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Last week, it was announced that presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama will move his acceptance speech from the Pepsi Center to Invesco Field at Mile High, or whatever in the hell the place is now called.
And the shift to the 75,000-seat stadium where the Broncos play their games is now creating headaches for the networks, which had planned to cover the entire convention at the 19,000-seat Pepsi Center, where the, um, Pepsis play, um, Pepsi.
In the end, the networks might have to scale back coverage of the first three nights of the convention.
John F. Kennedy accepted the party’s nomination at the Los Angeles Coliseum in 1960. Obama’s speech will coincide with the anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech.
By the way, we mention this development because the Obama speech will occur in an NFL stadium. If/when Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, schedules a speech at an NFL stadium, we’ll give him equal time.
July 7th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
>>If/when Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, schedules a speech at an NFL stadium, we’ll give him equal time.<<
Niiiice…a preemptive smackdown.
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July 7th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
Until then all you liberals can go an nut over Obama.
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July 7th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
Politcs and football one shouldn’t mix with the other.
Hell both candidates say they are for the people and want change for the better especially for the underprivileged,let them go stand on a soapbox in the middle of Queens if they really mean what they say and keep football out of it.
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July 7th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
Thanks for the heads up mike good stuff.
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July 7th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
Worry about equal time when republicans start believing minorities are equal and deserving of equal rights, until then I have a dream……that one day reich-wingers will pick a single talking point.
Either he’s a Muslim or he has/had a crazy Christian minister.
Neither matters but you know….just for fun.
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July 7th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
Hmm, I am SURE Fox news will have to scale back coverage now. What a convenient excuse to scale back coverage of the convention! However, no matter what happens at the Republican convention, I am POSITIVE it will get full coverage, unless someone forces the networks to use equal air time.
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July 7th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
Hey Florio, Springsteen is playing at Giants Stadium at the end of July, are you going to promote that too? Don’t forget all the other events that occur at NFL stadiums other than football games. Stop trying to weasel your way out of your promoting of that jackass Obama.
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July 7th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
alamedaman……………..you’re an idiot…………..
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July 7th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
Obama is going to make a great president. Thanks for giving him some publicity at PFT, Florio.
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July 7th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
This is NOT the only thing that obama will SCREWS UP!
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July 7th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
The Republican Convention is in St. Paul, Minn. So for McCain to give his acceptance speech in front of a large audience, it would have to be the Metrodome, which really isn’t an NFL stadium.
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July 7th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
Football is the single remaining get-away from all the crap we deal with on a daily basis. So, I’m disappointed that you pulled politics into this, with past favorable comments about Keith Olberman and this rationalized posting of Obama’s convention speech. As another reader mentioned, there are tons of events that take place in football stadiums that you never mention.
FYI: The Maroone car dealership does used car sales in Dolphins Stadium every year. There also is a law fair at Invesco in September. I expect to see new PFT posts on these topics in the future.
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July 7th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
“coco says:
July 7th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
This is NOT the only thing that obama will SCREWS UP!”
‘Nuff Said.
Other than No Child Left Behind?
Now…’nuff said.
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July 7th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
purple in WI, pretty sure that was sarcasm. It’s okay if you don’t pick up on it, most Viking fans aren’t that smart.
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July 7th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
well since aipac strongarmed osama into toeing back onto the war-party line, exactly what change would osamabama be?
well taxes will go up (as if paying $1.50 tax on each gallon of gas isnt enough!), leftist judges will get nominated, his most ardent supporters will expect more freebies than usual (for doing less and less work than usual!), gays will get more privileges (not rights) which is what they really want, more $$ will be wasted on foreign leaders in a certain continent…
That is the change osamabama represents. Oh, and anyone who doesnt like it can chew their tongue off?
and no i dont support mccain. hell he blew up more american planes on the deck of the forrestal than he ever shot down enemy ones. he has sponsored every unconstitutional bit of legislation he could the last several years. and his daddy was the point man to cover up the attack on the uss liberty.
They are both open borders nuts, and I bet either one of them reinstitutes the draft!
ron paul for president.
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July 7th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
in case anyone thought I was being serious, I was not. I was mocking the idiots who say things like Obama is a secret muslim.
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July 7th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
McCain will have trouble filling most highschool stadiums with his turnout average.
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July 7th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
Ze, obviously he was joking. And it is funny.
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July 7th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
I’m sure they’ll scale back coverage… They’ll be tripping over themselves to be sure not to miss it and have their people there.
Ze: Depending on how you read it, it may or may not be a joke.
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July 7th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
I hope it rains that day.
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July 7th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
yes actually I could see it being sarcasm, but not sure the votes for it saw it that way!
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July 7th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
As if the so called media would cover McCain. If it wasn’t for Fox News most people would never get the other side of the story, you do realize there are two sides right? When is the last time the news told you about how much better things are going in Iraq? You know, since they implemented the strategy McCain called for 3 years ago. They haven’t because that would help McCain and by god they can’t have that because they practically give Messiah Obama BJ’s onscreen. I am NOT a McCain fan but I refuse to vote for a communist Carter retread who says to his elite left coast crowd that people are bitter and cling to their guns and religion and then comes to my home town and says quote “I won’t be fulfilling the Lord’s Will unless I’m doing the Lord’s work” This is an election, not an American Idol contest! Did I mention that Hilter gave a hell of a good speech too?
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July 7th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
If Obama had been blackballed by the mass media like Ron Paul was…he wouldn’t be doing anything even remotely close to Mile High Stadium…but the bottom line is…those men behind the curtain will decide the next President…not us.
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July 7th, 2008 at 11:34 pm
If America was soley dependent on Obama haters on this board, who more than likely were brought up in a cesspool of a household, we would never get anywhere as a country. If your hatred and ignorance was a measure of how great our country is, we wouldn’t be great at all. The good is thing is that rather Obama wins or not, this period has shown that the county as a whole wants to progress and is progressing. While the ignorant and racists ones haven’t proved anyone wrong because they have still failed to evolve.
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July 7th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
Stay classy Patriots*.
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