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	Name:	GoneFishin -
	Subject:	Rush Limbaugh and NFL
	Date:	10/18/2009 11:19:46 AM

One does not just buy an NFL club. It is a closed society where one must be voted in. The owners for the most part are white conservative republicans who have made a business decision. They feel Limbaugh is too divisive an individual for membership into their club.

The NFL sells a product that requires advertising dollars to help support. They have contracts with TV, the same media that fired Limbaugh for the remark he made about McNabb. He had his opportunity to play the game when he was on Monday night Football and blew it. He had his chance. Vick, as an example, paid his dues and went to prison. Maybe, this rejection is Limbaugh’s penalty for his past remarks.

I am sure you have a litmus test for anyone who may want to buy into your business.

He is not the first person to ever be denied the right to purchase a professional team. Why is he considered divisive? Simply, he has made remarks that a number of their key employees find offensive or degrading. Here are four examples:

Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?

Take that bone out of your nose and call me back (to an African American female caller).

I think the media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well. They're interested in black coaches and black quarterbacks doing well. I think there's a little hope invested in McNabb and he got a lot of credit for the performance of his team that he really didn’t deserve.

On Obama : a 'halfrican American', an 'affirmative action candidate.' Limbaugh even has repeatedly played a song on his radio show 'Barack the Magic Negro' using an antiquated Jim Crow era term for black a man who many Americans were supporting for president.