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The NFL, The Rams, Limbaugh & Soros – What A Mess

Published by MoonDog on October 16, 2009

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All of this nonsense about Rush Limbaugh’s involvement among a group of potential owners interested in buying the St. Louis Rams has me perplexed.

On Wednesday, Checketts announced his group would go forward with their plans sans Limbaugh, mostly as a result of the criticism he received regarding comments he made about Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb during his short-lived stint as an analyst on ESPN.

Limbaugh was also accused of making other racially divisive comments that haven’t been confirmed, but the controversy created enough of a distraction for Checketts to eliminate Limbaugh as a partner in the group’s venture.

Aside from all the back and forth going on about Limbaugh’s inclusion into the NFL’s ownership ranks, I couldn’t help but wonder why anyone would want to buy the Rams anyway.

Has Limbaugh seen the Rams play lately? In case he hasn’t – and I doubt that’s possible since he’s supposedly a big fan of the NFL – the Rams suck. They really suck.

A few weeks ago I thought the Cleveland Browns were the worst team in the NFL, but after seeing the Rams play I stand corrected.

I want to extend my apologies to the Browns organization for falsely accusing them of being the worst team in the league.

But forget about the Rams for a minute. Anyone having a desire to buy any NFL franchise in the foreseeable future is making a risky move.

With the NFL’s owners opting out of the league’s Collective Bargaining Agreement with the NFLPA in March 2008, the possibility exists of an uncapped season taking place in 2010.

If there is no agreement by March 2010, it will be the first season without a salary cap since 1993, when the first deal containing free agency and the cap was signed.

As if that wasn’t enough, the possibility of a lockout exists if the owners and players can’t come to terms on a new CBA before the 2011 season.

Why would anyone want to purchase a team and immediately have to deal with those issues?

George Soros

The Rams’ new owners wouldn’t even get a chance to threaten the fans with relocating the team because they’d be too busy dealing with the CBA.

Of course, no one is mentioning that George Soros, also part of the Checketts group and a man with a questionable past of his own, just happens to be friends with DeMaurice Smith, the executive director of the National Football League Players Association.

Soros has allegedly stated that if his group were successful in purchasing the Rams, a potential move from St. Louis is a real possibility.

If Limbaugh wants to complain about the treatment he got from the league and the many critics that lined up against him, that’s fine. But in reality, they probably did him a favor.

If commissioner Roger Goodell thought he was saving the NFL from criticism by failing to offer support of Limbaugh’s involvement to buy the Rams, he should take the same position with regard to Soros.

If Goodell doesn’t take that initiative, he of all people should know the voices from the political right will howl if Soros is allowed to remain as part of a potential ownership group.

How exactly does he know that? Goodell’s wife, Jane Skinner, works for Fox News. If the commissioner thought the had a problem with Limbaugh, wait until Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck get on his ass.

Perhaps it would serve everyone’s best interests if Goodell, the owners and the NFLPA washed their hands of this whole affair and focus on what’s most important: getting the CBA renegotiated and giving fans of the National Football League what they want.

In the end, the fans don’t care about Limbaugh or Soros, we just want to watch the game we love.

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Pinkies Up!!! Tyranny’s Seed Edition on Fri, 16th Oct 2009 14:16

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Ken Beil on Fri, 16th Oct 2009 19:58

MOONDOG,

A very well written piece. Most of the time I read political blogs for important issues, and leave the sports stuff to sports bloggers. I just hate to see that this had become a political issue.

I’m getting tired of everything becoming a political issue or having to respond in a politically correct manner. My eyes have been opened and its apparent that political correctness is nothing more than a vehicle to move this country more to the left.

Commissioner Roger Goodell and the NFL owners should be ashamed for the way that they have let Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Michael Wilbon et al. dictate who is and isn’t a part of the NFL ownership based solely on their political views.

The NFL has long been considered an elite club, only a select few are admitted. But’s let’s be real. If you’ve got the money, they would let Osama Bin Laden buy a team.

We live in a polically and racially polarized era and the NFL proved it doesn’t have the backbone to withstand criticism of a bunch of left wing zealots.

The NBA has a wacky owner, Mark Cuban, they let him say or do whatever he pleases (it’s still a free country, right?) and then fine the hell out of him. He’s paid all kinds of fines, that the NBA then gives out to charities as its way of letting things take care of themselves. Sooner or later, the guy will get tired of paying the fines and adhere to strict policies of conforming.

The NFL didn’t take this route, they didn’t even have the nerve to try. Rush will be better off financially and will not have to listen to idiots like Colts owner Jim Irsay. The fans lose, because they see that the NFL has become the whipping boys of political agitators, while the players do whatever they want, with whomever they want, whenever they want.

And we thought they would be tough on Michael Vick?

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