by Emmanuel Ikechukwu

Created on: October 13, 2009   Last Updated: October 15, 2009

No, they shouldn't. How is it that people concentrate mostly on the past? He said whatever he said in the past, but here is the future. He is now living by the future I guess. Rush Limbaugh, like each and every one of us, has a right to own whatever we feel like and whatever is legal when we have the purchasing power.

The issues of his past are moral issues and I think those points does not amount to him losing any possibility of acquiring any property or making any investment he desires to make.

Though I believe his past statements were wrong, his previous and if you may say continued attack on the black race was wrong (as most people also know and believe), and also his past attack on the NFL which he now wants to buy is wrong by me, but I think those cannot and should not stand between him and his intentions of acquiring a stake at a team.

Those were mere statements and opinions and he, like every other person, should be entitled to his or her opinion on issues. At the end of the day, the NFL is the winner because those that criticized it in the past, have now come to embrace it and it is quite commendable. Rush Limbaugh should be allowed to own, be in the system and let his past statement haunt him.

Also it is very imperative to know that between the period of his specific comment negatively about the NFL and now is a length of time and hence he must have seen some improvements (that's in his own terms) or he must have had something that must have pushed him to now all of sudden become one of the biggest fans of the NFL, even to as far trying to own a stake with a team in a game he has always criticized in the past.

We have to accept him into the game. He has to enjoy the game like we do and if he thinks he wants to go ahead and buy a club, then we have to support him because through this means we have more converts into the game. We need the game to keep growing and the game needs more supporters. So we cannot, the NFL cannot, try to send someone away from the game.

After-all we, at some time or the other are critics of one thing or the other; maybe some actors, musicians, shoes, way of dressing e.t.c. because maybe we were not enlightened but all of a sudden we have come to be one of the greatest witness to the thing we once rejected and resisted.

However, I support Rush Limbaugh to own as much stakes he needs and I on behalf of NFL welcome him into the game and also welcome him to the excitement of the game. Previous statements are not enough grounds to stop him as we all have one time or the other been a victim of negative statements. Thank you

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