And they fired Rush Limbaugh for saying what?
I'm not an Eagles fan, so I'm not sure of the personalities involved, but basically Limbaugh said flat-out that he thought the Eagles organization was doing a little affirmative-action goody-dust sprinkling over their then-quarterback, who Rush thought wasn't maybe "all that" -- okay, mind you, but overpromoted and overpraised.
That caused a lot of hard feelings and an instantaneous boycott-and-harassment campaign from the Left against Limbaugh, his hairline, his Oxycontin scrip, Mr. Snerdly, and anyone/thing else they could think of. Morons, utter morons. But the pushback from the Eagles, ESPN, and the League was another matter. So Rush said, "Okay, I don't need this; if you guys feel bad because I said something I felt needed saying, then let's just call it a day."
That's the way he told it on-air, anyway. The quarterback under discussion was Donovan McNabb.
Wiki says the flap was back in 2003; I'm showing my age, because I only thought it was two or three years ago.