Sports (or other?) Discrimination

Limbaugh’s history hurt his participation in the bid.
In 2003, he was forced to resign from ESPN’s Sunday night football broadcast after saying of the Eagles’ Donovan McNabb(notes): “I think what we’ve had here is a little social concern in the NFL. The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well.”

According to transcripts posted on his Web site, in 2007 Limbaugh said: “The NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it.”

From the moment fans booed when Philadelphia made him the second pick in the 1999 N.F.L. draft, Donovan McNabb’s time with the Eagles was marked by the undercurrent that he would never be fully embraced in Philadelphia unless he led the Eagles to a championship. Over and over, the Eagles came close, only to fall short, sparking one off-season pledge after another that McNabb was still Coach Andy Reid’s man.

But on Sunday night, after 11 seasons in which he led the Eagles to one Super Bowl appearance but never a title, the uneasy marriage ended, with the Eagles trading McNabb to their bitter N.F.C. East rival, the Washington Redskins