Hannity Calls out NFL To Stop Taking Money from the American People
RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
HANNITY: "Taking the knee or staying in a locker room during the national anthem is easy to do. Addressing real problems that impact real people and doing something about that is a lot harder. Let's start by helping the people we always talk about, the millions of forgotten men and women in this country. 50 million Americans in poverty, 50 million on food stamps. 90 million Americans out of the labor force. The NFL, you want to continue to disrespect the country, the military, that's giving players and owners the opportunity to make millions and in some cases billions of dollars it is time to stop taking hand-outs from the American taxpayers. I doubt you'll hear this elsewhere. Let's look at the numbers. The average public subsidy for an NFL stadium is $266 million taxpayer dollars. Since the year 2000. It is estimated $3.2 billion in federal taxpayer money has gone to help build private sports stadiums and factor in local and state funding for stadiums. That number gross to $5.9 billion and $6.7 billion over the last 20 years. If that's not shocking enough, well, there is the NFL's paid patriotism scandal. There was a Senate report that found from the years 2012 to 2015 the department of defense actually paid the NFL $6.1 million to honor troops and for recruiting promotions. Now, the league did pay back $700,000 of that but only after coming under intense criticism. What about the rest of the money? Those numbers are astounding. Now some in the NFL they don't want to stand or honor the flag, the country, the military, then stop taking all the money from the American people. Let's be honest, you know what? They don't need it in the NFL. Now, while the national anthem is respecting the military, the country, our flag the Democrats and members of the mainstream left wing establishment media prediktably are trying to make this all about race. This is what they always do. It's part of their playbook. I pointed out so many time on this program every two years or four years the Democratic Party plays the race card creating division and causing unrest in the country."
