Guardian writer Lawrence Donegan has keenly watched the NFL’s resistance to Rush Limbaugh’s potential ownership and believes English Soccer — rife with its own ownership issues — could learn a lesson or two:
British Writer: English Soccer Could Learn From NFL’s Exclusivity
Civil rights activists such as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton have spoken out but, more influentially perhaps, so too have NFL players, owners and administrators. "I don’t want anything to do with a team that he [Limbaugh] has any part of,’’ said Mathias Kiwanuka of the New York Giants."I myself couldn’t even think of voting for him," added Jim Irsay, owner of the Indianapolis Colts. Most tellingly of all, the NFL commissioner, Roger Goodell, had made clear his disapproval of Limbaugh’s past conduct. "I would not want to see those kind of comments from people who are in a responsible position within the NFL, absolutely not," he said, which can be broadly translated as "over my dead body".
What a wonderful, welcome condemnation of a very disagreeable man. Or to put it another way, what a stunning contrast to the self-serving indifference and greed that has characterised the response of football in this country as a succession of hucksters and tinpot dictators have tunnelled all the way into the very heart of the game.
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