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maxiep said:
Jerry Jones? Dan Snyder? Now THOSE are assholes. Rush has nothing on those two.
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Really? You think most of America thinks those guys are bigger assholes? I'd bet that most people don't even know who they are.

Besides, your argument seems to be that because there are assholes already managing teams, they should welcome with open arms more assholes.

One thing I've noticed in my dealings with many, many assholes: as repugnant as they are to me, they tend to be even more repugnant to each other.
 
mook said:
Really? You think most of America thinks those guys are bigger assholes? I'd bet that most people don't even know who they are.

Besides, your argument seems to be that because there are assholes already managing teams, they should welcome with open arms more assholes.

One thing I've noticed in my dealings with many, many assholes: as repugnant as they are to me, they tend to be even more repugnant to each other.
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Well, most of the Metroplex and the Washington, DC metropolitan area know those two are far bigger assholes.

My point was that being an asshole has little if anything to do with owning an NFL team.
 
Ah, poor multi-millionaire Limbaugh. Unable to make even more money trying to keep a team in a city that doesn't deserve it.

Time to move back to LA, Rams. :cheers:
 
PapaG said:
The James Earl Jones quote is a fake, as are some others.

Stay stupid. :cheers:
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Limbaugh wasn't talking about James Earl Jones??? He's a great actor, loved him in Field of Dreams!

Nice personal attack there, BTW:cheers:
 
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BTW, if Soros is part of the investment group, shouldn't he be dropped as well?
 
BlazerWookee said:
BTW, if Soros is part of the investment group, shouldn't he be dropped as well?
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If the NFL thought he would embarrass the league, then yes.
My guess is that they wouldn't think so, because Soros keeps a much lower profile than Mr. Limbaugh. But if they did think so, they should give him the boot too.

Is Soros part of the investment group, or is this a hypothetical?

barfo
 
Regarding Soros, two wrongs don't make a right. If you're going to stand on principle, sometimes you have to turn the other cheek. Don't raise a stink about it and if Soros becomes an NFL owner, so be it.
 
I read somewhere that there was speculation that Soros was involved. I agree with Maxie, two wrongs don't make a right. As a life-long Rams fan, I am not too thrilled about George owning part of my team.
 
maxiep said:
Here's a great article on the subject: http://www.cbssports.com/columns/story/12367649
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Not a fan of the article, because the use of Little and Vick doesn't work so well. If there was some rule in the NFL that Limbaugh absolutely could not own the team, then I would agree. There isn't. Checkets could have left him on the ownership group, could have given it a run, and quite possibly, could have gotten the 24 or 25 votes he needed to buy the franchise. Maybe not. We heard from I believe one owner in irsay. I don't recall seeing others come out. Not the 8 or whatever that would be needed to vote it down. As is, Limbaugh is ALLOWED the opportunity to try to purchase a team, and it goes to a vote of the owners. Much rthe same way Michael Vick was allowed the opportunity to try to get a job in the NFL. Teams came out and said they would not take a chance on Vick. Over 20 teams said so. But the opportunity was there. Teams vote down owners occasionally. Generally, it's because they're looking at their pocketbook, and not their politics, IMO.

As for Al Sharpton, fuck, I would hope like hell to never see him as an owner in any sport I liked.
 
maxiep said:
Here's a great article on the subject: http://www.cbssports.com/columns/story/12367649
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link said:
And now that you've read this far, you're starting to waver, right?
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nope... dude wiffs on addressing why owners (through their puppet Goodell) don't want Rush. He'd be a PR nightmare for their league. Dude has proven he can't shut the fuck up about race... he's like a fat kid in a candy store unable to help himself. Besides all the dirty laundry he'd bring to the table, NFL owners would have to own all the other ridiculous stuff he'd say into the future. The next time he's celebrating America losing the Olympics (or some such crap), thats on them and their league to answer for. The Rams want to make a change at QB, do they (or the league) want to deal with the race questions that would ensue because of his comments on Donavan McNabb during his short failed stretch on MNF? Of course not.

It's a free country, but this is business and he's been judged to be bad for it by those running it. Owners don't need to take on a liability like Rush as there are plenty of other rich guys who'd love to pay them for the privilege of riding the business they've built.

STOMP
 
STOMP said:
nope... dude wiffs on addressing why owners (through their puppet Goodell) don't want Rush. He'd be a PR nightmare for their league. Dude has proven he can't shut the fuck up about race... he's like a fat kid in a candy store unable to help himself. Besides all the dirty laundry he'd bring to the table, NFL owners would have to own all the other ridiculous stuff he'd say into the future. The next time he's celebrating America losing the Olympics (or some such crap), thats on them and their league to answer for. The Rams want to make a change at QB, do they (or the league) want to deal with the race questions that would ensue because of his comments on Donavan McNabb during his short failed stretch on MNF? Of course not.

It's a free country, but this is business and he's been judged to be bad for it by those running it. Owners don't need to take on a liability like Rush as there are plenty of other rich guys who'd love to pay them for the privilege of riding the business they've built.

STOMP
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Just remember your position the next time a company is sued for discrimination, because that's become your stance.
 
STOMP said:
nope... dude wiffs on addressing why owners (through their puppet Goodell) don't want Rush. He'd be a PR nightmare for their league. Dude has proven he can't shut the fuck up about race... he's like a fat kid in a candy store unable to help himself. Besides all the dirty laundry he'd bring to the table, NFL owners would have to own all the other ridiculous stuff he'd say into the future. The next time he's celebrating America losing the Olympics (or some such crap), thats on them and their league to answer for. The Rams want to make a change at QB, do they (or the league) want to deal with the race questions that would ensue because of his comments on Donavan McNabb during his short failed stretch on MNF? Of course not.

It's a free country, but this is business and he's been judged to be bad for it by those running it. Owners don't need to take on a liability like Rush as there are plenty of other rich guys who'd love to pay them for the privilege of riding the business they've built.

STOMP
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What a load of crap. Rush would be a minority owner of a nowhere team. This is descrimination at it's very worst- pure & simple. It's a liberal's world right now and libs are a deeply hateful group- as they have again proven here.
 
How exactly is that his stance? Rush isn't being discrimanted against. He has the right, as well as the opportunity to ATTEMPT to own an NFL franchise. It goes to a vote of NFL owners. Would it be discriminating if they voted against him owning not because o fhis divisiveness or whatever, but because he came out and said he wanted to move the team?
Or are you still stuck on the certainty that all of the NFL owners don't want him because he is a conservative?
 
Discrimination at its very worst? Haha. Gimme a break.
 
BLAZER PROPHET said:
What a load of crap. Rush would be a minority owner of a nowhere team. This is descrimination at it's very worst- pure & simple. It's a liberal's world right now and libs are a deeply hateful group- as they have again proven here.
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Who are these libs who are discriminating against poor little Rush?

barfo
 
maxiep said:
Just remember your position the next time a company is sued for discrimination, because that's become your stance.
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When do companies get sued for discrimination regarding who they take on as a business partner? Rush wasn't applying for a job here.

barfo
 
barfo said:
Who are these libs who are discriminating against poor little Rush?

barfo
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Sharpton, Jackson...

I can make you a 100% guarantee that if he were a liberal shock jock, these people would embrace him with open arms. But if he's conservative, he clearly must be disqualified. It's an open and shut case.

And you know it, but your left leaning ways forbid you to admit it or be honest about it. That's what I hate about people stuck on the left & right- their political leanings refuse to allow them to be fair to anyone not of the same ilk. They lack the intellectual intelligence to do so.
 
BLAZER PROPHET said:
Sharpton, Jackson...

I can make you a 100% guarantee that if he were a liberal shock jock, these people would embrace him with open arms. But if he's conservative, he clearly must be disqualified. It's an open and shut case.

And you know it, but your left leaning ways forbid you to admit it or be honest about it. That's what I hate about people stuck on the left & right- their political leanings refuse to allow them to be fair to anyone not of the same ilk. They lack the intellectual intelligence to do so.
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You are just yanking my chain here, aren't you. You don't actually believe that Sharpton and Jackson control the NFL.... right?

barfo
 
What bearing do Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson have? They oppose it because they are left leaning idiots, basically the opposite spectrum of Rush. They aren't the NFL. They aren't stopping Checketts from keeping Rush on as a partner. So two idiots oppose another idiot, and that's discrimination? If taking a political stance like that is discrimination, then Rush has been discriminating against people for a very long time. So have they, and Ann Coulter, and Al Franken and the rest of them. But none of them have a bearing on the issue. They can oppose his inclusion, the same way PETA can oppose Vick being reinstated. They weren't discriminating against him, the same way teams that didn't sign Vick weren't liable for discrimination lawsuits.
 
barfo said:
You are just yanking my chain here, aren't you. You don't actually believe that Sharpton and Jackson control the NFL.... right?

barfo
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No, and you know I wasn't saying that. The point was, is, and always will be crystal clear. When controversial conservatives who are in the spotlight want to do something like this, there are always deeply hateful (hateful from the heart) libs who feel it their calling to shoot them down. Rush's politics have nothing to do with being a small stake owner of an NFL team. You know it, I know it, Sharpton knows it... everyone knows it. But those dishonest of chatacter due to politics just don't have the morality or guts to call something fair when it is.

Watching people hate for the sole reason for being hateful is really not pretty. It's easily the #1 problem in the country. Blantant bigotry. And then, to make matters worse, people are left to defend their hatred. I don't know which is worse.
 
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Right, but again, what differenec does it make if Al Sharpton criticizes him? how is that hurting his bid to be an owner? Do you think Al Sharpton is successful in everything he does? What exactly is your point there? Where are the deeply hateful libs IN THE NFL that are keeping him out? That are discriminating against him? Where?
 
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