Rush Limbaugh - loudmouth, arch-conservative, St. Louis Rams owner?

The St. Louis Rams are currently owned by Chip Rosenbloom, who inherited the team last season from his mother after her death last year. Rosenbloom now wishes to sell the team, and admirably he wants to keep the Rams in St. Louis. Hopefully Chip will be very admirable about whom he sells the team to, now that the rumors of Rush Limbaugh attempting to purchase the team have been confirmed.

Joining with the NHL's St. Louis Blues owner Dave Checketts, he and Rush are bidding to purchase Rosenbloom's majority steak in the team. My immediate reaction was that I love the NFL, and I hate Limbaugh (and will not even bother justifying this hatred, as it should be quite obvious).

I wouldn't have bothered to even post about this at the time though, if it were not for an excellent article penned by former NFL lineman Roman Oben for the Washington Post. The article is short, direct, and raises a number of good reasons to keep Rush out of the NFL. He writes very articulately about how much of the African American community (you know, the majority of the players) would feel about having Rush as one of the 32 owners. You should read it. Here's another link lazy asses.


Oh, you're still here? Well here are Oben's best points:

He brings up Rush's critique of Donovan McNabb's quarterbacking skills based on his being black. I will remind Dank-Game readers that McNabb has been a top 5 QB for most of the decade.

He brings up Rush's repeated demands for stricter penalties for even the lowest-level drug offenses (which is widely known to disproportionately effect minorities). Oben goes on to reiterate that Rush himself was "criminally addicted to Oxycontin for many years."

He mentions that Rush would not attract many black players in free agency. This would be damaging for the NFL as a whole, which strives for parity between the teams.

In his conclusion, Oben reminds us how much the NFL stresses character, and that NFL owners must be held to the same standard.

In my conclusion I won't be nearly as eloquent. I'm just going to say FUCK RUSH LIMBAUGH