Posted on 10/14/2009 7:38:58 AM PDT by Borges
BOSTON – If Rush Limbaugh becomes a candidate to own the St. Louis Rams, he could face serious opposition from other NFL team owners.
It takes 24 of the 32 owners to approve any team sale, and even before Limbaugh has become part of an official bid to purchase the Rams, he's been shunned by one team executive.
Colts owner Jim Irsay vowed Tuesday to vote against him and commissioner Roger Goodell said the conservative commentator's "divisive" comments would not be tolerated from any NFL insider.
"I, myself, couldn't even consider voting for him," Irsay said at the fall owners meetings. "When there are comments that have been made that are inappropriate, incendiary and insensitive ... our words do damage, and it's something that we don't need."
Irsay is the first owner who has stated unequivocally he would reject Limbaugh because he made a habit of "demonizing individuals."
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The new McCarthyism.
I think the Colts owner was not so dismissive. He did leave the door open, saying he’d talk to friends of his who LIKE Rush, too.
I wonder why that part of the quote didn’t make the ASS PRESS news story.
As far as I’m concerned all of so called “Pro” football and basketball in America can go screw itself. Most of the players are a bunch of criminal thugs, black racists and moronic savages and they hate America.
I never watch any of them.
I knew Goodell would turn out to be a wimp. I hope Rush does sue those who have painted him as a racist. I’d love to see him bankrupt them.
It’s that alinsky bastitch again.. pity his mother didn’t practice her right to choose.. this puke has done more harm to the U.S. than anyone in modern history,, maybe in all it’s history.
Would that be Jim “drug-addled” Irsay?
Jim Irsay is a partisan Democrat, I am sure thats mentioned in the story somewhere.
This guy didn’t do anything to earn his money did he? It’s all inherited from daddy.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see Colt support diminish now, and I’m guessing that if the NFL keeps this up they will suffer across the board. I wonder if they kow whow their fan base is - not libs and Rush haters, I’m pretty sure.
He's presumably just following what passes for fashionable thought.
I can look forward now to REALLY rooting against the Dolts.
But actions like your family packing up the Colts and leaving Baltimore in the dead of night are perfectly acceptable and do no damage, right Jimbo?
Like you demonizing an individual (Limbuagh) yourself, Mr. Irsay?
Jim Irsay is a poster child for somebody who’s been handed everything in their life. I’d be interested what the other owners are saying.
Boycott Football.
If they were to poll the NFL as to how many of its players were part of NOI’s “5%ers” I think the numbers would suprise to the upside.
So being a conservative somehow makes you ineligible to own an NFL team? The world has gone completely crazy.
Note to the players: You guys have a problem, all right, and it ain't Rush Limbaugh...
I believe that is correct. He did, however, convince Indianapolis that they needed to tear down a perfectly good stadium and build him a bigger one, using very little of his own hoard.
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