Limbaugh to Resegregate NFL?

Filed in National by on October 10, 2009

It’s possible, but not  how you’d expect. From an excellent article in the NY Daily News:

Mathias Kiwanuka loves his former defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo, but the Giants‘ defensive end says he will never play for Spagnuolo’s Rams if Rush Limbaugh purchases the team (Limbaugh is part of an ownership group seeking to purchase the St. Louis Rams).

“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,'” Kiwanuka told The Daily News. “I mean, I don’t want anything to do with a team that he has any part of. He can do whatever he wants, it is a free country. But if it goes through, I can tell you where I am not going to play.”

“I am not going to draw a conclusion from a person off of one comment, but when it is time after time after time and there’s a consistent pattern of disrespect and just a complete misunderstanding of an entire culture that I am a part of, I can’t respect him as a man.”

And lest you think that Limbaugh has not made racial references towards the NFL and NFL players, you may recall that he was tossed from his (inexplicable) 2003 Monday Night Football gig for suggesting that the NFL was propping up Donovan McNabb. Oh, and here’s another Limbaugh football reference for you:

Limbaugh, who grew up in Missouri about 100 miles south of St. Louis, is an avid sports fan who once said that “the NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons.”

It gets tougher and tougher for an Iggles’ fan to hate the Giants when they’ve got people like Mathias Kiwanuka speaking their minds.

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  1. anonone says:

    And how would you feel being a black Miss America contestant with Limbaugh as one of the judges?

  2. Roy Munson says:

    i still hate the Giants, but not as much as the Cowgirls…

  3. About the same way that a Christian would feel with Perez Hilton as a judge.

  4. RICO says:

    resegregate?

    when was the NFL segregated?

  5. If he wants to win and I am sure he does, don’t worry.

    He will look for talent above all.

    Mike Protack

  6. Puzzler says:

    “If he wants to win and I am sure he does, don’t worry.

    He will look for talent above all.”

    Cotton plantation owners were looking for ‘talent,’ Mike. But Lincoln objected to their racism. Member?

  7. Truth Teller says:

    Check out this sight a Bully gets Bullied.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNK4byQkn7w

    When challenged he folds like a cheap beach chair

  8. nemski says:

    UI don’t you love doing basic research for wingnuts?

  9. nemski,

    You teh Google has a liberal bias. I’m just waiting for the folks at Conservapedia – you know the ones rewriting wikipedia and now the Bible – to come up with ConservaGoogle.

  10. John Manifold says:

    It’s been years since I followed pro football, but some historical notes:

    1. Vince Lombardi was a liberal Democrat, motivated both by New Deal issues and his commitment to racial equality. See Marannis bio.

    2. The creation of the AFL in 1960 helped open pro football to black players. Competition for players led scouts to black colleges. Eagles won NFL in 1960 with three blacks [all RB’s]. KC Chiefs had 10 players from black colleges alone when they beat the Vikings [loaded with Big Ten players] for the 1969-70 title.

    3. Division between “skill-position” players [backs and ends] and rest of rank-n-file is huge. Elway and enough other famous players scabbed to help owners break ’87 strike. Linemen and reserves know they’re just meat on slab, fungible commodities. Both sets of dynamics have undermined the football players’ union.

  11. Xusumo says:

    Rico didn’t know the NFL was segregated???????And you post comments?

  12. Xusumo says:

    It is refreshing to see people stand up and say they will not work for Rush Limbaugh for any amount of money. This comes in an age where we accuse pro sports players of being greedy and having no values.

  13. nemski says:

    Xusumo, Rico probably never heard of the Negro Baseball League either.

  14. Jason330 says:

    NFL players should collude to work for Limbaugh for tons of money, but then play badly. (This would not be a problem for players like Donovan Q. McNubbins.)

  15. RICO says:

    a little more complicated than baseball:

    Details of the history of black players in American professional football depend on the professional football league considered: the National Football League (NFL), which evolved from the first professional league, the American Professional Football Association, or the American Football League, (AFL), a rival league from 1960 through 1969, which eventually merged with the NFL.

    At its inception in 1920, the American Professional Football Association had several African-American players (a total of thirteen between 1920 and 1933). Fritz Pollard and Bobby Marshall were the first black players in what is now the NFL in 1920. Pollard became the first black coach in 1921. However, by 1932 the subsequent National Football League had only two black players, and by 1934 there were none. This disappearance of black players from the NFL effectively coincided with the entry of one of the leading owners of the league, George Preston Marshall. Marshall openly refused to have black athletes on his Boston Braves/Washington Redskins team, and reportedly pressured the rest of the league to follow suit. The NFL did not have another black player until after World War II.

  16. RICO says:

    Vick can play, but Limbaugh can’t own?

  17. liberalgeek says:

    Vick has expressed regret at what he has done. Limbaugh… Not so much.

  18. Truth Teller says:

    While we are on the subject of football it reminds me of what Senator McCarthy once said ” Politics is like coaching football being Smart enough to understand the game and Dumb enough to think it’s important”