George Soros Part of Group Trying to Buy Rams?

I'm wondering whether anyone in this group knows any of the other prospective buyers? That and what the heck Dave Checketts is smoking. Let's put it this way: If Limbaugh's out then the NFL is going to have one heck of a job selling football fans on this anti-American creep George Soros.

Well, the Rush Limbaugh/St. Louis Rams saga may have finally reached the point of the absurd ... if it wasn't already.

Late yesterday, news broke that former Madison Square Garden chief executive Dave Checketts dropped the conservative talk-show host from a bid to purchase the Rams from current team owner Chip Rosenbloom, who hasn't yet officially put the team up for sale.

Now comes word, via Bloomberg, that ultra-liberal billionaire financier/philanthropist George Soros, who once compared some of Pres. Bush's tactics in the war on terror to the Nazi regime, may also be part of the bid.

Talk about NFL ownership making for strange bedfellows. That's about as bizarre as it can get.

Indeed, it was reported by Bloomberg on Monday that Soros was part of the group, but seemed to have escaped much notice.

If Soros is indeed a member of the ownership group, then Checketts must eliminate him from consideration, too. After all, if Limbaugh's polarizing views were anathema to a league that wants to avoid controversy, then Soros' extreme remarks should also raise a red flag to owners.

Soros was once reported to have said that removing Pres. Bush from office was the "central focus of my life" and "a matter of life and death."

Talk about polarizing comments.

Don't think the NFL will want to be addressing those remarks any time soon.

If it turns out that Soros is indeed a member of the Checketts group, then we can only surmise one of two things: that perhaps he thought Limbaugh and Soros would balance one another out on the political side, or that this will go down as one of the most pathetically misguided plans ever devised to purchase an NFL franchise.

At this point, we're leaning toward the latter.

Thanks to Ace for the link.