Rush wants to be an NFL owner...

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...but NFL commish Roger Goodell doesn't think it's a good idea to bring the race baiting drug addict into the owner's circle.

http://content.usatoday.com/communi...-divisive-comments-have-no-place-in-the-nfl/1

NFL players don't have guaranteed contracts and usually avoid public statements, but several high profile players have already spoken out against this happening as has Colts Owner Jim Irsay since this went public last week. The owners would have to approve the sale.

other fun reads...

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/story/12352271
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091026/zirin
http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/10210084/Goodell-should-say-no-to-Limbaugh

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[MrJayremmie]

Some players on the Rams players said they wouldn't play for him. Can't blame them. He's a joke.

 

[boatsandstars]

He's an embarrassment of a human being. I wish we didn't come from the same state.

 

[BTOWN_HUSTLA]

tough shit!

they're 0-5, can't get worse than that!

 

[BTOWN_HUSTLA]

Maybe Obama will step in and block it. Road to Serfdom!

 

[MrJayremmie]

Maybe Obama will step in and block it. Road to Serfdom!

Good point.

Maybe the government will own part of a team!

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

He has a right to request permission to have a stake in a team and he'd probably be a better owner than many of the current ones. He's an ardent sports fan. But, being a conservative he probably should not be allowed to do so.

 

[boatsandstars]

He has a right to request permission to have a stake in a team and he'd probably be a better owner than many of the current ones. He's an ardent sports fan. But, being a conservative he probably should not be allowed to do so.

1. No one is saying he doesn't have the "right"
2. What proof do you have that he would be a better owner? You can't run an NFL team when the players hate you and your only useful skill is stirring up shit.
3. Who cares if he's an ardent sports fan. I'm a bigger sports fan than he is, should I own a team?
4. "being a conservative... " That doesn't make any sense.

 

[boatsandstars]

tough shit!

they're 0-5, can't get worse than that!

0-5 and run by an obese, pill-popping failure-of-a-human is worse.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

1. No one is saying he doesn't have the "right"
2. What proof do you have that he would be a better owner? You can't run an NFL team when the players hate you and your only useful skill is stirring up shit.
3. Who cares if he's an ardent sports fan. I'm a bigger sports fan than he is, should I own a team?
4. "being a conservative... " That doesn't make any sense.

Gads, what a sad post by a liberal...

 

[maxiep]

I would have zero problem with Ted Turner or Ted Kennedy (when he was alive) owning an NFL team. I don't think Roger Goodell wouldn't mind either. Yet Rush Limbaugh is toxic because of his political philosophy? Fuck political correctness. This is nothing more than reverse McCarthyism.

As for Jim Irsay, he was part of one of the great robberies in modern sports history--the midnight move of the Baltimore Colts. Fuck that guy. He's in no position to judge anyone.

 

[BTOWN_HUSTLA]

0-5 and run by an obese, pill-popping failure-of-a-human is worse.

maybe he'll bring hope and change!

 

[RR7]

I dunno if it was political philosophy as much as him being a racist.

 

[BTOWN_HUSTLA]

no, its his political philosophy. otherwise you're kidding yourself.

 

[maxiep]

What I love most is that it's a meritocracy. Other than the Boston Celtics, sports teams don't have racial quotas. Rush Limbaugh may be a lot of things, but he's a person that strives for people to be free to succeed or fail on their own. He's a self-made man who has the financial wherewithal to be a minority partner with Dave Checketts. Politics shouldn't play a role in the decision.

 

[The_Lillard_King]

That would be one well stocked NFL medicine cabnet.

 

[maxiep]

I dunno if it was political philosophy as much as him being a racist.

I'm just curious, what proof do you have that Rush Limbaugh is racist?

 

[maxiep]

Should Keith Olbermann be kicked off NBC's NFL show because of his political views?

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

I dunno if it was political philosophy as much as him being a racist.

Nope, it's crystal clear he's a conservative and therefore doesn't have the same rights as others.

This "conservatives have no rights" stuff is getting creepy. I feel like we live in the 1930's Germany. What's next from the liberals- book burning?

 

[maxiep]

BTW, if George Soros wanted to own an NFL team, I wouldn't have a problem with it.

 

[hasoos]

I'm just curious, what proof do you have that Rush Limbaugh is racist?

What fucking planet are you living on? It's hard to avoid the proof.

 

[maxiep]

What fucking planet are you living on? It's hard to avoid the proof.

Okay, if it's so easy, provide it.

 

[BTOWN_HUSTLA]

DAMN FAUX NEWZ REPULITARDS! YARRRRRRGHHHH! NO NFL FOR YOU PILL POPPER MD! HALLIBURTON!
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[maxiep]

Actually, Michael Moore is another great example. Would anyone have a problem with him as a part owner of the Detroit Lions? I wouldn't.

 

[BTOWN_HUSTLA]

what about Rev. Al Shaprton?

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

Frankly, I really don't care who owns a sports franchise so long as they are relatively able to be a responsible owner with respect to the sport.

As to Rush having once had a problem with RX, I can tell you over 60% of the Congress have some sort of police records. And I'll bet that a similar number of sports franchise owners do as well. Why were they let in?

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

Actually, Michael Moore is another great example. Would anyone have a problem with him as a part owner of the Detroit Lions? I wouldn't.

Nor would I. Or Oberman.

 

[The_Lillard_King]

I would have a serious problem with Rush owning the Blazers . . . other than that, I don't care if he owns a professional team.

 

[The_Lillard_King]

Frankly, I really don't care who owns a sports franchise so long as they are relatively able to be a responsible owner with respect to the sport.

As to Rush having once had a problem with RX, I can tell you over 60% of the Congress have some sort of police records. And I'll bet that a similar number of sports franchise owners do as well. Why were they let in?

Funny, Rush used to call drug addicts the lowest form of society with no ability to control their own actions.

After he gets popped buying drugs on the street . . . he now "once had a problem with prescption drugs"

I wonder if he still feels the same way about marijuana smokers?




"There's nothing good about drug use. We know it. It destroys individuals. It destroys families. Drug use destroys societies. Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs. And the laws are good because we know what happens to people in societies and neighborhoods which become consumed by them. And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up.

"What this says to me is that too many whites are getting away with drug use. Too many whites are getting away with drug sales. Too many whites are getting away with trafficking in this stuff. The answer to this disparity is not to start letting people out of jail because we're not putting others in jail who are breaking the law. The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river, too."
-- Rush Limbaugh show, Oct. 5, 1995

 

[maxiep]

what about Rev. Al Shaprton?

Does Al have the bucks? If he did, I don't see a problem with him owning a team. And my only condition for Jesse Jackson owning a team is that it either has to be the Jets or Giants and they have to change from "New York" to "Hymietown".