How do you all feel about this? I hope he doesn't get the bid for the team. Mathias Kiwanuka loves his former defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo, but the Giants' defensive end says he will never play for Spagnuolo's Rams if Rush Limbaugh purchases the team. Kiwanuka and the Jets' Bart Scott made it clear Thursday that they would never play for the Rams or any team owned by the controversial conservative radio host. "All I know is from the last comment I heard, he said in (President) Obama's America, white kids are getting beat up on the bus while black kids are chanting 'right on,'" Kiwanuka told The Daily News. "I mean, I don't want anything to do with a team that he has any part of. He can do whatever he wants, it is a free country. But if it goes through, I can tell you where I am not going to play." "I am not going to draw a conclusion from a person off of one comment, but when it is time after time after time and there's a consistent pattern of disrespect and just a complete misunderstanding of an entire culture that I am a part of, I can't respect him as a man." Limbaugh said on Tuesday that he is joining former Knicks president and Madison Square Garden CEO Dave Checketts in a group bidding to purchase the Rams. Checketts, who owns the NHL's St. Louis Blues, is heading the group, reportedly one of many bidders. The potential sale is still in an early stage. If the Rams are sold, St. Louis will choose one bidding group, which will then be subject to a vote by the NFL's 32 owners, with approval needed by 24 of them. Limbaugh's controversial comments are well-known. He resigned from ESPN in 2003 after he said the media were "very desirous that a black quarterback do well" in reference to Philadelphia's Donovan McNabb being overrated. "If he's rewarded to buy them, congratulations to him," McNabb said during his weekly press conference. "But I won't be in St. Louis anytime soon." Scott says players remember what Limbaugh said, and adds that the NFL would be wise not to allow the nationally syndicated host into the league. "It's an oxymoron that he criticized Donovan McNabb," Scott said. "A lot of us took it as more of a racial-type thing. I can only imagine how his players would feel. I know I wouldn't want to play for him. He's a jerk. He's an ---. What he said (about McNabb) was inappropriate and insensitive, totally off-base. He could offer me whatever he wanted, I wouldn't play for him. ... I wouldn't play for Rush Limbaugh. My principles are greater and I can't be bought." Limbaugh, who grew up in Missouri about 100 miles south of St. Louis, is an avid sports fan who once said that "the NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons." Kiwanuka cringes at the idea of Limbaugh becoming an NFL owner. "They are flat-out racist," Kiwanuka said of many of Limbaugh's statements. "He jumps on Obama and he jumps on other people for being racist. But a lot of the comments that he said, I feel like they have no place in journalism. It is just an opinion show that should be only be taken for shock value. I liken it to 'South Park' when I am listening to him." "I love Spags and would play for him in a heartbeat, but under that situation ... obviously trades you have no control over, but if it was a free-agent thing, I wouldn't care if I only had one offer on the table, I would rather stay a free agent." Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/f..._limbaughowned_st_louis_ra.html#ixzz0TSK8HDVB
If it were possible, I would watch the Rams less to boycott. LOL. Or buy less Rams gear. That's also impossible.
I just gained a lot of respect for Kiwanuka and Scott. Like B-Bob, I only wish I could boycott the Rams, since I don't ever watch them anyway.
Idiots boycotted Whole Foods just because of someones views on healthcare. I'm sure the same people will boycott the Rams, but no one will care
Some people in the hangout forum are under the impression that Limbaugh being part owner would not affect attendance or players' unwillingness to play for the Rams but these two players seem very serious about what they are saying. I'm interested to hear the responses in this forum.
Good for the players who spoke out. Though, lots of players, white, black, and Hispanic, were ultimately more than happy to take money from Marge Schott, and she was (also) a racist who favored the Nazi swastika as a home conversation piece. Wikipedia: Schott controversies My guess: if he's approved, we'll hear a lot from Checketts et al. that Limbaugh's overtly racist material is okay because he's only a minority owner, doesn't reflect the opinions of the St. Louis Rams, and therefore his ownership stake shouldn't have any effect on negotiations, etc...
Somebody better tell Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell that Limbaugh is an overt racist. They'll probably stop sub-hosting and guest-ing when they hear...
Perhaps they've also Oxycontined themselves deaf, and cannot hear what's coming out of their speakers? <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/EKY_6tULzXk&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/EKY_6tULzXk&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> "Right on, right on, right on, right on!"
God ---- it! Are you sure? I thought he breathed purple stuff in his later years, but my childhood memory may deceive me.
If Black players will not play for a team, then the Rams cannot field a team...period. The players do have the power in this one. NFL.....knows if this is approved, they will have a SERIOUS player-relation problem.
Like B-bob, I've been participating in a preemptive boycott of the Rams for years. I will also categorically state that I will NOT play for the Rams if Limbaugh is an owner. (though it would be a much more effective action against the team if I did suit up).
Maybe you don't know the real Limbaugh? Maybe he's the Chris Rock of radio... It's pretty arrogant of you to suggest that two scholars (regardless of whether or not you agree with them point by point) are "too dumb" to recognize the truth rather than to question your own very limited perspective. They've had years to associate with himm and to figure him out, while you (and the rest of the harpies here) mostly know Limbaugh the Caricature. I'm not sure if you are rushing head-long into a cliff or a wall but you might want to slow down and pick your head up. you too vlaurello. Excuse me... I have to go call my black friend so he can be sure and know that I'm not a racist just because I have a black friend...
From some random internet geek's website (random internet geek = authority figure in my book): See, some random internet geek says Rodan breathing fire "make perfect sense!" Take that, B-Bob. Also, Wikipedia -- Rodan: Heisei series: Sheesh. So I have to make another mock-up of the new Rams wide receiver (because all minority players correctly refuse to play for them) anti-boycotting an upscale grocery store, but now with appropriately colored breath? Damned internets. Don't you have another natural satellite to go blow up, B-Bob? (Or do I misremember that you work in/around NASA?)
Good for the Rams. I'm sure letting a junkie purchase stake in the company is all the crappy Rams need at this point.
What do you believe Limbaugh meant by his statement about Obama's America? No chain emails, no relying on "experts" - what is YOUR opinion?
