Bob Costas Anti Gun Rant...

[jaybet]

So far I haven't found a legitimate email address that will get you to "the NFL" or Comm Godell. They are insulated from fan rants.
Fox news was reporting it today as a blunder, maybe they would set up a blog and then forward it.

[MikeBjerum]

I dood to!

[jaybet]

Article from Fox News Website, but no place to follow up.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/12/03/truth-about-costas-belcher-and-guns/

[billt]

NBC has the NFL television contract. NBC is also as rabidly anti gun as a network can possibly be. The 2 are in bed together. No one involved in this, least of all Costas, is going to be disciplined. He is simply parroting the networks position, as well as his own. All either cares about is the dollars. And if in the process of earning millions of them, they can spout their liberal rhetoric, they will. This is nothing more than a giant, high paid circle jerk.

[PegLeg45]

The NFL League Office can be reached by snail mail at the following location:


National Football League
345 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10017


Phone: 1-(212) 450-2000
Fax: 1-(212) 681-7599


http://www.nfl.com/help/faq
http://www.nsga.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3352

One of the best comments I've read on FB:

Again this is what happens when "Celebrities" open their freakin' mouths......don't bother recognizing the domestic violence aspect, mental illness, or possible drug/steroidal abuse ..........so out of touch with American values and real life........to me gun control starts by cleaning up the streets so we law abiding citizens don't have to shoot you to protect ourselves......shut up and stick to what you know.... and READ the Constitution!!!!

[Sponsor]

[PegLeg45]

Costas comments epitomize acceptable social bigotry against guns


http://www.examiner.com/article/costas-comments-epitomize-acceptable-social-bigotry-against-guns?cid=db_articles

[PegLeg45]

Got this info from Rob Pincus on FB (thanks go out to him for the link to the FB page):

NBC switchboard 212-664-4444
nbcsportshelp@nbcuni.com

Roger Goodell's info.
(NFL commissioner)

email address:
Roger Goodell
Roger.Goodell2@nfl.net

Telephone: 1-212-450-2000
or
(212) 450-2027  
(this one got through!!!)

Bob Varettoni
Executive Director, Media Relations
(908) 559-6388
robert.a.varettoni@verizon.com


The NBC FB page:

https://www.facebook.com/nbc?fref=ts

The Boycott SNF page:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/392699260807732/

Another article:

The truth about Costas, Belcher and guns


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To put it bluntly, criminals are not typical citizens. About 90 percent of adult murderers have an adult criminal record. They tend to have low IQs and long histories of social problems. Murders are also very heavily concentrated among minorities in urban areas. Over 70 percent of murders occur in about 3 percent of the counties in the US. Even if our country passed laws banning guns, most of these murderers are not the kind of people who are going to voluntarily turn in their weapons.

If women want to protect themselves, they should get a gun. The FBI’s National Crime Victimization Survey indicates that by far the safest course of action for women to take when they are confronted by a criminal is to have a gun.

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http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/12/03/truth-about-costas-belcher-and-guns/

[jaybet]

Just sent this to both email addresses:

"Dear Mr. Varettoni,

While watching the Eagles/Cowboys game last night I was insulted and aggravated by comments Bob Costas made regarding the unfortunate murder/suicide in Kansas City. This sad incident has many ramifications,  NONE of them being gun control. Family issues and values, mental health, NFL player health, and steroid use come to mind as possible contributing factors to the man's inability to deal with the difficulties of life and responsibility.  The real issue here is the family's circumstances, not what type of weapon was available.  A linebacker in the NFL surely does not need a handgun to commit murder, due to his stature and level of strength.  Costas ignored many, many important considerations and questions with regard to this incident to instead make a blatantly liberal political comment on national TV at an NFL game halftime.

Costas, dim bulb that he is, managed to pull one over on the NFL and use his position in broadcasting NFL programming to push a political agenda, That agenda disregards the real questions and concerns in this issue, deflects inquiry into career conditions that may have affected this young man, and is blatantly insulting cheap shot to a vast number of Americans who believe in and practice their Second Amendment rights.

NFL football is bigger than Bob Costas. It should abandon him for a more productive and salient agent."

THANKS FOR THE LINKS!

[jaybet]

The one to Goodell just got kicked back.

[PegLeg45]

http://www.downrange.tv/forum/index.php?topic=21151.new#new