Report: Limbaugh No Longer In Race to Buy Rams

NFL News - October 14th, 2009 - Written by John

Rush Limbaugh has been instrumental in selling the conservative movement in the early 90s and has become one of the most popular hosts on radio today.

In the NFL, they ain't listenin'.

Now that it has become apparent that the mood over Limbaugh's partnered bid to purchase of the St. Louis Rams has become soured, ESPN is reporting that the showman is going to back out of the race. Three NFL sources told the sports network that he will remove his name from a bid made with St. Louis Blues' chairman Dave Checketts, allowing his partners to continue without him. The team has been on the market since the death of it's majority owner last year.

Owners of the other 31 teams are the one's who have to approve the sale of any team. Seventy-five-percent approval must be needed to allow the transaction to go through. Many have already voiced there opinion, still long before the bidding has even completed. Like Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay, who told reporters that he would not vote for Limbaugh's bid and many others would not as well. Even NFL Player's Association leader DeMaurice Smith suggested that players voice their defiance.

"I've spoken to the Commissioner (Roger Goodell) and I understand that this ownership consideration is in the early stages," he told ESPN's Chris Mortensen. "But sport in America is at its best when it unifies, gives all of us reason to cheer, and when it transcends. Our sport does exactly that when it overcomes division and rejects discrimination and hatred."

New York Giants defensive end Mathias Kiwanuka was one of the first to oblige, saying that he would never play for a team owned by Limbaugh, a thought that was supported by the likes of Donovan McNabb.

There is no confirmation about the decision to drop out of the race. The latest comments from Limbaugh were fiery and defiant, saying, ""I'm not even thinking of exiting. I'm not even thinking of caving. I am not a caver. None of us are. We have been betrayed by too many who have caved. Pioneers take the arrows. We are pioneers. It's a sad thing but our country over 200 years old now needs pioneers all over again, but we do."

Limbaugh has been under fire with many African-Americans since his 2003 comments about McNabb, in which he said he believed the media has a biased desire to see black quarterbacks succeed. Earlier this year he even said he believed white children are being targeted by blacks since the election of Barack Obama, claiming they are being attacked on buses while African-American children are chanting "right on, right on."

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