John McCain has attacked the leagues military displays,which came at taxpayers’ expense. But why was it allowed to happen in the first state?Who would have known many of those smiling soldiers on the football stadium scoreboard, the ones home from war, or were for sale? The stadium announcers never said this as they demanded fans stand and applaud the waving men on the screen. Somehow they forget to mention that the defense department has sold these soldiers’ names and stories and plights for the fiction that this tender moment came without a check written to the home team.
By late Wednesday afternoon the depth of just how much patriotism the defense department has been selling to sports teams had reach clear in a report commissioned by Republican senators John McCain and Jeff Flake – both of Arizona. And it was extreme,if not obscene. Related: NFL’s overblown military organization leads march into British sporting life | Marina Hyde Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com