Here's a sincere invitation to all my fellow NFL Fans who are also men and women of conscience, to join me in a pledge to boycott the televised games of any team Rush Limbaugh (AKA "The Lump") buys into.
I respect the players who have already shown the courage to step forward and voice their own intentions to refuse their talents to any team The Lump might own or partly own, and I think that those of us who do not want to see the game tarnished by wannabe's like Limbaugh should join their protest and pledge to boycott a Lump-leveraged team.
SO lets start right now, serving notice that we will refuse to watch any televised game, and will boycott and protest to the advertisers of those games, if Limbaugh spends some of his vile, nation-splitting, wingnut provoking blood money to intrude upon our leisure time.
And by serving this notice NOW, before it ever comes to reality,  we may help convince the other team owners, who are the final arbiters of their own membership,  that bringing such a divisive, bigoted and emotionally unstable character into their ranks will only assure them a political backlash, the likes of which they would surely regret.
Just his history of drug abuse represents a terrible hypocrisy, considering how many players have been banned or suspended due to drug tests.  Would Rush be required to take the same drug tests his players are required to?  I thought not.
I don't suggest for a moment that we should boycott the NFL (please, one bad apple STILL doesn't spoil the whole bushel) but in solidarity with the black and hispanic and polynesian players who now make up such a big part of the league, we should not allow a bona fide, proud-of-it white-racist a chance to demean a game we love just because he throws some easy money at them.  
When I ponder how he made that money, it only makes me all the more disgusted, and all the more determined to make some sort of attempt to blog some sense into the other owners, before they hamstring their sport with such a sorry loser.
No matter what kind of cash The Lump can throw at them, it is nothing compared to the advertising and licensing revenues the Rams would lose if they decide to let The Lump grow malignantly onto their fold.  Not to mention the talent they will have to forego, because no man of color and/or conscience should be able to justify working for such a creep.
All comments appreciated,  I won't engage in debate on this one though, but I would appreciate some support and input from some of our TPM football fans,  as to how to most effectively get the message across to the other owners who vote on who gets into that august body, that they include Rush at their own risk, the risk of politicizing a game we all hope remains untouched by this type of political hack.

The Boston Globe has a story this morning worth reading, by Steve Rosenberg, outlining how Massachusetts has utilized about $4 billion of the $17+ billion in stimulus funds to retain and create street-level jobs.
Lets hope this is the trickle before the flow, and more MSM outlets will start covering the stimulus effect on state and local economies.
If you read the story, take note that it says this money helped not only create jobs, but RETAIN public service jobs.  Here's a paragraph that goes there;
"The group's report, to be released this week, is one of the first attempts by an independent organization to document the effects of the stimulus on Massachusetts. It said the stimulus helped preserve the jobs of municipal police officers, teachers, and firefighters, while generating jobs at new building and infrastructure projects across the state. By extending unemployment benefits and providing tax credits, it also fueled new consumer spending."
It is safe to say that the rest of the nation is expriencing similar stories from state to state and city to city. The stimulus money is, at least in most part, flowing, not trickling, down to the working class consumers, where it will actually enter the general economy, and not some billionaire's personal portfolio.
Which seems to me to be the difference between the bank bailout money and the stimulus money.  The easy credit that the bailout was supposed to produce, to put more money into consumer circulation, never reached the consumer level to maintain and create jobs (anybody know where it is now?),  the way stimulus money appears to be working.
Correct me if I'm wrong, (please, I'm an economic layman, so any expertise would be humbly appreciated) but it seems as if those who need it the least, who hold it in big pools of personal wealth as some sort of bloated form of security,  got the bulk of the bailout money, while everyday American consumers got the benefit of the stimulus money.
And thus the stimulus money actually gets into the economic cycle, rather than augmenting already over-bloated bank accounts.