NFL to Return $723K to Taxpayers for Military Tributes

National Football League commissioner Roger Goodell wrote in a letter to Arizona Senators John McCain and Jeff Flake that the NFL will return more than $723,000 back to taxpayers that funded sponsored military events with the league, which McCain and Flake had called “paid patriotism.”

In the letter dated Wednesday, Goodell wrote that accounting firm Deloitte & Touche LLP conducted an external audit to evaluate 100 marketing contracts between NFL teams and the Department of Defense during the 2012-2015 seasons. The audit “identified $723,734 over those four seasons that may have been mistakenly applied to appreciation activities rather than recruitment efforts,” Goodell wrote. “This amount will be promptly returned in full to the taxpayers.” ESPN’s Darren Rovell first reported the story on Thursday.

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