St. Louis, MO (My Sportsbook) - The St. Louis Rams are off to an 0-4 start, but the dreadful beginning to the 2009 season apparently has not scared off potential buyers for the franchise.

Radio personality Rush Limbaugh and St. Louis Blues owner Dave Checketts head a group interested in purchasing the club from Chip Rosenbloom.

The St. Louis Post Dispatch said Tuesday that the group plans to keep the team in St. Louis. Under NFL rules governing cross-ownership, the team would have to remain in the city because owners of teams in the other major pro sports leagues cannot own controlling interest in NFL teams in different markets.

Limbaugh, a native of Missouri, confirmed his group's bid to buy the Rams in a statement to KMOX-AM in St. Louis.

"Dave and I are part of a bid to buy the Rams and we are continuing the process," Limbaugh's statement read. "But I can say no more because of a confidentiality clause in our agreement with Goldman Sachs. We cannot and will not talk about our partners. But if we prevail, we will be the operators of the team."

The Rams have never officially stated that the team is for sale, going so far as to issue a press release in May of 2008 to refute rumors that the team was on the market only four months after the passing of longtime owner Georgia Frontiere.

Frontiere passed away in January of 2008 at the age of 80 after a long battle with breast cancer. She inherited the team following the death of her husband, Carroll Rosenbloom, in 1979. Frontiere, a St. Louis native, took over the Rams when the club was based in Anaheim and moved the Rams to the Gateway City for the 1995 season.

The Rams late Monday night issued a release about the latest sale rumors.

"Our strategic review of our ownership of the Rams continues," said Chip Rosenbloom. "We will make an announcement upon the completion of the process."

According to the Post-Dispatch, Rosenbloom and sister Lucia Rodriguez own a 60 percent share of the Rams, while Stan Kroenke has a 40 percent interest. Kroenke also owns the Denver Nuggets of the NBA and the NHL's Colorado Avalanche.

The Rams have been controlled by the Rosenblooms since 1972 when Carroll Rosenbloom traded the Baltimore Colts, which he had owned since 1953, for the franchise then based in Los Angeles.