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PUBLIC BOYCOTT OF THE RAMS IF RUSH BUYS INTO THEM?


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.

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It goes without saying that Limbaugh is a contemptible, racist blowhard. But the NFL doesn't care about that. It cares only about money.

I think the fact that he is a known drug addict is the best and most effective criticism of Limbaugh's attempt to buy a piece of the Rams. His well documented history of abuse of oxycontin which caused his permanent hearling loss and his conviction for illegally obtaining the drugs would necessarily put the cloud of hypocrisy over any team he become a part of. The political criticisms, however, I don't see as having much impact on the NFL where it's all about money. The drug addict thing is the only factor tht might change the equation.

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I will sign on. Immediately. A lot of players out there really pissed off about this. And for good reason.

I would take Oleeb's take, but any pain we could cause rush would be okay with me. He is holding his rage in on this one. It is extremely painful for him right now and he has no deal with anyone. ha

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I agree on the "any pain" point. He certainly has earned it!

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"any pain"

I doubt his synapses allow for the transfer of pain, and we certainly aren't going to humble him.

My wife, occasionally reading over my shoulder as I type, has decided I am "using" TPM as a place to "throw spaghetti at the wall and see who salutes it." (I think she's got Yogi Berra beat in the hybrid cliche game)

But in her own way she accurately describes my method.

This was just such an attempt to see where the TPMer group sentiments might reside, I'm still hoping there will be more interactivity on the subject today, but looks like a non-issue for many here.

When you consider what's happening in N Korea, Ireland and elsewhere, this issue seems trivial. But I think any time we have an opportunity to put one of the wingnuts on the hotseat, it is worth the attempt. The more they are exposed for their hypocrisy, the less credibility they have with the public in general.

And I am sincere in my concern that someone like Rush, who, like Michael Jackson, is such a bad example of unchecked drug abuse to our younger generation, would be a part owner of a team in a sport trying desperately to clean up it's performance-enhancing drug-abuse image.

Next he'll be trying to buy into the Dodgers.

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I think it's difficult to get people too hyped up about it because it isn't portrayed as being anything more than a vague possibility in the media. It just isn't on most folks' radar screens.

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