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Defense Sec. Chuck Hagel asking for information about military ties to NFL
By Barbara Starr, CNN Pentagon Correspondent
updated 11:52 AM EDT, Fri September 19, 2014

(CNN) -- Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has asked his staff for detailed information about the U.S. military's relationships with the National Football League in the wake of the scandal over how the league is handling domestic-abuse allegations against players, CNN has learned.

News of the Pentagon review comes on the same day a senior Obama administration official decried recent domestic abuse episodes within the NFL and said the league needs to "get a handle on" the situation since so many professional athletes are considered role models to younger players.

The Pentagon is increasingly sensitive to any suggestion it is supporting a major sports organization that is perceived to tolerate domestic violence.

"The secretary wants to fully understand that relationship, in case he decides to make some changes to it," a senior defense official told CNN.

The military has a zero-tolerance policy in the ranks for domestic abuse, but it also has a high-profile relationship with the NFL that goes back decades. Any Pentagon action to cut back support for the NFL would be the most direct involvement by the Obama administration yet in the scandal.

Millions at stake

The Army alone spends some $10 million a year buying advertising from television networks broadcasting NFL games. Games are also broadcast by the Armed Forces Network to troops deployed overseas.

Military support for the NFL games includes: providing ceremonial units at games for colors ceremonies; military personnel singing the national anthem, and other units providing drill teams or flyovers. Military personnel, including wounded warriors, often appear at NFL events honoring those who serve.

The Army and the NFL also have a agreement to share information and resources to better understand traumatic brain injury, which is a major medical issue both for wounded troops and football players. They are working together on awareness of TBI as well as research into treatment. The military has been sharing some of the lessons learned on TBI from the last 13 years of war, specifically.

Another program, NFL Play 60, has seen players visit military bases to encourage children to be more active as least 60 minutes a day to help prevent childhood obesity.

It is clear the White House is also closely monitoring the NFL controversy, with one senior administration official calling recent abuse allegations "deeply troubling" and stressing the league's obligation to "(get) control of the situation."

"Many of these professional athletes are marketed as role models to young people," the official said. "So their behavior does have the potential to influence these young people. So that's one of the many reasons it's important the league gets a handle on this and have zero tolerance."

Four NFL players made headlines this week over allegations of abuse:

-- Jonathan Dwyer, 25, a running back for the Arizona Cardinals, was released on bond Thursday after his arrest on charges he assaulted his wife and their toddler son.

-- Adrian Peterson of the Minnesota Vikings and Greg Hardy of the Carolina Panthers took paid leave this week from their teams to focus on their legal cases.

Peterson, a running back and one of the league's premier players, has been charged in Texas with child abuse on allegations he injured his 4-year-old son this summer. Peterson's attorney said the "charged conduct involves using a switch to spank his son." Hardy, a star defensive end, has been convicted of misdemeanor assault charges in North Carolina and has been granted the opportunity to have a new trial, this time in front of a jury.

-- The NFL Players Association on Tuesday filed an appeal on behalf of former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice, whom the NFL suspended indefinitely after a security video emerged that shows him knocking his then-fiancée unconscious in a hotel elevator in February.
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Re: Defense Sec. Chuck Hagel asking for information about military ties to NFL
« Reply #1 on: September 20, 2014, 12:11:03 am »
What about our Congress and anyone working for the government they aren't exactly angels look up what criminals we have there and you will find domestic abuse, sexual abusers, adulterers, thieves and liars. Maybe the government should worry about themselves a bit more and leave the NFL to take care of their own problems. 

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Re: Defense Sec. Chuck Hagel asking for information about military ties to NFL
« Reply #2 on: September 20, 2014, 12:18:35 am »
As both Rush Limbaugh and Michael Savage have expressed....EVERYTHING is political to these Leftist cretins. :shrug:
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Re: Defense Sec. Chuck Hagel asking for information about military ties to NFL
« Reply #3 on: September 20, 2014, 01:25:20 am »
When Chuck Hagel is as concerned that Jim Moran and Alan Grayson beat their wives, two Democrat members of the House, as he is about DV in the NFL, then I'll give a damn.
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Re: Defense Sec. Chuck Hagel asking for information about military ties to NFL
« Reply #4 on: September 20, 2014, 01:30:18 am »
When Chuck Hagel is as concerned that Jim Moran and Alan Grayson beat their wives, two Democrat members of the House, as he is about DV in the NFL, then I'll give a damn.

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Re: Defense Sec. Chuck Hagel asking for information about military ties to NFL
« Reply #5 on: September 20, 2014, 05:29:49 am »
This is getting totally out of hand. Its become a witch hunt. Some of it is being done by the Left who don't like the violent sport of football and want to remake it into something acceptable to them. But not just the Left, many on the Right obsessed with celebrity scandal (Hannity) is also blowing this way out of proportion. Hannity did a whole hour on the subject with a guest audience. Of course I turned him off.

Players that cross the line as badly as Dwyer, and Rice don't belong in the NFL, but there is such a thing as due process. As for the media turning over every rock trying to find more players to break stories on - it sickens me.
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Re: Defense Sec. Chuck Hagel asking for information about military ties to NFL
« Reply #6 on: September 20, 2014, 05:58:55 am »
This is getting totally out of hand. Its become a witch hunt. Some of it is being done by the Left who don't like the violent sport of football and want to remake it into something acceptable to them. But not just the Left, many on the Right obsessed with celebrity scandal (Hannity) is also blowing this way out of proportion. Hannity did a whole hour on the subject with a guest audience. Of course I turned him off.

Players that cross the line as badly as Dwyer, and Rice don't belong in the NFL, but there is such a thing as due process. As for the media turning over every rock trying to find more players to break stories on - it sickens me.

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« Reply #7 on: September 20, 2014, 08:29:44 am »
This is getting totally out of hand. Its become a witch hunt. Some of it is being done by the Left who don't like the violent sport of football and want to remake it into something acceptable to them. But not just the Left, many on the Right obsessed with celebrity scandal (Hannity) is also blowing this way out of proportion. Hannity did a whole hour on the subject with a guest audience. Of course I turned him off.

Players that cross the line as badly as Dwyer, and Rice don't belong in the NFL, but there is such a thing as due process. As for the media turning over every rock trying to find more players to break stories on - it sickens me.

Don't know if anybody has mentioned it lately, but has anybody noticed that every single one of the abusers are BLACK?

IMO, this isn't working out for them the way they intended.

When are the Republicans...hell, ANYONE...going to show the cajones to dare our national race pimps, Barack, Holder, Jackson and Sharpton to begin an honest diaolgue about the out-of control African-American males  that are the ROOT cause of most of the crime and social problems we're facing every freaking day?

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Re: Defense Sec. Chuck Hagel asking for information about military ties to NFL
« Reply #8 on: September 20, 2014, 01:40:38 pm »
There are 1,700 players in the NFL, but not your average cross section of 1700 Americans.  These are all very large men with Type A personalities. (Sam is on the practice squad, so he doesn't count).  A high percentage of them grew up in the hood (which almost always means no father around).  Over 2/3 of them are under 30.  Throw in a ton of money, and of course some of them will get into trouble.

 Let the state legal system handle this,  Mr Obama.  Domestic violence is a state matter.  We don't need the federal government butting in and making it even worse.

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« Reply #9 on: September 20, 2014, 01:46:37 pm »
There are 1,700 players in the NFL, but not your average cross section of 1700 Americans.  These are all very large men with Type A personalities. (Sam is on the practice squad, so he doesn't count).  A high percentage of them grew up in the hood (which almost always means no father around).  Over 2/3 of them are under 30.  Throw in a ton of money, and of course some of them will get into trouble.

 Let the state legal system handle this,  Mr Obama.  Domestic violence is a state matter.  We don't need the federal government butting in and making it even worse.

Good points...LL!   :beer:
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