NFL denies it sent Trump a letter over debate schedule

[Cali_Democrat]

Source: The Hill

Donald Trump, who has started to voice complaints about the presidential debate schedule, said the National Football league sent him a letter protesting the dates that overlapped with games. But the NFL Saturday said that's not true.

"While we'd obviously wish the Debate Commission could find another night, we did not send a letter to Mr Trump," a spokesman for the organization said.

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/289889-nfl-denies-it-sent-trump-a-letter-over-debate-schedule

[mucifer]

1. Bring out the butterfly net.

[world wide wally]

2. Another minute...

Another lie

[They_Live]

3. Today keeps getting better

and better...

[RKP5637]

4. The guy is an unraveling ball of string! n/t

[ChairmanAgnostic]

6. A knotty problem, as to when

Teh Don completely unravels.

[ToxMarz]

7. he has more than 3 months left

and this is when it becomes REAL. Without throngs of vocal supporters, unending positive media attention/support, comforts of a king, and tons of hair and makeup support, he will lose interest.

[Thor_MN]

35. Tiny ballsies of string result in little knottzies...

[ChairmanAgnostic]

38. Heh, fantastic.

Duzy material.

[hibbing]

5. What a crybaby n/t

[63splitwindow]

8. They rightfully want no association with the national embarrassment that is Don the Con.

[Grassy Knoll]

9. Trumps NFL....

Notes
From
Lucifer ?

[Kathy M]

10. A complaint to make news , media

Also read on another site where the blame was already being put on Hillary for those dates ....... Believe dates set up long time ago probably through the 2 parties

[George II]

11. Actually what I heard is that the group that set up the dates did it independently of the parties.

[Kathy M]

17. Thanks for corection :) ....... I remembered reading article

few days ago , was not quite sure if I had remembered correctly or not .

[George II]

22. Sure thing. That makes some of the phony claims out there even more ridiculous.

[Kingofalldems]

12. He lies about everything.

[Botany]

13. Trump caught in a lie?

What a shock.

Just like at his last press conference Don the Con said that he heard Putin calling
President Obama a n****r and at the sam confernce he said he had never met
Putim.

Groups that Don the Con has pissed off
Women
Blacks
Latinos
GLBT (Pence)
and now the NFL

my dream is a blue Texas, Arizona, Georgia, and Missouri this November.

[bucolic_frolic]

14. I hope there are no debates

there is nothing to gain when confronted with his tactics

He interrupts, and yells, and calls people names

Moderators don't enforce the rules because he bends every rule

It's not doable

[Shrike47]

15. Will this lie attract attention? After all, he called out the sacred NFL.

[clutterbox1830]

16. The debates are set up by the Commission on Presidential Debates

The debates are set up by the Commission on Presidential Debates, a non-partisan committee comprised of Democrats, Republicans, and Independents formed in 1987 to guarantee that every election included debates between the major candidates.

The debate rules / schedule were set out more than a year ago by a nonpartisan commission.

Also, we have had debates scheduled in the past opposite NFL games and no one complained then... at least until now.

[pangaia]

26. Why is it called football?

They don't play with their feet.

[jamese777]

43. The game begins...

with a "kickoff." Points can be scored by kicking field goals and extra points. Players run the ball with their feet and they run using their feet after they catch a pass. The defense uses its feet to run after and tackle whoever has the ball.
Feet are an important component of the game.

[pangaia]

45. well, I guess you have a point there.

Of course REAL futbol players do everything with their feet, which is why it is called futbol.

[Moostache]

51. Then why are so many goals scored with the head? (LOL!)

Soccer in the USA is gaining popularity very slowly outside of World Cup years, but its been steady. Globall "football" / "futbol" is an entertaining game that if more AMericans viewed as more analogous to baseball than to the NFL / NCAA football might just gain more popularity still.

I still believe that the USWNT is a superior product to the USMNT in that aside from being more accomplished internationally, the USWNT also plays an eminently more watchable style of play. The recent Gold Cup loss to Argentina by the USMNT was disgraceful to watch...no imagination, no attacking, no shots on goal...they looked scared and played scared and got annihilated as a result. More than any cultural aversion to the game or anything else, performances like THAT on the world stage are why soccer remains "soccer" in the USA and Football remains king...

[William Seger]

52. I think of it as more like basketball

... except that it's harder to hit the "soccer ring" (as Ted Cruz might call it).

[redstateblues]

18. Trump practicing dominance politics

Trying to get the debate commission to bend to his will. Check out Josh Marshall's latest column http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/no-certainty-debates-will-happen-at-all

[Kathy M]

32. just read article .... watch he will start back up with the rigged statements like

in the primary ...... then start complaining about the electoral college etc etc I hope they do not take that kind of stuff from him anymore . Rules are rules ............

[7962]

19. Jesus, does it EVER stop??? nt

[wordpix]

46. no, not unless Trumpenfuhrer gets 100% his way, all the time

That didn't work out too well for the other Fuhrer.

[7962]

47. Its just amazing that no one has convinced him to SHUT UP yet!!!

[catbyte]

20. He just pulls lies out of his ass like it was nothing. He's probably gotten away with it

since he was a pathetic little boy trying to worm his way out of trouble, and nobody in the private sector ever bothered or dared to call him on those lies because he was a member of The Lucky Sperm Club.

Running for political office is a whole different animal, isn't it, shithead? I'm glad that they're not letting him get away with it now, but shame on everybody for letting the clusterfuck that is Trump go this far. And double shame on cowards like Ryan and McConnell for continuing to prop up this worthless POS.

[Kingofalldems]

21. I just tweeted your link to Chuck Todd.

I'm sure he'll confront Trump on it.

Not.

[SticksnStones]

23. He's throwing out every trick in the book

To try and get people to stop talking about how exciting the democratic convention was and just start talking about him again.

It's his m.o.

[63splitwindow]

24. In claiming that the NFL had sent him a letter, maybe he was answering a question I asked last night

"10. And who compared the debate schedule with the NFL game schedule and why?
As per usual, there is so much stupidity/insanity involved with his vile bile that it is mind boggling to normal folks. "

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=8060888

[Grammy23]

25. Well, let's face it...tRump has had a difficult week.

First, the DNC had an amazing convention and even the "issues" they had seemed to be resolved fairly quickly. Then his desire for a YUGE bounce out of his Convention was not the way he wanted. Like the petulant little boy he is, he is having a hissy fit. Lashing out is his way of dealing with anything he deems to be an insult. tRump in the Oval Office is a nightmare we can't afford to risk. We all need to redouble our efforts to make sure he is buried in a landslide of Hillary votes.

His latest lie about a nonexistent letter from the NFL is typical. He thinks no one will check up on it and even if they do, NO ONE WILL CARE. Among his core voters, he is right. For the rest of the electorate, it's just another reason to not vote for this sick, deluded man/child.

[DawgHouse]

28. Yes, he thinks no one will care and even wrote about

this method of deceiving people in his book, Art of the Deal. (Or his ghostwriter wrote, I should say)

[DawgHouse]

27. Donnie and the truth are strangers.

[bellmartin]

40. I like the phrase "He has an adversarial relationship with the truth."

[DawgHouse]

48. That's perfect.

[Feeling the Bern]

29. Trump will come out and say "The NFL is in HRC's tank" and his idiots devotees will still eat up his

shit.

[Cracklin Charlie]

30. The NFL is on four damn nights a week.

It would be impossible to schedule around them.

[jamese777]

44. Scheduling

No NFL on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays or Saturday nights.

[calimary]

31. And he says Hillary is the liar?

MAN...

[YOHABLO]

33. It really is disgusting that we have to worry that something as important as

a presidential debate goes up against an NFL game; because we know everyone in the country will be watching football rather than the debate. Why should Trump care?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

34. Maybe I'll switch channels and watch both.

The debates should be most interesting to those who are undecided.

Whoever those five people are.

I don't expect there will be anything in the debates that will cause me to switch my vote.

[MrModerate]

36. But Trump is likely to be at his most crazed and erratic during a debate . . .

And that (along with his gross incompetence at debating) could peel off voters still considering him.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

42. No, he won't be at his most crazed and erratic during a debate.

He'd be at his very most crazed and erratic during a Trump presidency.

But, whatever he does during the debate, I'm pretty sure he won't earn my vote.

As far as "undecided voters" go, well, I don't know any. A few of my friends are die-hard Trump supporters, and I can't change their minds. So I encourage them to vote their conscience on Tuesday, Nov 15.

[lark]

37. Can drumpf ever open his mouth without lying?

The answer is "NO". He's a totally pathological, all the time, liar.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

49. How do you know when Drumpf is lying?

His lips are moving

[lark]

50. I totally get that.

So, that's the true answer to my question.

[riversedge]

39. K and R.

[riversedge]

41. drats--these are GB Packer colors--

And another issue:
Lots of tweets include Bernie----Trump is really trying to reel in the Sanders supporters.



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..................Brian McCarthy (@NFLprguy) July 30, 2016

Trump, in an interview with ABC News earlier this week, complained about the three presidential debates, two of which are scheduled for the same night as NFL games.

"I'll tell you what I don't like," Trump said. "It's against two NFL games. I got a letter from the NFL saying, 'This is ridiculous.'"

"I don't think we should be against the NFL," he went on. "I don't know how the dates are picked."..............................



.................On Friday, Trump, who once skipped a Republican primary debate after a tiff with one of the Fox News moderators, also tweeted out an accusation that "Hillary & the Dems" were attempting to "rig the debates" with the scheduling:

As usual, Hillary & the Dems are trying to rig the debates so 2 are up against major NFL games. Same as last time w/ Bernie. Unacceptable!.........................

[The Second Stone]

53. He is afraid to debate when the audience isn't exclusively Fox News

Dementites.

It would be hilarious if the NFL moved those games several hours saying it's because they want to see what lie Trump will come up with next to be such a coward.

[sarcasmo]

54. Lie, then backtrack on the lie, Trump Style.