[joeyCanada]

ST. LOUIS (Oct. 6) - The lowly Rams have someone who loves them. Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh said Tuesday he is teaming up with St. Louis Blues owner Dave Checketts in a bid to buy the Rams, owners of the NFL's longest losing streak at 14 and just 5-31 since 2007.

In a statement, Limbaugh declined to discuss details, citing a confidentiality agreement with Goldman Sachs, the investment firm hired by the family of former Rams owner Georgia Frontiere to review assets of her estate, including the NFL team.

Limbaugh also declined to discuss other partners that might be involved in the bid, but said he and Checketts would operate the team.

"Dave Checketts and I have made a bid to buy the Rams and we are continuing the process," Limbaugh said.

Forbes magazine has estimated the Rams franchise has a value of $929 million.

Frontiere's children, Chip Rosenbloom and Lucia Rodriguez, inherited 60 percent of the Rams when their mother died in January 2008. Billionaire Stan Kroenke of Columbia, Mo., owns the remaining 40 percent. It wasn't clear if the Limbaugh/Checketts bid was for 100 percent of the Rams or just the share owned by Rosenbloom and Rodriguez.

"Our strategic review of our ownership of the Rams continues," Rosenbloom said in a statement released late Monday. "We will make an announcement upon the completion of the process."

NFL spokesman Greg Aiello declined comment. Calls seeking comment from Checketts were not returned.

Limbaugh is a native of Cape Girardeau, Mo., about 100 miles south of St. Louis. He's so popular among conservatives - fans of his show call themselves "dittoheads" - that he has been called by some the voice of the Republican Party.

http://www.fanhouse.com/news/main/ru...rams%2F705934#

[freddystone]

The Rams, it turns out, are the largest donor to the Democratic party of all NFL teams. I'm just sayin'.

[Slchtjgb]

Much like the re-writing the Bible thread, the conservatives are welcome to the St. Louis Rams as far as I'm concerned.

[freddystone]

Much like the re-writing the Bible thread, the conservatives are welcome to the St. Louis Rams as far as I'm concerned.

LOL. You're easy.

[Slchtjgb]

LOL. You're easy.

Now you're just setting them up for nelslus.

[NumStulpata]

The Rams, it turns out, are the largest donor to the Democratic party of all NFL teams. I'm just sayin'.

LOL! Not for long! LOL!

[Lidawka]

"dittoheads"?

Silly me, I've had it wrong all this time. I've been calling them dodo-heads.

[pitoufsd]

Limbaugh dropped from group seeking to buy Rams

By R.B. FALLSTROM
AP Sports Writer

ST. LOUIS (AP) - Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh has been dropped from a group seeking to buy the St. Louis Rams. Limbaugh was to be a limited partner in a bid led by St. Louis Blues chairman Dave Checketts, but Checketts said in a statement Wednesday that Limbaugh's participation had complicated the effort. The group will move forward without him.

Checketts said he will have no further comment on the bid process. Limbaugh did not immediately respond to an e-mail sent late Wednesday seeking comment on Checketts' decision.


Limbaugh said on his radio show earlier Wednesday that he had been inundated with e-mails from listeners who supported him in the bid.

"This is not about the NFL, it's not about the St. Louis Rams, it's not about me," Limbaugh said. "This is about the ongoing effort by the left in this country, wherever you find them, in the media, the Democrat Party, or wherever, to destroy conservatism, to prevent the mainstreaming of anyone who is prominent as a conservative.
"Therefore, this is about the future of the United States of America and what kind of country we're going to have."

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php...show_article=1

[NumStulpata]

"Therefore, this is about the future of the United States of America and what kind of country we're going to have."

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php...show_article=1

I sure hope so, Rush. We have plenty of room for conservatives. We just don't have any room for lying, hypocritical hatemongers. Go establish you own country.

[SOgLak]

"This is not about the NFL, it's not about the St. Louis Rams, it's not about me," Limbaugh said. "This is about the ongoing effort by the left in this country, wherever you find them, in the media, the Democrat Party, or wherever, to destroy conservatism, to prevent the mainstreaming of anyone who is prominent as a conservative.
"Therefore, this is about the future of the United States of America and what kind of country we're going to have."

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php...show_article=1

So apparently this was just another one of his publicity stunts.

I guess Glenn Beck, as a television personality, really is stealing too much of his thunder.

Poor thing.

[SiM7W2zi]

The Rams, it turns out, are the largest donor to the Democratic party of all NFL teams. I'm just sayin'.

More than the Steelers ?

[freddystone]

More than the Steelers ?

Yeah. I saw a report on it just before this Limbaugh story came out.

[greekbeast]

Limbaugh dropped from group seeking to buy Rams

By R.B. FALLSTROM
AP Sports Writer

ST. LOUIS (AP) - Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh has been dropped from a group seeking to buy the St. Louis Rams. Limbaugh was to be a limited partner in a bid led by St. Louis Blues chairman Dave Checketts, but Checketts said in a statement Wednesday that Limbaugh's participation had complicated the effort. The group will move forward without him.

Checketts said he will have no further comment on the bid process. Limbaugh did not immediately respond to an e-mail sent late Wednesday seeking comment on Checketts' decision.


Limbaugh said on his radio show earlier Wednesday that he had been inundated with e-mails from listeners who supported him in the bid.

"This is not about the NFL, it's not about the St. Louis Rams, it's not about me," Limbaugh said. "This is about the ongoing effort by the left in this country, wherever you find them, in the media, the Democrat Party, or wherever, to destroy conservatism, to prevent the mainstreaming of anyone who is prominent as a conservative.
"Therefore, this is about the future of the United States of America and what kind of country we're going to have."

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php...show_article=1

I finally caught up on this story yesterday.

In his statement, Checketts said that Limbaugh’s involvement made sense because he was born 100 miles south of St. Louis, is an avid N.F.L. fan, and had an interest in keeping the Rams in St. Louis rather than allowing them to move to another market, which another ownership group may do. Checketts’s group surely needed Limbaugh’s deep pockets, too. But once word leaked last week that Limbaugh was involved, several retired and current players said they objected to Limbaugh’s involvement and said players would not join the Rams as free agents if Limbaugh prevailed. Then the union executive director, DeMaurice Smith, expressed his personal concern about Limbaugh and encouraged players to speak up.

The players’ opposition to Limbaugh is rooted largely in his public comments about race. The most famous of those came when he spoke about Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb in 2003, while Limbaugh worked for ESPN.

After Goodell’s comments and those of Jim Irsay, the Colts’ owner, who said he could not support a bid that involved Limbaugh, Limbaugh’s exit from the bid seemed all but inevitable, although on his radio show on Wednesday — hours before Checketts made his statement — Limbaugh vowed not to drop out. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/15/sp...r=1&ref=sports

[NumStulpata]

Limbaugh's comments about McNabb were bad enough. But for me, the one that took the cake was when he described the NFL as a battle between the Crips and the Bloods--but without the weapons.