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As if politics has not infiltrated enough institutions, now we have this.

The media reported that hate radio host Rush Limbaugh is involved in a bid to purchase the National Football League’s St. Louis Rams franchise. Many sports media figures lambasted the idea of Limbaugh owning an NFL team, with one writer saying it “would definitely hurt” the Rams while another said his “head exploded after hearing this Limbaugh news” because he is “a pungent bowl of stark raving bigoted lunacy.”

Now, the players themselves are piling on. Specifically, many African-American players have explicitly stated that they would never play for a team that Rush Limbaugh owns. “All I know is from the last comment I heard, he said in (President) Obama’s America, white kids are getting beat up on the bus while black kids are chanting ‘right on,’” New York Giants defensive end Mathias Kiwanuka told the New York Daily News, adding, “I don’t want anything to do with a team that he has any part of.”

New York Jets linebacker Bart Scott said…

I can only imagine how his players would feel. I know I wouldn’t want to play for him. He’s a jerk. He’s an —.  He could offer me whatever he wanted, I wouldn’t play for him. … I wouldn’t play for Rush Limbaugh. My principles are greater and I can’t be bought.”

Nice.  Here’s a sampling of Limbaugh’s hate talk.

“Look, let me put it to you this way: The NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it.”

“We need segregated buses. … This is Obama’s America.”

“President Obama is black. And I think he’s got a chip on his shoulder.”

Democrats are interested in Darfur to secure black “voting bloc.”

“Minorities never do anything for which they have to apologize.”

Obama’s nomination for president “goes back to the fact that nobody had the guts to stand up and say no to a black guy.”

Obama is a “halfrican-American.”

And let’s not forget about Limbaugh’s joy in playing Barack The Magic Negro repeatedly on his show.

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