Rush Limbaugh dropped from the group trying to buy the Rams

[nesper]

lol@ george soros being in the group that checketts had put together, first rush now soros is going ot have to get the boot. what a debacle good bye st louis rams. of course there will not be anywhere near the coverage of this guy who called bush a nazi.

 

[jeffx]

lol@ george soros being in the group that checketts had put together, first rush now soros is going ot have to get the boot. what a debacle good bye st louis rams. of course there will not be anywhere near the coverage of this guy who called bush a nazi.

George Soros?????Another whack job. Boy, Checketts knows how to pick 'em.

 

[jeffx]

What about him saying things like this which are real:

"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."

Even if he wasn't trying to be racist in saying this, it's extremely poor judgment.

Or telling a black woman to "take the bone out her nose". Real tough guy, talking shit behind the mic. Say it to someone's face, then I'll be impressed.

 

[nesper]

schefter on espn said soros was not part of the group

 

[Bear Pand]

Sports are increasing being "thuggified" [not a real word?]. Here's the full quote:

thug is the new n word

 

[Bear Pand]

Shtick? Really, shtick?

Even if I am being a little sarcastic, there's a significant # of people who think this and there is some truth to it. Every time a black athlete does something "wrong" he's called a thug.

 

[SHOGUN]

Even if I am being a little sarcastic, there's a significant # of people who think this and there is some truth to it. Every time a black athlete does something "wrong" he's called a thug.

Agreed.

 

[ram29jackson]

Even if I am being a little sarcastic, there's a significant # of people who think this and there is some truth to it. Every time a black athlete does something "wrong" he's called a thug.

well, than, stop doing something wrong.

 

[ram29jackson]

There's a significant number of people that believe Jesus had a pet dinosaur.

The coarsening of the culture can be seen everywhere, including sports. Thug attitudes and actions have been adopted by an increasing number of athletes since I've been a fan. It's not hard to notice. The douchebaggery seems to get worse every year.

I doubt its significant number, I never heard the whole Jesus / dinosaur thing before haha.

when you get paid millions of dollars to run wind sprints and lift weights, you dont live in the real world, mentally speaking.

 

[Bear Pand]

There's a significant number of people that believe Jesus had a pet dinosaur.

lol C'mon.

Calling black athletes "thugs" has been suspect at best. A lot of people recognize this and have pointed it out. Rush comparing NFL games to bloods and crips fighting is gonna cause problems. He knew, that's why he threw in the "there I said it" at the end. He should've learned his lesson after ESPN dropped him over the McNabb incident, but he didn't and continued saying borderline shit. Now it's come back to bite him and he wants to blame it on Obama's America. Shits pathetic. He'll probably say something else dumb in the future, and to the NFL he's not worth the risk.

He dug his own grave and no one should feel sorry / make excuses for him.

 

[Rayman]

If Rush said that Dr. King's assassination was a great thing along with slavery, it would have been a huge scandal, but there's be audio tape of it, because it's total BS.

Rush did say that McNabb was being given the benefit of the doubt by the press [he was having a mediocre start to the season that year] because the press roots for black QBs. Limbaugh on ESPN was a bad idea, just as Olbermann being on Sunday Night Football is a bad idea. Sports is my escape, and I don't to hear or see political opinion makers when i'm trying to chill.

Quick correction:

He said that shit in the pre-game show for Week 1 of 2003.

 

[steeljake]

lol C'mon.

Calling black athletes "thugs" has been suspect at best. A lot of people recognize this and have pointed it out. Rush comparing NFL games to bloods and crips fighting is gonna cause problems. He knew, that's why he threw in the "there I said it" at the end. He should've learned his lesson after ESPN dropped him over the McNabb incident, but he didn't and continued saying borderline shit. Now it's come back to bite him and he wants to blame it on Obama's America. Shits pathetic. He'll probably say something else dumb in the future, and to the NFL he's not worth the risk.

He dug his own grave and no one should feel sorry / make excuses for him.

first off, thats rush's job to say those things and to provoke reactions. whats even funnier is that the liberal leaning owners dont want him in their boyz club becasue he is a republican.

Secondly, when people do thugish shit, IE beating their significant other, driving drunk, going to a club and acting the fool, dog fighting, they get labeled with the term thug. it is not a black and white thing, it is a right and wrong thing.

 

[SHOGUN]

first off, thats rush's job to say those things and to provoke reactions. whats even funnier is that the liberal leaning owners dont want him in their boyz club becasue he is a republican.

Secondly, when people do thugish shit, IE beating their significant other, driving drunk, going to a club and acting the fool, dog fighting, they get labeled with the term thug. it is not a black and white thing, it is a right and wrong thing.

First of all, NFL owners are staunchly Republican, so playing the liberal card doesn't work here. Most of the owners have made large contributions to Republican candidates and only a couple owners (if that) even contributed to Obama.

Secondly, the problem with using the word 'thug' regardless of proper usage is that stupid people run off with it and take it to mean something else. For some it has become a codeword of the n-word.

Living in St. Louis, I've heard numerous times people calling Rams RB Steven Jackson (not a troublemaker) a 'thug' over something trivial such as the music he wants played pre-game during the stadium, but when you ask why, they hesitate or say something stupid like 'he has dreads'. When Ronnie Belliard played for the Cards, you had people calling him a thug because he wore his hat different and sported a skull cap for his cornrows. Not because of his demeanor or behavior, but simply his appearance.

That is what Killa Pand and me are talking about.

 

[steeljake]

thug is the new n word

you are offically an idiot. thug is not the new word for n1gga or n1gger, it is the word used to describe a perosn who acts like an idiot. why is that you cant see that balck people, espcecially atheletes can be wrong? it is not a question of race with this word, it is a question of right and wrong. beating your wife/girlfriend is thuggish. if a black guy beats his wife/girlfriend he is thug, if a hwite guy does it he is also a thug. thug is just the modern day temr for fuck up or miscreant, race has shit to do with it. the fact that 90% of the nfl players are black is why it seems to you that it descibes black people, because inthis case it does describe a small group of balc people within a larger communtiy of black people. wake up and stop trying to call shit racist when it isnt, break free from jeeese jackson and his gay lover al shaprton.

 

[steeljake]

First of all, NFL owners are staunchly Republican, so playing the liberal card doesn't work here. Most of the owners have made large contributions to Republican candidates and only a couple owners (if that) even contributed to Obama.

Secondly, the problem with using the word 'thug' regardless of proper usage is that stupid people run off with it and take it to mean something else. For some it has become a codeword of the n-word.

Living in St. Louis, I've heard numerous times people calling Rams RB Steven Jackson (not a troublemaker) a 'thug' over something trivial such as the music he wants played pre-game during the stadium, but when you ask why, they hesitate or say something stupid like 'he has dreads'. When Ronnie Belliard played for the Cards, you had people calling him a thug because he wore his hat different and sported a skull cap for his cornrows. Not because of his demeanor or behavior, but simply his appearance.

That is what Killa Pand and me are talking about.

actually, no they arent. rooney helped obama get elected, irsay is a known liberal. JJ is a liberal, Kraft is too.

 

[SHOGUN]

actually, no they arent. rooney helped obama get elected, irsay is a known liberal. JJ is a liberal, Kraft is too.

And what about the other 28 owners? Those 4 aren't the end all, be all.

At least 22 franchises have given more money to Republicans than the Dems, most substantially more. [LINK]

Link 2

EDIT: Wow, this new layout makes it impossible to do the text linking thing. It looks exactly the same as normal font.

 

[Rayman]

First of all, NFL owners are staunchly Republican, so playing the liberal card doesn't work here. Most of the owners have made large contributions to Republican candidates and only a couple owners (if that) even contributed to Obama.

Secondly, the problem with using the word 'thug' regardless of proper usage is that stupid people run off with it and take it to mean something else. For some it has become a codeword of the n-word.

Living in St. Louis, I've heard numerous times people calling Rams RB Steven Jackson (not a troublemaker) a 'thug' over something trivial such as the music he wants played pre-game during the stadium, but when you ask why, they hesitate or say something stupid like 'he has dreads'. When Ronnie Belliard played for the Cards, you had people calling him a thug because he wore his hat different and sported a skull cap for his cornrows. Not because of his demeanor or behavior, but simply his appearance.

That is what Killa Pand and me are talking about.

Is St. Louis really that kind of town?

 

[Prodigal Son]

lol, at bringing up Mark Cuban. The guy who was kept out of owning a team in baseball because of how he acts. But, I guess you'll ignore that.

 

[SHOGUN]

Is St. Louis really that kind of town?

St. Louis itself is a great place for the most part, but there are some suburbs that surround St. Louis and other parts of Missouri that you want no parts of if you're a minority.

 

[KoRnStARr]

Absurd.

lol @ character testing owners.