NFL players who are Bush-loving Repukes

[dad]

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/2004-10-27-campaign-players_x.htm

Peyton "cut that meat" Manning probably cheered on GW Bush when he was reading My Pet Goat, Dick Cheney when he was lying about WMDs, and the
torturers at Abu Ghirab too. Also on the dumbass list are Mark
Brunell, Dom-ass Capers (no surprise), and Tommy XFL Maddox.

In baseball we have everyone's favorite steroid and viagra abuser,
Rafael Palmeiro. No wonder the mentally challenged Bushie is the
only one on the planet who believed his story, ha ha. He donated $,
that's good enough I guess.

[DaveinMD]

1. most athletes

are Republicans. They are rich. I don't care. sports isn't politics and I love all the Mannings.

[Ariana Celeste]

2. When I watch football,

the last thing on my mind is politics. And I kind of like it that way. :).

[dad]

3. dfg

In 1996, while attending the University of Tennessee, Manning sat on a female assistant trainer's face as she was kneeling down to examine his feet. He then related the "mooning" incident in his 2000 autobiography, provoking the trainer/victim to sue for defamation.

[Ariana Celeste]

5. And that's not right at all, but-

Like I said, when I watch football, the last thing on my mind is politics. That's a good thing.

Sometimes, you need to take a break from all the frustrating and awful things in the world, and take part in something you enjoy. If you relate politics to everything, that's just unhealthy.

Not all of my favorite athletes are liberal, not all of my favorite authors are liberal, not all of my favorite actors/actresses are liberal, but I enjoy them all the same. And that's okay. Because they aren't the ones bringing this country to harm and destroying the lives of people all over the world. They are in the entertainment business.

I like football. I'm in it for the sport, and the rush, the cheers when my fave team makes a touchdown and the excitement when they are up against a great team that could very well stomp their asses. I know the majority of them are Republicans. That doesn't take anything away from what happens on the field.

[Stephist]

4. If John Feinstein is to be believed

in his book about The Baltimore ravens 2004 season (Next Man Up) he states the odds of a football player being a Democrat are about 1 in a 1000. for reasons already stated.

Feinstein brought up Jonathen Ogden. Ogden didn't like Bush, yet was worried about protecting his tax cut so he just didn't vote.

[democracyindanger]

6. But here's a gem

Now he understands that (Kyle) Orton's success on the football field could one day be seen as the introduction of an ambitious liberal democrat to a larger audience.

"I'd love to run for Congress or the Senate," Orton said.

He has read about the Kennedy, Johnson and Clinton administrations. He has declared his concerns over policies of the current administration, specifically the commitment to the war in Iraq.

"I don't think we should be over there," Orton said.

The quarterback searches for voices of dissent on campuses and does not find enough of them.

"It surprises me a lot," he said. "Usually college campuses are pretty liberal places where you debate different thoughts. You protest over it. You read about all these protests that went on in the 60s. I don't think there are that many young people that feel they can make a difference in politics. They feel the government is so big that they don't think their vote or their voice matters any more."


http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/football/bigten/2004-09-22-orton-agenda_x.htm