Rush Limbaugh: Future ‘Fins owner?
Tags: Alex Spanos, Bud Adams, Chris Mara, dolphins, New England Patriots, New York Giants, Palm Beacher, Robert Kraft, rush limbaugh, San Diego Chargers, St. Louis Rams, Stephen Ross, Stuart, Tennessee Titans, Wayne Huizenga
| Wednesday 22 October 2008 9:48 am
Football commentary? Prowling the sidelines?
Not fun enough!
There’s nothing like owning an NFL team.
Right, Rush Limbaugh?
The conservative radio talker, who’s raking in $38 million a year, tells Page2Live he finds NFL ownership “intriguing.”
The St. Louis Rams, in his home-state of Missouri? Maybe!
“Of course, I am interested in the Rams, but nothing is happening on that front right now,” Limbaugh told me in a recent e-mail. “I have, in the recent past, explored it with various St Louis interests, but nothing is concrete.
“I have several good friends among NFL ownership, and ownership is very intriguing to me.”
Among his good friends, Limbaugh listed: Robert Kraft (New England Patriots and fellow Palm Beacher), Chris Mara (New York Giants), Wayne Huizenga (Miami Dolphins and Stuart resident), Alex Spanos (San Diego Chargers) and Bud Adams (Tennessee Titans).
What Limbaugh may want to get intrigued with these days is the Miami Dolphins.
The buzz on Wall Street lately has been about how Stephen Ross, the Fins’ new half-owner, may be staring at a not-so-rosy stretch for several of his main businesses.
And the buzz in the hallways of Dolphin Stadium at the Ravens game Sunday was that it could spell trouble.
Ross needs more than a half billion within the next two years to buy 45 percent of Huizenga’s share, leaving the former garbage service owner with 5 percent.
Ross, who recently moved into a $32 million-home in Palm Beach, is being squeezed on several fronts.
A financial firm in which his construction outfit, the Related Cos., is a majority investor may soon default on loans, according to the Wall Street Journal.
And a Related Cos. $3 billion-project in Los Angeles has been plagued by delays, while a $1 billion-construction in Phoenix was pushed back by nearly two years.
“This will not affect the day-to-day operation of the Dolphins,” said a source. “But it could affect the final sale.”
I’ve been a Dolphins fan my whole life. If this happened I would no longer stand behind my Fins.
This man is a divisive, ego-centric, maniac who’s ideal was to see riots at the Democratic National Convention. Who says almost anything because he can. And who has the impressionable ears of millions of people and takes complete advantage of it.
I could not, and would not support him or the team if he was the owner. Plain and simple.
I hope the owners and the league would recognize that this is a bad decision for everyone.
Movie rental/garbage owner to Talk radio host. No one will ever come close to Joe Robbie!!!!!
I think this would be a great move for the Fins. I’m a lifelong Fins fan and Rush fan. He is a motivator and an inspiration to many. Anyone who calls him “divisive” obviously doesnt listen to him. He was not looking for riots at the DNC, the radical group “Recreate ‘68″ was calling for riots. Get your facts straight, GO FINS!!!
Limbaugh is drug addled windbag and fool. Anyone who listens to his disinformation needs a reality check.
Own the Fins? Why not? Baseball is a fools game. They’ll bleed him dry.
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Seriously…if this douchebag owns a team, I will stop watching the NFL. He is an absolutely worthless human being.
Rush Limbaugh is an insult to the human race. He’s a drug-addicted hypocrite and a racist.
All these Rush bashers are jealous because nobody has as many listeners or the same ratings as Limbaugh,not even Howard Ostrosky!!!
Owner? Hell,why not Commissioner!
Bleep this bleeping bleep scammer Limbaugh. He and his bleeping fascist puppeteers in DC and the RNC have put us in today’s financial, moral, political, legal, and military toilet. These murderous greedy bleeping crooks have had 8 long years to plunder the financial markets and the US Treasury while this bleeping creep Limbaugh pounded smoke up his listeners’ gullible bleeps. Why do US workers defend this smug bleeping toady who’s fronting for US oligarchs?
I don’t follow pro football but my new favorite team is whichever one Rush buys. I am a loyal Rush fan from the early 90’s.
I am a Lifelong Dolfan and sat in the nearly empty Orange Bowl to watch them when they were a new expansion team. Rush is an avid football fan and would be a great team owner. He may even help a struggling team.Go Rush Go Fins.
Please
BETH-
YOU ARE A COMPLETELY WRONG MORON!
I hope he does buy a team. Can’t wait to see all of the empty seats. Maybe he and “W” and the Dickster can all chip in!!
If Rush “Blacks can’t play quarterback” Limbaugh owned a team, no self-respecting minority player would play for him. That probably wouldn’t matter to el-Rushbo but it might have an effect on the quality of his team. He would have, by choice and necessity, an all-white team. Let’s see how that works out. I’m sure you Rush fans think that that is how all football teams should be but you’d be hard pressed to find a coach that would agree.
“Own the Fins? Why not? Baseball is a fools game. They’ll bleed him dry.”
Wow, at least a conservative would have known that the Dolphins play football…
The league idiot position is currently being filled by Al Davis.
Your Kididng Right,The Milli-vanilli Of Conservative
Values,Your dreaming,one- Rush does not have that Kind
of Money.Ask his Three X wife’s….Two-You need to
be worth somewhere around 500 Hundred Million dllrs,
This dit wit,is short On Integrity,and Long On BS….
Great news. Why doesn’t he start a new team in LA, where they need one. He could call it “The LA Pigs” or the “LA Hippo’s” (for hypocrite). Maybe the “LA Whities” or the “LA Junkies” would be more appropriate. The “LA Rectums” might work. Anybody out there have any ideas? Let’s please help this noble, honest, and decent man out.
Great news. Why doesn’t he start a new team in LA, where they need one. He could call it “The LA Pigs” or the “LA Hippo’s” (for hypocrite). Maybe the “LA Whities” or the “LA Junkies” would be more appropriate. The “LA Rectums” might work. Anybody out there have any ideas? Let’s please help this noble, honest, and decent man out. P.S. How about the “LA Stormtroopers,” complete with knee-high black leather boots, red and white “RL” armbands, and black, curved back helmets featuring a swastika emblem?
If Rush buys in, the NFL will have a permanent supply of “HOT AIR” to inflate their footballs with. Rush is the biggest “GAS BAG” in the world. He is bigger than all of Goodyear’s blimps put together !!!!!
I wonder if owners are subject to NFL drug policies?
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It would never work. After he serves his mandatory four game suspension for substance abuse, he would have to field a team.
Does anyone really believe an all white team could compete in this league.
He must have been on drugs when he made these statements
I will send a $100.00 dollar bill to the first person who can actually find me a verifiable quote of Limbaugh saying that he thinks blacks can’t play quarterback.
I know my money is safe because he never said anything, or anything remotely like that.
What he DID say was the McNabb was overrated, and that he was getting all the credit for the Eagles’ success (at the time), when they were as good as they were (at the time) on the strength of their defense.
He then said that the only reason that he could think of for the media jumping on the bandwaggon for the guy was because he was black, and that it made a better story for the reporters to prop up a black quarterback as being so great than it did for them to call him average or even pretty good.
Check out the tapes. I am sure you can find it on YouTube or somewhere else.
But hey, why let the facts get in the way of all of the fun you are having bashing a guy for no good reason.