After NFL players, NFL owners, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and even NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell all came out publicly against Rush Limbaugh owning an NFL team, the conservative radio host lost his bid for the St. Louis Rams.

Limbaugh was making headlines this week when he and an investment group bid for the team. "Rush was to be a limited partner -- as such, he would have had no say in the direction of the club or in any decisions regarding personnel or operations," said St. Louis Blues Chairman Dave Checketts, who headed the group, in a statement.

"This was a role he enthusiastically embraced. 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."

After the announcement was made on Wednesday, Sharpton didn't hide his satisfaction.

"It is a moral victory for all Americans, especially the players that have been unfairly castigated by Rush Limbaugh," Sharpton said in a statement. "This decision will also uphold the unifying standards of major sports."

Limbaugh took to the airwaves Thursday morning and blamed everyone else for his ouster. In the first 15 minutes of his show, he shared the entire story of how he was asked to join the investment group by Checketts himself.

"I said to him at this meeting, 'Are you aware of the firestorm?' " Limbaugh said on his show. "He said, 'Believe me, I wouldn't have approached you if I hadn't taken care of that, if I had not cleared your involvement with people at the highest levels of the National Football League.' He gave me a couple of names, pretty high up, led me to believe it was all handled, and he was fully prepared for what was going to happen."

Shortly after Goodell shared his thoughts on that possibility, though, Checketts contacted Limbaugh and said that the group had to move on without him. Limbaugh went on to say that this was a power move by the NFL Players Association to get the attention of the NFL owners before they enter negotiations for the new collective bargaining agreement, which is part of the reason Sharpton and Jackson got involved as well. He ended the commentary by saying that the entire situation was "Obama's America on full display."