Bob Kraft, Paul Allen, 5 NFL fans, and this guy devastated

Peter King, the Bob Woodward of the NFL, is reporting on SI.com that the NFL pre-season game this August to be played in China between the Pats and Seahawks has been canceled. Did the NFL decide it is somewhat distasteful to promote their mixture of graphic violence and hyper commercialism in a nation full of people getting by on dollars a day who might be thrown in prison for years for suggesting things like voting for their leaders and being able to question their decisions? Um...sorta. They'll wait till after the Olympics do it!

And the league won't take just a one-year hiatus from the Asian experiment, according to those with knowledge of plans for the game the NFL was calling the China Bowl. Because the Summer Olympics are set for Beijing in 2008, the league will skip 2008 and look to put a game in Olympic Stadium, now under construction, in the summer of 2009. The Pats and Seahawks were to have played Aug. 7 (the morning of Aug. 8 in the United States) in the well-worn Workers Stadium in Beijing, built in 1959 and renovated three years ago.

It's too bad, because I can't wait till the NFL opens up the Chinese nation to democracy and freedom and all that good stuff, like how electronic products and manufacturing have done so far! I'm sure the Communist Party would love to learn more about how to better deal with their own Pat Tillman situations.