“Between 2012 and 2015, the DOD shelled out $53 million to professional sports—including $10 million to the NFL—on ‘marketing and advertising’ for military recruitment. To be sure, some of that was bona fide advertising. But many of those heart-tugging ceremonies honoring heroes and recreating drills and marches and flyovers are what the report denounced as propaganda. Of course, this being government, no one is really sure how much has been spent or where the money went.”
Read more: https://fee.org/articles/its-time-to-end-the-paid-militarization-of-the-nfl/
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