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**Tennesseahawk** · 06-15-2009, 06:23 PM

Originally Posted by LDB

If there is rioting and looting shut down that city's team for a decade. If it happens a second time shut them down for a millennium. If the dirtbags, scum and trash are going to abuse the situation then reward them for it by shutting their team down. Pro sports teams are totally unnecessary.

If there's crime and violence, take the ppls' guns away. If the dirtbags, scum and trash are going to abuse the situation, then reward them by taking away everyone's 2nd Amendment rights. Guns are totally unnecessary.

See how a couple words switched around can make your comment sound totally crazy? Why would you punish the law abiding citizens for what a couple of hoodlums do? And just because you think sports teams are unnecessary, so what? Isn't that free enterprise?

Simple solution... warn the ppl of the area BEFORE the game, that any rioters will be shot on site... then follow thru.

**wellarmed** · 06-15-2009, 06:26 PM

Originally Posted by Doggie Daddy

When your teams win any type of championship,it is an open invitation to burn the town down and get a new pair of shoes and a tv set.

We have been waiting a long time to burn Cleveland,and I haven't had a new pair of sneakers or a tv in quite awhile.

Are you saying clevland has sports teams?

**LDB** · 06-15-2009, 08:26 PM

The teams could still play and the vendors still sell programs, just don't let that team play past the quarterfinals if they make the playoffs at all. Pro sports are not Constitutionally protected. I have no problem with a shoot on sight order for looters. I'd say deputize every business owner and make them the law in their own store with authority to shoot anyone entering and widely publicize that.

**wellarmed** · 06-15-2009, 08:40 PM

I believe in Texas you have the right to shoot someone committing a felony upon you,if thats true just have playoff games in Texas

**Tennesseahawk** · 06-15-2009, 09:01 PM

Originally Posted by LDB

The teams could still play and the vendors still sell programs, just don't let that team play past the quarterfinals if they make the playoffs at all. Pro sports are not Constitutionally protected. I have no problem with a shoot on sight order for looters. I'd say deputize every business owner and make them the law in their own store with authority to shoot anyone entering and widely publicize that.

Last I checked, pro sports are not government or public property, which makes them private property, which is what the Constitution is all about. So you bet your Texan tushie they're constitutionally protected!

**tallcal101** · 06-15-2009, 09:02 PM

Speaking of Cleveland( I try not to) what party affiliation were the Who fans that stomped other fans to death? Probably "independents". Or as we now call them ,Republicans with blind folds on (as in I voted against him).LOL

**greg334** · 06-15-2009, 09:13 PM

Originally Posted by Tennesseahawk

Last I checked, pro sports are not government or public property, which makes them private property, which is what the Constitution is all about. So you bet your Texan tushie they're constitutionally protected!

BUT... most venues that are used by professional sports are publicly owned and operated.

The real problem is more people care about sports than they do anything else, and it is just like Rome.

**Tennesseahawk** · 06-15-2009, 09:15 PM

Originally Posted by tallcal101

Speaking of Cleveland( I try not to) what party affiliation were the Who fans that stomped other fans to death? Probably "independents". Or as we now call them ,Republicans with blind folds on (as in I voted against him).LOL

Can you be more specific? I'm not finding anything. Or are you just making this up to look smart?

**Tennesseahawk** · 06-15-2009, 09:19 PM

Originally Posted by greg334

BUT... most venues that are used by professional sports are publicly owned and operated.

The real problem is more people care about sports than they do anything else, and it is just like Rome.

Yes, but there aren't any FEDERAL venues. If a city deemed it necessary to close a venue, it would just lose the revenue, and the franchise would move to a different city. It's still free enterprise, but with the local governments as a partner.

**tallcal101** · 06-15-2009, 09:35 PM

Correction: Cincinnati August 4,2004.
I get my Ohio cities mixed up.

**Tennesseahawk** · 06-15-2009, 09:39 PM

Originally Posted by tallcal101

Correction: Cincinnati August 4,2004.
I get my Ohio cities mixed up.

That's when they lifted the ban. The trampling happened Dec 3, 1979.

**Turtle** · 06-15-2009, 09:40 PM

Texas Judge: Why did you shoot that man?

Defendant: He needed killin'. He was a lootin' and a plunderin'

Judge: Good 'nuff. Case dismissed

There ya go. I'm for that.

**tallcal101** · 06-15-2009, 09:56 PM

I stand corrected twice,hell I knew that ,I was just testing you.By the way,I WAS at Altamont,unfortuantly,and it remains the most nightmarish thing and place I've ever done and been.Everytime I drive through the Altamont Pass it all comes back.
They just closed the old race track a few months ago. The Altamont Speedway is the official name of the "venue".May it rest in peace.