Buh-bye, Rush.

Dave Checketts, the man behind the group attempting to buy the St. Louis Rams, removed Rush Limbaugh from the bid. Checketts released the following statement:

Rush Limbaugh, who was born 100 miles south of St. Louis, was part of our group. This made sense to us, particularly in light of his affection for the NFL in general and his interest in keeping the Rams in St. Louis.

However, it has become clear that his involvement in our group has become a complication and a distraction to our intentions; endangering our bid to keep the team in St. Louis.  As such, we have decided to move forward without him and hope it will eventually lead us to a successful conclusion.

The feedback surrounding Limbaugh’s possible involvement with the NFL has been heated and Checketts, who is also chairman of the St. Louis Blues, realizes his best shot is without the syndicated talk show host.

“I’m not even thinking of exiting,” Limbaugh said on his talk show program on Wednesday. “I’m not even thinking of caving. I am not a caver. None of us are. We have been betrayed by too many who have caved. Pioneers take the arrows. We are pioneers. It’s a sad thing but our country over 200 years old now needs pioneers all over again, but we do.”

Just stop talking, Rush.

Pioneers? Seriously?

We didn’t even get to see Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson hold a march in front of the Gateway Arch before Limbaugh bowed out of contention.

Now, let’s get back to discussing football and now the owners running the team (unless your that bum Dan Snyder…)