"Hey bro, come over here. Man, I got the good shit, man. I'm talking Texas Instruments, straight from the factory, none of this imported knock-off shit. I'm talking full graphing functionality, differential equations - you know I don't play.
I'm not a Rush fan, I just think his politics and opinions have no bearing on his partial ownership of a company. When the table turns for a far left buyer I hope the same treatment is given
Upon learning the news, Rush washed down a mouthful of Oxy with a mouthful of Cialis, drilled the housekeeper and, just for a little while, forgot how much it hurts to be right all the time.
So convicted felons can play in the NFL, but you can't have an owner who is politically outspoken? That seems to be the message here. Too bad he couldn't get Tony Dungy to vouch for him.
@Shivver: Limbaugh was arrested on a felony charge and then took a plea arrangement. But that's not the issue. Nor is being "politically outspoken." The issue is business, and whether Limbaugh would be good for it.
It was more an economic decision than a moral one: Limbaugh was advocating using two separate planes to travel to game, one for black players and one for white.
Murders, rapist and spouse abusers are more than tolerated by the NFL but criticizing the media because they over hype a QB is way out of line. Makes perfect sense to me.
Checketts' group actually dropped Rush because he was lowballing the owners. Limbaugh was only willing to pay 3/5 the asking price because the Rams have so many black players.
Brilliant play by Limbaugh. He had to have known this would never fly, but knew that being denied would cast him as a sympathetic character. Now, we sit back and wait to find out why he needed this PR spin. Possibly a run for public office coming up?
@Theodore Donald Kerabatsos: Or maybe he thought it would fly. Not to call Limbaugh an asshole (directly), but being an asshole isn't an automatic impediment to owning a sports team.
@Ralph Wiley Is: There are many examples to back that up. The thing that makes me doubt Rush's sincerity is how quickly his name was leaked as being a potential buyer. Seems like if he was only interested in buying a football team, he would have been able to protect that information -- at least until negotiations got beyond the "fax over a proposal" stage.
Someone in EA knew about this before it happened. Madden just added the feature where players hate certain franchises and won't join them, and now this drug-addled racist is buying a terrible football team. Conspiracy? I think not!
Other point? Professional athletes aren't wage slaves. It's not all about the bottom line, especially when a famous race-baiting douche like Limbaugh is involved. Some guys will refuse to play for Limbaugh, some won't, but automatically stating that these guys would jump for the flash of a dollar regardless of their personal morals is, well, something a racist dipship like Rush fuckin' Limbaugh would say.
So even if he managed to get approval to buy into the St. Louis franchise, many NFL players—who if you haven't noticed, are mostly black—might have a problem with that.
I call B.S.
There have got to be THOUSANDS of men in the U.S. and elsewhere, REGARDLESS of their race, who would jump at the chance to make an NFL salary no matter who was the owner.
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"Hey bro, come over here. Man, I got the good shit, man. I'm talking Texas Instruments, straight from the factory, none of this imported knock-off shit. I'm talking full graphing functionality, differential equations - you know I don't play.
Yeah, just come around to my van." #stlouisrams
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Jets fans plan assassination of Mark Sanchez.
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I'm not a Rush fan, I just think his politics and opinions have no bearing on his partial ownership of a company. When the table turns for a far left buyer I hope the same treatment is given
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Other point? Professional athletes aren't wage slaves. It's not all about the bottom line, especially when a famous race-baiting douche like Limbaugh is involved. Some guys will refuse to play for Limbaugh, some won't, but automatically stating that these guys would jump for the flash of a dollar regardless of their personal morals is, well, something a racist dipship like Rush fuckin' Limbaugh would say.
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I call B.S.
There have got to be THOUSANDS of men in the U.S. and elsewhere, REGARDLESS of their race, who would jump at the chance to make an NFL salary no matter who was the owner.
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Wow, another day, another Deadspin Rush Limbaugh post... Milking it just a little?
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