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NFL Reportedly Agrees to Pay Back Taxpayers for Acts of Sponsored Patriotism
- Updated: May 19, 2016
The NFL reportedly agreed to reimburse taxpayers Thursday after news broke last year that taxpayer money was funding acts of sponsored patriotism at professional sporting events.
According to ESPN’s Darren Rovell, the NFL will pay back $723,734 used for events such as flag ceremonies and welcome-back tributes for those in the military.
Senators Jeff Flake and John McCain (h/t Laura Barron-Lopez and Travis Waldron of the Huffington Post) revealed in November that the Department of Defense paid as much as $6.8 million in taxpayer money to fund United States military recognition at NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB and MLS games.
Rovell noted that the NFL is the …
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