Mayberry

The Race Card, Football and Me
My critics would have you believe no conservative meets NFL 'standards.'

In 1998 Mr. Sharpton was found guilty of defamation and ordered to pay $65,000 for falsely accusing a New York prosecutor of rape in the 1987 Tawana Brawley case. He also played a leading role in the 1991 Crown Heights riot (he called neighborhood Jews "diamond merchants") and 1995 Freddie's Fashion Mart riot.

Not to be outdone, Jesse Jackson, whose history includes anti-Semitic speech (in 1984 he referred to Jews as "Hymies" and to New York City as "Hymietown" in a Washington Post interview) chimed in. He found me unfit to be associated with the NFL. I was too divisive and worse. I was accused of once supporting slavery and having praised Martin Luther King Jr.'s murderer, James Earl Ray.

I never said I supported slavery and I never praised James Earl Ray. How sick would that be?

The argument Rush has been successful enough and made enough money doesn't work either:
Rush Limbaugh Bad, Fergie and J-Lo 'Cool NFL Owners'