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Limey

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NFL Gives Up Tax-Exempt Status
« on: April 29, 2015, 10:07:27 am »
Firstly...the NFL was a tax-exempt organisation?  WTF?

Apparently, as a trade organisation, the NFL itself - not the teams - had such status.  It's always been odd but, in the wake of issues like the Washington franchise's nickname, concussions, multiple occurrences of domestic abuse...and murder, the NFL has come under more and more pressure to clean up its act or lose its tax exemption.  Well, in lieu of the former, the NFL has accepted the latter.

Goodell is cementing his place in history as one of the worst major league commissioners in history (a very low bar) as well as a pretty awful human being.
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Re: NFL Gives Up Tax-Exempt Status
« Reply #1 on: April 29, 2015, 10:08:36 am »
Quote from: Limey on April 29, 2015, 10:07:27 am
worst major league commissioners in history

On what scale?
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Re: NFL Gives Up Tax-Exempt Status
« Reply #2 on: April 29, 2015, 10:15:07 am »
Quote from: homer on April 29, 2015, 10:08:36 am
On what scale?

Presiding over a series of ever-worsening scandals, mishandling things to the point that they had to give up a tax exemption to get out from under some of the pressure.
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