Limbaugh doesn’t get it: Idiots damage NFL product
The NFL can't afford to have this guy a face of the league.
Rush Limbaugh will not be an NFL owner and it’s not because, to borrow the title of Al Franken’s book, “Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot.”
OK. It’s a little bit of that.
If Limbaugh and all of his “ditto heads” out there want to blame the liberal, bed-wetting, pantywaist, fruitcake media with the left-wing agenda — and THAT’S why this country’s going to hell in a hand-basket, mister! — for him being rejected by the NFL, well, they’re missing the point.
The NFL has a product. The NFL has the most sought-after product in professional sports. The NFL is all about protecting its product. It’s about cultivating an image and protecting the league shield. Why? Because that leads to fans, which leads to ticket sales, which leads to sponsorships and wealth and, most of all, power.
It doesn’t really matter that all NFL owners and many players are rich and therefore, logic dictates, probably lean to the right politically themselves. This isn’t about politics. It never was about politics. When I slammed Limbaugh’s candidacy as a potential part-owner of the St. Louis Rams last Tuesday — and then a second time — it infuriated Limbaugh’s blind loyalists. Why? Because most of his fans apparently can’t see beyond their nearby radio speaker, out of which they can hear his turbo-lipped ramblings.
The NFL doesn’t want an owner who was investigated for illegally obtaining, and then becoming addicted to, prescription painkillers. And yes, there is a big difference between one of 32 owners — who is seeking approval from other owners — being a former drug abuser, and one of 2,000 players becoming a drug-abuser after he enters the league.
The NFL also doesn’t want someone who has proven to be divisive, both racially and otherwise. It doesn’t want someone who:
♦ Sang, “Barack, the Magic Negro,” on his show.
♦ Makes statements like, “The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback to do well,” which he claimed was why the media was going “soft” on Donovan McNabb (which must have seemed really funny to McNabb).
♦ Once said, “The NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips.”
♦ Similarly referenced the NBA, saying, “Call it the TBA, the Thug Basketball Association. … They’re going to watch the Crips and the Bloods.”
♦ Said of the “Survivor” TV series that the, “African-American tribe” had the worst swimmers, and Hispanics “will do things other people won’t do.”
♦ Said, “[In] Obama’s America, the white kids now get beat up with the black kids cheering.”
♦ Said, “Minorities never do anything for which they have to apologize.”
Should I go on, or is that enough?
Dave Checketts understood. He heads the group seeking to purchase the Rams, and he knew the other owners never would approve of the sale. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell didn’t want him in the league. The NFL Players Association didn’t want him in the league — and there’s a new Collective Bargaining Agreement to be negotiated.
Limbaugh is out. He knows why. He just can’t admit the truth.
His reaction: “This is not about the NFL, it’s not about the St. Louis Rams, it’s not about me. 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.”
So the U.S. is going to hell because the NFL doesn’t want Rush Limbaugh as an owner?
Perfect. My kind of country. My kind of league.
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676 comments Add your comment
JSS
October 14th, 2009
8:20 pm
No comment…
Dark Gable
October 14th, 2009
8:24 pm
agree 1000%
rhynster
October 14th, 2009
8:26 pm
He’s a freaking idiot.
No, I take that back.
He’s just an entertainment character.
The people who follow his drivel are the idiots.
southern hope
October 14th, 2009
8:28 pm
Dude. You are a glutton for punishment.
(but you have my vote)
Max Sizemore
October 14th, 2009
8:29 pm
Jeff, this is you at your best. And that’s saying something.
dap01
October 14th, 2009
8:30 pm
Do we have an idiot tests for owners of newspapers? Do we have idiot tests for writers? Accountants?
SECya
October 14th, 2009
8:30 pm
Oh my God Jeff, that was great. Not only is he a fat racist idiot. He is also the most self promoting, rude, and selfish person in the media today. But I don’t blame, it makes him money. I blame the fat racist idiots that listen to him, and believe what he says has any kind of merit. The more things we can keep this fat turd out of the better.
CM
October 14th, 2009
8:32 pm
Schultz….Who is the idiot? I bet you havent had as many readers of your liberal babble in your lifetime as Rush has listeners in one afternoon. Get a life you race baiter.
Dawg Fan 74
October 14th, 2009
8:34 pm
Right….and Michael Vick is an animal lover who deserves to play in NFL.
You’re a moron.
Dave
October 14th, 2009
8:37 pm
It really is a shame that Furman has retired. When he wrote he wrote the truth not a bunch of lies taken out of context.
He11razor
October 14th, 2009
8:39 pm
HAHAHAHAHA, He’s been dropped from the bid.. I can’t wait to hear him b*&ch and whine about it on his show tomorrow. I bet he blames it on Obama. Boohooohoooo, take your race-baiting conservative blowhard ass back to A.M. lardass.
Najeh Davenpoop
October 14th, 2009
8:39 pm
For those Limbaugh fans who think the NFL is part of a big leftist conspiracy to keep Limbaugh out of the NFL, Roger Goodell’s wife is a Fox News anchor. It’s more likely than not that his views are more or less in line with Limbaugh’s. Schultz is right — the kind of controversy having an owner like Limbaugh would bring is not worth it to the NFL, when there are no doubt many other less controversial multi-millionaires out there who would love to own an NFL team.
CM
October 14th, 2009
8:40 pm
Yeah i second Dawg Fan 74…..Michael Vick is a fine human example to represent the most “sought after” product, the NFL…..Geeee…..I wonder what demographic the NFL hopes to keep by giving this fine example of a human being a second chance.
TPM
October 14th, 2009
8:42 pm
The good part about blogging is that is lazy journalism. Most of the quotes Jeff Schutz just attributed to Rush Limbaugh were never said or are inaccurate. He did have a magic negro parody song, but it was based on an op-ed column of the same exact name written in the LA Times by a black journalist. Jeff Schultz has a story to tell but he does not want facts to get in the way.
J Reacher
October 14th, 2009
8:42 pm
Ooops, I thought I was on the “sports” page, and that political opinion was mostly in the “news” sections with a bit in the editorial pages.
I am not going to defend Rush, not a fan, not a hater, don’t listen to him. But, Bambi man, where is your outrage over Olberman’s presence on SNF?
ChrisS
October 14th, 2009
8:42 pm
I find these types of articles and the uninformed comments that go with them disturbing. Obviously none of you haev ever listened to Rush. I used to be a left winger but have since recovered. I listen to Rush often and have never found him to be racist in any way. More to the point he is the least racist person that I have seen when compared to the likes of others who prey on race form their livings.
Points -
Barack, the Magic Negro was a piece by the LA Times and Rush was making fun of that!
[In] Obama’s America, the white kids now get beat up with the black kids cheering. Either way racism is dealt it is BAD! Get a clue people.
“Minorities never do anything for which they have to apologize. That seems to be true! Have you heard ANY apology to the kids on the duke lacross team from the likes of Jesse Jackson?
What Utter drivel from people who have no clue about what is going on. Oh and for the record, I AM BLACK!
rhynster
October 14th, 2009
8:43 pm
Is it any surprise that the Limbaugh-ites attack with gay quips and reprise the Vick vitriol.
Also, Rush can have all the listeners he wants, but it doesn’t make him right.
maybe
October 14th, 2009
8:43 pm
Seems to me a lot of the players in the NFL are the idiots.
Matt
October 14th, 2009
8:44 pm
Jeff,
You and everybody that is judging Limbaugh as a racist have never really listened to Limbaugh. If you would listen, and quit falling for these crap lies that liberals made up about Limbaugh, I think you would probably find yourself agreeing with a lot he says. So many people take him out of context. You and your kind literally make me sick. I’m so sick and tired of all you “race baiters” out there. You would think with the election of our 1st Black President, things would get better with race relations, but they appear to have only gotten worse. This country IS going to Hell in a Hand Basket, cause so many people want this country to fail, cause of what the white man’s ancestor’s did to slaves over a hundred years ago. Only Jesus can fix us now, but you guys in the media want even acknowledge Him. “What would it profit a man if he gained the whole world, yet lost his very soul, or What can a man give in exchange for his soul.”
Max
October 14th, 2009
8:44 pm
Let the fat man buy the Rams or whatever team he might be interested in. It would be amusing and give me someone to root against.
Paul
October 14th, 2009
8:44 pm
Hey Jeff – you were just dying to let out your liberal frustrations in this article weren’t you. Save it for the leftist political page in the AJC or move on out of sports. You don’t have a clue.
CM
October 14th, 2009
8:45 pm
While Rush is out collecting millions for charity…..Vick was out hanging dogs. Put that in a promotional for the NFL fine upstanding position in society.
Alphare
October 14th, 2009
8:46 pm
Limbaugh listeners are the most insecure kind of people I’d think. They need Limbaugh to re-assure them day after day what they already know.
Seriously, who would listen to his junk? I don’t care about his politics, but he basically repeats the same thing over and over again. I know exactly what he will say about a topic before he even opens his mouth.
JJB
October 14th, 2009
8:46 pm
I have no problem dissing Rush and not allowing for him to be an owner. So why don’t we also ban the celebrities who are buying into the Dophins. Oh that is okay… Do we even know who all the minority owners are? Shouldn;t they be vetted as well?
shellybean
October 14th, 2009
8:47 pm
Idiot – a feebleminded person having mental age not exceeding three years and requiring complete custodial care; a foolish or stupid person.
The only idiots here are Jeff Schultz and those who can do nothing more than spew forth their hateful negativities on someone just because you disagree with them.
JJB
October 14th, 2009
8:47 pm
Minority owners as in owners with a small percentage of ownership and not a controlling interest.
bigguy
October 14th, 2009
8:47 pm
I want your examples to continue. I want to use them as a manifesto for my children.
Newnan Jacket
October 14th, 2009
8:48 pm
2 things: it has always been and will always be a wonder to me that if you don’t agree with him, he is a racist; if you do agree with him, he is not a racist. And second: whatever you think he is, dumb or stupid isn’t it. This is publicity, pure and simple. Pat yourself on the back, Jeff, because the more you write about this, the more his ratings go up. Ain’t irony grand?
Hank
October 14th, 2009
8:48 pm
Mega dittos to you Mr. Schultz. Rush has been making divisive statements for years. I can’t believe the guy couldn’t see this coming. The man is out of touch with reality.
bamabelle
October 14th, 2009
8:49 pm
LOVE IT AMEN WELL SAID!
Paul
October 14th, 2009
8:50 pm
Schultz – no matter how hard you try, you always seem to miss the boat with your columns. You railed on the Georgia team, but failed to commend a great VOLS effort and team on the rise. You bash Limbaugh, but fail to at least entertain the notion that perhaps his worldwide appeal might be a good thing for the NFL. The liberal extremeist inside you just wouldn’t let you cover the story. Just one of many reasons the AJC is dying a slow, tortuous death.
mike
October 14th, 2009
8:50 pm
F rush and his twisted view of america.. tell rush to go eat some more oxycontin’s and stay out of the NFL and just stick to feeding hate on the airwaves.
Jennifer Wilbanks
October 14th, 2009
8:52 pm
NFL ownership is an exclusive club. I’m pretty sure that Rush would champion the current owners’ right to maintain that exclusivity. Let the chips fall. What business is it of Jeff Shultz’s or Jennifer Wilbanks’ and why, in particular are you so threatened by the possibility of Rush being a part-owner of the Rams? If he is realy half of the idiot that you pretend to believe that he is, then the whole scenario is skewed to your advantage and he will embarrass himself before his involvement ever gets close to turning the Rams around. I think that you are REALLY scared of the distinct possibility that the Rams WILL be turned around and that Mr. Limbaugh will garner his fair share of the accolades. Why is it so hard for you to let another human being pursue his happiness? I’m frankly embarrassed for you. I always enjoyed reading you, but this whole cause makes you seem very narrow-minded and small.
Brian Jones Tech fan
October 14th, 2009
8:52 pm
Wow is all i can say hearing all these persepctives about rush owning a team. if i have to hear the race card used agian I am gunna go nuts if you dont know the definition of racism dont use the word.
I will make one comment if an idiot can make the money rush has i will be the first to say i want to be an idiot.
Reid
October 14th, 2009
8:52 pm
Do you think Rush has/had a genuine interest in sports, or team ownership, given his history of comments about various sports and athletes? No, it was just a place to park his money, and in the end, it’s all just fodder for Rush’s show.
Which, somehow, over 295 million Americans fail to listen to every single day.
CM
October 14th, 2009
8:53 pm
I think Rush did this on purpose…He was feeling pitty for Al and Jesse, they havent had anything to do for awhile…
phil
October 14th, 2009
8:54 pm
After carefully reading your post several times, unless you write the headlines, you didn’t actually call Limbaugh an idiot, although there is an inference in using the title of Franken’s book. The headline really diminishes your post which is fairly informative. NFL teams are franchises. The franchisee can determine who owns the franchises. The Brand should be protected and a potential owner who makes his living in a high profile manner can be potentially detrimental to the Brand. It’s that simple. Timing is everything. Would Limbaugh’s participation in an investment group have seemed as objectionable when Reagan was President? Would Al Davis be a franchisee if we knew then what we know now? The Smith’s opened up the South to the NFL, but were they the best choice for the Brand? I hope both you and Mr. Goodell have the same tenacity for proteting the Brand in evaluating every potential NFL owner. We Fans are in your debt. Moreover, Mr. Shultz, I hope each of your posts carry the same integrity you seek to uphold here. Now that you have cast a stone, I hope your house is not made of glass.
Alphare
October 14th, 2009
8:57 pm
7% of the country listen to Limbaugh repeating the same old thing day after day. Surprise? No, that’s the exact percentage of people who don’t have a life.
Chuckles™
October 14th, 2009
8:57 pm
I respect your right to have an opinion, whatever it is. I also respect your talent as a writer. But let’s cut out some of the personal bias from this and look at the bottom line here: if ownership in the NFL required that an owner, no matter what the share, have a squeaky clean record, then you’d have three owners.
This isn’t about ’someone who has proven to be divisive’. This is about folks in the media using this controversy to sell papers, or fill a news cycle. There have been writers for this and other papers (who’s names I will omit, but you will instantly know who I mean) who relish the opportunity to have a subject like this to bait readers to freak out and respond. Y’all are like stock brokers – you don’t care if the market goes up or down, you make your money from the transactions, not the profit or loss on the stocks.
It’s reporting like this that makes your paper lose readership. Think not? Which writers have left ‘for greener pastures’ at the AJC? Where’s Cynthia Tucker, et al? I recent read that the AJC no longer will support or advocate candidates: a move to the right perhaps?
When you sound as self-rightous, pompous and shrill as the people you deride, who’s worse? The originator of the squabble, or the reporter? You should know better.
Ultimately, I’m glad Mr. Limbaugh lost his bid to be an owner in the NFL. It’s not a good investment as a minority owner: you have no say-so over the end product, you get ‘calls’ to add more $$$ to the kitty if you need to keep the team running (ask the Atlanta Spirit group), and you always get cut out of the big profit when the team gets resold due to multiple shares and multiple expenses involved with the financing of transactions like these. Hopefully, he keeps his cash invested overseas, in Euros, and looks at ownership in more media – perhaps NBCUniversal deal with Ayres/Murdock?
Be careful what you wish for Jeff: if the Cox family continues to bleed red ink, he could be part of the ownership group that employs you.
Paddy
October 14th, 2009
8:58 pm
I believe I will sit on the sidelines on this one. I trust the Commish. Don’t always agree with him but he is a good one.
War Eagle
October 14th, 2009
8:59 pm
I am not a Rush Limbaugh fan, but Keith Olbermann, MSNBC commentator, comments about conservatives are worst than Limbaugh remarks concerning Liberals.
This all falls under the ghost of Bidwell`s, Georgiana, and all Liberal owners who made a fortune in the NFL.
DA
October 14th, 2009
8:59 pm
Jeff, there is a reason that the your employer has plummeted in readership. People get tired of all the liberal crap. If I choose to read you column, I want you to tell me something I dont know about sports, not give your political views. I dont give a d**n, and neither does anybody else. When a king calls in his court jester, he justs wants to be entertained, not hear the fool’s opinions about life. Hope tomorrow’s column is better, before you lose the other five readers you have.
Tommy
October 14th, 2009
8:59 pm
Funny that Schultz responds to Rush’s alledged intolerance and hate speech with. . . intorlerance and hate speech.
So it’s OK for Keith Olbermann to be on Football Night in America, but not OK for his exact oppisite, Limbaugh, to be a minority owner. . . welcome to 21st Century America.
Jeff, since you won’t do it, I did some digging about Limbaugh’s show: his production manager is black. His primary guest host [Walter Williams] is also black. Also, if he is truly a racist, why the heck would he invest tens of millions of dollars in a business that is so dependent on the performance of black athletes? I guess doing 2 minutes of research and 10 seconds of critical thinking was too much work–much easier to just lift unsubstantiated quotes from left-wing blogs instead.
At least now we all know you’re equally bad at sports columns and news editorials.
mylastnerve
October 14th, 2009
9:00 pm
Rush Limbaugh is an entertainer that gives Conservatives a bad name. The Republican Party should distance themselves from him. The Colts owner was brave to declare he would vote against this group’s ownership. It has nothing to do with Democrats or left-wingers. Grow up.
HootieSmitch
October 14th, 2009
9:00 pm
First how do you know that his listners are “fat” racists?Can people not be physically fit racists?Secondly,I think he was dead on the money 100% about McNabb.The media and league has clamoured for a marquee black QB. James Harris of the Rams, Doug Williams, Randall Cunningham, McNabb, Michael Vick,and the latest they trotted out there was Vince Young. All had success but McNabb has has a long career and came along long after the likes of Harris,Williams etc. The league tried hard to pump up Vick,but he really was not too marketable, then of course we know how that turned out.McNabb has endured.Personally I don’t think he is all that great either.I mean on one hand the media was reluctant to say Peyton Manning was great because he hadn’t won “the big game”. I would ask just how many “big games”McNabb has one?I think the league was hoping he would be a new Super Bowl winner that they could market to a group of people much like they now market toward the Hispanics,Europeans,and dven the gay community.
big dog
October 14th, 2009
9:01 pm
Jeff, you and lots of others at the AJC are the reason their business is in the tank and will never survive, another 5 years and the print edition will be the size of a greeting card.
Paul
October 14th, 2009
9:01 pm
Jeff – I hope you read Phil’s post very carefully and check into every NFL team suitor in the months and years to come. Make that months, because with your liberal slant and the extreme leftist writings of the AJC, the publication won’t be around much longer…
Sure you’ve got the liberal readers – many who’ve left their drivel on this blog – but thankfully they’re in the minority in the U.S. or we would all be &^%$#@.
SlamBam
October 14th, 2009
9:03 pm
An idiot? Yeah, dancing all the way to the bank.
And the league of dog killers, drunk drivers, wife beaters, expressing moral indignation is a joke.
Halsey
October 14th, 2009
9:03 pm
Rush is not an idiot. He gets paid $35 mill a year to pander to right wingers and piss off everyone else.
eltrompoDAWGSfan
October 14th, 2009
9:05 pm
Hey JS, I wondered why you kept on your life affair of trashing Rush, and now I understand. Because you get the most attention when you do, since there are so many of us that support Rush. I won’t lie, I’m a huge fan, and your articles only confirm what I’ve always known: sportswriters are as liberal as news writers. The double standard that exists is breathtaking. Players beat their wives, kill citizens while drunk with their cars, kill and torture dogs, and etc. and yet they are protected and adored by fellow owners and players. Unbelievable.
Vic
October 14th, 2009
9:07 pm
Rush was collecting AND CONTRIBUTING millions for charity. You you douche bag? What have you ever done? You are so uniformed your diatribe can’t be called FACTS.
DHD
October 14th, 2009
9:07 pm
“Makes statements like, “The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback to do well,” which he claimed was why the media was going “soft” on Donovan McNabb (which must have seemed really funny to McNabb).”
When you actually watch the video of this clip which was on ESPN, Michael Irvin said “RUSH IS RIGHT.” But you clowns will never report that. you are part of the media problem that Rush is talking about. You and your “run a Vick article EVERY day” to support what Vick did while calling Rush an idiot. Learn some journalism, would you?
CM
October 14th, 2009
9:08 pm
Well said SlamBam….Those who believe that there is some morality to be protected in the NFL is sadly mistaken….
StLou Dawg
October 14th, 2009
9:08 pm
Nice article Jeff. Now I will not ever read another article of yours. Maybe I will take the AJC off of my usual web searches. Dope.
Amnesiac
October 14th, 2009
9:08 pm
Larry, my what vivid fantasies about Jeff you have.
And since when did Thomas Sowell transform himself from a two-bit rightwing thinktank hack into a journalist?
Jeff’s throwaway lines are funnier than anything I’ve ever heard out of Limbaugh’s spewhole. I still get a tear in my eye when I steal the one about the Bama-Ole Miss winner getting indoor plumbing.
I am DONE with the AJC
October 14th, 2009
9:11 pm
You are going to go the way of the other print media…6 feet under. Rush has the NUMBER ONE radio show for a reason. The majority agree with him. After 50 years of reading the AJC…this is it for me. BYE.
Sunshine
October 14th, 2009
9:11 pm
Jeff, you are such a puss. You are still getting paid for this ((Shaking head)). Just because Limbaugh wanted to buy a team, doesnt mean we have to secretly read you politics. Stick to sports reporting, which you do very marginaly.
CM
October 14th, 2009
9:12 pm
Hey Vic….I think you meant UNINFORMED not UNIFORMED….i respect rush for collecting and CONTRIBUTING millions to charity….most of all the American Cancer Society …Vic probably never gave a cent of his dog fighting proceeds to charity.
Mike
October 14th, 2009
9:12 pm
So Schultz says the NFL has a product to protect and will not want the likes of Rush. But they do want the likes of Michael Vick, Ray whatsisface from the Ravens, Terrell Owens, and all the other thugs, showoffs, look at me, worship me types that plague football now.
Chris FitzGerald
October 14th, 2009
9:12 pm
Good write Jeff. Most of the dittoheads are Civil War deniers. The United States won and slavery is gone forever – get over it!
JSS
October 14th, 2009
9:13 pm
By the way, have AJC IT scan the Blogs, you have may have a Bot flammer in your midst…
Brad
October 14th, 2009
9:13 pm
I guess now we know why he’s successful while you and the rest of the mainstream media are failing. How about providing some context for his statements? I suppose you wouldn’t know the context since you’re just parrotting what others have told you. “Barack, the Magic Negro” is based on an article in the LA Times, if anything in the song is offensive, they’re the ones you should slam. His statement that the media is going soft on McNabb is him accusing the media of being racist, not treating McNabb the same as other quarterbacks. Obama’s America, the white kids… was in reference to a news story where exactly that happened. I didn’t hear the episodes where the other statements were made, so, unlike you, I won’t comment on them. You should go on, but in the future, please provide context and HIS explanation of what he meant. Good luck in the future and sorry to hear about all your co-employees who keep losing their jobs, maybe Rush will hire some of them.
Dawg Fan 74
October 14th, 2009
9:14 pm
More people listen to Rush every day than will every read this silly blog or newspaper in a year.
While the number of people listening to Rush continues to grow your newspaper circulation continues to decline.
Tommy
October 14th, 2009
9:14 pm
After thinking it over, I’ve figured out the source of Schultz’ hate:
Right-wing blowhards make enough to buy NFL teams.
Left-wing blowhards can’t even afford a decent set of glasses.
B. Thenet
October 14th, 2009
9:15 pm
If Rush Limbaugh wants to know why he lost his shot at being an NFL owner, all he has to do is look in the mirror.
I do find it quite hilarious that the great leader of the grassroots US conservative movement just keeps looking for others to blame for his failure to become an NFL owner instead of being a man and admitting that his own words and actions have undermined him.
As a conservative, he certainly should understand that the NFL is a private institution, they can choose who they wish to have as owners. They do not want him. Act like a man about it, instead of whining like a liberal.
Chris FitzGerald
October 14th, 2009
9:16 pm
Wow there’s still a lot of hate in Dixie. Republican registration is 23% and falling – ever wonder why?
MAC
October 14th, 2009
9:16 pm
So by your standard, Schultz, why is Keith Olbermann allowed to be on the Sunday night football pregame show? The NFL has a say in that by contract.
Michael
October 14th, 2009
9:16 pm
Blogs are made for your personal beliefs, but there are “idiots” far worse than Rush to this sport. What about Plaxico who shoots himself in the leg? What about R. Williams who failed to comply with the league’s anti-doping policy years ago? What about Cable who assaulted a fellow staff member? Former NFL player Pacman Jones, Edwards, Ray Lewis, and the list goes on and on. Before you criticize commentary of a man who potentially could buy in (and in turn save a franchise) look to the players/coaches who are the face of the NFL and who have disgraced it far beyond any measures than a radio host. Taking a man’s life, taking part in illegal activities, and disgracing the game through embarrassing action far outweigh a single man’s political beliefs. Before you call Rush an idiot, realize what he does for a living is the exact same thing that you yourself do to put food on your family’s table. You will probably disregard this and not respond but think twice before you make such comments. You and Rush have more in common than you think, so should we be calling you an ‘idiot’ as well?
Chuckles™
October 14th, 2009
9:17 pm
Mylastnerve – the Colts owner is the son of the man who moved the Colts from Baltimore to Indy, and was a legendary drunkard, unfortunately. There are many tales (google Bob Irsay alcoholic) about him interviewing coaches at 10:30 am at the airport over shots of warm vodka. He was described by his son (the very same owner of the Colts) as being “…an angry, old, mean alcoholic” in an interview with Rolling Stone.
If you object to Rush on the grounds of him being an abuser of prescription meds, and think the Irsay family was making a brave statement about how abusers have no place in the NFL, well, chew on this.
I personally hope Rush gets some cash together, goes to the 21 club in NY and meets with Roger Ayles/Murdock group that’s looking to buy GE’s stake in NBCUniversal, and gets his foot in the door quietly. That would be a hoot!
MAC
October 14th, 2009
9:17 pm
And since Al Franken was allowed to run for the Senate, we can assume that NFL owners are held to a higher standard than U.S. Senators.
dv
October 14th, 2009
9:17 pm
so Rush is an ‘idiot’ because you disagree with his view? did I get that right? Not sure what this says about you because the man could run circles around you in a battle of wits. Rush may be a lot of things but idiot is not one of them.
Rush is right, you and your ilk are a bunch of bed-wetting liberals who bitch about FOX despite the fact that libs dominate 95% of large media outlets. I guess you pc’ers won’t be happy until you have 100% control. Oh, the hipocricy of the ‘tolerant’ left.
MAC
October 14th, 2009
9:19 pm
And who wouldn’t label Al Davis an idiot?????
It's a Ruger, thank you
October 14th, 2009
9:19 pm
Just an F&%$ing idiot Schultz. Who’s the one out there spouting all that vile, poisonous crap now? It’s you, you f-ing skinny, bearded fruitcake. One can write a column without being a pompas a$$; but apparently, you are not one.
erik
October 14th, 2009
9:20 pm
Dude you just did the samething Rush does on a daily basis, only he makes sense.
The NFL is a joke! A bunch of over paid cry babies always wanting more. Greed is not good. It is a sin
stw
October 14th, 2009
9:20 pm
You should stick to sports,which you know very little about, and stay out of the political arena. One on one, Limbaugh would spit you out in little pieces. Surprised you couldn’t find a spot to knock UGA….
Charles
October 14th, 2009
9:22 pm
“Not only is he a fat racist idiot”
It’s ironic, and an accomplishment, that in the same sentence you managed to refer to someone as a racist while being bigoted.
WestPoint75
October 14th, 2009
9:22 pm
Matt, words mean something. By any definition the ramblings of Rush Limbaugh are the words of a bigoted racist. No way around that. Maybe those that are incapable of understanding what his words indicate share those views but don’t want to consider the fact that they just may be racists and bigots themselves.
Great column Jeff. The fact of this matter is that the NFL didn’t want a POS like Rush Limbaugh anywhere near their product. It has nothing to do with conservatives, liberals, whatever. It’s about the NFL not wanting trash like Rush Limbaugh in its fraternity. The integrity of the NFL in this matter is commendable. Finally someone put that bombastic gas bag in his place.
Chris FitzGerald
October 14th, 2009
9:22 pm
Rush makes sense? Pretty good evidence why Southern states score in the bottom third of academic achievement. You can’t fix dumb.
Frank Beamer
October 14th, 2009
9:23 pm
Limbaugh doesn’t get it: Idiots damage NFL product. Yet Micheal ConVick gang bang shirts sell lot hot cakes. NFL National Felon League.
OedipusTax
October 14th, 2009
9:24 pm
Limbaugh can take name calling from mediocrities like Jeff Schultz in stride. Typical rhetoric from the drive by media, that doesn’t have a clue, can’t work a real job, and is jealous of Rush’s successes. Just think of it. Schultz has to work for the AJC, which is continually getting more irrelevant and is losing readers. All the while, Rush has the money to buy an NFL team. Schultz might have just awakened to how much he has wasted his life. Time for Jeff to have a double scotch tonight to deal with the pain.
Chris FitzGerald
October 14th, 2009
9:24 pm
WestPoint75: You nailed it.
Beautiful Monte
October 14th, 2009
9:24 pm
Schultz, you did get one thing right: you ARE part of the “liberal, bed-wetting, panty-waste, fruitcake media with the left-wing agenda.”
Other than that, your comments are the same kind of DNC talking points one would expect to hear from Bill Maher, Whoopi Goldberg, or Perez Hilton.
Of course, as a PC, guilt-ridden white male who no doubt spends every waking moment associating with other PC, guilt-ridden white males, you can’t seem to fathom that there are people in the world who don’t share your left-wing opinions. (We’re called taxpayers, BTW.)
Along those same lines, why is it so hard for you to comprehend that not everyone who supports Limbaugh is a “dittohead”? Some of us simply think that’s he gotten a REALLY raw deal from the “objective” media, which continues to accuse Limbaugh of saying things that he never said.
I think what really bugs you guys in the sports media is the fact that Limbaugh hit the nail on the head with his comment about the kid gloves treatment McNabb received early in his career.
(Kid gloves, of course, is a relative term, but McNabb hasn’t received half as much criticism from the NATIONAL media as P. Manning did prior to winning a Super Bowl.)
Reporters can dish it out, but they can’t take it, and they harbor a grudge like nobody’s business.
In the meantime, since you’re so concerned about the “image” of professional sports, can we look forward to future blogs that call for the expulsion of the various and sundry thugs who populate NFL rosters?
Bless you
October 14th, 2009
9:24 pm
Jeff- What a double standard this country has become. USA is for everyone to be able to own a business and have equal rights. If you ‘re a liberal Ok but to hell with the others.
Keith Olberman on Monday night meltdown Football is a damn joke. keith is a first class Idiot. I don’t watch it when he’s on and now you and your AJC buddies have join the same class….Idiot.
Thanks Matt, Tommy and War Eagle, agree well said.
michael vandeven
October 14th, 2009
9:24 pm
the views expressed in this article are predictable, uninteresting, bland, and recycled. people have been leveling the same easy accusations against rush for over 20 years. boooooring. may your antiquated newspaper go the way of a rotting tree trunk sooner rather than later.
Frank Beamer
October 14th, 2009
9:25 pm
Chris FitzGerald, the reason the southern states score low is because of all the northerners that have move here.
Sam
October 14th, 2009
9:25 pm
Rush is out as a possible owner of the Rams. Cheers to the ones in the league who stood up and spoke out against this bigot. Rush has a right to speak his mind to those racist who want to follow him; however, the players and the owners also have a right to reject him and the non-sense that he represents.
Chris FitzGerald
October 14th, 2009
9:26 pm
Beautiful Montebank: Who would be jealous of a fat drug addict?
WestPoint75
October 14th, 2009
9:26 pm
Elmo Rush’s words are crystal clear. There is absolutely nothing to take out of context. Unfortunately for Rush, this time they came back to haunt him. His words damn sure meant something to the NFL.
Barack Obama
October 14th, 2009
9:26 pm
Rush speaks the truth. You can’t handle the truth.
One tired American!
October 14th, 2009
9:27 pm
I wish all of you media people would simply get a life and shut up. One’s political views have absolutely nothing to do with whether they can invest in a business opportunity. Of course, its what Americans used to call and respect as free enterprise or what the politically incorrect call capitalism.
Wonder if Obama can invest in a football team (hey, perhaps the Chicago Bears) and use the profits to bail out his government stimulus and health care. What a concept!
gcard86
October 14th, 2009
9:27 pm
I think this is one of the most biased, uneducated article I have ever read! Rush has many listeners because he has a commoditity that is badly lacking in this country, a person speaking the truth, rather than the political correct liberal nonsense people like you try to shove down Americans throats on a daily basis. And thats why everybody knows Rush, and I have never heard of you!
loser
October 14th, 2009
9:28 pm
Wow Chris good point. Let look at the southern states and the income levels in some of them. Income level and School = academic achievement. Product of environment, ever heard of it
Frank Beamer
October 14th, 2009
9:28 pm
Chris FitzGerald,You are right southerns are dumb and the republican’s are down to 23%. Hmm those numbers seem to fit.
MK
October 14th, 2009
9:29 pm
You’r an idiot…
MAC
October 14th, 2009
9:30 pm
Idiots may indeed damage the NFL product but conveniently there is no such standard for idiots at the AJC.
loser
October 14th, 2009
9:31 pm
jerry jones is on drugs! Where was the truck load of coke going when his linemen was busted.
white water
October 14th, 2009
9:32 pm
Stick to sports Jeff. It this liberal bulls&$t that has resulted in the total demise of the AJC. The AJC is struggling financially because in a southern city of 4+ million it can’t scrounge up enough readers to run profitability. Enjoy your soapbox for a few more months Jeff, because the next wave of layoffs can’t be far behind.
Maybe you can catch on with the Huffington Post or the Daily Kos
Scott
October 14th, 2009
9:33 pm
Jeff Shultz is very jealous of RL. I mean how much longer does the ajc have left?
Sam
October 14th, 2009
9:34 pm
Just because Rush says it “does not mean it is the truth”. Rush is a bigot who has a following of like minded individuals who are insecure in their very being. Rush like most bigots add no value to American life.
Chuckie D
October 14th, 2009
9:34 pm
Hey Jeffie:
“It’s about cultivating an image and protecting the league shield.”
I suppose you’re referring to the PacMan Jones’, Michael Vicks, and other hooligans of late that have had their “playing rights” restored by one Mr. Roger Goodell?
Oh yeah, I forgot, a person’s opinions hurt much worse than DUI, wife and/or girlfriend beat downs, huh?
Also, Jeffie, perhaps you should “Fact Check” before you put your fingers to the keyboard:
a) Rush did not sing Barack the Magic Negro. He replayed the skit from another source. Rush did not prepare this little ditty. It seems that you are “killing the messenger”!
Jeff, I suppose you and the AJC management wonder why circualtion/ad revenue is down?
God Bless Furman Bisher—
There will never be another one like him, if you lived two lifetimes, you’ll never come close as it appears you seem to like facts get in the way—