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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri Feb 10, 2017, 05:14 PM Feb 2017

NFL Threatens to Keep Super Bowl Out of Texas if 'Bathroom Bill' Passes

Source: Mediaite


by Joe DePaolo | 3:43 pm, February 10th, 2017

This past Sunday, the state of Texas played host to the Super Bowl for the fourth time in the game’s 51-year history. But on Friday, the NFL warned that if a new proposed bill passes and is signed into law, the game may not return.

In an email, NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy told the Houston Chronicle that the passage of Senate Bill 6 (Texas’s so-called “bathroom bill,” which would require individuals to use the bathroom of the gender specified on their birth certificate), could keep the league from awarding future Super Bowls to the state.

“The NFL embraces inclusiveness,” McCarthy said. “We want all fans to feel welcomed at our events, and NFL policies prohibit discrimination based on age, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, or any other improper standard.

“If a proposal that is discriminatory or inconsistent with our values were to become law there, that would certainly be a factor considered when thinking about awarding future events.”

Read more: http://www.mediaite.com/online/nfl-threatens-to-keep-super-bowl-out-of-texas-if-bathroom-bill-passes/

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NFL Threatens to Keep Super Bowl Out of Texas if 'Bathroom Bill' Passes (Original Post) DonViejo Feb 2017 OP
The Texas bathroom bill would be bad news for Texas Gothmog Feb 2017 #1
Hats off and thumbs up for the sports organizations Marthe48 Feb 2017 #2
I don't remember them speaking up in NC Norbert9 Feb 2017 #3
They don't have a Super Bowl currently scheduled for North Carolina Calista241 Feb 2017 #4
I live here. There is NO problem in bathrooms. jeanmarc Feb 2017 #5
I would just like to know, what in the hell are people so afraid of. Go in do your business, get out YOHABLO Feb 2017 #6
So how would they enforce that? Zing Zing Zingbah Feb 2017 #7
Pecker checkers mac56 Feb 2017 #8

Calista241

(5,586 posts)
4. They don't have a Super Bowl currently scheduled for North Carolina
Fri Feb 10, 2017, 07:42 PM
Feb 2017

2018 will be in Minneapolis, MN
2019 will be in Atlanta, GA
2020 will be in Miami, FL
2021 will be in Los Angeles, CA

Nothing after 2021 has been announced. It wouldn't be that hard for them to just not schedule a Super Bowl in North Carolina. And moving Panthers games out of Charlotte could be challenging given current contracts, etc.

 

YOHABLO

(7,358 posts)
6. I would just like to know, what in the hell are people so afraid of. Go in do your business, get out
Fri Feb 10, 2017, 09:14 PM
Feb 2017

Zing Zing Zingbah

(6,496 posts)
7. So how would they enforce that?
Fri Feb 10, 2017, 09:58 PM
Feb 2017

Do you have to bring your birth certificate with you when you use a public restroom in Texas? Have a bathroom monitor cop OK you to use the potty?

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