NFL Owners Belie Limbaugh `Not Wanted’ by Giving to Republicans

[sabra]

Source: Bloomberg

Oct. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Rush Limbaugh said his ouster from a group trying to buy the St. Louis Rams showed “if you are conservative, then you are not wanted.” Many National Football League owners, who give more than three times as much money to Republicans than Democrats, may disagree.

NFL owners and their family members have given $1,458,946 to Republicans since Jan. 1, 2007, compared with the $419,042 they contributed to Democrats during that period, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a Washington-based research group.

“Football team owners are, by and large, very wealthy and conservative,” said Sheila Krumholz, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics. “Not only do they own clubs; they are themselves a very small, very elite club.”

Limbaugh was dropped last week from an ownership group seeking to purchase the St. Louis Rams following criticism of provocative comments he has made by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and DeMaurice Smith, the executive director of the league’s players association. The head of the ownership group, Dave Checketts, said Limbaugh’s involvement had “become a complication and a distraction.”

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[Warpy]

1. Limbag was dumped for two reasons

First, his history of drug abuse would not make him a welcome owner in a drug phobic organization like the NFL. Second, his well known, public racism meant there might be problems recruiting and retaining the best black players.

Either of those reasons should have eliminated him from that group of investors before he ever approached them to join. Both together were the complete kiss of death for his aspiration to be a jock by proxy, finally.

I think this is the first thing in his life that has hit him really hard, both the loss of a dream and the knowledge that millions can't buy everything.

[Ian David]

6. And Nancy Pelosi's husband is buying a team :) Bwahaha! n/t

[Cha]

8. There was a poster on here who

was claiming that this was all good for limpbaugh. I said, nah..he wanted this.

But, it gets limpbag out doing what he does best..whilying and playing the big fat innocent victim.

[fascisthunter]

2. awwwwww.... going for the victim card

no, you were summarily rejected because of your LACK OF CHARACTER and anti-american divisiveness.

[NYC Liberal]

3. Cry me a river. Conservatives are soooo victimized and oppressed.

Conservatives have been screwed the country over for the last 30 years, brought it to the brink in the last 8, wrecked the economy, promote racism and sexism, do everything they can to crush the poor and middle class in favor of the wealthiest 1 percent, destroyed our credibility around the world, were the biggest backers of an illegal invasion of a country that did us no wrong...

and yet they are still given airtime by the media, their positions are still considered as "issues" to be "debated" instead of tried-and-failed bullshit to be rejected out of hand, and they even have their own 24/7 TV channel to catapult their propaganda, as well as a ton of radio programs/stations.

Tell me again why I should feel sorry for conservatives.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

4. Two Words: Marge Schott

[curiousdemo]

5. Buffalo butt better be worried...

about Brother Al suing his fat ass. Brother Al said if dough-boy doesn't apologize for his slanderous article in the Wall Street Journal, his lawyers will move forward with a defamation lawsuit by the end of this week.

[Cha]

7. Football owners "conservative" ..as in ..

wanting to keep it all for themselves..meememememememeeme.

Yeah, limpbaugh is a "distraction" all right..a distraction from the facts.

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. Gee, Mr. Fatass isn't even wanted by his wealthy pals.

Cry me a river, OxyPig.:cry:

[BadgerKid]

10. Hey, Rush. It's called CAPITALISM. Welcome! n/t

[classysassy]

11. Republican

owners,seem to have a bunch of losers this season,keep on giving boys.