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How Rush Limbaugh gave America its Sundays back
American Thinker ^ | 10-18-09 | Neil Braithwaite

Posted on 10/17/2009 10:18:50 PM PDT by smoothsailing

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To: Isabel C.

Which is why I’m a fan of the Jerry Rice style players.


101 posted on 10/18/2009 7:48:18 AM PDT by discostu (The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression)
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To: dalebert
Geraldo, like Larry King, believes that only whites can be racist, because only whites have the power to implement racist policies.

The Race Game is reaching a tipping point. There's going to be one of two outcomes. Whites are going to decide that "Civil Rights" was all just a hustle and a scam to take their property. Or there's going to be a huge backlash against anyone promoting these racial scams.

102 posted on 10/18/2009 7:51:04 AM PDT by Jabba the Nutt (Are they insane, stupid or just evil?)
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To: tubebender

Agreed.

I always said there is more action, more drive, more determination, and more effort in grandson’s munckin football games than the NFL.


103 posted on 10/18/2009 7:55:45 AM PDT by SouthTexas (The IOC is racist!)
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To: RobRoy

You didn’t know about TV timeouts? I knew about TV timeouts when I was 10, before I even attended my first live game. Every sport has TV timeouts. Sports is business, every level of sports is business, from little league through high school and college to the major leagues and detouring through the various adult versions of little league, somebody is always making a buck on it and is only involved FOR the buck.

NBA basketball is boring, too many dunks not enough basic skill. I stopped watching the game when league wide free throw percentage dropped below 30, and I’m not coming back until it’s up over 60, I figure at that point the fundamental skills of the game will be back. Meanwhile NCAA b-ball still know how to throw the ball into the hoop.

The business of sports doesn’t bother me or distract me from the entertainment of the game. Sometimes it even heightens my entertainment, a consider much of capitalism to be a spectator sport in it’s own right, so things like watching Coors blow a ton of money to become the official beer of the NFL and get NOTHING for it (because beer sales are determined by stadium, almost all of which have major contracts with AB) amuse me.

Well it’s time for the bike ride, should be back and showered in time for the kick off. It’s another NFL Football Sunday.


104 posted on 10/18/2009 8:01:28 AM PDT by discostu (The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression)
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To: EDINVA
If you watch or don't watch a football game this weekend it has no bearing on the "Neilsen ratings".

You have to be part of the company's MO....i.e. you must have a Neilsen meter or some type of diary system to record your viewing habits over a period of time.

How would a company know what you're watching in any given time period....it boggles the mind that some people think Neilsen "antennas" pick up gamma rays or something from nationwide TV sets and then are able to break the signals down by channels.....LOL.

So, unless you're in participation with the Neilsen company in some way, you can watch the football game this weekend without lining your closed drapes with tinfoil.....and no one will be the wiser.

I'll not watch a game strictly out of principle and in moral support of Rush who is selfless in his support of this country.

Leni

105 posted on 10/18/2009 8:17:07 AM PDT by MinuteGal (Somewhere in Kenya, a Village is Missing Its Idiot!)
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To: discostu
You really believe Rush is stupid enough to put millions into a pool and not know who ALL the partners are?

So, now you call Rush a liar? Do Rush haters have any sense of shame? Is there any boundary you won't cross to malign the man?

106 posted on 10/18/2009 9:11:21 AM PDT by jellybean (Bookmark http://altfreerepublic.freeforums.org/index.php for when FR is down)
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To: buckleyfan

Generally I agree w/you (except for the Rush part, whom IMO is simply a genius and his “ego” stuff is 75% self-deprecation)

First, I absolutely agree that *every* football fan would like their football served politics-free. They’d like it served off-field violence-free, dogfight free, and murder-free. I believe that sports, generically, is where the races mix and get along better than virtually anywhere. Though I am not a sports fan, I recognize that it’s a wonderful piece of escapism that starts and ends and has a decisive conclusion. Those two elements aren’t widely available elsewhere.

But as to the potential conservative reaction to this dustup...while Rush was the trigger, I don’t believe Conservatives will soft or hard boycott the NFL out of pure loyalty to Rush. This dust-up was an attack on Conservativism that showed two things: That there is (yet another) fetid reservoir of bias against them and 2: that this bias will resort to the basest kind of slander to further its’ aims, while appearing to allow the likes of Al Sharpton to lead the parade.

That is going to be a bridge too far, IMHO. It’s not out of fan loyalty to Rush on a personality basis. It’s a trifecta insult to Conservative ideas and ideals. It won’t be a matter of wanting to hurt the NFL out of spite. It’s more a matter of being personally insulted and I think the wounds will take some time to heal.


107 posted on 10/18/2009 9:41:28 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (It's better to give a Ford to the Kidney Foundation than a kidney to the Ford Foundation.)
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To: discostu

“care”


108 posted on 10/18/2009 10:14:01 AM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (Happiness is a choice!)
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To: smoothsailing
And America just lost a little of what makes her the greatest country in the world -- civility, respect and fairness.

That is very well said.

My interest in the NFL has been waning for 10 or 12 years due to the increasing numbers of players that are poor examples for our young people.

This pathetic example of Goodell, owners, coaches and players not only not trying to stop this character assassination but adding to it is the final straw, I'm no longer a fan of any team.

109 posted on 10/18/2009 10:20:10 AM PDT by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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To: jellybean

I’m simply calling it like it is. He’s either dumb for putting millions into a billion dollar deal without bother to find out who he’s getting into bed with, or he’s BSing and saying he didn’t know who he was getting into bed with. There really is no reason for a “silent” partnership in an NFL team purchase, if the bid goes far enough for an ownership vote all names must be revealed.

I don’t hate Rush and I’m not maligning anybody, just speaking the truth.


110 posted on 10/18/2009 10:27:17 AM PDT by discostu (The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression)
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To: Trailerpark Badass

I don’t care what other people watch. But I don’t like the holier than thou ego a lot of boycotters display, so I point out the fib behind chest thump.


111 posted on 10/18/2009 10:28:28 AM PDT by discostu (The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression)
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To: smoothsailing

Michael Vick—welcome back!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Vick

Lawrence Phillips—it’s all good:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Phillips

Ray Lewis—it’s cool, bruvahman:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Lewis

Pacman Jones—ain’t no thing but a chicken wing!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacman_Jones

But—Rush Limbaugh????

are you kidding?

/sarc


112 posted on 10/18/2009 10:37:31 AM PDT by Mac from Cleveland (Dreams from My Father--(food, shelter, and education from some typical white folks)
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To: bahblahbah

I’m with you. If Rush is still a fan, so am I.


113 posted on 10/18/2009 10:45:16 AM PDT by j_tull (I may make you feel, but I can't make you think.)
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To: discostu
I’m simply calling it like it is. He’s either dumb for putting millions into a billion dollar deal without bother to find out who he’s getting into bed with, or he’s BSing and saying he didn’t know who he was getting into bed with. There really is no reason for a “silent” partnership in an NFL team purchase, if the bid goes far enough for an ownership vote all names must be revealed.

From Rush's explanation it sounds like Soros may have come in (if he is indeed part of this group-nothing has been corroborated) after his (Rush's) deal had already been struck:

Mr. Checketts is not the primary partner here. The NFL has a rule that the primary owner has to have 30% equity in the team, and our group lost our 30% equity guy, and we had to scramble and find a new one, and I was told who it was, but now I'm wondering if it was Soros and I wasn't told.
Either you didn't read Rush's explanation or you think he's lying. I don't know this Checketts guy, but it's plausible he may have kept Rush in the dark concerning Soros, suspecting Rush may back out of the deal if he was the majority owner.
114 posted on 10/18/2009 11:22:09 AM PDT by jellybean (Bookmark http://altfreerepublic.freeforums.org/index.php for when FR is down)
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To: jellybean

If that’s the truth then Rush needs to be paying more attention on his deals. If you’ve got millions in a deal and there’s even the slightest possibility that you don’t know all the players you screwed up, period.

I’m not accusing Rush of anything. I’m simply pointing out the implications of the facts. If you don’t like those implications that’s not my problem. I don’t really care one way or the other, no part of this event will change my life in the least, my NFL and Rush levels will remain identical. But facts are facts, and the facts are that either Rush knew he was in a deal with Soros or he was doing a poor job of due diligence.


115 posted on 10/18/2009 12:01:10 PM PDT by discostu (The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression)
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To: smoothsailing

Although I agree that there was a conspiracy to shaft Rush, it’s had no effect on the OldPossum’s television viewing habits (next to non-existent anyway).

I find football in all its forms uninteresting. I wouldn’t walk across the street to see any football game ever played.


116 posted on 10/18/2009 12:50:37 PM PDT by OldPossum
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To: discostu
Goodell's statement was reprehensible and became the straw the broke the camel's back for countless thousands of Rush supporters. It was game over -- adios NFL!

What article did you read?

117 posted on 10/18/2009 2:13:29 PM PDT by TigersEye (Imagine the uproar when people imagine what Rush says?)
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To: smoothsailing
I see there is still too many Freepers addicted to Football.

Boycott Football

118 posted on 10/18/2009 2:15:50 PM PDT by bmwcyle (We need more Joe Wilson's. OBAMA is ACORN ACORN is OBAMA)
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To: EDINVA

If ratings are down, there are many reasons more likely than a boycott: the economy (teams have had trouble selling out stadiums dating back to last season), bad matchups/games (Browns/Steelers outcome was never in doubt, Bills/Jets is a stinker, Titans/Patriots is snowed, etc), things like that.

It would take a massive cratering for anyone to even begin to fathom that there’s a boycott happening.


119 posted on 10/18/2009 2:24:31 PM PDT by Terpfen (FR is being Alinskied. Remember, you only take flak when you're over the target.)
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To: buckleyfan
it's just his ego that's a little out of whack to me

If you think he's got an ego, you never listened in the first place.
120 posted on 10/18/2009 2:29:54 PM PDT by Terpfen (FR is being Alinskied. Remember, you only take flak when you're over the target.)
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