{"id":59737,"date":"2015-05-11T08:43:58","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T12:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=59737"},"modified":"2015-05-11T08:43:58","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T12:43:58","slug":"taxpayer-funded-hometown-heroes-the-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59737","title":{"rendered":"Taxpayer-funded Hometown Heroes &#038; the NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=59738\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-59738\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/nfl-military-300x123.jpg\" alt=\"nfl-military\" width=\"300\" height=\"123\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-59738\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/nfl-military-300x123.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/nfl-military-500x205.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/nfl-military.jpg 526w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Ya know those &#8220;Hometown Heroes&#8221; spots during your NFL sports games where the game stops and some local guy or girl trots out on the field in uniform to wild applause from the crowd? Well, I hope you enjoy them because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/politics\/index.ssf\/2015\/05\/taxpayers_pony_up_for_jets_salutes_to_nj_national.html\">New Jersey.com<\/a> says that you&#8217;re paying the NFL for them;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Department of Defense and the Jersey Guard paid the Jets a total of $377,000 from 2011 to 2014 for the salutes and other advertising, according to federal contracts. Overall, the Defense Department has paid 14 NFL teams $5.4 million during that time, of which $5.3 million was paid by the National Guard to 11 teams under similar contracts.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), who routinely posts examples of what he calls wasteful spending, called out the Jets&#8217; agreement as wasteful and disingenuous.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Those of us go to sporting events and see them honoring the heroes,&#8221; Flake said in an interview. &#8220;You get a good feeling in your heart. Then to find out they&#8217;re doing it because they&#8217;re compensated for it, it leaves you underwhelmed. It seems a little unseemly.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, in fact it&#8217;s a lot like prostitution &#8211; taxpayers giving up our money to feel good for a little while. We get the impression that the NFL is doing this for altruistic reasons, for patriotic reasons, only to find out that we&#8217;re paying them to do it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ya know those &#8220;Hometown Heroes&#8221; spots during your NFL sports games where the game stops and &hellip; <a title=\"Taxpayer-funded Hometown Heroes &#038; the NFL\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59737\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Taxpayer-funded Hometown Heroes &#038; the NFL<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/59738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}