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reefraff

reefraff

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So Limbaugh got kicked out of the group trying to buy the Rams. I don't think the league should consider letting that group buy the team. If the leader of that group didn't have sense enough to understand they would be skewered for including Limbaugh he is too stupid to run an NFL team.
 
mantisman51

mantisman51

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I was a fan of the big guy for the first 10 years or so. Now he's left conservatism and became a big business lackey, I don't care for him. I don't listen to him anymore and probably won't anymore. Having said that, why on earth would anyone object to him owning a sports team? Robert Kraft is one of the biggest contributors to what I consider anti-family causes, and I haven't heard anyone (but me
) say he shouldn't be an owner. Jerry Jones was known as a brutal and cut-throat businessman and I have read articles where he was supposed to have driven competitors into bankruptcy, yet he owns the flagship of the NFL (ooh I hate the Cowboys). The Debartolo's have often been accused of being involved with organized crime, yet they still control the 49ers. How is it American to say because he's a loud mouth he can't be a part of the NFL?
 
choprjohn

choprjohn

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Well well well another bleeding heart liberal blow to the 1st amendment...Freedm of speech. Just because he spoke his mind he is now an outcast. Im geussing most who condemned him NEVER listened to his radio show. Oh and what a surprise even Reverand Rent-A-Riot Al Sharpton chimed in. If you look in the dictionary under Cancer it says see Politically Correct. I grew up near the college where D. McNabb played football, & appreciate his desire & ability. However he is not the second coming of Johnnie Unitas or even Payton Manning. What Rush said is probably true, his only crime is saying it out loud.
 
reefraff

reefraff

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Well, what Rush said about DM was not the most artfully worded but he was not completely off base. McNabb was hyped because he is a black QB, not because the media "was desirous to see a black quarterback do well". There haven't been many black QB's in the NFL that have reached the top. It made the McNabb story a natural for the media to do what they do best, create a storyline.
As far as not allowing Limbaugh buy into a team if his participation would be a distraction it is best he not be involved. I will say all those doing the complaining are a bunch of hypocrites though. Limbaugh can't hold a minor stake in a team but Michael Vick can be a quarterback? Gimmi a break and I don't know why anyone pays attention to what Al Sharton has to say, that goon belongs in jail.
 
jackri

jackri

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EVERYONE should be upset that Rush was kicked out of the group because of what of who he is. What happened to our freedom where a man with the money cannot buy a team based on he's a conservative talk radio show host? Who cares? He has the money and we live in a free society (or so I used to think).
The thing with DM was that Rush questioned whether or not people thought he was better than he actually was because they wanted to see a black quarter back succeed. Not saying he sucks because he's black or anything. If you honestly think Rush is a racist you have never actually listened to anything he said, only what people who hate him reported him to say.
But really, if Al Franken wanted the Rams and they said no because hes on the other end, that's wrong as well.
Wrong is wrong regardless of party affiliation and it's the party politics and lack of common (uncommon) sense that's starting to drive this country down. No party is 100% right or wrong and people seemed to have stopped thinking for themselves on what they are and aren't entitled to.
K venting done for now.
 
zman1

zman1

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Originally Posted by reefraff
http:///forum/post/3155542
So Limbaugh got kicked out of the group trying to buy the Rams. I don't think the league should consider letting that group buy the team. If the leader of that group didn't have sense enough to understand they would be skewered for including Limbaugh he is too stupid to run an NFL team.
Ditto -
 
theclemsonkid

theclemsonkid

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"Transcripts posted on the radio host's Web site also say that on a January 2007 show, Limbaugh commented: "The NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it."
I think that little gem was the real kiss of death. With a league that is made up of 78% African Americans at the moment, who in their right mind would want a guy who says things like that on their ownership ticket?
I think the thing that people forget, is that this is a league of free agency, and there would be a certain number of players who would not sign with the Rams simply because of the fact Limbaugh was part owner. No owner that is trying to win games is going to have someone on their board who puts them at a competitive disadvantage. Period.
They dropped him from a purely business standpoint. All of you crying the "what happened to free speech" and "this used to be a free country" can take a hike.
And for all you Rush fans (the right wing nut job, not the awesome 80's band), you should be thrilled! Look at all the free pub this is man is getting. More money into Mr. Limbaugh's pockets. And you guys says capitalism is dead. Hmph.
 
darthtang aw

darthtang aw

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Originally Posted by TheClemsonKid
http:///forum/post/3156023
"Transcripts posted on the radio host's Web site also say that on a January 2007 show, Limbaugh commented: "The NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it."
I think that little gem was the real kiss of death. With a league that is made up of 78% African Americans at the moment, who in their right mind would want a guy who says things like that on their ownership ticket?
I think the thing that people forget, is that this is a league of free agency, and there would be a certain number of players who would not sign with the Rams simply because of the fact Limbaugh was part owner. No owner that is trying to win games is going to have someone on their board who puts them at a competitive disadvantage. Period.
They dropped him from a purely business standpoint. All of you crying the "what happened to free speech" and "this used to be a free country" can take a hike.
And for all you Rush fans (the right wing nut job, not the awesome 80's band), you should be thrilled! Look at all the free pub this is man is getting. More money into Mr. Limbaugh's pockets. And you guys says capitalism is dead. Hmph.
I actually agree with you....it was a business decision.
 
reefraff

reefraff

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Originally Posted by TheClemsonKid
http:///forum/post/3156023
"Transcripts posted on the radio host's Web site also say that on a January 2007 show, Limbaugh commented: "The NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it."
I think that little gem was the real kiss of death. With a league that is made up of 78% African Americans at the moment, who in their right mind would want a guy who says things like that on their ownership ticket?
I think the thing that people forget, is that this is a league of free agency, and there would be a certain number of players who would not sign with the Rams simply because of the fact Limbaugh was part owner. No owner that is trying to win games is going to have someone on their board who puts them at a competitive disadvantage. Period.
They dropped him from a purely business standpoint. All of you crying the "what happened to free speech" and "this used to be a free country" can take a hike.
And for all you Rush fans (the right wing nut job, not the awesome 80's band), you should be thrilled! Look at all the free pub this is man is getting. More money into Mr. Limbaugh's pockets. And you guys says capitalism is dead. Hmph.
I agree with the business decision end of it, I just tire of hearing all the hypocrites attacking Limbaugh when others have said and done a whole lot worse yet they are allowed to be involved.
If the NFL is truly 78% black why aren't people screaming and yelling about the racial imbalance?
 
theclemsonkid

theclemsonkid

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Originally Posted by reefraff
http:///forum/post/3156055
I agree with the business decision end of it, I just tire of hearing all the hypocrites attacking Limbaugh when others have said and done a whole lot worse yet they are allowed to be involved.
If the NFL is truly 78% black why aren't people screaming and yelling about the racial imbalance?

Because professional sports are one of the few professions where the best person pretty much always gets the job...
 
mantisman51

mantisman51

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Yeah, he may be a publicity hound, but we love him. Funny thing is we're doing here in Cochise County, and have been for years, but our Sheriff gets no love. Sheriff Larry Devers is a low-profile guy, but I actually registered just to vote for him. We in Arizona are lucky to have the best law enforcement in the country. They are all about the law and not hassling the people. Gol darn it, I should've moved here a long time ago.
 
reefraff

reefraff

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Originally Posted by mantisman51
http:///forum/post/3156314
Yeah, he may be a publicity hound, but we love him. Funny thing is we're doing here in Cochise County, and have been for years, but our Sheriff gets no love. Sheriff Larry Devers is a low-profile guy, but I actually registered just to vote for him. We in Arizona are lucky to have the best law enforcement in the country. They are all about the law and not hassling the people. Gol darn it, I should've moved here a long time ago.
I tried Phoenix about 16 years ago, Just like LA only hotter. My oldest friend is a member of Joe's crew there. I have heard of Devers too but I can't remember why. You get away from Denver and Bolder Colorado isn't bad either.
 
zman1

zman1

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Originally Posted by oscardeuce
http:///forum/post/3156517
Too bad Rush does't make movies and drug and molest children.
Free speech is dead
A prerequisite to own a NFL team? We should shut the whole system down then. Do away with the NFL.....
Free speech is dead
I didn't know he was banned from radio and TV. I wish you would have told me that earlier
 
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