Paul Pelosi Buys A Football Team

Paul Pelosi, husband of Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif), is now the owner of a professional football team. The famously publicity-shy spouse of the current Speaker of the House bought the California Redwoods, a San Francisco-based franchise in the upstart United Football League. Pelosi has admitted that he's not a big professional sports fan -- he prefers recreational sports befitting of a successful businessman and political spouse: golf, cycling, and tennis. Pelosi says he paid $12 million dollars for the team because he deemed it a bankable investment. As he told the Washington Post:

"This is a business, I look at it as a business. I'm in this because I think it is a very solid financial investment that is going to be very successful...I never wanted to own a sports team. It's that old saying: Never say never."

Comments

[BuckCarson]

01:14 AM on 10/21/2009

Tune into Beck tomorrow to hear Stossel discuss the real costs of the "Public Option"

[Golden111]

09:00 AM on 10/18/2009

Just think of all the health care assistance that Nancy & her husband could have provided for unemployed families w/ that money...a good 'investmen­t' to further line their own pockets w/....Oops­, I forgot, the democrats do not like to spend any of their OWN money to assist the needy in this country...­they instead prefer to take it from the already overtaxed middle class.....­.........& then feel morally superior for doing it....all in the name "what's in the best interest of the country".

[sueinmn]

09:56 AM on 10/18/2009

You condem the Dems but what about your own party. Vote NO on EVERYTHING thats for people. EVERYTHING­!

[henrypapillon]

07:20 AM on 10/18/2009

Now there's money down the crapper !

[dobberdoss]

03:59 AM on 10/18/2009

Gee, it must be SO HARD for the Pelosi family to budget from week to week eh?

[zeeeke]

03:17 AM on 10/18/2009

ya gotta love these absurdly rich easy money democrats like Feinstein and Pelosi. They get their health care paid for and then vote against the same for you and me. Vote Nader and Cindy Sheehan if she runs again

[yweston]

04:28 AM on 10/18/2009

When did Nancy Pelosi vote against healthcare

[zeeeke]

04:50 AM on 10/18/2009

she gets single payer, you don't

[Arrech]

03:10 AM on 10/18/2009

So, el puerco Limbo wanted to buy a football team, where most of the players are black. That keeps him in the news, for sure. The MSM keeps talking about him, including MSNBC, this "bastion" of liberalism­. Would black players have stayed? Or the team would have become lily white? or, maybe, money would have kept them there, betraying their principles­, so the rac ist chub could say; "Look at my ni__ers, how well they play", a la 1950's?

Fortunatel­y, this is not the 1950s anymore.

[HSimpson]

07:05 AM on 10/18/2009

you are off topic, not to mention hostile in tone. i am concerned for you, seek council and peace be with you.

[Arrech]

09:52 AM on 10/18/2009

LOL

[jessicajuliette]

12:43 AM on 10/19/2009

dont really have to go back to the 50's. marge schott in 1992 calling 2 players her "million dollar n ggers."

[edwarvir]

02:20 AM on 10/18/2009

I am happy for him. Who knows he
may be able to turn this team around/

[futpilot]

01:17 AM on 10/18/2009

haha...i love how you libs accuse the right of being the rich and those that speak for the rich...kee­p drinking that kool aid.

[Arrech]

02:55 AM on 10/18/2009

You keep drinking yours, believing that the GOP speaks for Joe six pack.

[Tommygun264]

04:00 AM on 10/18/2009

We never said that all wealthy people are selfish and only looking out for their own monetary interests. There are plenty of wealthy people who put country first. It's just that none of them are pubs.

[Golden111]

08:53 AM on 10/18/2009

Bwhahahaha­!!! Yeah right....!

[ObamAtomic]

12:35 AM on 10/18/2009

Don't worry people,Rus­h is fuming! OMG,why they do not let Jabba buy a team.LOL

[jhepp]

12:33 AM on 10/18/2009

That man sure do love him some pigskin.

[ObamAtomic]

12:45 AM on 10/18/2009

Jabba like hot breathing on his neck.

[Libby48]

12:32 AM on 10/18/2009

My God, she has a husband???
What goes through this little man's mind surely must amaze most good Americans.
Married to Nan must be the closest thing to mental castration­.

[Solja]

01:24 AM on 10/18/2009

I don't know any Liberals that don't like Pelosi. She's the best thing in Congress for Democrats to date. She has heart and a solid spine, unlike any man that has ever sat in her seat. I love her!

[Arrech]

02:58 AM on 10/18/2009

That little man is quite rich and successful­.
If a woman like Nancy intimidate­s you, you must have a very low self esteem.

Do not be envious of success.

[tb92]

12:21 AM on 10/18/2009

Since there's no way this deal was put together in the last few days, having this happen the same week as Limbaugh being kicked out is clearly a coincidenc­e. But, my god, this man has wonderful timing. This makes me laugh every time I see it.

[weatherwaxx]

12:17 AM on 10/18/2009

I wouldn't care if football ceased to exist as of this instant. This is an investment­... and it's an old story--fro­m February. Kind of a shame that he didn't invest in something with some intrinsic value, like solar power technology­, but there's always bread in circuses.

[NewRiver]

01:17 AM on 10/18/2009

If you think he should invest in "something with some intrinsic value" then put a proposal together and pitch it to him. Oh, and make sure you pick up some cheese to go with your "wouldn't care if football ceased to exist..." whine.

[Sammyofish]

03:11 AM on 10/18/2009

Rich people dont get that way by making bad investment­s.

[rockymountainhigh62]

10:59 PM on 10/17/2009

If Pelosi can buy a team so should Limbaugh..­.wht a crock of sh&t

[LightShadow62]

11:11 PM on 10/17/2009

Pelosi isn't on record making racist statements­, Limbaugh is.

[delvis]

11:35 PM on 10/17/2009

mega dittos

[nirek]

09:28 AM on 10/18/2009

2nd !

[weatherwaxx]

12:06 AM on 10/18/2009

Tsk.

[jnik]

10:49 PM on 10/17/2009

I'm sure he'll take touchdowns off the table!