Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh, who once famously said "the NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons," now wants in on team ownership. According to various reports, Limbaugh is part of a group that is making a bid to buy the St. Louis Rams. Although the details on the bid are confidential and there's no guarantee that Limbaugh's group will win the team with their bid, Rev. Al Sharpton, Rev. Jesse Jackson and NFL players are speaking out against Limbaugh potentially having ownership of an NFL team.

"The National Football League has set high standards for racial justice and inclusion," Jackson told the Associated Press. "He should not have the privilege of owning an NFL franchise - and it is a privilege."

In an interview with the NY Daily News, New York Giants defensive end Mathias Kiwanuka said that if Limbaugh ends up as an owner, he'll at least know where he isn't going to be playing.

"All I know is from the last comment I heard, he said in (President) Obama's America, white kids are getting beat up on the bus while black kids are chanting 'right on,'" Kiwanuka told The Daily News. "I mean, I don't want anything to do with a team that he has any part of. He can do whatever he wants. It is a free country, but if it goes through, I can tell you where I am not going to play."

"I am not going to draw a conclusion from a person off of one comment, but when it is time after time after time and there's a consistent pattern of disrespect and just a complete misunderstanding of an entire culture that I am a part of, I can't respect him as a man," Kiwanuka added.

Sharpton wrote a letter to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, saying that Limbaugh is "anti-NFL," and gave examples of the Bloods-Crips comment and the 2003 comment, where Limbaugh said the media wants Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb to succeed simply because he is black.

"If he's rewarded to buy them, congratulations to him," McNabb told the Associated Press. "But I won't be in St. Louis any time soon."

Goodell finally responded to the news this week, saying that Limbaugh's commentary is not one that would be welcome in the NFL.

"I've said many times before, we're all held to a high standard here," Goodell told the New York Times. "I would not want to see those comments coming from people who are in a responsible position in the NFL – absolutely not. The comments Rush made specifically about Donovan, I disagree with very strongly. It's a polarizing comment that we don't think reflect accurately on the NFL or our players. I obviously do not believe those comments are positive, and they are divisive. That's a negative thing for us, obviously."

Despite what Goodell says, the group Limbaugh is a part of must first win the bid to purchase the team, and then submit their bid to the other 32 owners in the NFL for approval. Of those 32, 24 owners must approve the sale before it goes through.