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TheRover
11-10-2005, 08:02 PM
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Ralph Nader, onetime presidential candidate and consumer advocate, has asked Eagles CEO Jeffrey Lurie and NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue to reconsider Terrell Owens' suspension.

In a letter to the football officials dated Nov. 10, Nader called Owens' comments boorish, but defended the receiver's right to speak.

"If the Eagles management declines to remedy its mistake, commissioner Tagliabue, you should intervene to overturn the team's decision, which dishonors this country's traditional respect for free speech and cheats fans of an opportunity to see arguably the best receiver in football.

"Let him play."

Nader signed the letter as founder of League of Fans, which he describes as a sports reform project.

"Fans have purchased tickets for Eagles' games, in Philadelphia and elsewhere, on the assumption that they will see one of the game's most exciting receivers, so long as he is healthy enough to play. The Eagles' action denies them this opportunity."

-- ESPN.com news services

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wtf. (http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2219743)
Voltron87
11-10-2005, 08:06 PM
wow ralph nader is such a [censored]
imported_CaseClosed326
11-10-2005, 08:19 PM
That's some funny [censored] right there.
SonnyJay
11-10-2005, 09:00 PM
Good to hear he's taking up worthy consumer advocacy projects.

-SonnyJay
MarkL444
11-10-2005, 09:06 PM
im backing TO too because he's on my fantasy team. BRING TO BACK!
11-10-2005, 10:25 PM
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im backing TO too because he's on my fantasy team. BRING TO BACK!

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Ralph Nader is on my fantasy team. He's got more fantasies than anyone else I know.
11-11-2005, 04:16 AM
i just lost respect for nader.

i cant believe he sold out like that.

--and do you guys see how phony is the speech? how he calls TO "the most exciting player in football."

what a sellout.
mikech
11-11-2005, 04:30 AM
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i just lost respect for nader.

i cant believe he sold out like that.

--and do you guys see how phony is the speech? how he calls TO "the most exciting player in football."

what a sellout.

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you JUST lost respect for nader?

he also called for some sorta investigation into the officiating during the WCF between the lakers and kings a few years back (granted, the refereeing in that series was atrocious).

more importantly, he's one of the parties most culpable for george frickin' w. being president the last 5 years.
Notorious G.O.B.
11-11-2005, 07:53 AM
It's his right to run for president if he wants to, not really anyone else's business.
MEbenhoe
11-11-2005, 10:07 AM
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i just lost respect for nader.

i cant believe he sold out like that.

--and do you guys see how phony is the speech? how he calls TO "the most exciting player in football."

what a sellout.

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he called TO one of the most exciting receivers in football, and I would find it hard to believe that someone could possibly not think this.