{"id":870,"date":"2011-01-31T12:20:22","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T12:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/redletters\/2011\/01\/sex-trafficking-at-the-superbowl.html"},"modified":"2011-01-31T12:20:22","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T12:20:22","slug":"sex-trafficking-at-the-superbowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/redletters\/2011\/01\/sex-trafficking-at-the-superbowl.html","title":{"rendered":"Sex Trafficking at the SuperBowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a dark side to the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfl.com\/superbowl\/45\">Superbowl this 2011<\/a>&nbsp;that nobody wants to talk about. The&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.the33tv.com\/news\/kdaf-super-bowl-sex-trafficking-campaign-story,0,2651873.story\">sex trafficking of children that occurs at the SuperBowl.<\/a>&nbsp;It will happen in Dallas, Texas right under the nose of tens of thousands of Superbowl fans. This year,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/jayratliff\/profile?id=RAT586227\">Jay Ratliff<\/a>, the nose guard for the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallascowboys.com\/\">Dallas Cowboys<\/a>&nbsp;is speaking out against&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/nation\/2011-01-31-child-prostitution-super-bowl_N.htm?csp=34news\">sex trafficking during the Superbowl this 2011<\/a>. Jay didn&#8217;t even know this existed in his back yard, but now that he does he&#8217;s doing something about it. He&#8217;s the father of two little girls and this is not okay with him. Watch this video then check out the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.traffick911.com\/\">Traffick911 website<\/a>&nbsp;to find out how to get involved against child trafficking in the Dallas area.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=TomDavisBlog&amp;loc=en_US\">Click here to <strong>subscribe to Red Letters.<\/strong><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/cthomasdavis\">Click here to <strong>follow Tom Davis on Twitter.<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" salign=\"l\" flashvars=\"&amp;titleAvailable=true&amp;playerAvailable=true&amp;searchAvailable=false&amp;shareFlag=N&amp;singleURL=http:\/\/kdaf.vidcms.trb.com\/alfresco\/service\/edge\/content\/68e42688-9374-47b8-9aae-49ed5728b1b4&amp;propName=kdaf.com&amp;hostURL=http:\/\/www.the33tv.com&amp;swfPath=http:\/\/kdaf.vid.trb.com\/player\/&amp;omAccount=tribglobal&amp;omnitureServer=the33tv.com\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" menu=\"true\" name=\"PaperVideoTest\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" devicefont=\"false\" wmode=\"transparent\" scale=\"showall\" loop=\"true\" play=\"true\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" quality=\"high\" src=\"http:\/\/kdaf.vid.trb.com\/player\/PaperVideoTest.swf\" align=\"middle\" height=\"450\" width=\"300\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a dark side to the&nbsp;Superbowl this 2011&nbsp;that nobody wants to talk about. The&nbsp;sex trafficking of children that occurs at the SuperBowl.&nbsp;It will happen in Dallas, Texas right under the nose of tens of thousands of Superbowl fans. This year,&nbsp;Jay Ratliff, the nose guard for the&nbsp;Dallas Cowboys&nbsp;is speaking out against&nbsp;sex trafficking during the Superbowl&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sex-trafficking"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sex Trafficking at the SuperBowl - Red Letters<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/redletters\/2011\/01\/sex-trafficking-at-the-superbowl.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sex Trafficking at the SuperBowl - Red Letters\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"There is a dark side to the&nbsp;Superbowl this 2011&nbsp;that nobody wants to talk about. 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