Limbaugh submits bid to buy St. Louis Rams

[blueclown]

Source: NBC Sports

In 2003, Rush Limbaugh had a brief dalliance with the sport he loves, spending a month as the "voice of the fan" on ESPN's pregame show before resigning after a delayed reaction to comments made regarding Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb triggered a firestorm.

Since then, the mega-rich Rush's name has bubbled up from time to time as a potential owner of all or part of an NFL team.

And it could be coming to fruition.

Charley Casserly of CBS reports that, of the three groups that submitted bids to buy the St. Louis Rams, one group includes Dave Checketts and Limbaugh.

It's unknown whether the bid includes the 40 percent owned by Stan Kroenke, or the 60 percent currently held by the two children of the late Georgia Frontiere.

Checketts previously seemed to complain that his interest in buying the team wasn't being taken seriously, perhaps because at the time he was the only buyer willing to commit to keeping the team in St. Louis. Now that three groups have submitted proposals under the condition that team won't be moved, Checketts and Limbaugh (and whoever else is in the group) might have a chance.

Any sale would have to be approved by 75 percent of the league's current owners.

Read more: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2009/10/04/limbaug... /

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They will stay in St. Louis if Limbaugh buys the team, but the conditions of the sale are that Rush requires that the team is renamed to the St. Louis Oxycotins.

[Mz Pip]

1. I heard about this

We watched the game today and I thought it was kind of sweet that SF 49ers kicked butt.

I can't imagine that being owned by Rush will do this team any good.

[JohnnyLib2]

2. Kiss of death?

Just a gut feeling.

[Divine Discontent]

27. they're already horrible...

[zonkers]

33. Dave Checketts? Yikes. Just ask Knick fans about his enture at their franchise.

[Demonaut]

3. anyone tell him it's not mutton?

I'll send him some mint sauce

[sasquatch]

12. *rimshot*

[deadmessengers]

4. He would have the total hookup then.

Pro football players eat Vicodin and Oxy like candy during the season. No one would blink if Rush skimmed a few fistfuls off the top.

[Missy Vixen]

19. With all due respect, where do you have this information from?

>Pro football players eat Vicodin and Oxy like candy during the season.<

One of the few NFL player rules strictly enforced is the random drug testing. Anyone gobbling "Vicodin and Oxy like candy" would be quickly found out.

[comtec]

31. I'm guessing it's based on the fact that ALL football players live in near constant pain

they are constantly getting battered , bruised, and broken.
And that's just in practice!
I think it was Tim Greene? who wrote a book on his life in the NFL and his transition back into the journalism word (he actually had a degree in something useful)
he talked about how he was constantly in some kind of pain or medical condition.

They beat the living hell out of NFLers. They also don't have that good of medical coverage, From what I understand, after 'retirement'. They are pretty much screwed, since most don't make millions, and even that 100k per year gets eaten up pretty fast in medical bills.

So I would imagine Vicadine and Oxy are well used - but under medical supervision, as opposed to what the supposed pedophile, pill popping drug dealer Rush does.

Is that true BTW, that Rush is a pill-popping, drug addicted pedophile who goes to the Dominican republic to abuse small boys in the sex market there?

Just curious it was a rumor I heard somewhere online.

[meow2u3]

37. Too bad the NFL doesn't require random drug tests on the owners!

If that were the case, Rush Limbaugh wouldn't be allowed to own a team. BTW, how did Rush make all that money spreading lies and hatred?

[deadmessengers]

38. I heard it from a first hand-account from an ex-coworker

I used to work with a guy who used to play for the Falcons and Panthers. He said that during the season, those guys take such a gigantic beating that they're on major painkillers from one end of the season to the other, and half the people he played with would quietly detox at the end of the season after the beatings stop. The 'eating Vicodin like candy' line was the exact phrase he used.

And no, they don't piss-test for oxy.

[IggleDoer]

44. Will they test the owners for OxyContin and Vicodin too?

n/t

[tabasco]

47. And they would quickly display their prescription.

What's your point?

[Missy Vixen]

49. Considering the fact that the team doctor would be prescribing the drugs in question

There'd be a fairly close eye on what that player was ingesting, if the doctor would like to keep his or her license.

I might also mention that contract restrictions on pro athletes and hazardous activities are rife. Let's put it this way: When you've signed someone to upwards of thirty million in contract, some other people get involved, like insurance companies, for instance.

[DUlover2909]

5. And the rich get richer and richer.

sickening.

[Tx4obama]

6. So if Rush becomes an owner...

do you think that there will be a boycott and the dems won't go to the Rams games?

[KillCapitalism]

7. Sorry Limpballs

But I'm not sure it's possible to make the Rams suck any more than they already do.

[MadMaddie]

46. Rushs plan is to get rid of all the minority players because

you know they are just average....

[nolabear]

8. Nouveau riche tries to join the DAR. Film at 11.

[NMDemDist2]

9. somebody posted which teams supported which political parties and the RAMS were Dems all the way

this sux.

[onehandle]

10. Just one of the little people. nt

[BrklynLiberal]

11. Sad days for St. Louis....

[Tutankhamun]

13. If Rush Limbaugh ever owns a sports team it will be a disaster.

Imagine all the fans who would boycott the team. Not to mentin the players who would ask to be traded from his team, or ask to never be traded TO his team.

[countmyvote4real]

14. I'm more a fan of our Constitution than the NFL.

So, if he destroys the Rams and the NFL instead of our democracy, I can live with that. Besides, I think there are more NFL fans than democracy fans that will take him to task on it and shut him down. This could be a win/win for us all.

[krispos42]

15. And why was Rush complaining about a tax increase again?

"My friends, thanks to the Keynesian Kenyan, the Halfrican-American Obama, I can no longer afford to buy the St. Louis Rams outright! I will, my friends, be forced to be only a PART owner of a major-league professional football franchise!

"My friends, these outrageous tax rates are KILLING the ability of average Americans to buy and sell major sports fanchises, luxury yachts, and Gulfstreams!"

[47of74]

16. Yo, Rams, do you want me to attend one of your games at some point

Then I hope Rush Limpdick doesn't become the owner of your team. My sister lives in St. Louis and maybe next year we might go to a Rams game depending on ticket prices, but not if that fat ass moran is in charge.

[Dr.Phool]

17. St. Louis Cysts.

On the ass of America.

[Duer 157099]

18. Probably planning to eat them

probably thinks they're the kind you eat, figures he can make St. Louis style ribs or somethin

[Missy Vixen]

20. The only thing that may save the Rams is Limbaugh's rep

I said earlier today that Goodell is a hypocrite, and Rush has lots of little buddies in owner suites around the country, but on the heels of the Vick issue, it's hard to believe the league would think this a great idea right now.

Then again, I've been wrong before.

It'll be interesting to see how many of the players demand a trade if Limbaugh becomes an owner. I can't imagine he'd be especially great to work for.

[Are_grits_groceries]

21. In order to own a team,

a prospective buyer must get a vote of 3/4 of the owners or 24 votes.

He apparently has some friends who are owners which is unfortunate:
Among his good friends, Limbaugh listed: Robert Kraft (New England Patriots and fellow Palm Beacher), Chris Mara (New York Giants), Wayne Huizenga (Miami Dolphins and Stuart resident), Alex Spanos (San Diego Chargers) and Bud Adams (Tennessee Titans).

However, he has made such flamingly racist statements, I'm not sure how much heat the NFL and Goodell would want to take. They are already on the hot seat about their poor minority hiring practices with coaches. 65% of the league's players are minorities.

I think some noise should be made. the owners now aren't angels and have political affiliations. However, they aren't on radio making statements like Rush has.

I think somebody ought to get a list of Limbaugh's "Greatest" hits concerning minorities and other pertinent issues. A youtube video and email would spread like wildfire.

[Cha]

43. I think you are

right.

[NecklyTyler]

22. So if Anal Cyst buys the Rams, we get to see direct racism by an owner in hiring athletes

It wouldn't take long before the team went into a financial death spiral. Nothing would please me more than to see Limbaugh lose his fortune in a professional football disaster

[Enthusiast]

23. If he buys the Rams,

I vow that I will never watch a game they play in. Even if they face my Cleveland Browns in the Superbowl. I will simply have to miss it.

[obxhead]

52. well....

nevermind, that's simply too cruel.

*go Steelers*

[Enthusiast]

53. Some day in the unknown

murky future it is possible that the Browns would, in fact, play in a Superbowl.

[stlsaxman]

24. Saint Louis Gasbags? Windbags? Bigmouths? Pigboys?

Cysts and Oxys have been suggested....

c'mon folks- any others?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

25. Great. The sports world needs another Marge Schott

kidding. no flames necessary.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

26. This also just in:

The NFL has instituted drug testing policy for potential owners.

[Divine Discontent]

28. So, he's moving & renaming the team right?

The Dominican Republic Fighting Viagras!

[Ian David]

29. I hope he buys it and that it drives him to bankruptcy. n/t

[Blue_Tires]

30. well, no more black QBs for the Rams....EVER

[hughee99]

50. As opposed to all the ones they've had so far? n/t

[Tommy_Carcetti]

32. Ugh...If I lived in St. Louis I'd honestly rather see the team move back to LA....

....then have to deal with that sick SOB as an owner.

Then again, in South Florida the sports teams here were all cursed with Wayne Huzeniga (big Republican financer) as an owner for years. The damage that man did to the Marlins, Panthers, and even Dolphins is something not to be forgotten.

[MidwestRick]

34. Not sure he'd get approved...

...by the owners after his problem at ESPN. With that said, I have no issues with him buying a team. He is a huge sports fan, and as a fan myself, if I had a chance to purchase a team, I would jump at the chance.

[Crowman1979]

35. LOL and I thought Ford owning the Detroit Lions was bad!

[MidwestRick]

39. Absolutely nothing wrong with Fords owning the Lions

He has just really sucked at picking management to run his team. To be honest, I'll be happier with WCF Jr takes over the operating ownership of the theam. Sr has done a pretty poor job of it.

[CreekDog]

36. And I thought they already hit bottom

[chelsea0011]

40. Blacks excluded from "white only lockers"?

[damntexdem]

41. Wow, the Rams could be in trouble -- their entire offence would rely only on the Rush.

[Rex]

42. Now there is one rich, greedy piece of shit everyone can despise.

Rush makes humans look very bad and unappealing to other lifeforms. Rush is the reason we haven't been visited by aliens yet!

[MadMaddie]

45. Absolute kiss of death!

[harry_pothead]

48. Most NFL players are black. The Rams are going to get the shit beat out of them.

Which I think is great. I'd love to see more of this.

[CreekDog]

51. Ah good, the NFL can have a Marge Schott too