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Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has called the Super Bowl "the single largest human trafficking incident in the United States." According to Forbes Magazine, the Super Bowl held in Miami, Florida in 2010 saw an estimated 10,000 prostitutes brought to the city. Many of these being under-age victims of human trafficking. During Dallas' Super Bowl, there were 133 arrests for underage prostitution. Read more »
President Obama sat down with Bill O'Reilly before the Super Bowl Sunday to discuss Egypt, health care reform, life in the White House, and the Super Bowl. View the video and the transcript frome the interview below: Read more »
The NFL (National Football League) began playing in the 1920s. In 1960 an upstart league known as the AFL (American Football League) came into existence. A war broke out between the two leagues, and the teams agreed in 1966 to start playing a game at the end of the year between the best team in each league. That game would eventually be known as the Superbowl. The leagues merged in 1970, forming the modern NFL. The NFL teams formed the NFC (National Football Conference), and the AFL formed the AFC (American Football Conference). Below is the history of football in the modern era. Read more »
Houston and Harris County have become one of the leading markets for sex slavery and human trafficking. The problem is so expansive it even encompasses the Super Bowl (see below). Asian and Latino massage parlors pop up faster than police can shut them down. They are easy to spot, but difficult for police to make cases against. This Sunday, Feb. 6 at 9PM CST, MSNBC will air a program called "Trafficked: Slavery in America". Read more »
The Super Bowl Indicator is a based on a belief that the annual stock market trends are predicted by the winner of the Super Bowl. A Super Bowl win for a team from the AFC division foretells a decline in the stock market for the coming year, and a win for a team from the NFC division means the stock market will be up for the year. Read more »
Watch this Audi green police commercial! Is this Super Bowl commercial foretelling our future? Read more »
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