No surprise. It's not the players, nor the owners, nor the fans, driving this train. It's journalists.
And, if you think sports journalists are any different from their opposite numbers in the newsroom, you're sadly mistaken.
The entire "profession" is overrun with liberals -- who are only too happy to attack and destroy a conservative. Indeed, they believe it is their holy mission.
The entire "profession" set out to deny Limbaugh his legitimate desire, by any means necessary...and they used a bald-faced lie to do it.
What's worse, they're proud of what they did.