachel Ray was when she said, “Ronald Reagan was a nice enough man, but I totally disagreed with his politics”. It was not necessary for her to say that on her show. If I wanted a political discourse, I would tune into a political show. For Rachel Ray and Martha Stewart, I just want to see cooking, gardening, fashion and household tips!! I can handle a certain amount of idology mixed in with a good book, etc. But it has become so apparent and blatant, you can’t escape it. What has happened to this country that the moonbats think their ideology is so embraced by the people? They are completely insane. And they will lose more and more viewers as a result. Just look at the “fringe media” as an example.
I noticed that the LA Rams contributed tons to the Dems. No mention of the Worcester Giants though or Boston Redskins though.
I nominate Ashley Lelie for Football Czar.
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Long, long ago–before T.V.–I used to listen to the old San Francisco 49′rs on the radio. Y.A. Tittle was the QB–he had one good runner and one good receiver on the team. The other members of the “team” were placeholders–called FURNITURE in the Texas legislature since they never move and never do anything useful.
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Y.A. would take the snap, run for the rear as the rush / blitz came for him. He would throw a 30 yard pass for a 10 yard gain as he went down in a pile of tacklers.
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I think this must have been a DEMOCRAT TEAM. Not very good–not well organized. And success was a fluke. And only a few (25 percent) were doing anything good–and they were taking a lot of unnecessary hits.
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The Republican teams were the old STEEL CURTAIN STEELERS. Or old GREENBAY when they were doing it right.
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John Bibb
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Yet Tom Rooney (Art’s grandson) is a GOP representative from Florida.
Now you know why I’m a die hard Chargers fan. Starting tomorrow.
I do not watch football. Hubby does and has his favorites. The two tv thing works here at our house. WHO cares what the team is, d or r ! It there is a question, I am sure our elected will hold hearings on it.
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And LAST on the list???
My OAKLAND RAIDERS!!!
We hate everyone, and they hate us right back!
Maybe thats why the Ref Conspiracy continues!!!
/puts on his tinfoil football helmet…
Glad to see my Packers at the bottom, right above the Raaaaaiidahs (ala Chris Berman, who grows even more insufferable as each year passes). Heading to Lambeau in Nov. to see Pack vs. 49ers. Can’t wait!
That may have been the sorriest 5 minutes of football I’ve ever seen. Thought the Bills had it!
Packers not doing so great after losing Favre…! Your loss is my Viking’s gain. Sorry about that. The border feud continues!
One night in Bangkok, makes the hard man humble…
My Colts are only slightly more Republican than Democrat, but Peyton Manning is a staunch conservative. In the end, isn’t that all that really matters?
A 40 year old quarterback, with an injured shoulder that he didn’t get fixed, possibly cracked rib, who didn’t even dress with his teammates in New York, has not won a big game (meaning one against a superior opponent that he should have been expected to lose to) in a decade, and is costing your team $12 million per year?
HA! You can have him. If he had another Super Bowl in him, it would have been 2 years ago against the Patriots. On the plus side, it will be THAT much more fun watching the Vikes fall on their faces this year.
We Yoopers have for decades wanted so badly to be disassociated from the liberal Troll politicians who are ruining our beloved UP that we always thought of ourselves as Packer-Backers. Of course, you did have the Stroh’s brewery, so it’s not all bad down under the bridge. But still…
As a fellow uper since, I was born in 1961 in Marquette…Say yah…to da upee…
That will change now that Obama’s friend is now the head of the Players Union!!!! He’s already talking about a freeze out in 2011.
Green Bay Packers
$8,750 $2,550 $6,200 29% 71%
Not bad. GO PACK!
In Phoenix we have the Cardinals-the Racine, Wisconsin Cardinals, the Chicago Cardinals and some place in Misery Cardinals then Tempe, Arizona and now Glendale, Arizona.
I think their politics is the moving van.
Pittsburgh Steelers owner Dan Rooney endorsed Obama/Biden last year How does Rush Limbaugh feel about that? He was always a Pittsburgh fan.
I don’t care for politics in sports, but, these days, politics has infused itself into most everything. I believe a lot of it has to do with the wide coverage of “news” we have, via cable and internet, for example. I root for the ‘Skins and any player on my 2 fantasy football teams. Whether he’s a far left liberal, or a neo-conservative, makes no difference to me, on a Sunday afternoon.
John Elway is a strong conservative force in Denver. Many people tried to get him to run for office, he’s an excellent businessman, but so far, nothing. He does do speeches and fundraisers for GOP candidates though.
I have come to realize that if I start disliking every TV show, sports team, author, singer/songwriter, that lets their liberal viewpoint be known, I would miss out on some entertainment. If they intersperse their entertaining with their liberal viewpoint, I just stop watching or listening. Unlike the libtards, I don’t want to institute the
UnFairness Doctrine; I just use the Off button. What a concept!I love the old movies on Turner Classic Movies. Occasionally, Alec Baldwin is a guest and he introduces some of the movies. He has yet to “Go Liberal” (similar to “Going Postal”) during his introdutions. He does speak highly of the communist/socialist screenwriters, but what libtard wouldn’t? I just watch it for the movies.
As for the sports teams, I’m sure my 49ers probably give more to dems than to Republicans. Oh, well. Been a 9er fan since the mid-60s. Not changing now.
I am already boycotting so many things… Please! Not Football! Of course, any reason to hate the Steelers is a good thing
Oh, yah, when Bart Starr was running the show they were something, eh? Republican, Democrat, who cares? Just play, eh? Leave da politics to the Trolls and we’ll continue supporting the team (one of many) that trounces the Lions every time. Sorry, Doug, it had ta be said. Now I gotta go milk dem cows, so take it easy, eh?
By the way, Jeff, I was born ‘63 at Kincheloe AFB over by Kinross, back when it was still a military base.
arizona; we suffered through decades fo the bidwell buffoons and never once could go to a home post season game. the state of misery was glad to hand off bill and his boys, so thank your lucky stars the morons of misery (rams) gave you a real quarterback while we took the pretty boy advertising gimic. now arizona has at long last gone to a superbowl, with our ex-qb, and we, with our prettyboy are 2 and 14. best of luck to arizona.
Humor. I get it.
Why did you post a link to this?
Why did I click on it?
Why did I look up my beloved Patriots?
I would rather the NFL be shutdown than to have my state government continue to steal my tax money for the owner of one of the more profitable teams in the league.
What we need in the NFL is a redistribution of points. There’s only a limited amount of points to go around each season and certain elite privileged teams are hogging an unfair share. Teams like the Lions need a social justice champion to force the greedy point hogs to take from them and give to the point-poor Lions. Power to fairness!!!
jet, what a great and considerate idea. we can affirmative action sports. so each basketballteam has to carry 4 short white guys who can’t jump on their team of 12. tall white guys who can jump don’t count. over 6 feet, you aren’t aa maaterial. consolation points at the end of the third period of football, we even the score, so the losing team doesn’t get depressede and lose it’s self esteem by a blowout. then for every loss the football team has at any point in the year, they get a consolation touchdown to begin the next game. so a team with a 2 and 8 record would start the 11th game with a 6 touchdown headstart, but remember the 4th quarter rule. who gives a crap about soccer. baseball though could be fun because it is latin, black and white. so how to aa the baseball teams. hmmmm.
Wha? Chargers, I’m glad that you recognize that liberal democrats destroy everything they touch, otherwise California would not be a bankrupt quivering mass of losery, but c’mon. With the kind of money you are shelling out, there are no excuses for blacked out games.
Gaaaackk! The Dolphins gave 85/15 in favor of the Demoncrats? That figure will only get more out of balance with several entertainment figures buying shares of the team.
Go Pats!
Hey Doug, I got a question. How come every year the Detroit Lions are the Thankgiving Day turkey team? Talk about spoiling a good meal!
I will cut you.
I submit that Rush Limbaugh doesn’t give a crap who Rooney endorses, because it’s not political endorsements that win football games, it’s players. My hubby is a diehard Steelers fan and a die hard conservative. Tho I prefer the asthetics of the Panthers, I have come to appreciate the black and gold through osmosis because it’s about the hitting and the running and interceptions and the score, not politics! Come Gladitors!!! Time to play!
And this is a surprising piece of news why?
I always thought Libs were a little soft around the edges. Something more subtle like tiddleywinks. That has to be pretty daring for a quiche eater. No broken nails.