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By Luft Krigare 

The Reverend Al Sharpton is crowing again, this time feeling that police in Canton Ohio and elsewhere are too aggressive and especially towards black players.  He has given Pacman Jones as a prime example.   So his solution is to have enough players protest against police actions and to have the league cancel the Hall of Fame game in Canton to show the local Canton police their displeasure and to garner change. 

 

The National Action Network that was founded by Sharpton has a local chapter in Canton run by Mr. Richard Jones.  He is claiming that action is needed because of police officers, "general aggressiveness and over-the-line attitude to the citizens of Canton, especially the black citizens."

More can be found over at AOL with their AP story: Sharpton Wants NFL Game Canceled

This year's HOF game is August 3rd with the Indianapolis Colts taking on the Washington Redskins.  If the Rev. Sharpton and Mr. Jones have their way, there will be no football and police everywhere will less aggressive.  

* VikingsValhalla.com by no means agrees with or endorses these actions.  Two things that we are extremely grateful for are our first defenders, the police being at the apex of them, and football, the greatest sport on earth.

 

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Sharpton to Cancel HOF Game
Mar 23 2008 01:08:39
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I read this and about fell from my chair. Sharpton using Pacman Jones as an example of overly aggressive police and insinuating that the reason is race based. Society has been progressing closer and closer to color blind beliefs and most live it everyday, it is the holdovers that try to generate continued bias just to gain power that prevent further progress. Then to target Americas #1 sport that brings pleasure to more people than any other seems like an act of desperation.

Everyone has the right to speak [not to be heard], but leave my football alone!
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Re:Sharpton to Cancel HOF Game
Mar 23 2008 02:46:43
This story generated into a full blown blog that can be read at:

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Re:Sharpton to Cancel HOF Game
Mar 25 2008 23:34:25
Wow... this is like when congress decided it wanted to waste our tax dollars looking into steriods in baseball.....

Anything to keep his name in the headlines; attack the most popular sport in all the land.

Show me stats to backup your cliams Mr Sharpton and I'd be more than happy to support your cause. As typical it is all hearsay.
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