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Limbaugh: Buying Into Brain Damage

Posted by ROBERT STEIN in Arts & Entertainment, Politics.
Oct 13th, 2009 | Comments

On the momentous issue of whether or not the Mouth That Roared should be allowed to become an owner of a professional football team, as cogently debated in one of the posts below, let me add another view that may excite debate in another direction:

Al Sharpton has his knickers in a twist over news that Rush Limbaugh is trying to acquire the National Football League franchise in St. Louis, but with all due respect, the Reverend and other protesters fail to see the internal logic of such a move.

With the recent revelation that NFL retirees, as a result of being hit in the head so often, are more susceptible to brain disease and early Alzheimer’s than the rest of the population, it seems only natural that El Rushbo invest in the League some of the proceeds from his $400 million contract for pounding to pulp the neurons of his devoted listeners.

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DLS

Those that hate Limbaugh express their hatred in numerous ways, while demanding he be prevented from being a club owner in the NFL because he represents "hatred" (defiance of the Pee-Cee regimen).

dduck12

I don't hate Limbaugh: just can't stand him. Ditto for Al Sharpton. Sharpton wants no part of Limburger owning anything but a Parcheesi Gaming franchise. Don't know what to think; life's quandaries.

Davebo

It seems Mr. L is just being an investor.

Most likely a minor one at that. Rush has the bucks, but not the Bob McNair bucks that it takes to get a franchise today. They quote upward of $500 million is likely. That's cheap but hey, it's a lousy economy.

dduck12

I guess Mr. L wouldn't consider a team like the Saints or the Cardinals. For him THE RAMS are the most appropriate (or maybe the Patriots, would do). I wouldn't want to be working for him though, the sidelines wouldn't be big enough for his ego. As for Mr. S., he would love to be on the sidelines of the Angels, Saints would also do.

jeainnj

Perhaps Sharpton, who I consider no friend to black people, should be talking about the 60-70% of athletes - mostly black - whom our colleges fail to graduate. Or parhaps former players who live in poverty with debilitating conditions Or maybe the fact that the NFL isn't doing much to protect players - again, most of whom are black - from repeated concussions.

But no. Mr. sharpton would rather grab headlines...

DLS

As I wrote elsewhere, what would people think if some social conservatives (say, Jerry Falwell) had demanded Greg Louganis be stripped of his Olympic awards (and banned from future participation), and all other gays kept out of such competition?

I doubt those most in need of the education will learn.

But it hasn't gone fully unnoticed, this sinister leftist political garbage -- "slippery slope," it is.

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/columnist/lopres...

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