You Could See This Coming: Goodell Should Say No to Limbaugh
1-liner, NFL, Politics, Race October 13th. 2009, 10:00amRush Limbaugh and the NFL: Somebody had to say it – NFL commish Roger Goodell should say no to Rush Limbaugh’s bid to become a co-owner of the St. Louis Rams. “Rush Limbaugh would be devastating to the NFL brand. Just as it has in the past seven days, his style of racial politics would upset employees and take attention away from the games.” He’s right. But Whitlock’s harsh words may surprise some – remember how nice Limbaugh was to him earlier this year? [Fox Sports]
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October 13th, 2009 at 10:05 am
I’d really like to know what the actual regulations are for becoming an NFL owner. Is this strictly subjective, much like Goodell’s discipline rulings? Isn’t that discrimination?
/not intended to be a Darrell comment
//no, really
October 13th, 2009 at 10:06 am
“If paper beats rock, rock beats scissors, and scissors beats paper, what beats all 3 at the same time? Answer: Ochocinco.”
October 13th, 2009 at 10:08 am
Congratulations to Whitlock for injecting the tired hip hop argument into this where it hadn’t been. I guess that was the easiest way for him to get his footing in the Limbaugh non-story.
October 13th, 2009 at 10:09 am
Why am I still only seeing the Roundup as the most recent post in the mainpage? I have to actually go into the Roundup to see that there are 2 new posts.
October 13th, 2009 at 10:10 am
funny
October 13th, 2009 at 10:10 am
Why am I still only seeing the Roundup as the most recent post in the mainpage? I have to actually go into the Roundup to see that there are 2 new posts.
Don’t worry, you’re not missing much.
October 13th, 2009 at 10:10 am
Is this strictly subjective,
It is in all leagues. Remember when Mark Cuban was willing to buy first the Cubs, then the Pirates? Or when that crazy russian mobster wanted to buy the Nets? Neither one of those went through, as I recall.
They really let a mobster buy the Nets.
/I haven’t read the Whitlock article yet, but this is right in his wheelhouse. I expect to be pleased.
October 13th, 2009 at 10:11 am
Didn’t we just have this discussion?
October 13th, 2009 at 10:12 am
http://www.itwasthebestnightever.com/
October 13th, 2009 at 10:12 am
If the standard for owning an NFL franchise is being a decent, then guys like Tom Benson fail it right now.
Then again, I’m looking forward to Rush Limbaugh being involved in the next CBA agreements and saying that the NFL needs a government bailout.
October 13th, 2009 at 10:12 am
does that guy have writers bsanders?
October 13th, 2009 at 10:13 am
In the name of improving the image of the NFL, Goodell has smacked every black and white player who has crossed paths with law enforcement.
Jared Allen got off pretty easy.
October 13th, 2009 at 10:13 am
I wonder what would happen if Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson wanted to buy a team?
October 13th, 2009 at 10:15 am
Why am I still only seeing the Roundup as the most recent post in the mainpage? I have to actually go into the Roundup to see that there are 2 new posts.
everybody was having this problem yesterday, too CJ. Try clearing your cache, and killing cookies, etc. Also, what was working yesterday was a full refresh (F5 or Command R)
October 13th, 2009 at 10:15 am
Looking forward to the Limbaugh sale so Kroenke can make a bid for Arsenal.
October 13th, 2009 at 10:16 am
I don’t believe so, but I could be wrong. It’s Hollywood, everyone has a writer. Leno’s and Letterman’s just suck.
October 13th, 2009 at 10:16 am
it’s similar to MLB. the other owners pick who can be a part of their little club of billionares over whiskey and cigars in a secluded room.
October 13th, 2009 at 10:16 am
Honestly, who gives a shit? Limbaugh is a caricature, but if he wants to waste his $$$ on a dogass team like that, go forth. Watching Kyle Boller will get him back on the Oxy toot sweet…
October 13th, 2009 at 10:18 am
O/T: How good was Sunday’s Curb?
“Shut the fuck up! Shut the fuck up!”
October 13th, 2009 at 10:18 am
meant ochocinco, guy is hilarious
October 13th, 2009 at 10:22 am
That’s easy to say when its not your team, but imagine being a Clippers or Raiders fan. It’s hard to argue that having Donald Sterling as the owner of your team doesn’t downgrade your enjoyment, and even he doesn’t go around personally insulting half of his fan base and players.
October 13th, 2009 at 10:27 am
My team is owned by a Canadian with Alzheimer’s who extorted the city with threats of moving to LA and wears a full length fur coat on the sidelines. There are hardly any truly good owners in Sports.
If I was a Raiders fan, I’d be stoked to have a living human being as an owner, even if it was Charles Taylor from Liberia.
October 13th, 2009 at 10:30 am
Yes, but Al Sharpton, the media-appointed spokesman for Black People has weighed in, so it’s back.
October 13th, 2009 at 10:32 am
Wow that’s not true at all. As someone who knows a little about the writing industry, they have some of the most talented comedy writers out there working for them. Those jobs are a big deal and nearly impossible to get. Now certainly I’ll watch a monologue and say “ehh, that wasn’t the best” but you gotta understand that any show using material on a daily basis will miss probably more than it will hit. A show like Bill Maher’s has a little bit lesser writers, but b/c it’s once a week, a segment like “new rules” will probably outdo a nightly monologue segment b/c it’s only once a week.
October 13th, 2009 at 10:39 am
Everything I’ve read has him as a minority owner. I doubt that as a minority owner, he would have a hand in any football operation. Basically, they’ll take his money and keep doing what they’ve been doing. Nothing would change, at all.
October 13th, 2009 at 10:43 am
I have a friend who writes for Letterman. The guy is hilarious, which makes me wonder how it is that Letterman and his show is so not funny.
October 13th, 2009 at 10:48 am
My great-great-grandfather owned minorities.
/Bad joke.
//I’m already sorry.
October 13th, 2009 at 11:03 am
Is this all about race? What if Rush hadn’t said what he said about McNabb? Would this still be an issue? And if it is strictly about racial politics, I bet the Rams, with Rush as part owner, would have a racial makeup in the front office an on the field that’s on par with the rest of the league…if this isn’t mandated by race pimps already. So what’s the big deal?
October 13th, 2009 at 11:19 am
That’s easy to say when its not your team, but imagine being a Clippers or Raiders fan.
I have a 91 y/o HOF’er who doesn’t know if today is Christmas day or oatmeal day. This is such a fucking pile of bullshit. People are such hypocrites.
If he was AN owner and the team won, the place would sell out. If he was owner and was willing to pay $127 more on a 5 year deal than another team, the players would sign there.
Remember, these same players who are “standing up” for their beliefs are the same ones high stepping over the older players who are destitute with no insurance and need some of their money and they could give a shit less.
FAUX OUTRAGE IS THE WORST KIND OF OUTRAGE
October 13th, 2009 at 11:24 am
Rush has said far worse things about minorities, especially blacks, than that McNabb crap a few years ago. He’s said it specifically about the NFL and about race in general.
October 13th, 2009 at 11:30 am
Perhaps like me you’ve been totally against Limbaugh at least ever since that comment he made on McNabb in late September 2003 in his awkward casting on ESPN back in those heydays of our country’s right wing and Neocon types.
I was in Denver at the time going to watch the Broncos beat the Lions later that day and saw it live and knew shit was going to hit the fan when I could not believe my ears and Michael Irvin’s funny reaction as Tom Jackson put on his killer LB face and stewed, but it didn’t until the Philly Inquirer blew it up two days later in that pre-YouTube era.
I don’t think we need the likes of Whitlock yet again fresh off a romp at scrumptious Wendy’s to weigh in on race matters on this one.
Perhaps you too happen to agree with the dominant media’s position for once, even though like me you have grown to despise them, but for sake of true debate why can’t we hear someone other than the likes of Fox News defend Limbaugh should such a party even exist?
October 13th, 2009 at 11:31 am
Yeah it is. It gives real outrage a bad name.
October 13th, 2009 at 11:33 am
JPQ,
Most people I know have the mental agility to handle more than one thing at a time. Yes, people love the NFL and yes they can still do their damndest to not have it sullied by a team-owning bigot. Their’s nothing “faux” about this outrage other than linking this to a completely seperate topic about older players and insurance.
And it’s ironic that you seem to want to create a right for insurance for these older players, while Rush and his dittoheads are more than happy to go tell the similarily uninsured to go fuck themselves. That’s hypocritical.
October 13th, 2009 at 11:43 am
count on the number 1 player of the “race card” on this board to passively-aggressively defend Limbaugh with some lame straw man argument.
October 13th, 2009 at 11:53 am
staph: My point w/ the insurance and the fans is that I do not believe that players would actually take a moral stand. If they won’t get guilt-tripped into doing it to former players that did what they did to allow them to make what they do, even when they are browbeaten in person by the Mike Ditka’s of the world in NFLPA meetings, I find it hard to believe they would walk away from potentially a few million more dollars because somehow Rush Limbaugh contributed to their paycheck.
I do NOT like Rush Limbaugh. However, I also don’t like a country saying this man can’t do something because we don’t like what he says.
Darrell: where, exactly, did I bring up race in my comment? My comment was more based on greed and the fact that people get all worked up about something, then when things work out for them personally, they don’t seem to care as much.
October 13th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
If many of these players hadn’t opted out for the lump sum payment at a younger age, their pensions wouldn’t have been in as bad of shape. Of course once that came out, you didn’t hear as much from the Ditka’s of the world.
October 13th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
Free speech goes both ways, JPQ. Nobody is asking for a law to be created. Players, fans and advocates are telling the league that this isn’t a good idea and that they stand against it.
Ownership groups frequently steer bids to groups for subjective reasons instead of just sheer dollar signs. The fact that people are actually speaking out instead of burying their heads in the sand should tell you that this is a little more than just “Faux Outrage”. You may just dislike him, but a good percentage of black people loathe him. The fact that he’s not really attacking “white culture” should maybe give you a hint that your probably not going to be as offended by his spiel as black people are.
Also, will some people put money in front of principle? Hell yeah. But may some shun ST. Louis, like we’ve seen them shun the Browns because of Manigini, the Clippers because of Sterling and others? I’m guessing so.
October 13th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
Interesting few (if any?) have a problem with Dan Rooney’s sudden change in politics.
Maybe because he chose the “right” kind of politics?
If we, as a country, decide what and who can do business based on politics, I’m sorry, we’re entering very dangerous if not frightening territory.
October 13th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
By the way, let me add I am no fan of Limbaugh. What I or anyone thinks about him should have any bearing as to whether he’d be a good owner or not or should be allowed to buy any franchise or not.
October 13th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
Thoughtful post, Jimmy.
October 13th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
Jimmy, the strawman arguments aren’t going to cut it. 90%+ of NFL owners are Republicans and guess what? Nobody cares. Your making this about politics not us. This is about being a bigot, not about whethether someone voted for McCain or Obama. Jerry Jones (uber-R) and the Rooneys (new-D) are on the same playing field as far as I’m concerned in that they are rich guys who can afford to buy a team and are in the “mainstream” of said rich guys who don’t make the NFL look too bad. I don’t think Limbaugh should own a NFL team, but I don’t think Louis Fahrakkan or Norman Mailer should either. There are a lot of rich guys out there who don’t spend their time pissing off a major constituency of the NFL.
October 13th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
Sharpton and Jackson are the race baiters, not Limbaugh. Limbaugh believes in equal opportunity and freedom for all regardless of race. Its Sharpton and Jackson that always want to make it about race.
October 13th, 2009 at 1:01 pm
Limbaugh never said the thing about James Earl Ray. Limbaugh is pursuing legal action against the person that started that lie.
October 13th, 2009 at 1:04 pm
He is my sunshine, my only sunshine, he makes me happy when skies are gray. You’ll never know dear, how much I love you, please don’t take my sunshine away.
October 13th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
Limbaugh believes in equal opportunity and freedom for all regardless of race.
He is my sunshine, my only sunshine, he makes me happy when skies are gray. You’ll never know dear, how much I love you, please don’t take my sunshine away.
lol +1
October 13th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
Apparently, Wikipedia isn’t 100% factual.
October 13th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
actually, my argument has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with thought control.
we, as an alleged free socity, are entering dangerous, frightening territory when we deny anyone a business opportunity because we don’t like what he/she says. i don’t give a damn who we are talking about or what political affiliation they have.
October 13th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
The majority of soceity are severely underinformed and base most of their opinion on what they have been told by one or maybe two people.
I’ll at least listen to the opinion of someone who is well read and is armed with knowledge….
You think most of these football players are well versed in world affairs, politics or even domestic affairs? Players should be told to shut the fuck up and take their paycheck… if not, go to work like the rest of us desk jockeys, or, like a lot of people on here, ask them to try being unemployed for months on end.
Athletes are like movie stars now in the sense that they are totally out of touch with reality b/c of the amount of money they make for playing a sport.
I hope Limbaugh buys they Rams just to shove it up most of these morons asses.
October 13th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
Leave it to the Purdue grads to defend the race-baiting huckster. I was an out of state student there who left the day of graduation never to return, and I can only be thankful that this conservative west lafayette mindset never took hold.
It’s funny that so many are raising Sharpton and Jackson as some kind of defense to the racial attacks Rush uses as his stock in trade to keep his audience engaged.
Colin Cowherd tried the same argument this morning on the radio and if you take a minute to think, it is a bad analogy and does nothing to refute the concerns of the anti-limbaugh crowd.
October 13th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
threadjack:
admitting one listens to cowturd is like admitting one picks their nose at a red light.
something things are better kept to one’s self. :^)
October 13th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
Then WTF do you call the McNabb incident. No one was talking about race, except for Limbaugh trying to be provocative. Republicans claim to hate when black people inject race into the equation, BUT THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT HE DID. Hence the word “race baiter”. I mean you can just make up the meaning of words to fit your cause but there are definitions. Unless of course, “race baiting” can only fit someone black or concerned with black interests. Then your definition makes perfect sense.
October 13th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
This is just idiotic.