NFL will see way to make Rush Limbaugh go away

[DainBramaged]

Trying to envision a scenario in which the NFL allows Rush Limbaugh to own part of the Rams requires a runaway imagination and quite possibly some psychedelic drugs.

It's not going to happen. There is no way the league lets the conservative radio talk show host own a piece of the Rams, even if that piece is a blade of grass from the team's practice field. No way.

An institution as public-relations savvy as the NFL has to understand that letting in someone like Limbaugh would be akin to letting a Hatfield give the keynote address at the McCoy national convention. A league in which about 65 percent of the players are African-American is not going to risk the public blow back that would accompany a man who once made racially charged statements about Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb.

So the debate over whether he should or shouldn't be allowed to join an ownership group looking to buy the Rams is moot. It's not going to happen.

You probably would have an easier time finding a unicorn than a liberal majority among the NFL's 32 owners, but even the most devout Republican has to see Limbaugh would be very bad for business. Most of these people are very smart. And the ones who aren't very smart are at least smart enough to realize that the specter of pickets outside NFL stadiums could affect the league's image, not to mention its advertising revenue.

People have a First Amendment right to say just about anything in this country. But there is nothing in the First Amendment that says a business has to accept someone who might be anathema to more than half of its workers. No one has a constitutional right to own an NFL team.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/chi-14-morrissey-rush-limbaugh-oct14,0,1408856.column?track=rss

[Orrex]

1. I agree with you, but I can't wait to hear how he explains it

Some kind of attack by the Liberal Media, no doubt.

[Johonny]

2. They'd be crazy not too

The worst kept secret in sports is the next labor contract will be one hell of a fight. Most experts think a Union strike is unavoidable. So why wouldn't the majority of the owners (theirs only a handful of liberal ones as it is) that apparently want all out war on the players union, not want a conservative with a voice to speak to 15-23 million Americans a day. I imagine the average Rush fan is very likely also a football fan. White, older male. If they let him in I think you basically predict how truly ugly this labor war is going to get.