re: NIL Bill released

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And I didn't know Manchin was a college athlete?

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I know you are a liberal and not real bright, but Manchin and Saban are butt buddies since they were young.

Manchin is Saban's mouthpiece on this bill.

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Nick Sr. grew up in Farmington, where his best friend was A.J. Manchin, Joe’s uncle, who would become a longtime Democratic pol in West Virginia. Nick Sr. owned what both his son and Sen. Manchin separately referred to as a “service station,” a term that, like “typewriter” and “television dial,” belongs to another era. Saban’s Gulf station is where the men in town gathered to talk sports. Soon, Nick Sr. opened a Dairy Queen across the street.

“When I played in high school, we used to stop there,” Manchin said. “It was a great treat to stop and have lunch or dinner after a game, sometimes before.”

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Nick Saban and Joe Manchin have friendship that dates to 1950s