Limbaugh to buy NFL Rams?

[sandbagger]

so what do you think? I figure this ought to rile up even a few non-sports fans. :stirpot:

Limbaugh confirms bidding for Rams with Blues owner Checketts (http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/story/12322129)

It certainly riled up Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. 'Anti-NFL' Limbaugh should be blocked from bidding on Rams. (http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/story/12352252)

Frankly, it is entirely possible that Sharpton and Jackson have hurt their cause by opening mouths. :talk: :talk:

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[sandbagger]

and before the knees start jerking to fast, think about it.

The Rams are a mess with the Frontiere family in charge since Georgia's death (not that she was all that great an owner).

There is a clause in the stadium lease that will probably give a new owner an out of St Louis in 2014. Rush is from Missouri and still has many ties there. As Blues owner Checketts could not move the Rams and keep both teams. St Louis football fans should be all over this if they want to keep their team. The chances of getting a replacement are pretty slim these days - just ask the folks in LA.

The NFL is hardly one to get too prissy about its owners, either. How about Al Davis? Or the guy who moved the Colts from Baltimore in the middle of the night? :crazy:

[kate42]

What a joke! The big mouth owning a football team!!

[MudMaker]

If you have the dough.. You should be able to make the purchase.. :tup2:
Once again Al Sharpton shows his true colors.... Green with envy.. :blah:

[e3]

plus it would be a great source for his pain killers!!

[sandbagger]

Kate - you claim to be a sports fan. Put on your "St Louis Fan" glasses a minute and think about it. This may be the best chance they have of keeping the team. That doesn't even consider the fact that Checketts - who will be running the team - has proven himself somewhat in rebuilding the Blues. Rush just wants to be able to go to the owners' meetings and have a front-row seat at the draft. ;)

[kate42]

you claim to be a sports fan.

More a fact than a claim. :D

[Davestone]

I am a big St. Louis(cards) fan and suffered through the playoffs.I could care less about football,but i see no reason he shouldn't.They should give the Lions to Sharpton.:D

[LadyGodiva]

Frankly dear, I don't give a damn :D

[tileguytodd]

I think everybody in the mudbox should pitch in and BID......

We can Move the team to Anchorage Alaska...NO DOME

Nearly Gauranteed 8 wins per season when the Dome wimps come up to Play :D

5 mil a year and they want to be WARM too.........Football just aint FOOTBALL anymore :(

Hockey...........Now THATS a MANS GAME............ :tup2:

[scuttlebuttrp]

Hockey's played in a dome though Todd. When they go back outside on a frozen lake; then they can claim manliness again.

[Davy]

Fine with me if he has the money.:shrug:

[John Corley]

I think he has the money and then some......... the golden eib microphone has made him very wealthy. Yes, Chris Rock's version of wealthy vs rich.

[sandbagger]

well, it's settle then. Rush gets the cards and Sharpton gets the Lions. Jackson can be his VP of Corporate Shakedowns, Marketing. :D

[LadyGodiva]

What's the Mud Box getting?:think::shrug:

[tilerite]

I'm, glad he got shot down. The man is such a douchebag!!

[MudMaker]

Rick .. If we restrict all douchebags from being able to purchase stuff, there won't be much stuff bought.. ;)

[tilerite]

The NFL is a private country club much the way Augusta National is. Being a member is a privilege not a right and Its their discretion as to who they let in and who they don't. Its not a Constitutional right. Btw, Augusta turned down Bill Gates, the worlds richest man. Oh well.

[kate42]

Suposedly, who owns any major sports club is held to a higher standard.

What a cr*@% of garbage.

Oh well, this is the USA. :bang::bang: Free Enterprise.

[MudMaker]

The Dolphins are working on a deal to bring Fergie on as a limited partner, and NFL owners during their meeting in Boston on Tuesday approved the Black Eyed Peas' singer as a potential owner.

and here she is peeing on stage.. Oh she just forgot to go before the show.. NFL to a higher standard (http://music.aol.com/photo-galleries/shocking-concert-moments/fergie-pees-pants-on-stage)

[sandbagger]

the pee thing isn't nearly as disgusting as the lyrics to some of their "songs" - which are completely, 100%, verifiable with the click of a mouse.

Turns out at least one of those "controversial quotes" from Rush were just flat made up, and then used without vetting by CNN (among others).

http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/1009/Sanchez_apologizes_for_fake_Rush_quote.html

[Lazarus]

OCTOBER 16, 2009, 10:27 P.M. ET.

The Race Card, Football and Me

My critics would have you believe no conservative meets NFL 'standards.

By RUSH LIMBAUGH

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424....IGHTTopCarousel

David Checketts, an investor and owner of sports teams, approached me in late May about investing in the St. Louis Rams football franchise. As a football fan, I was intrigued. I invited him to my home where we discussed it further. Even after informing him that some people might try to make an issue of my participation, Mr. Checketts said he didn't much care. I accepted his offer.

It didn't take long before my name was selectively leaked to the media as part of the Checketts investment group. Shortly thereafter, the media elicited comments from the likes of Al Sharpton. In 1998 Mr. Sharpton was found guilty of defamation and ordered to pay $65,000 for falsely accusing a New York prosecutor of rape in the 1987 Tawana Brawley case. He also played a leading role in the 1991 Crown Heights riot (he called neighborhood Jews "diamond merchants") and 1995 Freddie's Fashion Mart riot.

Not to be outdone, Jesse Jackson, whose history includes anti-Semitic speech (in 1984 he referred to Jews as "Hymies" and to New York City as "Hymietown" in a Washington Post interview) chimed in. He found me unfit to be associated with the NFL. I was too divisive and worse. I was accused of once supporting slavery and having praised Martin Luther King Jr.'s murderer, James Earl Ray.

Next came writers in the sports world, like the Washington Post's Michael Wilbon. He wrote this gem earlier this week: "I'm not going to try and give specific examples of things Limbaugh has said over the years because I screwed up already doing that, repeating a quote attributed to Limbaugh (about slavery) which he has told me he simply did not say and does not reflect his feelings. I take him at his word. . . . "

Mr. Wilbon wasn't alone. Numerous sportswriters, CNN, MSNBC, among others, falsely attributed to me statements I had never made. Their sources, as best I can tell, were Wikipedia and each other. But the Wikipedia post was based on a fabrication printed in a book that also lacked any citation to an actual source.

I never said I supported slavery and I never praised James Earl Ray. How sick would that be? Just as sick as those who would use such outrageous slanders against me or anyone else who never even thought such things. Mr. Wilbon refuses to take responsibility for his poison pen, writing instead that he will take my word that I did not make these statements; others, like Rick Sanchez of CNN, essentially used the same sleight-of-hand.

The sports media elicited comments from a handful of players, none of whom I can recall ever meeting. Among other things, at least one said he would never play for a team I was involved in given my racial views. My racial views? You mean, my belief in a colorblind society where every individual is treated as a precious human being without regard to his race? Where football players should earn as much as they can and keep as much as they can, regardless of race? Those controversial racial views?

The NFL players union boss, DeMaurice Smith, jumped in. A Washington criminal defense lawyer, Democratic Party supporter and Barack Obama donor, he sent a much publicized email to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell saying that it was important for the league to reject discrimination and hatred.

When Mr. Goodell was asked about me, he suggested that my 2003 comment criticizing the media's coverage of Donovan McNabb—in which I said the media was cheerleading Mr. McNabb because they wanted a successful black quarterback—fell short of the NFL's "high standard." High standard? Half a decade later, the media would behave the same way about the presidential candidacy of Mr. Obama.

Having brought me into his group, Mr. Checketts now wanted a way out. He asked me to resign. I told him no way. I had done nothing wrong. I had not uttered the words these people were putting in my mouth. And I would not bow to their libels and pressure. He would have to drop me from the group. A few days later, he did.

As I explained on my radio show, this spectacle is bigger than I am on several levels. There is a contempt in the news business, including the sportswriter community, for conservatives that reflects the blind hatred espoused by Messrs. Sharpton and Jackson. "Racism" is too often their sledgehammer. And it is being used to try to keep citizens who don't share the left's agenda from participating in the full array of opportunities this nation otherwise affords each of us. It was on display many years ago in an effort to smear Clarence Thomas with racist stereotypes and keep him off the Supreme Court. More recently, it was employed against patriotic citizens who attended town-hall meetings and tea-party protests.

These intimidation tactics are working and spreading, and they are a cancer on our society.

[sandbagger]

It didn't take long before my name was selectively leaked to the media .... I've been wondering about that. Rush had mentioned the "confidentially agreement" that everyone in the group had supposedly signed. I thought it odd all along the other than Checketts and Rush, we still don't know who the other investors are. I was certain Rush hadn't volunteered his participation, knowing full well what would ensue. Apparently someone else in the group knew it, too.

I can tell you one thing. The leaker had better cover his/her tracks real good. Rush won't get mad. He'll get even. :devil2:

[tilerite]

The man is a whining piece of crap. I am amazed that any person with a brain, actually listens to this dolt.

[TileArt1]

I am amazed that any person with a brain, actually listens to this dolt. The people who meet the criteria you have set forth do not listen to him. :D

[tilerite]

Thanks for the clarification, Roger.

[Bill Vincent]

The man is a whining piece of crap. I am amazed that any person with a brain, actually listens to this dolt.

They don't.... always. Sometimes they just make up whatever sounds good. I don't care for Limbaugh, but usually it's Fox that's accused of this kind of journalim:

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2009/10/16/msnbc-admits-unable-verify-false-limbaugh-quote-no-retraction-or-apolo

[tilerite]

They don't.... always. Sometimes they just make up whatever sounds good. I don't care for Limbaugh, but usually it's Fox that's accused of this kind of journalim:

I like Fox. They are the only network that doesn't lean to the far left.