Nanny state regulators are into baseball, and now on football?

Is there no human, animal or mineral activity on earth these busybodies don't want to regulate?
The answer is NO!
If they can tax it, even the better, in their view.
But if they can't extract funds immediately, they will get their pound of flesh through shameless publicity.


Personally, I now find most spectator sports to be terribly boring and unwatchable. Ad a desk-load of dumb-ass sportscasters and "color" fools to tell you what you already know, and the dismal spectacle is entirely unwatchable. Especially the capture the flag variety, e.g. socker, basketball, football, and hockey. 
Now all these sports need is 535 more "color" commentators in congress.

Illegal contact: Nanny state regulators to blow the whistle on football? - Washington Times

By Patrick Hruby  May 30, 2012

Is football the newest front in America’s culture wars?

Rush Limbaugh seems to think so.

Three times in the past six months, the conservative radio host eschewed his usual targets to warn listeners that the sport is under attack, besieged by liberals and threatened with extinction.

“It’s not going to be long before the wusses, the New Castrati in our society are going to suggest that football be banned, that tackle footballbe banned,” Mr. Limbaugh said during a broadcast in December.

Hyperbole aside, Mr. Limbaugh may have a point. Long a refuge from national political polarization — Tom Brady’s quarterback rating is just as awesome in the red states; our fantasy squads are equally as hopeless in the blue states — football recently has been engulfed in a high-profile public debate about its safety and viability, an argument that echoes previous cultural clashes over everything from cigarettes to semi-automatic weapons.

“I think what we have with football right now is a very old debate in our society,” said Dave Zirin, who writes about the politics of sports for the Nation and authored “A People’s History of Sports in the United States.” “In some ways it’s an argument between individual choice and state intervention.

“In one camp, you have conservatives who are almost like libertarians in terms of certain freedoms. Then you have the kind of nanny-state approach of saying the state needs to step in and remove people’s toys because they are so inherently harmful. We saw the same lines around Prohibition and issues like motorcycle helmets.”

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