NFL Players blast Rush Limbaugh over his play to buy the Rams
By John Amato Friday Oct 09, 2009 6:00pmI woke up this morning and turned on ESPN's First and Ten to listen to as I made my coffee. The first thing I heard was that several football players came out slamming Rush Limbaugh over his bid to buy the St.Louis Rams after all his years of racial politics. I hope more black players rally around these two players and throw up a road block to this group that wants to buy the team.
NY Daily News:
Mathias Kiwanuka loves his former defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo, but the Giants' defensive end says he will never play for Spagnuolo's Rams if Rush Limbaugh purchases the team.
Kiwanuka and the Jets' Bart Scott made it clear Thursday that they would never play for the Rams or any team owned by the controversial conservative radio host.
"All I know is from the last comment I heard, he said in (President) Obama's America, white kids are getting beat up on the bus while black kids are chanting 'right on,'" Kiwanuka told The Daily News. "I mean, I don't want anything to do with a team that he has any part of. He can do whatever he wants, it is a free country. But if it goes through, I can tell you where I am not going to play."
I am not going to draw a conclusion from a person off of one comment, but when it is time after time after time and there's a consistent pattern of disrespect and just a complete misunderstanding of an entire culture that I am a part of, I can't respect him as a man.
Nicole Belle emailed me this piece from Think Progress that lists some of Boss Limbaugh's racist statements.
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.”
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Should John Amato buy?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h51fJV4tfjk
Just think of the fun John could have with that!
;)
The Rams are the largest donaters to the Dems in the whole NFL.
Chargers are the biggest donaters to the GOP by a very wide margin.
Lush Lumpduh? Not likely. Not after his racist comments when he was commenting on TV about football. Something about McNabb will never be a winning qb because he's black.
This is my opinion on why Lush supposedly want to buy into the Rams.
To stop the Rams Org from giving so much money to Dems and Dem Org's.
Being that the Rams give more money than any other team to Liberal causes. Yes, including the SF Niners.
He couldn't care less about the team.
The NFL owners still have to approve the sale and I don't see that happening. Even though many of them are Republicans I'm sure, they can see a toxic situation in the sale.
...old and non-athletic to play for their slave-master.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goddell is big on character. If he allowed Rush to enter the league, he'd lose all credibility and would have a player's revolt the like of which professional sports has never seen.
Limpbow to enter the league.. Since NFL is a draft - it would be difficult to opt-out to the free agent status. The more seasoned players might go for it! But no the new drafts or not many..How many choices do the Rams have next year!
Then again Think ASU will have a hard time with some of their recruiting for a couple of years after the graduation debacle..Check out the repub concentration in Arizona??? Much like the South demographics!
Being that the NFL is fairly homophobic, Fat Ass would be welcome.
Being that the NFL is fairly racially mixed, Fat Ass would not.
And the NFL seems to be wary of politicizing the sport, even though it does lean heavily to the right.
Christ John, it "leans" and has fallen off the cliff!
I could care less about the NFL but, it would be fun to see a guy who can't pass a drug test own a team. Drano could use it for ads for years. "Away goes your team, down the drain"
If you could care less, that means you apparently care. If you couldn't care less, then you probably don't give a rat's ass.
Sorry, but people getting this expression wrong bugs me. But then you couldn't care less I guess.
;)
or people could say:
"i could care less... and now i do care less, furthermore i am now maxed out in how much i am not able to care."
or your way if you think it's better. i think you will agree my way is a bit more concise though ;)
When people say "I could care less", they're using a sarcastic tone, so the meaning is reversed. Thus, it means exactly the same as "I couldn't care less". It's not just what you say, it's how you say it. Which admittedly is a problem in a written medium, but that is why the phrase has caught on.
He should do it, absolutely. I hope he does it, and I hope he fails.
It'll go over as well as Dennis Miller on MNF.
I really hate that POS.
season tickets and box sales plummet, etc. Then watch the fat pig try to spin it as "success" on his radio show. I'd bet that a losing team will not be good for his radio career.
C'mon rush, put your money where
a Dominican boy's d*ck wasyour mouth is. Can't wait to see you fail!.
I hope even more than he tries to buy them now!
But he won't. He's always been all talk.
What black footballer would go out and risk injury for Rush?
For a chance to place kick his balls?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV1LWhNpTJU
(Hulu)
What do you mean, "a black player would risk injury for Limbaugh"?
There wouldn't be any black players on the team. Limbaugh would trade or release them to bring in white players.
It's not as if Limbaugh is trying to buy the Rams all by himself. He's an investor in a group that is trying to buy the team- ironically, a minority investor.
That said, the investment group won't get the team if he's involved. They'd need to be approved by the owners of 24 of the other teams, and those owners see boycotts of their sponsors ahead if Limbaugh is involved in the ownership at all.
Even jocks who might tell a racist joke every now and then still worship their black players. The fact that their favorite athletes are slamming Racist RushPills might change some minds. Say no to Limpballs.
Maybe he should buy a drug company instead. Which one makes Oxycontin?
I hope he really tries to buy the team and then the league slams the door shut on his bloated ass!
"“President Obama is black. And I think he’s got a chip on his shoulder.”
I say Rash is a white-trash, lard-ass. And I think he has shit for brains!
As we say in Texas, that varmint doesn't just have a chip on his shoulder
He has the entire cow.
I can't believe the Yes vote is winning.
Anyway, I recommend all you sports fans out there read the article on espn called "Seats of Gold". It is an article about the luxury seats at Yankee Stadium, Wall Street, ticket prices.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/story?...
AOL is the ISP that grandparents use, because they don't know that there's a myriad of ISPs out there.
When these polls linked directly to this site, it was easy to spot the AOL users by the ALL CAPS, typo-filled comments: "YOPU KIDS GET OPFF MY LAWN!"
On second thought, yes I can. Thanks for snapping me out of it.
...dangerously obese, child raping, drug addicted, genocidal racist piles of shit, but Limbaugh would be better suited for NASCAR ownership.
Why hasn't the IPOD people run this in their TV ads yet?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wbL1W_X0hM
can the players refuse to play? Don't they have contracts? That said, I had an entertaining fantasy of the Rams intentionally, perhaps even comically, throwing every game if Limbaugh gets in.
They might even call a strike over it.
But I said it upthread- this group won't get the Rams if Limbaugh is part of the group. The sale of any franchise in the NFL is dependent upon approval by 3/4 of the franchises in the league. The NFL relies on its national advertisers to generate the vast majority of its revenue, and those advertisers will be boycotted if Limbaugh is a partial owner of any franchise.
If he's voted down, he'll just use that to confirm his martyr status. Let him do it and then watch it all fail in the most spectacular and humiliating way possible.
feel humiliated?
It's a chance for the Republicans who own NFL franchises to tell Limbaugh that they don't want to be associated with his brand of racism. They already cut him loose from the ESPN pre-game show without adverse effect to the league.
And it's not like they don't allow Republicans to spew garbage anyway. Stick around to the end of a one-sided Sunday night game and there's a good chance you'll her Al Michaels spout something about tax-and-spend liberals.
If the guy wants to use a sports franchise to bolster his image, he can go start his own league.
currently in the NFL, it would be hard to determine the players were throwing the game.
Rush's stint on ESPN (and his McNabb comments) were embarrassing. I remember Donovan McNabb picking apart the Bears secondary a number of years in a playoff game, and believe me, he wasn't overrated, and the Bears didn't purposely throw the game because they wanted a black QB to do well.
Michael Vick was in the league at the same time for the record, so McNabb wasn't the only black QB at the time.
Limbaugh mentioned once he originally wanted to be a sportscaster, but politics paid more at the time. Now he's stuck. He's said so much bile over the years that you can't forget or forgive.
...is because of the racist stigma perpetuated by white coaches and owners throughout most of football's history. That grotesque pig Limbaugh clearly wishes for that past.
Despite the fact that the NFL has been dominated by black men for decades, the owners went into the 21st century needing to forced by the league's Comissioner in a form of affirmative action to hire clearly over qualified black men for head coaching positions. With the exception of a few quarterbacks(Doug Williams, Warren Moon, Randall Cunningham) blacks were considered too dumb by these racist coaches to play the position, that's where Rush got his racist bullshit from.
Rush Limbaugh in the NFL would be a step back into the world of Jim Crow(as he demonstrated during his short stint at ESPN).
There is no upside to Limbaugh being in the NFL. It would only create a major race revolt.
That's not even original.
Alice Cooper in his autobiography, Me Alice, said his grandfather was a minister, his father was a minister, and he was planning on entering the ministry too, until he discovered rock stars got more girls.
And then what does he do? Marry one of his dancers whose the daughter of a Baptist minister. They've been married now for 32 years, and he actually had to ask her father's permission for her hand.
"Should Rush Limbaugh buy the St. Louis Rams?"
The question doesn't make any sense, unless Rush asks himself the question.
Maybe if you asked "Do you want Rush to be successful in buying the Rams?" or "If Rush buys the Rams will he have to suit-up because most of the team won't play for a racist, misogynistic, yammering shit-stain?"
Sounds like he could get what he always wanted......an all white team.
The Rams suck big time but I would not wish Limbaugh on any NFL team......not even the f^$king Cowboys. Limbaugh would be the Marge Schott of the NFL.
And one can easily imagine that all of the Rams Hall of Famers would disassociate themselves from the Rams for moral reasons.
...he has the money, he clearly loves the NFL and the sports world/Republican ownership (Texans and Chargers are two heavy hitters) clearly loves him (ABC/Disney) and the beauty of it all would be that black NFL'er's could tell racist assholes like Limpballs to shove the pigskin and any offer from St. Louis up their own sphincter, and St. Louis would rid itself of him, as would the NFL.
Wont ever get thru, the NFL wouldnt take on the race issue, no chance. It's also full of guys who are rich and would make lots of noise about it. Rush would have to go thru a Jimmy Swaggert style of radio repentance before the NFL approved the sale. And Rushie aint gonna apologize for playing "Barack the Magic Negro" anytime soon....
... about McNabb got him fired. And he was proven to be wrong because McNabb & team won the Superbowl.
What I'm wondering is where are all the white players refusing to play for rush?
Did they just not get interviewed or haven't they stepped up?
IMHO the NFL players & coaches don't give a damn about anything but winning.
Nah. Eagles have never won the Super Bowl. They've come close. Mind you, since they hired Mr. Dog Killer, I hope they continue the losing streak.
This is what I'm wondering....Why should it only be the black players that stand up against Rush and his racism. What makes it work is the realization of ALL intelligent people that what he says is wrong. Otherwise some will portray it as minorities whining again. Boards like this one and DU are great examples of the fact that one mustn't be a minority to condemn racism. We need to get the general public on board too and now would be a good opportunity for whites in the NFL to speak out.
Jesus flog me with a wet cat, that would be the single funniest thing to happen in this cow-town we call America since...disco? Imagine an NFL team owned by a guy that wants to think of himself as "owning" the seventy percent of black players on the roster. Would they all quit? Heaven only knows....
You think the "wildcat" formation is revolutionary? How about the all-white cat formation? Imagine the game after-parties, with Rush getting himself all greased up, like he does when he visits the little boys in the Dominican Republic...
You wanna jump in that hot tub, baby?
...Marge Schott of the NFL :)
Facistic militaristic union busting organization that destroys it's employees and tosses them away after three without adequate compensation and a drug addled fascist racist sex tourist. It's a marriage made in heaven.
My husband informs me (because I know very little about these things) that the NFL has to approve the deal, and he says they won't let just anyone buy a team, just because they have the money. He feels the chances of this going through are not in the bag at all.
Playing for Rush would be no different than playing for any other NFL owner. They are all right-wing robber barons.
The first time I listened for the first few minutes it was funny. Then he was telling everyone about his superior intelligence on loan from god. It took very little time to understand he was an idiot.
I have never been able to make it threw more then a couple of minutes of him before the crazy starts flying out of his mouth and you can see all the knuckle draggers in the area swinging from tree tops and throwing shit all around. The last eight years have brought me to the conclusion that republicanism is a mental illness!
will immediatelly become all-white, be renamed, "The Plantation Lynchers" and spend 5 minutes of every new game raising the stars and bars flag and singing 'Dixie' while proclaiming the team are #1 while in dead last.
Every game will be on FOX, announced by Imus and Dennis Miller and sponsored by Halliburton and Blackwater.
As founder of the Washington Redskins and renown racist Marshall refused to sign black players until his lousy team was forced to compete in an NFL that was blowing by his hapless 'Skins.
Limbaugh will fit right in with the ol' White Boys Club of NFL owners and his insightful voice welcome at the table as to what is wrong with the game...
"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."
and society...
"Slavery built the South. I'm not saying we should bring it back. I'm just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark."
Yes, Rush would be good for the game and the pathetic Rams as he'll get those black players reeled in and back on the plantation.
When they're all soaped up in the shower.
Oh I can see it now, Flush "crackin'" the whip on back of the blacks on the field...just like in the ol' days down in the south:"heel to the white doper...I is the "cracker! And I will crack my whip until I win a game...you cannot make me a failure. I am the Great White Dope called the cracker"....
Oh, do I ever love to see Karma...it's so pure....HE'S A FAILURE! Hey....who broke the cracker? Huh, huh?
The Toaster!
Don't miss that Limbaugh's new reference for Barack Obama is "man-child". He uses it all the time on his radio show now.
I believe this is 2009 public racist code for "boy".
I had to answer yes, because should he buy an investment that doubles every decade? of course he should. Should a race baiting drug abuser be allowed to buy into the old boys network. NO.
NFL Players executive director DeMaurice Smith sent letter to Commisioner Roger Goodell:
"I understand that this ownership consideration is in the early stages. But sport in America is at its best when it unifies, gives all of us reason to cheer, and when it transcends. Our sport does exactly that when it overcomes division and rejects discrimination and hatred."
Rush's plan to rename team 'St. Louis Monkeys' comes under fire from NFL, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Monkey rights groups.
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