Watching Sports Reporters and Howard Bryant's final comments spoke of this. Teams are getting huge $$$ to stage these. Say it's good for recruiting young kids????

Falcons have been paid $870,000 and Patriots $700,000 for their stagings.

Money paid by Dept of defense. $53,000,000 since 2012

Some of them are real but report is "Paid Patriotism and Arizona Senators John McCain and Jeff Flake want everyone to know about it.

Not shocked

DeyDurkie5;1766385 wrote:Not shocked

That just seems off limits. Like the crack whore mom going around collecting money because her son has "cancer"

I always assumed there was a level of staging. Otherwise you got a lot of dicks who don't tell their family they are safe and returning home.

Laley23;1766397 wrote:I always assumed there was a level of staging. Otherwise you got a lot of dicks who don't tell their family they are safe and returning home.

Figured that as well except for maybe the 1 person on the field....didn't think $53 million dollars of money to go along with it

The 53 million isn't staging. 53 million is what the DOD has paid the NFL, because the NFL charges them to do military appreciation week and all that.

I wouldn't be shocked if some of those are staged. I'm sure it actually is good for recruiting. I know people who have gotten pro or college teams to do them though and they weren't staged.