Limbaugh dropped from group looking to buy Rams

[Locutus]

Obama's America?  LMFAO!  He needs to go back to rehab!

Bingo!

[me]

And ya'll are to dumb to realize that this is being done as a deterrent to distract from real problems that need handled.  This is all bull shit of the first order.

[followsthewolf]

What the heck did Obama have to do with the NFL in the first place that would cause Limbaugh to say that?

Sounds like Limbaugh is the one who's distracting the issue.

Or is there some larger conspiracy at work here. Maybe the NFL is in cahoots with some terrorist group to distract us from the real problem of securing our nation from attack.

[Locutus]

And ya'll are to dumb to realize that this is being done as a deterrent to distract from real problems that need handled.  This is all bull shit of the first order.

You're going to have to help me out here because that makes absolutely NO sense. 

[followsthewolf]

You're going to have to help me out here because that makes absolutely NO sense. 

That make two of us dummies.

[Locutus]

[me]

He's making the news more than the important issues are and it ain't all that ya know.  I mean Kennedy was a Senator and he killed someone driving while drunk....Now that's an issue.  Why is this Limbaugh thing even news?  Why is there a problem with him being part owner of a team...I mean really get serious. 

[Bo D]

He's making the news more than the important issues are and it ain't all that ya know.  I mean Kennedy was a Senator and he killed someone driving while drunk....Now that's an issue.  Why is this Limbaugh thing even news?  Why is there a problem with him being part owner of a team...I mean really get serious.

Whoa! I didn't realize how wrong I was the other day when I credited you with some intelligence!

[Locutus]

Whoa! I didn't realize how wrong I was the other day when I credited you with some intelligence!

I think she's on the sauce today. 

[Bo D]

Rush Limbaugh
January 19, 2007

"The NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it."

"there is a cultural problem in the NFL that has resulted in a total lack of class on the part of professional players"

[Locutus]

I keep telling ole' Henry Hawk that Rush is a racist. 

[mr. willy]

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyharnden/100013647/the-rush-limbaugh-media-lynch-mob/

[Bo D]

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyharnden/100013647/the-rush-limbaugh-media-lynch-mob/

What the f^ck does a blogger for a stinking Brit rag know about Football?

I quoted what Rush Limpdick said. Exact words. 'Nuff said.

[Locutus]

Yup!  And it was pretty widespread what he said about Donovan McNab as well.   Rush is a racist. 

[Henry Hawk]

Here is the enitre story of how Rush led up to those statements...and I agree with him on it.

To set the table for people who do not know, after the Chargers and Patriots game, the Chargers sitting around moping, all depressed, because they had the game won, it was just all kinds of stupid mistakes, and let me tell you what happened. Some of the Patriots went to midfield where the Chargers logo is and started doing an imitation of a victory dance done by Chargers player Shawne Merriman after he sacks a quarterback. Now, here are the Chargers who have lost a game they should have won, who lost a game precisely because of the same kind of behavior they're ripping the Patriots for, and LaDainian Tomlinson says that was classless, (paraphrasing) "We went in there, we beat them twice on their field and we didn't disrespect them. This obviously comes from the head coach," meaning Belichick. LaDainian Tomlinson was accusing Belichick of ordering his players and creating a culture that would make it okay for players to go on the field and taunt and so forth and so on.

Now, LaDainian Tomlinson to me is the classiest player in the National Football League. He doesn't do a dance, he doesn't spike the ball when he scores. He and Marvin Harrison are the two most classy individuals playing in the National Football League today, in skill positions. They just hand the ball back to the referee. They act like they've been there and done that, like scoring a touchdown is no big deal, they don't taunt, they don't act like they've been dissed or any of this. Let me tell you, the Chargers would not have lost that game were it not for a bunch of -- I gotta be very careful here. It's not just irresponsible, but there is a cultural problem in the NFL that has resulted in a total lack of class on the part of professional players.

There was a play where Brady was third and long, he was sacked, fumbled the ball, the Patriots recovered it, it will be fourth and long, forcing an interesting decision late in the game by the Patriots. After the play is over, a Chargers player gets in the face of a Patriots player, head butts him and starts jawing. This is the reason these guys are getting shot in bars, folks, late at night. Fifteen-yard penalty, automatic first down. So for the Chargers to complain about the lack of class by the Patriots, I found laughable. I think something ought to be done about it, because I love the game of football, and I don't like the kind of culture that's taking over, that "you can't diss me, you can't disrespect me." After every sack, players are acting like they've won the Super Bowl, and they're prancing around with these idiotic dances. The latest thing is to act like they're making a jump shot in basketball. It's all done to taunt; it's all done to taunt the other team's fans.


I don't want boring football. I don't want the no-fun league, but you can certainly have great football games without a lack of class. I don't know how it's been allowed to happen this way. I guess the coaches don't feel confident to continue -- this was very rare for the Patriots to act the way they did, and who knows what led to it. I don't think of Belichick as that kind of coach, but Tomlinson's words reverberated around the league. A lot of people said, "I'm glad he said something, because Belichick is getting away here with an image that he doesn't deserve." I've played golf with Belichick; he's a mild-mannered, soft-spoken man. I even saw him at a cocktail party here in Palm Beach before dinner one night. That whole organization to me exudes class, as does Tom Brady, and you don't see them doing this kind of stuff.

One of the reasons the Pittsburgh Steelers had trouble this year was a total lack of discipline, in addition to all their turnovers, total lack of discipline, 15-yard penalties, unnecessary roughness, taunting after plays are over, after successful defensive stands, they blow it. There's something culturally wrong here that is leading to all this. It's gotta be dealt with at the top, because it simply is classless. I can I understand LaDainian Tomlinson being upset because he doesn't do this stuff. But in the current NFL climate the best way for the Chargers to prevent that from happening is win the game and keep this insidious, ridiculous, boorish, classless behavior to a minimum so that you don't lose it on account of that. It's just disappointing, and it's a mystery to me why it's being allowed to continue. Well, actually, I understand partially why it continues, and that's because of ESPN.

ESPN lives off this. ESPN created Terrell Owens. Terrell Owens is who he is, but if Terrell Owens weren't constantly on television with his antics after touchdowns -- I remember, I called this. You remember the Monday night game on ABC and Seattle when after scoring a touchdown, T.O. playing for the Fort'iners, pulls a Sharpie out of his sock, autographs the ball and gives it to somebody. I said, "Folks, this is going to lead to nothing but trouble." Everybody said, "Come on, Rush, lighten up, that was funny." It was classless. Go back and look at the greats who played this game. They would not do anything of the sort, maybe hand the ball off, but not pull a Sharpie out. Everybody started to talk about how much fun that was, ooh, how cool, how creative. Then we get Joe Horn of the United States Saints after he scored a touchdown pulling a cell phone out of his socks and faked making a phone call. Well, guess what shows up on ESPN? So these guys get validated, everybody wants to stand out, they want to get endorsement deals and so forth. So television, making stars out of people who engage in classless behavior helps lead to it and contribute to it. No question in my mind about it. I'll bet the guy that called from El Paso did not expect this as an answer.

Look it, 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.