...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 STOMP
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.
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.
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.
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?
