Commissioner Rice? (LAT says get the NFL job Condi)

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-ed-nfl21mar21,0,2744745.story?coll=la-home-commentary

'IF THAT JOB COMES OPEN, I'M GONE." That's what Condoleezza Rice told Ebony magazine last November when she was asked about her oft-repeated desire to become commissioner of the National Football League. With Commissioner Paul Tagliabue's announcement Monday that he plans to step down in July, it may be time for President Bush to look for another secretary of State.

The NFL's 32 team owners would be crazy not to offer the top job to Rice. Her constant teasing about wanting the job — she told Fox News in December that she wanted it — is reminiscent of another improbable sports commissioner, baseball's A. Bartlett Giamatti. The onetime president of Yale University kept teasing about wanting to work in baseball — until baseball figured out he wasn't really teasing and offered him a job. He served as commissioner for less than a year before his death in 1989.

Rice's office issued the obligatory not-interested-at-this-time statement Monday. But it's hard to see why she wouldn't accept the job if it were offered. After years of fronting for the abrasive Bush administration, Rice would instantly become a bipartisan diplomat and one of the nation's top executives, presiding over America's most popular sport. Thanks to Tagliabue's success, Rice would take over a healthy $6-billion enterprise that is fueled by almost $4 billion in TV revenue and enjoys harmonious labor relations.

And wouldn't it be more fun to tinker with the instant-replay rules than worry about nuclear nonproliferation? Wouldn't she prefer to negotiate with Gene Upshaw, the famously congenial head of the NFL player's union, than with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who famously called Rice illiterate? Even if the NFL gig isn't as fun as it seems on the outside, bear in mind that Tagliabue was paid almost $10 million last year; Rice earned less than $200,000.

[ThoughtCriminal]

1. In America

this a promotion.

[BillZBubb]

2. If they hire that bitch, I'll puke.

She's not fit to be a stadium attendant, much less the commish.

[unblock]

3. with her experience, the dallas cowboys are a shoe-in!

she'll replace all the officials with law-and-order ones who know to ignore popular opinion and stick up for what's right and enforce all those offsides and illegal blocking rules against the traitors to the cowboys' cause.

[C_U_L8R]

4. A shoe-in ???

isn't that a description of Condi's closet ???

I hear she's giving Imelda Marco's collection a run for the money.... or rather... our money

[tularetom]

5. Do you want to see the end of pro football

as we know it? Then put this loser in charge of the NFL. She has fucked up everything she has touched, and is probably one of the most incompetent members of the incompetent * administration. Don't let her anywhere near the NFL.