But it's ok for someone like Jay-Z to be part owner of the Nets?
I know thats basketball but it's still professional sports.
Rush loves the game and knows a lot about it. I see no problem with it.
It's not like the rams are doing well. They can use all the help they can get.

Bigot

I would say maybe you should look up the definition but who know's what you would come up with.

bigot (plural bigots)

1.one who is obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices
2.one who is strongly partial to one's own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ.

So I guess we all could fall into that category.

Even your beloved Obama.

Aren't celebrity owners more or less just there to look pretty? Like how J. Lo and the Williams sisters "own" the Miami Dolphins. So if Rush did become a part owner, he wouldn't have any say about anything?

BTW I use the term "celebrity" loosely.

Rush Limbaugh dropped from bid for St. Louis Rams
BY JIM THOMAS jthomas@post-dispatch.com

10/15/2009

Rush Limbaugh, the conservative radio talk show host, was dropped Wednesday as a limited partner from a group led by Dave Checketts in a bid to purchase the St. Louis Rams football team.

Checketts, the owner of the St. Louis Blues hockey team, said that Limbaugh had "become a complication and a distraction" in the group's pursuit of the Rams.

Without Limbaugh, the Checketts' group enhanced its status, NFL sources said Wednesday. "Now Checketts can have a restart on this thing and he can clean it up," said a league source familiar with the potential sale of the team. "This makes the Checketts group more competitive … it probably puts them in the top three (bidders)."

The Checketts group is the only bidder to have been publicly identified so far. As many as six groups have placed bids.

"Rush was to be a limited partner — as such, he would have had no say in the direction of the club or in any decisions regarding personnel or operations," Checketts said in a statement. "This was a role he enthusiastically embraced. However, it has become clear that his involvement in our group has become a complication and a distraction to our intentions, endangering our bid to keep the team in St. Louis. As such, we have decided to move forward without him."

The exact makeup and breakdown of Checketts' ownership group remains unknown, not just to the public but to the NFL and the Rams. But sources familiar with the group said they did not anticipate any problems replacing Limbaugh's potential investment in the team.

Limbaugh has been aligned with the Checketts bid for a couple of months, league sources said, but it didn't become public knowledge until last week. The reaction was quick and heated, jump-started by NFL Players Association executive director DeMaurice Smith, who urged players throughout the league to speak out against the inclusion of Limbaugh in the potential Rams ownership group.

Privately, several Rams players also complained about Limbaugh as a potential team owner. On Wednesday, hours before the decision to drop Limbaugh was announced, Rams cornerback Ron Bartell spoke out publicly.

"It's a free country," Bartell said. "When you come out and make statements like he's made in the past, it's definitely ruffled some feathers."

In 2003, Limbaugh was dropped from ESPN after he said in reference to Philadelphia quarterback 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."

In 2007, according to transcripts on his website, Limbaugh said, "The NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips, without any weapons. There, I said it."

In a league where about two-thirds of the players are black, such comments didn't play well.

On Tuesday, when Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay said he would vote against any ownership group that included Limbaugh, and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell spoke critically of what he called Limbaugh's divisive comments of the past, the talk show host's future as an NFL owner appeared doomed.

Nonetheless, Limbaugh was defiant Wednesday on his radio show. "This is not about the National Football League," he said. "It's not about the St. Louis Rams. … This is the latest in a long line of attempts by the left to discredit any of us who believe what we believe. I'm not even thinking of exiting (the Rams group). I'm not even thinking of caving. I am not a caver."

A league source said Limbaugh was "very unhappy" when informed he was being dropped from the bid. Neither Limbaugh nor Rams owner Chip Rosenbloom could be reached for comment.

The prospect of Limbaugh owning a slice of the Rams ignited a debate at St. Louis City Hall, where many of the elected officials hold views opposite to the radio host — but also don't want to see the team leave.

Alderman Antonio French, a Democrat, authored a resolution urging the Rams to reject any bid with Limbaugh as an investor. But another alderman, Matt Villa, said "if he's willing to be a minority owner and invest some money to keep the team here, it's not going to bother me."

Controversy this week also has stemmed from a quote attributed to Limbaugh about the merits of slavery in the 2006 book "101 People Who are Really Screwing America" by Jack Huberman. The book did not give details about the origin of the quote. Limbaugh says he did not make that statement, which was cited in a Bryan Burwell column in the Post-Dispatch and other media outlets. Huberman said Wednesday that he had a source for the quote but declined to reveal it on advice of counsel.

Jake Wagman of the Post-Dispatch contributed to this report.

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/sports/stories.nsf/rams/story/EA6A88B972C0104286257650000DDC0D?OpenDocument

Rush isn't happy about this. He's from Missouri and he can't buy the St. Louis Rams because he's a racist.

Fri Oct 09, 2009 at 16:40:46 PM CDT

Black NFL players are saying that, considering Limbaugh's history of racism, they would refuse to play for the Rams if he became an owner. Think Progress gives us a short history of his racist remarks, starting most notably with his comment about Donovan McNabb and including his opinions about two black kids beating up a white kid on a Belleville school bus:

Indeed, as CNN reported at the time, ESPN fired Limbaugh from Sunday NFL Countdown for "his statement that Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb was overrated because the media wanted to see a black quarterback succeed." But, of course, Limbaugh has a long sordid history with making racist remarks. Some of his more recent lowlights:

* "Look, let me put it to you this way: The NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it."
* "We need segregated buses. ... This is Obama's America."
* "President Obama is black. And I think he's got a chip on his shoulder."
* Democrats are interested in Darfur to secure black "voting bloc."
* "Minorities never do anything for which they have to apologize."
* Obama's nomination for president "goes back to the fact that nobody had the guts to stand up and say no to a black guy."
* Obama is a "halfrican-American."

Advising the NFL to block Limbaugh's pursuit of an NFL franchise, St. Louis Dispatch sports columnist Bryan Burwell wrote recently, "Dancing with Limbaugh is like dancing with a snake. Eventually, the snake will bite you. That's his nature."

Won't even happen.

You have to reap what you sow and he has sown alot of ******** so he is way over due...lol

When has Jay Z spoken inappropriately about an athlete? I think the players would have no problem with him as owner,,,not as coach,, but as owner ,,sure.

It's too bad that Rush can't cry like Glenn Beck.
Now that would be funny.

Someone who is offended by Rush because he "hurts people's feelings" is being sarcastic and mocking...is it ironic, hilarious or both?

It's too bad that Rush can't cry like Glenn Beck.
Now that would be funny.

Crying doesn't work for enough people, so I doubt he would even adopt that tactic like Beck. Rush's audience prefers his self righteous anger and sarcasm. I think they might find it painfully embarrassing if he start the weeping thing that Beck does.

With 25 plus million listeners I'm sur ethat the NFL is worried as heck about what he will start saying. If anything else it will make for good radio ;)

With 25 plus million listeners I'm sur ethat the NFL is worried as heck about what he will start saying. If anything else it will make for good radio ;)

It's too bad that Rush can't cry like Glenn Beck.
Now that would be funny.

My Mayor and city hall didn't want him to buy our football team. The NFL players didn't want him to either. Why? He's racist and the NFL is 75% black. In 2003, he was even dropped from ESPN after his comments.

You said he could sue. On what grounds could he sue?