32 Voices Louder Than Limbaugh’s

[Are_grits_groceries]

The N.F.L. has a policy for just about everything. Tucking in shirts. Use of cellphones or felt pens in celebration of self. Smarting off at inappropriate moments. Wipe that smirk off your face, mister, you’re not in junior high school anymore. And that’s just for owners.

So it is no surprise that the N.F.L. also has a written policy governing the acceptance — and let us hope rejection — of potential owners. The current club owners seem to have the power to turn down somebody just because they don’t like the cut of his jib, whatever a jib is.

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This just in: occasionally, the St. Louis Rams play the Chicago Bears at Soldier Field. Presumably, Bears’ fans would remember Limbaugh’s double chins quivering with joy at the rejection of the Olympic bid. This is just the kind of divisive baggage the N.F.L. would love to see in a potential owner.
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The N.F.L. must approve all potential owners, even for a sliver of a share, through acceptance by 24 of the 32 franchises. The N.F.L. has turned down potential owners because it did not like their financing, or their background, or the smirk on their face.

The league policy on ownership transfers reads thusly:

“In conducting this investigation and evaluation (of a proposed owner), the N.F.L. Commissioner’s office and the N.F.L. member clubs will consider all pertinent information. The ultimate decision on the purchaser’s application for membership in the N.F.L. will be based on the N.F.L. member clubs’ assessment of whether the proposed ownership is likely to result in successful operation of the club, with acceptable ownership and management operating in compliance with all league rules and policies and in the best interests of the league. This assessment will be made by the member clubs in their sole discretion. Prospective buyers and sellers should bear in mind that the N.F.L. reserves the right not to approve any application for membership.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/sports/football/13vecsey.html?ref=sports

The NFL has somebody on the field before games checking the players to make sure that every part of their uniforms are in line with league policy. Players can be fined for even minor variances.

If they let Limbaugh in, they should just burn all the rules like that. He would make a joke out of everything the league does to "protect" its image.

The team should be "The St.Louis Smirks."

[zbdent]

1. If Limbaugh were to become an owner, how long would it be before

all the Rams players would be outsourced???

[Are_grits_groceries]

2. They would be outsourced to Oakland.

That is a foreign country in football terms.