The company you keep: NFL Owners Rained Cash on Trump Inaugural

[HAB911]

Keep sending them money

FEC filings show football’s deepest pockets came up big, picking up nearly 7 percent of the party tab.

Eight National Football League franchise owners collectively gave millions of dollars to President Donald Trump’s inauguration, new disclosures show.

Among them: Robert Kraft, owner of the Super Bowl champion New England Patriots, who donated $1 million to Trump’s inaugural committee by way of Kraft Group LLC, according to a Federal Election Commission filing released Wednesday.

Those FEC documents revealed that Trump had dwarfed fundraising for any previous inauguration. With nearly $107 million in contributions, the committee almost doubled the previous record, set by Barack Obama in 2009.

According to the FEC filing, NFL owners’ $7.25 million in contributions represented nearly one of every $15 donated to Trump’s inaugural committee.

[pangaia]

1. I knew there was a good reason I didn't like the PATS.

Who were the other owners?

I'll put a curse on them also.

LOL!

[HAB911]

7. A bunch

http://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/286/201704180300150286/201704180300150286.pdf

Robert Kraft, owner of the Super Bowl champion New England Patriots, who donated $1 million to Trump’s inaugural committee by way of Kraft Group LLC,

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones

Dan Snyder, the Washington Redskins’

New York Jets’ Woody Johnson

Houston Texans owner Bob McNair

Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shahid Khan

Million-dollar-donor Stan Kroenke, owner of the newly relocated Los Angeles Rams

National Basketball Association’s Denver Nuggets

National Hockey League’s Colorado Avalanche

Major League Soccer’s Colorado Rapids.

Tampa Bay Buccaneers co-owner Ed Glazer

[pangaia]

14. Thanks..

I usually root for the team by the colors I like. Weird, EH.

OK --I don't follow Hockey or Soccer or the NBA...

I hate the Cowboys - I mean not really, HATE,, who cares, it's football, eh,, but maybe because it's Texas..LOL

Same with Houston--also the uniforms.. I don't like.:&gt

I used to be a Washington fan.. back in the days of THE HOGS !!

Jacksonville and Bucs...humm.. I like their uniforms...

Jets" Ugly uniforms.

LA RAMS.. no opinion...


Guess I am safe to stick with the PACK !!!

[NastyRiffraff]

18. Not surprised by Snyder

We already knew he's an asshole. And of course Kraft's ties to Dump are well known. I wonder how he feels about Tom Brady (along with several others on the team) skipping the White House visit.

[RhodeIslandOne]

21. Brady did it to protect he and his wife's brand

The guy is so image conscience it's a joke. I'm sure someone advised him it wasn't in his best interest. Of course, Kraft has no right to complain, considering he let Belicheat throw Brady under the bus on Deflategate thinking the league would never go after the Golden Boy.

[George II]

25. You do realize that yesterday was his parents' 48 wedding anniversary and his mother...

...is terminally ill, right?

[RhodeIslandOne]

31. He said he was going and then "suddenly" remembered it was their anniversary eight hours before?

And his mother randomly comes into town that day?


Uh huh. I know you guys believe everything that he says, but my God.....

This is the same stunt he pulled with Obama. Every week seems to be an anniversary. Then he was seen at the practice facility. All day.

[madinmaryland]

22. Heh! Jerrah Jones probably had to get take- out at

McDonald's for tRump. Jones supported Christie.

[heaven05]

30. sport team plutocrats

are rich, scared and stupid to a fault. No surprise. Rich people are by and large greedy, mean to those outside their 'class' and always try to appear like they are concerned about those who struggle everyday to put bread on the table and keep the lights on.

There are a few notable liberal exceptions yet I still don't trust any 'rich' powerful RW people. They are all snakes. They would like us all to die and go away.

[delisen]

2. Cities that tax people to build stadiums are feeding the Beast that would destroy us.

[HAB911]

3. Correct

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. That's why I prefer the NBA.

[HAB911]

8. Denver Nuggets

[DemocratSinceBirth]

9. Good thing they are a proverbial loser.

[MrScorpio]

5. Linky poo

What are the other teams?

[rogue emissary]

6. Washington, Dallas, Tampa Bay, Los Angeles, Jacksonville, and Huston.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/04/19/nfl-owners-rain-cash-on-trump-inaugural.html

oh, I forgot one.

One franchise owner who reported donating a million, the New York Jets’ Woody Johnson, has already been more handsomely rewarded for his support. In January, Trump tapped Johnson to be the U.S. ambassador to Great Britain.

[a kennedy]

10. Bet the only publicly owned franchise, the Green Bay Packers, didn't give...... eom

[pangaia]

16. GO PACK !!!

Boy, they really blew that playoff game, eh...

[FakeNoose]

28. I doubt they got $$ from the Rooneys

...owners of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Dan Rooney was a big supporter of Obama.

Dan Rooney just died last week (he was 84) and the funeral was attended by many Dems including Obama, Biden, Kerry and several others.

[Freethinker65]

11. But they never have $$$$ for newer "necessary" stadiums

[oasis]

12. Bookmarking.

[oasis]

13. Surprised not to see the Arizona Cardinals on the list. They've been

big donors to AZ Gov. Jan Brewer.

[Greybnk48]

15. Not my Green Bay Packers!

And many of the Packers are Dems. Mark Tauscher may run against Snot Walker for Governor.

[pangaia]

17. GO PACK! I'M A DEM !!

[a kennedy]

23. This is NOT GOING TO HAPPEN......would be intriguing, but Mark said he would not

be a candidate for governor.

[Zoonart]

26. Looks like my Eagles stayed out of it too.

[RhodeIslandOne]

19. Krafts comments at the White House were nauseating

He's a typical billionaire suck ass.

[mountain grammy]

20. Oh football...

if only I could quit you.

[Ilsa]

24. On TRMS right now! nt

[NewJeffCT]

27. Double the donations for less than half the crowd?

of Obama.

[PoorMonger]

29. Still A Colorado Sports Fan

But sadly I know that the Kronke's ( Nuggets & Avs ) owners like Trump and any Repub. and that Elway actually wrote a letter urging congress to confirm Gorsuch. I just decided I won't actively give them money by attending games or buying merch.

I like to support individual athletes who play for 'my teams' and have the courage to speak out though. Like Denver Broncos defensive player Brandon Marshall. Or The Nuggets guard Gary Harris. Sometimes when an organization's top brass are knobs you get to see who some real quality humans are if they push back even in that environment.