Rush Limbaugh dropped from Investment group seeking to buy NFL Team

[TeamJordan23]

Sources: Checketts to drop Limbaugh
By Adam Schefter
ESPN

Rush Limbaugh is expected to be dropped from a group bidding to buy the St. Louis Rams, according to three NFL sources.

Dave Checketts, chairman of the NHL's St. Louis Blues and the point man in the Limbaugh group attempting to buy the Rams, realizes he must remove the controversial conservative radio host from his potential role as a minority member in the group in order to get approval from other NFL owners, the sources said.

Three-quarters of the league's 32 owners would have to approve any sale to Limbaugh and his group. Earlier this week, Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay predicted that Limbaugh's potential bid would be met by significant opposition. Several players have also voiced their displeasure with Limbaugh's potential ownership position, and NFL Players Association head DeMaurice Smith, who is black, urged players to speak out against Limbaugh's bid.

Ultimately, the sources said, Checketts must reconfigure his group and find another investor to make his bid more viable.

Exactly when Limbaugh will be dropped is uncertain, though some familiar with the situation said it could be within the next week. It is unclear if the two sides even have spoken.

Earlier Wednesday, on his syndicated radio show, Limbaugh was defiant, holding on to hope that he still could be part of the ownership group that buys the Rams.

"I'm not even thinking of exiting," Limbaugh said on his program, according to a transcript provided to ESPN. "I'm not even thinking of caving. I am not a caver. None of us are. We have been betrayed by too many who have caved. Pioneers take the arrows. We are pioneers. It's a sad thing but our country over 200 years old now needs pioneers all over again, but we do."

Without Limbaugh, Checketts and his group would have to find a financial substitute to replace the investment that Limbaugh intended to make. At the NFL owners meetings this week in Boston, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell addressed Limbaugh's potential involvement in the league and said "divisive comments are not what the NFL is all about."

Goodell added: "I've said many times before, we're all held to a high standard here. I would not want to see those comments coming from people who are in a responsible position in the NFL -- absolutely not."

In 2003, Limbaugh was forced to resign from ESPN's Sunday NFL Countdown after saying of Philadelphia's Donovan McNabb: "I think what we've had here is a little social concern in the NFL. The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well."

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[TheCoxwain]

1. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ....

:rofl:

[roguevalley]

11. ditto :-D

[lunatica]

2. I hope he feels profound humiliation

I hope his cheeks smart from the flood of embarrassed blood infusing them. I hope he feels the rejection to the core of his shriveled soul.

[TheCoxwain]

4. you are making a profound assumption ..that he is capable of having emotions .. oops

thought you were talking about cheney.

[rvablue]

13. Doesn't the sensation of humiliation and shame entail one has a conscience? n/t

[lunatica]

15. I think in his case it entails the giant ego

Egotistical people hate being rebuffed. They much prefer doing the rebuffing.

[MadMaddie]

19. nah...he will blame minorities for him failing to be part of the deal.

Blaming minorities and other moral people who made public their disgust concerning his racist comments.

[lunatica]

20. We know he'll blame everybody else. I'm hoping he feels humiliated in his most private moments

No matter what he says. I'm hoping he cringes at the very memory of being dropped by the group that wants to buy the Rams. I'm hoping it drives him to distraction in the few moments in his life when he actually faces the truth. Yeah, those aren't many, but every once in a while it happens. The truth always wants to make itself known.

[jenmito]

3. OOOOH! I'd LOVE to hear what he says about this on the radio!

I know he was trying to sue those who put out his supposedly false racist comments, but I ALSO know he has made enough racist comments on the air to disqualify him. :rofl:

[LiberalFighter]

14. What is interesting is that Limbaugh had to research to make sure he hadn't made it.

Which means he had doubts about not saying it.

[SIMPLYB1980]

5. LOL!

:rofl:

[Phx_Dem]

6. LMAO! This sounds alot worse than a city losing the Olympic bid.

Let's see . . . which is more humiliating,

1. The President makes one speech on behalf of a U.S. Olympic bid and the city loses the bid in the first round to a country that has never hosted the Olympics before.

or

2. Rush Limbaugh, racist extraordinaire, is publically blocked from buying an NFL team, publicly humiliated by the NFL commissioner and called out by the players because of his racist and hateful comments.


Hmmmm.

[Vidar]

7. All that money & nowhere to spend it. Bring on the pills & young boys.

[denem]

12. Vidar: Gays, closeted or otherwise. are pedophiles you know.

Even if Limbaugh is in the closet, took a trip to pick up male sex workers incognito, the evidence he was looking for "young boys" is transparently circumstantial.

This slur is made is all the time at DU. It is worthy of the Freeperatti.

[denem]

29. Crickets?

Hatred is a poison that anyone can drink.

[Cha]

8. Chickenshits coming home to roost is

not a pretty sight.

[Peacetrain]

9. "Poor Baby"

I am sure he will be whining 24/7...

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

10. That giant farting sound......

you guessed it.

[RepublicanElephant]

16. the ego has crash-landed. nt

[IndianaGreen]

17. 'Pioneers take the arrows. We are pioneers.' This from a draft dodger with a boil in his ass

[rasputin1952]

18. He's going down in flames...

His lawsuit for libel will go no where; he is on the radio speaking these things all the time. There are "ditto cam" recordings all over the place documenting his vile tripe. There is no libel when one is "guilty" of what they are being accused of.

Precisely because of his racist and violent bile, he will be denied buying into the St. Louis Rams. Naturally he will blame many others, but his own behavior is the only reason he will be denied ownership or the Rams.

The cracks are getting wider, he's going to crumble soon...hed can't take the pressure. For someone who can "take what they throw at me", he is, ands always has been a coward.

[zulchzulu]

21. Now, to Rush, the NFL stands for the Nationalized Fruitcake Liberals!!!

Did you know that Lenin played football? Yes! It's (I pulled this out of my patootie like Rush does) true!

[central scrutinizer]

28. they are definitely (one-way) socialists

They want the community to pay for their new stadiums or else they will take the team to another city that is willing to pony up. All for us and all for us.

[Jennicut]

22. Well, now I can watch the NFL in peace. Now if only the Pats could win a few games in row.

[bullwinkle428]

23. The last time the NFL rejected him (ESPN termination), he was

busted for the hillbilly heroin within a week or two! I'm on pins and needles anticipating what might come next this time around!

[FlyingSquirrel]

24. "DeMaurice Smith, who is black........"

Why is that little detail necessary?

[NatBurner]

25. *laughs*

*feels bad for laughing*
*laughs again*

[Patiod]

26. He blamed "liberals who are trying to take down conservatism"

no, conservatism is doing a damn good job taking itself down without our help!



Edit: and isn't he a convicted felon? would a felon be allowed to own a team?

[JBoy]

27. LOL. "Investment Group Sheds Toxic Ass(et)"