In advance of yesterday’s decision to drop Rush Limbaugh from the proposed ownership group attempting to take over the Rams, Mark Cuban spoke to ESPN’s Dan Patrick and talked about why Rush would not be a good fit as an NFL owner. From Sports Radio Interviews:
Mark Cuban on Why Limbaugh Would Be Bad for the NFL
On if he thinks Limbaugh should be an NFL owner:
"No, not at all. … I don’t think the concern is really what he has said in the past even though they’re kind of using that as a starting point. I think the real question is what’s the upside for the NFL. This isn’t a guy who’s coming in and saying, know what, I’m going to pay $2 billion for this team and jack up all the valuations of every franchise in to the stratosphere. This is a guy who’s just a small minority owner – and that’s no disrespect to Rush. His money is green and it’s a lot of money whatever he’s investing. But relative to the bigger picture he’s a small minority owner that could create a lot of problems for the league. There’s just no upside to the league."
Indeed, in the big picture, his involvement would have created far more costs for the league than it did benefits, a possible explanation for Checketts’ decision to drop the polarizing radio personality from his ownership group. Money buys power-- except when it comes at the expense of public support, it seems.
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