Posted on 10/14/2009 12:48:14 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
Rush Limbaugh is expected to be dropped from a group bidding to buy the St. Louis Rams, according to three NFL sources.
Dave Checketts, chairman of the NHL's St. Louis Blues and the point man in the Limbaugh group attempting to buy the Rams, realizes he must remove the controversial conservative radio host from his potential role as a minority member in the group in order to get approval from other NFL owners, the sources said.
Three-quarters of the league's 32 owners would have to approve any sale to Limbaugh and his group. Earlier this week, Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay predicted that Limbaugh's potential bid would be met by significant opposition. Several players have also voiced their displeasure with Limbaugh's potential ownership position, and NFL Players Association head DeMaurice Smith, who is black, urged players to speak out against Limbaugh's bid.
Ultimately, the sources said, Checketts must reconfigure his group and find another investor to make his bid more viable.
Exactly when Limbaugh will be dropped is uncertain, though some familiar with the situation said it could be within the next week. It is unclear if the two sides even have spoken.
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Obambi is already having an effect on NASCAR when GM and Chrysler scaled back their support for the sport.
I won’t support the NFL in any way ever again.
Including the superbowl.
Blacks want to be the owners......and 2/3 of the players are black...let the blacks support it...
Oh they can’t...they are only 13% of the population. Imagine if whites stopped supporting the NFL.
Now that the NFL is about 80 % or more black. How long before they throw out all white owners ? You can’t possibly have white people owning players can we ? We are no longer living in the land of the Free Folks.
The blacks in the NFL hate his politics because he does not coddle them.
All you said is true - but Rush knows he is a lightning rod, because he spent a lifetime cultivating that persona. I enjoy Rush and have for many years - my observation is the NFL is an “in crowd” who revel in their own specialness. When asked to define or defend their specialness, the in crowd becomes scared and frightened. Rush detractors frighten them, not Rush. The NFL owners are a very fragile and frightened group. You would be too if you were that leveraged and completely dependent on positive public relations based on your star players who last year were gangbangers. So Rush as owner becomes a bridge too far. This outcome was known going in. Personally, I believe Rush knew this but saw an opportunity to brand a new audience to himself and create endless personality wars for future programming. I am just not surprised by the ending.
And so it ends.
A competent, self-made businessman is denied the opportunity to buy a business simply because others disliked his political orientation.
One of the most blatant cases of discrimination I’ve ever seen, if you ask me.
No kidding. J Russel is horrible... Hes a High School QB playing in the NFL. Al Davis Always spending money on losers.
So this is just one more of many many reasons we stopped watching any NFL any thing years ago. If it’s NFL it does not exist as far as our attention or money is concerned.
Limbaugh now has grounds to sue.
And he should.
My team just won the Super Bowl (fortunately my hockey team just won the Stanley Cup) and the on field product is good but I hate the intrusion of liberalism. If I wanted that I would tune in CNN. The NFL is becoming all about bigotry which IMO is why the thugs are ignored.
I think Rush should shift his focus and buy NBC now.
Hunter is currently dead and theoretically paying for his sins, but Adolf H. Olbermann is still a member in good standing of the Rahm-controlled media and is inflicted upon NBC football viewers weekly.
BTW, thanks ESPN for letting us know that "DeMaurice" is black - we'd never have been able to guess.
The NFL is beyond stupid.
They let IN Jessie “the liar” Jackson and Al “Brawly” Sharpton and now the NFL will have answer to the race baiters.
The NFL is beyond stupid.
They let IN Jessie “the liar” Jackson and Al “Brawly” Sharpton and now the NFL will have answer to the race baiters.
I’ve rooted for the Eagles all my life. I would have ditched them and become a Rams fan the instant the sale happened.
BTW, got my first ecig yesterday (a DSE901). Having some battery issues, but when it works, it’s awesome.
What complete nonsense.
One of those who made a comment said: “The NFL can’t afford to polarize any fans or potential fans.”
That’s exactly what they will be doing by buying into the lies told about Rush Limbaugh. It would be an entirely different matter if the accusations made against Rush were true. But, anyone who has listened to Rush knows he is not racist.
Even the comments about McNabb were mischaracterized for political reasons. The problem isn’t Rush’s hatred. He isn’t a hater. The problem is the lack of backbone in those who will not stand up to political correctness and to those who use it to foment hatred with lies. The refusal to do so only spreads ignorance and discord which plays into the hands of those attempting to take away freedom from all of us.
This has so sickened and disgusted me, and my family, that it is cementing our already diminishing interest in the NFL as it is today. They are destroying the enjoyment of the game.
Rush has 20 million listeners. I can’t imagine that we, in my family, are the only ones who feel that way.
I hope he sues too.
I also think Rush may be ahead of the game not participating because St. Louis is not faring all that well economically nor are the Rams faring all that well competitively.
Now if I were a complete and total cynic, I would agree with you and say something like this: "Well, Rush had to do something to get the mojo back from Glenn Beck, who had eclipsed Rush a month or two ago. Beck was all the talk in the State-Run Media. Now the chatter is back on Rush."
But I'm not quite that cynical just yet. I do think Rush is sincere in his love for the sport. I've listened to him for twenty years and he's not changed a whit in his passion for it. So I think he was really interested in being an owner.
But I agree with you that he had to have an inkling that this is how it might work out.
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