SemiConscious Dot Org

Don’t these fuckers have anything better to do?

WASHINGTON—With the Super Bowl fast approaching, a senior Republican senator says he wants the NFL to explain why it destroyed evidence of the New England Patriots cheating scandal.

“I am very concerned about the underlying facts on the taping, the reasons for the judgment on the limited penalties and, most of all, on the inexplicable destruction of the tapes,” said Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., in a Thursday letter to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell.

The story was first reported by the New York Times.

Specter, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said the matter could put the league’s antitrust exemption at risk. In a phone interview with the Times on Thursday, he said the committee at some point will call on Goodell to address the antitrust exemption as well as the destruction of the tapes.

“Their antitrust exemption has been on my mind for a long time,” he said in a Capitol Hill news conference Friday.

Let me see if I’ve got this straight: the United States of America is nine trillion dollars in debt, about to enter Year Five of a bloody, pointless clusterfuck of a war that to date has claimed 4,000 American and 80,000+ Iraqi lives and cost half a trillion dollars, our economy is collapsing like a house of cards, oil is pushing $100 per barrel... and this fucking cornpone buffoon wants to hold Senate hearings on football???!?!?

Let’s not forget that all this righteous moral indignance about a football team spying on its opponents (a crime for which it has already been punished, mind you) is coming from a guy who once called DubYa’s illegal, warrantless wiretapping of American citizens a “festering sore on our body politic” – and then turned around and introduced a bill making said spying legal retroactively.

I like football as much as the next guy. Hell, I love it. But as much entertainment as I derive from it, it’s a fucking game. It’s not real life. Nothing is at stake in the Superbowl, other than bragging rights for one group of fans over another. And the fact that our elected representatives are wasting taxpayer money on this shit, with so many real problems causing real human suffering in America and the entire world, drives me to drink. (ok, drink more.)

Tell you what, Arlen: balance the budget, get our troops the hell out of that meat grinder, find a new economic engine to replace the housing boom that was the only thing propping up the American economy for the past six years, fix Social Security and health care… and then you can investigate pro football to your shriveled little heart’s content. Deal?

Until then, Shut. The. Fuck. Up.

(And lest anyone accuse me of being angry just because I’m a Patriots fan, I find the Senate hearings on steroids in baseball to be an equally ridiculous waste of time and taxpayer money.)