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NFL returning $723K for paid military tributes
- Updated: May 19, 2016
1:57 PM ET
The NFL is returning more than $700,000 to taxpayers from sponsored military tributes put on by its teams.
After being criticized for “paid patriotism,” in which money came out of the armed forces budget for various measures of public recognition during games, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said that the league would pay the money back.
In a letter written to Senators Jeff Flake and John McCain on Wednesday, and disclosed on Thursday, Goodell said that — following an audited review of 100 marketing agreements from 2012 to 2015 by accounting firm Deloitte & Touche — teams were deemed to have received $723,734 for acts of sponsored patriotism.
That money, Goodell promised, would be returned to the government. Goodell …
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