If the National Football League is really concerned about the behavior of its owners away from the field, maybe it should take a close at the Miami Dolphins.
As Big Hollywood reported Friday, pop artists Fergie and Jennifer Lopez both have minority interests in the NFL team in Southern Florida.
Despite being labeled as "Cool NFL Owners" in a Kansas City Star piece Wednesday -- coincidentally the same day Rush Limbaugh was thrown out of the prospective ownership group bidding on the St. Louis Rams -- Fergie and J-Lo have some incidents in their respective pasts that are far worse than anything Limbaugh was falsely accused of saying.
For instance, these are lyrics from a J-Lo song performed with rapper Ja Rule a few years ago (extreme vulgarity alert):
What's my motherfuckin' name? R-U-L-E
Blowin' back on this Mary Jane, I'm analyzin' the game
And the game done chose me
To bring pain to pussy niggaz and pussy hoes, it's one in the same [...]
Tired of bein' alone Yeah, yeah
Sick of arguin on the phone Yeah, yeah
Are you tellin' all your friends Yeah, yeah
That your nigga don't understand My love [...]
Bitch, I ain't doin' this shit for nuttin'
I'm here to get it poppin', hoppin, let's ride up in the Benz
Hair blowin' in the wind, sun glistenin' off my skin, hey
I'm nasty, heh, you know me
But you still don't fuck with your baby [...]
Now people screamin' what the deal with you and so and so
I tell them niggas, mind their biz, but they don't hear me though
Cause I live my life to the limit and I love it
Now I could breathe again, baby, now I could breathe again
This is the kind of trash J-Lo co-authored and performed years ago, but Rush Limbaugh is too divisive for the NFL.
As for Fergie, this from Big Hollywood:
Earlier this week, [NFL Commissioner Roger] Goodell said of Limbaugh’s potential ownership, “Divisive comments are not what the NFL is all about.” Is he splitting hairs between “comments” and “lyrics?” Because these lyrics from a 2003 Black Eyed Peas song sounds pretty divisive to me:
Overseas, yeah, we try to stop terrorism
But we still got terrorists here livin’
In the USA, the big CIA …A war is goin’ on but the reason’s undercover
The truth is kept secret, it’s swept under the rugNothing like accusing the CIA of terrorism and our government of lying to bring people together. Goodell also said, “We’re all held to a high standard here.”
Really? Does this meet his high standard?
Whatcha gonna do with all that junk
All that junk inside your trunk
I’ma get get get get you drunk
Get you love drunk off my hump
My hump my hump my hump my hump my hump
My hump my hump my hump my lovely little lumpsHow about drinking so much that you wet your pants, mid-song, on stage, in front of a live audience?
Yeah, I guess the NFL doesn't mind its owners urinating in public, nor them cursing out and threatening tennis officials.
Or didn't you know that tennis star Serena Williams, who during this year's U.S. Open shouted at a linesman, “If I could, I would take this fucking ball and shove it down your fucking throat," was also a part owner of the Dolphins?
I guess that's also acceptable to the NFL, but being a conservative radio talk show host isn't.
Well, a sports organization has to have its standards.
—Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters. Follow him at Facebook and Twitter.




















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Ha ha, NS
October 17, 2009 - 10:05 ET by BlondeJLo in the in the Versace "gown".
Good one.
I hope he fails, too.
Back in the 80s there were
October 17, 2009 - 10:12 ET by notonmywatchBack in the 80s there were "superstars".
Now there are superskanks.
The NFL: it's for decent people any more!
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The NFL: it's not for decent
October 17, 2009 - 10:13 ET by notonmywatchThe NFL: it's not for decent people any more!
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Well, most of a
October 17, 2009 - 10:39 ET by motherbeltWell, most of a gown...... LOL
But hey, those lyrics aren't racist, or hateful...they're "edgy" dontcha know!
It's when you say really hateful things like Donovan McNabb didn't play all that great....that's what's really over the line....
And in spite of all the coverage over the past few days regarding the fact that Rush never said what they said he did, Al Sharpton is still peddling that line on his radio show, saying that Rush got "exposed!"
You can't even parody these people any more.
Well, you could
October 17, 2009 - 10:55 ET by Blonde...parody them. But CNN would fact check it.
Twilight Zone.
I hope he fails, too.
People believe it all,
October 17, 2009 - 16:19 ET by GregEPeople believe it all, which is why Rush, I hope, is gathering the lawyers and having them all research who has libeled him. Organizations, individuals, etc. Then hopefully after all info is gathered, he brings it all to bear on every one of them and plasters them all to the wall.
Its the only way to stop it. If it's let go, it continues. If it's cracked over their head everytime, it will eventually sink in that we live in America, not some banana republic as many would like.
Welcome to Obama's Amerika
October 17, 2009 - 10:14 ET by R D HelmAnd blocking the politically incorrect Rush Limbaugh from owning part of an NFL team is only the beginning.
Just wait until people are hired/not hired based on their loyalty to comrade Chairman Obama.
It's coming, whether you believe it or not.
-Dave
"politically incorrect Rush
October 17, 2009 - 10:24 ET by notonmywatch"politically incorrect Rush Limbaugh"
I think it's the other side who are incorrect politically
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But that will be OK,
October 17, 2009 - 10:38 ET by motherbeltBut that will be OK, Dave...because they are blacklisting the "right" people!
They know whose attitude is correct, and who should be shunned.
hats off...
October 17, 2009 - 10:14 ET by konoBig tip o' the hat to Big Hollywood and Noel Sheppard for bringing this observation to the surface. The coordinated Alinsky-style effort to flush Rush (and smite the Right) is bearing an even stronger likeness to the way the Bolshevik and Nazi oppressors consolidated their power.
I don't watch the NBA
October 17, 2009 - 10:23 ET by ricklailI don't watch the NBA because of the way many of the players act like thugs. I know Roger Godell is trying his best to keep the NFL from becoming the same but when you allow minority owners like these is making it harder.
If they strike next season, that is the end of me and the NFL
Semper suprene nitens
OBAMACARE: If it ain't good enough for my Congressman then it ain't good enough for me.
Mark Cuban
October 17, 2009 - 11:36 ET by Jerry MackMark Cubans tirades against officials are refered to as flamboyant. A zeal to win.
Mark Cuban - Truther
October 17, 2009 - 11:41 ET by Cool ArrowHe also falls into the 9-11 Truther category.
So Rush needs to be a big
October 17, 2009 - 10:27 ET by wiwfSo Rush needs to be a big boobed sex symbol to own a football team? Wow...
The Rocky Mountain Collegian: Illustrating Idiocy
October 17, 2009 - 11:04 ET by jessieHJust what the NFL needed, women running the show. Don't be surprised to see the players in high heels, playing touch football. " off sides, defence. Player will say he's sorry, before we restart the game". " 10 yard penalty for making the other team cry"........
Well... makes sense
October 17, 2009 - 11:34 ET by AnkharanIf you are an overweight old rich guy...
Or..
If you know damned well you won't have to worry about THOSE two making key decisions and more than likely will bend to your will... where as someone like Rush would buck you every chance he felt he needed to in order to make a point or stress his position within the confines of Team Ownership...
Makes... perfect sense.
Modern success
October 17, 2009 - 11:38 ET by KC MulvilleHe starts by attracting people with promises he can't keep. He assures his supporters that he has thought it all out, no need to worry. When there's a slight bit of publicity trouble, he throws those same supporters under the bus.
I'll bet Checketts will be as good an owner as Obama is a president. He'll get the job, but then blame everyone else. He'll still be a failure.
Mathews, Olbermann, Maddow,Cooper,Blitzer
October 17, 2009 - 11:41 ET by Jerry MackIf these 5 Obama supporters announced tomorrow that they were investing in a team, Reverend Al would be leading the parade.
→ JerryMack
October 17, 2009 - 11:44 ET by Cool ArrowYou forgot Donner and Prancer.
Racist NFL
October 17, 2009 - 12:33 ET by retspookretspook
Just cancelled my subscription to the NFL on Directv and next I will never step inside an NFL stadium ever again
you see..
October 17, 2009 - 12:36 ET by katainkentthese people are not controversial-controversial
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The Emperor, he has no clothes
Fergie...
October 17, 2009 - 15:15 ET by Kat Outta the BagIsn't she the one who got so drunk that she actually peed in her pants onstage and didn't realize it? Yeah, tres cool...
Hot day for a photo shoot
October 17, 2009 - 19:38 ET by zachlindThe picture makes me think it must have been a very hot day for the photo shoot. Everything looks wilted.
Granted Rush loves football, but I'd be happy if the league went
October 17, 2009 - 21:27 ET by Cape Conservativebankrupt if this is the way they want to run their business!
You can't find anyone on or off the field who could measure up to Rush Limbaugh! What COWARDS they all are to fall for such trash talk!! With NO backup whatsoever, the hate-filled statements of people who have been known to do exactly what they are doing - Saul Alinsky would be proud! - are given credence.
The vitriol being spewed by the mainstream media is beyond comprehension - and is DISGUSTING!
If I were Rush, even if they BEGGED me to reconsider, I would tell them just where they could go! They do NOT deserve his presence - let them instead extol the virtues of self-acclaimed Nazi sympathizer George Soros, or any of these outstanding???? examples of womanhood.
Where is the America that once was???
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