Saturday, January 11, 2003

Lawmaker wants NFL to make restitution for botched call in Giants game   According to a report by the Associated Press a New Jersey lawmaker wants the National Football League to make restitution for a botched call made during the New York Giants' playoff game on Sunday. Assemblyman Anthony Impreveduto, D-Hudson, wants the league to allow New Jersey to host a Super Bowl by 2006 and called on the head of the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority, which runs Giants Stadium, to begin legal action against the NFL. ''New Jersey taxpayers may have been cheated of tax revenue the state would have earned from players' income and other Giants-related enterprises had the team advanced in the playoffs,'' Impreveduto said in his letter to George Zoffinger, the sports authority president. Am I irate that one of our nations law makers is wasting his time on so trivial a matter? Not really. I remember a quote from Robert A. Caro's biography of Lyndon Johnson entitled Means of Ascent in which he quotes former Texas governor Coke Stevenson, when he was Speaker in the state assembly, after what was described as a "terrible ruckus" breaking out on the floor, as saying: "As long as they're not voting, they're not passing any laws. And as long as they're not passing any laws, they're not hurting anybody." Selah. 12:08:29 AM    Go Ahead, make my day  []