This gets a little technical, and I’ve pointed it out elsewhere, but don’t confuse the charitable partnership that the NFL (the actual National Football League) has with DoD to raise charitable donations for their agreed organizations (Wounded Warriors, etc.) through the “Salute to Service.” http://www.nfl.com/salute.…

If that were the argument being made, it would be a different story (although I don’t know how you’d quantify it). But, sorry man, that’s not the argument John McCain is making in the quote above. He’s saying ON PRINCIPLE, the DoD shouldn’t have to pay the NFL for advertising. It’s not being couched as an issue of…

OK, that’s a fair perspective. And I enjoy the spirited discussion (I’m a lawyer, if you haven’t figured that out yet). It IS democracy at work - just like us having a discussion, as citizens, as to whether this is something we think Congress should or shouldn’t be legislating, is just that. They’ve got the power of…

You didn’t, and I apologize if I misunderstood the point you (and a lot of other people responding to my original response to this article) are trying to make. What ARE you saying, then?

You’re confusing two different things. “Salute to Service” is the partnership the NFL (the actual National Football League - not the teams) has with DoD to raise money for their agreed charities, and 100% of the proceeds go to that. http://www.nfl.com/salute

OK, I guess? But if you’ve never been to NFL game and seen a flyover and wondered who pays for that or how it works, and wanted to be informed enough to look it up, I don’t know what else to tell you. The NFL and these teams have hundreds (maybe thousands) of sponsors and that information is out there.

I need to quit hanging out on Gawker, so this is the last thing I’m going to say on it. Do you happen to know what the DoD’s budget for “recruiting/advertising/examining (examining includes things like giving the ASVAB to high school students)“ was in 2015? Got a guess? 1.7 BILLION dollars. Yes, you read that…

Also, there are a couple different things which people may be confusing here. The NFL - the ACTUAL National Football League - has their charitable partnership with DoD. http://www.nfl.com/salute. ALL the money that raises goes to the three charities that the NFL and DoD have agreed to. A lot of the messaging you’re…

Why? More of your tax dollars go to DoD than anywhere else. And who do you think is deciding how that “messaging” is being conveyed, anyway - the teams who are doing it, or the DoD who is paying for it? The DoD gets a lot more out of their partnership with the NFL than vice versa.

I responded to someone else on this but (a) The NFL waived it’s tax-exempt status this year (b) the “NFL” doesn’t make as much money as you’re thinking - the member institutions do, and they’ve always paid taxes, and (c) The article is actually incorrect in stating the “NFL” has this arrangement with DoD. They don’t.…

I don’t understand either of these arguments -

Wait a minute. The DoD is engaged, constantly, in active recruitment drives to meet its quotas. They advertise on TV, put out video games, and the NFL has negotiated with them to show their “brand” on one of the most visible media platforms out there - the opening of an NFL game.

THIS DOES NOT HAVE ENOUGH STARS.

This is awesome.

This is not getting nearly enough stars.

Meh. This probably falls under Fair Use. You can’t really identify the players or the uniforms in the picture - they’re mostly blurred out in the background - it just looks like two generic football guys in a picture hanging on a wall. Also, I don’t see anything on the original football calendar that says it’s…

Cruz is a lot of bad things, but dumb isn’t one of them. He graduated manga cum laude from Harvard, clerked for Rhenquist, and was the Solicitor General Of Texas. By any standard he’s the most accomplished jurist in this race on either side. Doesn’t make him not crazy, though.

You went there. You really went there. The end is nigh.

It does. Which sounds like a shitty answer, but it’s unavoidable. It’s just not possible to write a nationally-read legal column about common, everyday issues (i.e. issues that aren’t federal in nature) without at least noting that the answer may (and probably does vary) state to state.

He never promised to “solve” the particular legal problem. By the very nature of a nationally-read column, he’s got to generalize a lot. Most legal issues have particular nuances based on the state. But I bet 95% percent or more of the people who came here left having learned what “chattels” are or what a “bailment”…