Daren and Terry miss the economic reasons for opposing Rush’s purchase of the Rams.
The Rams are awful – and as a Lions fan, I know awful. They make every team they play look good on both sides of the ball and mean another win for the opposing coach. Many players on other teams can point to somebody on the Rams who has a bigger contract and so have an argument for more pay in their next round of negotiations. A group with Limbaugh among the owners could actually make the team competitive at a low cost. (Compare this to Dan Snyder’s spendthrift cellar dwellers, the Redskins.)
Daren did note the Irsay opposition, which points to why owners would oppose the deal. Right now, they can threaten to move when a city does not build a new stadium. If Limbaugh buys an awful team, rebuilds and keeps it in place, other owners lose a lot of their bargaining power.
The “racism” charge is not about Limbaugh’s politics, but about the way he might challenge the cartel.
