Caleb Campbell: The Army's Loss Is The Detroit Lions' Legal Gain? [NFL]

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Caleb Campbell: The Army's Loss Is The Detroit Lions' Legal Gain? [NFL]
Signal to Noise found this 7/24/2008 on deadspin.com [flag]
The Army blew it. They implemented a policy that was designed to draw attention to the unique skills and talents of their servicemen and, in the process, make it easier to recruit soldiers to the Army by attracting positive publicity and media attention. The policy was enacted in 2005 because filling the ranks of a volunteer army was increasingly difficult. Caleb Campbell’s being selected ... [link]

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Caleb Campbell Takes It Like A Soldier
Published 7/24/2008 by Signal to Noise at Signal to Noise
... , but looking at the possible legal claim the Lions could go into against the U.S. government, if they so desired — but since the NFL is pretty rah-rah as far as patriotism goes, and no professional league is that cutthroat to get into it over a seventh round pick, this is how it will be. ...

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Hugging Harold Reynolds found this 7/24/2008 on s2nblog.wordpress.com

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