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Jan. 28, 2013 9:30pm Jason Howerton

San Francisco 49ers Coach Jim Harbaugh Issues Witty Response to President Obama

NEW ORLEANS, LA – JANUARY 28: San Francisco 49ers head coach, Jim Harbaugh, speaks with the media during a media availability session for Super Bowl XLVII at the New Orleans Marriot on January 28, 2013 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Credit: Getty Images

In a recent interview with The New Republic, President Barack Obama told one of his former staffers that he wasn’t sure whether he would let his fictional son play football due to his safety concerns.

When asked by a reporter about the remarks on Monday, San Francisco 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh issued a witty response to the president, saying if Obama feels that way, “then there will be a little less competition” for his own son.

“If President Obama feels that way, then there will be a little less competition for Jack Harbaugh when he gets older,” Harbaugh said, prompting laughter. ”That’s the first thing that jumps into my mind, if other parents are thinking that way.”

A reporter later asked Harbaugh jokingly what his 4-month-old son’s 40 time was.

“We don’t have a time on him yet, but his wingspan is a plus one,” he said. “As soon as he grows into that head he’s going to be something. It’s early, but expectations are high for young Jack.”

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Spitfire1938
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 1:53am
I perused most of the comments on this story… THIS is what your using your 1st Amendment right on!? Holy Schickt, there is NO hope for America! What a bunch of blithering idiots! You can all hide from the ‘clueless’ AUTHORITIES your complaining about… over there… in the corner! Maybe they wont notice you.

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- Jayms
  Posted on January 29, 2013 at 6:49am
  The irony of your post is beyond words.
  
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- AngryK9
  Posted on January 29, 2013 at 7:31am
  Spitfire. The word is you’re. This is what you’re (your are) using your first ammendment…….
  Also, the authorities you’re complaining about. Makes a difference….just trying to help.
  
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- LIBERTARIAN T38
  Posted on January 29, 2013 at 7:46am
  It’s you’re…the blah blah YOU’RE complaining blah blah… Sorry, but that and “I should’ve went” drive me nuts…and 57 states…
  
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- loveoursoldiers
  Posted on January 29, 2013 at 8:01am
  You seem to like bloviating under the 1st amendment.. you libs are all alike
  
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- love the kids
  Posted on January 29, 2013 at 8:08am
  I am VERY against people that use the 1% comments or believe in that, but with that being said, how come the people that hate the 1%, never seem to go after the NFL? What I mean is: The NFL is going after expansion in other countries, to day the Bills have agreed to play another 5 games in Canada. I can’t think of another corporation that takes more tax dollars than the NFL. Stadium tax subsudies, police to control traffic, federal air waves, most of their employees are millionaires, then on taking care of ex-millionaires after they blow all that money, but yet, they want to go out of this country to expand, and on YOUR tax dollar. I would just like one of the 1% haters to give back an explanation, as they see it in their mind.
  
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- Paulhgreenbay
  Posted on January 29, 2013 at 8:20am
  @Spitfire1938
  
  Ahh ahh ahh are you german?
  
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- strats
  Posted on January 29, 2013 at 8:56am
  I told my seven year old niece to climb to the top of a tree way back in the day.
  Seventy feet tall, that daunting tree.
  She was scared, but she climbed it.
  Now that’s she’s grown up she trusts me and herself.
  I don’t know why she doesn’t trust politicians.
  What could be the reason?
  
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on January 29, 2013 at 11:21am
  SPITFIRE1938
  They can use their 1st Amendment right or whatever they want, that’s what it’s there for. You are also free to visit another site if you don’t like what theBlaze is doing. This is what capitalism is all about.
  
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- John.Galt
  Posted on January 29, 2013 at 11:25am
  LOL… and by YOUR comments, YOU are part of IT!! ROTFL!
  
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- Joe_The_Patriot
  Posted on January 29, 2013 at 12:11pm
  How much do you want to bet that we are going to have to endure obama’s voice and face at some point during super bowl sunday…. it’s either going to be a safety message or an antigun message.. Some how he’s going to get his mug on TV….. Mark my words… I’ll be very very surprised if not….
  
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- OhioRifleman
  Posted on January 29, 2013 at 12:44pm
  @ Spitfire
  
  Lighten up, Francis.
  
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- Clive
  Posted on January 29, 2013 at 1:01pm
  JAYMS said
  “The irony of your post is beyond words.”
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  Bravo jayms, Thats the best possible reply. “Spitfire”. this is the internet buddy, not every story is for you, there are several other stories on this site for you to read and comment on, why berate the people on this forum with your negative bs. beat it.
  
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- sjpru
  Posted on January 29, 2013 at 1:34pm
  irony or not…i agree..i find it disgusting there is ANY conversation about football injuries…policemen are killed and injured in the line of duty…firemen are killed and injured in the line of duty…but most of all our soldiers are killed, injured and maimed while defending this country and protecting our freedom and NONE of them are prima-donna multi-millionaire football players…and our soldiers CANNOT sue the government when their lives are ruined by military missions manipulated by asinine cowardly, stupid, traitorous nyt, politicians, presidents and their entire administration.
  
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- Jack_Reacher
  Posted on January 29, 2013 at 1:48pm
  Shitfire1938 … Have you considered hanging it up? Give it a thought… Go peacefully. Just go.
  
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- MikeG60
  Posted on January 29, 2013 at 2:43pm
  Spunky, you should stop cutting class, and as soon as possible.
  
  I) “THIS is what *your* using” and then again, “*your* complaining about”
  That should be you’re, the contraction for ‘you are’. Not your, the possessive case of you.
  
  II) “Maybe they *wont* notice you.”
  a) Adjective: (of a person) In the habit of doing something; accustomed.
  b) Noun: One’s customary behavior in a particular situation: “Constance, as was her wont, left early”
  c) Verb: Make or be or become accustomed.
  As such that ‘wont’ should be won’t, the contraction for ‘will not’.
  
  III) Why do you hate the punctuation mark, ‘period’? All of your sentences end with exclamation marks. That is, all except for the last one and that should have a question mark.
  
  IV) What’s up with the all ellipses? None are grammatically correct. Or do you just like typing dots?
  Wait! I’ve got it. You saw those used in the New York Times by Mo Dowd, now didn’t you!
  
  Anywho, speaking of “blithering idiots!” you should know bunky as you see one in the mirror each day. But you are correct one point, “there is NO hope for America” — because people like you keep breeding.
  
  Have a nice existence, ya Barking Moonbat
  
  ps: You might have a psychosis against the apostrophe mark. That, or English isn’t your first language. ..
  
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- Ms. Texas
  Posted on January 29, 2013 at 6:06pm
  Give us another topic and we will all comment on it. Whatever topic is thrown at us, we comment. If you look at other stories, you will see we all have commented on those as well. Serious, funny, ridiculous – we are all equal opportunity commenters.
  BTW, are you a liberal? I ask because you are totally humorless like most of them.
  
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Bainca
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 1:45am
Obama may have a point, but the platform by which he expressed it were a little off. Read more here: http://www.sportsbettingbookmakers.com.au/2013/01/nfl-players-react-to-obama-football-is-not-safe/

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- busterpuddles
  Posted on January 29, 2013 at 8:47am
  the only really good, solid point obumbler has ever had is the one on his head.
  
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- Clive
  Posted on January 29, 2013 at 1:05pm
  i’m with barack on this one anyway. Its a choice. I choose to not have my sons brain beat in playing football, my kids play baseball, which is dangerous enough. If you want your kids to have concussions, the chronic brain swelling, etc, more power to you. Plus, me and my sons, will still enjoy watching your sons have their brains bashed in. Someones got to entertain us.
  
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LeadNotFollow
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 1:31am
In my opinion, if Obama had a Son, he would be a ballet dancer, not a football player.

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- NOTAMUSHROOM
  Posted on January 29, 2013 at 5:27am
  That’s for sure. He’ll probably crap his drawers if anyone ever takes him to a PBR bull ride!
  
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- jst1425
  Posted on January 29, 2013 at 5:27am
  First of all…obama obviously doesn’t has enough testosterone to make a little man…
  
  Second…IF he had a son….his son would be the czar of all that is unicorns and glitter….
  
  and the last poit is this….are we absolutely sure obama does not has a son? That son may be living in kenya in a hut made of dung….like some of the other distant obama relatives!
  
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- LIBERTARIAN T38
  Posted on January 29, 2013 at 7:46am
  No, he would be a son of a fascist…simple.
  
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- JohnofOregon
  Posted on January 29, 2013 at 10:40am
  If Obama had a son he would be in the new “boy scouts” the poor kid wouldn’t stand a chance.
  
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- Gaaaah
  Posted on January 29, 2013 at 2:41pm
  Is the son in question the same son that would look like Trayvon?
  
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- Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
  Posted on January 29, 2013 at 2:58pm
  If Obama had a son, his son would be disappointed in his Dad.
  
  His son would get beat up by Greg Guttfeld and Bill Shultz.
  
  If Obama had a son, Stuart Smalley would not think he is good enough, smart enough, and that anyone liked him.
  
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- ScoobyCheese
  Posted on January 30, 2013 at 10:22am
  He would smoke too much to be a ballet dancer. And Herschel Walker took ballet. It helped his balance and flexibility. Ballet would be WAY too difficult for an Obama.
  
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Spitfire1938
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 1:17am
Excuse me????? That ‘GUY’ has in four years DESTROYED the USA! Every one of you is P*****G your pants over what he’s done and what he’s going to do next…. and “HE” has no Ball’s? Bull S**t!!!! If any of you had ball’s you’d be strategizing and organizing against him and his communist party takeover, not making snide remarks about his character on the Blaze!

In my view there is no America anymore, and certainly there are NO living Americans with Ball’s!!!!! Bunch of little crybabies moaning about the future of FOOTBALL when your all nothing but SLAVES living in a dream world that’s about to collapse on YOU!!!!

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- Thatsitivehadenough
  Posted on January 29, 2013 at 1:28am
  Obama’s mother should have aborted him. Think of all the money it would have saved American taxpayers, not to mention saving the USA from his crimes against humanity in America.
  
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- Eleutheria
  Posted on January 29, 2013 at 1:37am
  It’s the calm before the storm.
  
  There is no need to jump the gun, so to speak.
  
  Tyranny has existed on this planet for as long as mankind and we have been lucky enough to live in a 236 year era of relative freedom and prosperity in America, which is more than the citizens of any other civilization can claim.
  
  We have an advantage over the militias at Lexington and Concord. We all have access to a far greater amount of intelligence regarding our adversaries and we can send encrypted messages at extremely high speeds.
  
  Don’t be so hasty ;)
  
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- c.parker
  Posted on January 29, 2013 at 4:28am
  I agree with Ele.
  
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- Spitfire1938
  Posted on January 29, 2013 at 6:12am
  Thanks folks… I just get frustrated…
  
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- pissantno.10
  Posted on January 29, 2013 at 8:59am
  sorry me paul did not know it was you on the line
  
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- techengineer11
  Posted on January 29, 2013 at 2:33pm
  Spitfire1938
  Do not be deceived. Your first analysis was dead on.
  
  We are all sitting ducks.
  
  There’s no opposition.
  
  I actually see some somewhat conservative people selling out because they are afraid.
  
  I had an upper level manager today tell a group of about 200 that we should not be contacting our Congressmen or President every time there’s an issue we dont’ agree with or we would be “flagged”!
  
  No kidding.
  
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- mash4077
  Posted on January 29, 2013 at 5:45pm
  I agree with you. we did organize against him,it’s called the tea party. you see how it was demonized and compared to vile segments of society like the kkk.we are fighting on all fronts with these guys. they hold all the cards and have a lot of power.it’s going to be a long fight.keep your cool and be prepared for the long haul.
  
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UseTP2wipe
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 1:07am
Yeah, Beck….that was a real zinger……..

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Beachmastermax
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 12:52am
Barry can’t throw a baseball all the way to the plate. He could do car commercials with his fictional son.

This is just another case of our president making comments about something he knows absolutely nothing about. How many years of football did you play Mr. President? About the same amount as you have in the private sector…..Zero!

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Chancellor
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 12:39am
If he had a son, looking at the father, he would never makeit on the Pee Wee team…….at 20.

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- rawmilker
  Posted on January 29, 2013 at 12:54am
  Obama was a weak, frail little marxist, so was Hitler
  
  Inside the mind of Adlof Hitler gives us a pretty good inside look of what we’re dealing with here.
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DmyEBGXTVU
  
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- techengineer11
  Posted on January 29, 2013 at 5:57am
  rawmilker
  Posted on January 29, 2013 at 12:54am
  Obama was a weak, frail little marxist, so was Hitler
  
  Inside the mind of Adlof Hitler gives us a pretty good inside look of what we’re dealing with here.
  
  Hitler invaded the Soviet Union for 2 reasons. 1. They were going to eventually make a move for Europe and 2. He wanted to destroy Jewish Marxism.
  
  So he risked his entire damn nation to destroy Marxism and now in 2013 we have dumbass ignorant Americans calling the man a marxist.
  
  Interesting the way propaganda works.
  
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702TruthSeeker
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 12:09am
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpntlwiJKa1qkzq2g.png

commander in chief

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- 702TruthSeeker
  Posted on January 29, 2013 at 12:15am
  http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__vjcuVchhnA/SIkqfw5MBGI/AAAAAAAAAkg/FTN_Cvbtwxc/s320/obama+urkel+hope.jpg
  
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patriot30-378
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 11:40pm
The difference between Jim Harbaugh and Barack Obama is that Jim H has a set of balls, they are in his pants. If Obama has any balls, they are in Michelle’s hand bag.

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- Conservative2
  Posted on January 29, 2013 at 12:08am
  LMAO, Aint it the truth!
  
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- nesmond
  Posted on January 29, 2013 at 12:24am
  I’m sorry, but you are mistaken. obama’s balls are in michelle’s pants.
  
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spirited
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 11:36pm
Didn’t his composit son Treyvon like collecting or storing jelwelery and stuff for friends?

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vic138
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 11:25pm
In Barry’s high school yearbook he dedicated his time there to his drug dealer. Not the kind of person that’s going to make it in football.

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- chips1
  Posted on January 29, 2013 at 1:11pm
  JAY CARNEY…..”Obama makes passes all the time. It’s just that it’s at other guys”.
  
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oxycontinxx
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 11:20pm
burrak is a POOSEY !!!!

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GBTVFan_Non_American_Overseas
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 11:19pm
Barry is not a football guy….he is more like a Pilates guy….

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- cowgirl
  Posted on January 29, 2013 at 12:25am
  I dunno, that pilates can be very dangerous. Ihave heard of people that have strained a muscle.
  
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Zeke48
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 11:10pm
Besides Obama is a skinny little guy with no balls for football, and it seems that he doesn’t have what it takes to make a football player. If he grew up in my neighbor hood, and with that smart ass BS he throws around, he would get his a$$ kicked every day. he was a street punk and he has never changed? I wouldn’t be surprised if he still smoked weed, even in the Oval Office. the man has no respect, and we all just found out how good of a Constitutional Lawyer he is. The court just told him he broke the law when he appointed three positions during Congress was still in office. Now he is trying to change the second amendment . Who the hell does he think he is.

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- oxycontinxx
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 11:22pm
  he s the porch monkey currently occupying the white house.
  
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- Spitfire1938
  Posted on January 29, 2013 at 1:26am
  Hey Zeke… He’s the guy that owns your A**… what are you going to do about it , eunuch!?!?
  
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- samarov
  Posted on January 29, 2013 at 4:09pm
  Zeke: He would never have survived in the South Phila I came out of. I never knew a baseball diamond had grass, we all hook-slid in the basepath cinders surface. That means you stole base once a game! :):) In H.S. is when I was introduced to a real, regulation diamond…very nice.
  When I saw BHO pose as a baseball fan, White Sox paraphernalia and all, then throw his “pitch” about ten feet high to barely reach a guy at Home Plate wearing a fielder’s mitt, he was strictly a wannabee in my book.
  If he did try to Skeet-Shoot, he’d probably need a Secret Service guy to keep him erect after the gun’s recoil.
  
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REDNECK CALIPHATE
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:21pm
So what if Obama’s daughter’s want to join the military, and become a combat soldier on the front line? Is that ok with him? I doubt it. This douche is the biggest hypocrite i’ve ever seen.

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- Jake Dog2
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:41pm
  GOOOOOO BIG RED Neb. is the ONE
  
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- TulsaYeeHaw
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 11:37pm
  I’ve yet to forgive Texas for running Nebraska off.
  
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ThePirateRagnar
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:17pm
He was too busy with other high school and college activities to worry about football. There was dope to be smoked, coke to be snorted, cigs to puff on. Sheeeeeeet. Who wants to RUN and HIT PEOPLE when you can RUN for office and HIT the bong baabeee!

Arrrrrgh!

The Pirate Ragnar

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REDNECK CALIPHATE
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:15pm
What the he!! is wrong with this country? We’ve become a bunch of p u s s i e s! Waaaaa! Football is too violent. These guys know what they’re getting into. And guess what? They love it. They get paid millions to play a game. How awesome would that be? They know the risk. People need to stop worrying so much about these players. They’re GROWN MEN. They can decide for them selves if they want to risk there bodies to play, and for most, I’m sure its the funnest thing in there life. Calm down nanny state.

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- DEFCON4
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:26pm
  Football is not a contact sport, it’s a collision sport – dancing is a contact sport.
  - Vince Lombardi
  
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- Colin Maynerdson III
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 11:13pm
  Now you know why this country has failed to finish every war since WWII with a convincing victory.
  Our leaders are ******* and they won’t be satisfied until the entire country is sissified and feminized….starting with every male child indoctrinated through the public education system and by doping generation after generation of young male children with mind altering ADHD drugs….systematically turning them into mush instead of men.
  
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- normalmom
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 11:17pm
  Tell that to Junior Seau’s family who are suing the NFL for his committing suicide. The rules are making it get closer and closer to flag football.
  
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- phil1765
  Posted on January 29, 2013 at 2:09am
  normalmom
  In all actuality Seau was a linebacker and if you are tackling using your helment you are doing it wrong and can now be penalized for spearing.
  
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- chips1
  Posted on January 29, 2013 at 1:23pm
  PHIL:
  Spearing is racist.
  
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bonesiii
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:09pm
An abortionist is concerned about the safety of children, even hypothetical children. Did anyone else notice the hypocrisy? Especially, has it ever occurred to Obama himself?

In all seriousness, if we can murder children when they’re inconvenient, why not let them do anything regardless of safety later? At what point does their safety magically start to matter, and why? Birth? Why? Their brain doesn’t change noticeably from the moment just before it. Three years later? When they become adults?

I’m serious — I would like an abortionist to try to explain this contradiction to me, if explaining it were possible… :)

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- Blitzking
  Posted on January 29, 2013 at 12:51am
  They cant explain away their lost soulless ideas FOOLS WHY DID THE USA PUT THIS STINKING MONKEY BACK IN???
  
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awiderview
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 9:57pm
Maybe that’s why one is president and the other is a football coach. I enjoy watching football, but I would be concerned about my son playing….I guest I’ll never be a football coach. lol.

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Thundergod
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 9:53pm
Obama would only play football if someone else took the hit for him and he wasnt held responsible for his individual performance,unless they want to give him credit for the win.

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- dealer@678
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:20pm
  Dont be surprised if they hand him the Vince Lombardi trophy after the game AND annoint him most valuable player
  
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- scarydave
  Posted on January 29, 2013 at 12:02am
  Dealer,
  They would give him the trophy BEFORE the game. That’s how he got his Nobel Peace prize!
  
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crusaderx9
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 9:49pm
Anyone with common sense knows that obama is a turd except for progressives like this reporter who apparently is dumber than a fly… She is just another liberal who seeks to invade every aspect of our lives by bringing us progressive talking points to advance an anti-American agenda.

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dealer@678
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 9:43pm
Love that guy. Just wish he was here in Dallas

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- RLTW
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 9:50pm
  Have you heard of that new Tony Romo cologne? You put it on but the other guy scores.
  
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progressiveslayer
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 9:43pm
The only thing Barry likes about the NFL are the tight ends and the wide receivers.

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- civilwarcometh
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 9:51pm
  Don’t forget about the water boy’s…
  
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- gyro
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 9:56pm
  Shocking !
  
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- mercenary4freedom
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 11:16pm
  Barry wants to hang with players like Hollywood Henderson. Standing on the sideline snorting coke.
  
  LOL RLTW.
  
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- spfoam1
  Posted on January 29, 2013 at 12:59am
  Obama used to be a tight end, but after years of getting hammered he became a wide receiver.
  
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theBru
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 9:43pm
the Harbaugh’s are good for football…

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skippy6
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 9:40pm
Barry can’t play a mans sport because he is not a man..He also throws a ball like a wuss….

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