NFL SPIKED BORDER PATROL RECRUITMENT AD: ABC News’ website reports NFL PR mouthpiece Greg Aiello said the league rebuffed an attempt by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to run a print ad recruiting U.S. Border Patrol agents in its official 2007 Super Bowl program.
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Aiello said the “the sensitive political nature” of the ad, which “was specific to border patrol and mentioned terrorists“, made the NFL uncomfortable, since the game “was in Miami, where [immigration] is a sensitive political issue.”
The league did ask for a “more generic recruiting ad“, but the DHS did not respond to the request.
