“I think it’s really disgraceful that NFL teams whose profits are at an all-time high had to be paid to honor our veterans,” McCain told reporters Tuesday, via CNN.
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The retired Navy officer was a prisoner of war in Vietnam after being shot down on a bombing mission over Hanoi in 1967.
“It’s so crass on the part of these football team owners who make enormous profit for them to do that — I think it’s very revealing as to what kind of people they are,” McCain said.
