{"id":10254,"date":"2014-02-03T17:21:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T17:21:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-02-03T17:21:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T17:21:00","slug":"take_nothing_away_from_the_seahawks_but_what_a_disappointing_super_bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/02\/03\/take_nothing_away_from_the_seahawks_but_what_a_disappointing_super_bowl\/","title":{"rendered":"Take Nothing Away from the Seahawks, But… What a Disappointing Super Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: I tell you, I thought they were gonna have to drag Rupert Murdoch out of the stadium on a stretcher last night. My God, can you believe how much audience they had to lose during that game in the second half? Can you imagine how many make goods or how much money they\u2019re gonna have to be rebating to their sponsors because so many eyeballs — I\u2019m guessing that there was a huge tune-out the second half — cause, man…<\/p>\n

Folks, look, I have to be real careful here. As you know, I\u2019m a huge football fan, and I don\u2019t want to take anything away from the Seahawks. In fact, grab sound bite number two. I want to remind you of my prediction early on, on Friday, on this program. I\u2019m gonna play the prediction for you. And, by the way, the environmentalist wacko pick <\/a>also came through with the Seahawks. So whatever I\u2019m gonna say, I don\u2019t mean it as anything to take away from what the Seahawks accomplished or pulled off in the game last night. But here\u2019s what I said early on, first segment of the first hour of the program on Friday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: I\u2019m leaning toward the Seahawks here for one reason, only one reason. I think it has to do with the defense. I think the Seattle defense can keep Peyton Manning off the field. I think their defense — because I\u2019ve studied it, folks, I\u2019ve looked at tape, and the Seattle defense has the ability to prevent Denver\u2019s long drives, time, clock-chewing drive.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The only thing I didn\u2019t foresee was all the turnovers, but I knew the pass rush. Denver, supposedly they\u2019d stared down a great pass rush from the Kansas City Chiefs twice during the season, but they had never seen what hit them last night. During the game Kathryn looks over at me, “You seem depressed.” And I said, “Do I? I am.” I was down in the dumps. I thought this whole game, the whole thing, every aspect I thought was a bummer. Look, I\u2019m gonna be very careful. I don\u2019t mean to be — it\u2019s a game, it\u2019s a national pastime, people\u2019s escape and so forth, but, man, I just thought there was so much mediocrity.<\/line><\/p>\n

I thought the ads, maybe three ads, three or four ads were any good. The rest of them were mediocre. I had spent all this time telling all of you to pay attention to the ads, because advertising people have their finger on the pulse of our culture and if you really want to learn where we are as a country and so forth, make sure you watch the Super Bowl ads, and they were a bomb. Well, that\u2019s the thing, it may not be wrong, in terms of just the overall mediocrity. <\/p>\n

Now, the Seahawks were not mediocre. Again, I want to stress, I\u2019m not trying to take anything away. I predicted the Seahawks to win, so I gotta be real careful. We got big audiences in Denver and Seattle as well here. We own both towns and we have for many, many moons. I\u2019m just telling you what I thought, and I thought the game coverage was a bummer. The Super Bowl<\/a>, for the last game of the season, I think having it in New York, something about that, I don\u2019t think flew. For the championship game, the championship game the National Football League, that game did not at all put forth the best face of the National Football League. It was like one team didn\u2019t even show up. And there I go. I\u2019m not trying to anger you people in Denver. This is not a personal comment on anybody. <\/p>\n

The MVP, nobody ever heard of the guy. How do you pick an MVP in a game like that? The MVP might have been Peyton Manning from the Seahawks\u2019 perspective. Just kidding. Just to make a point. You know, we\u2019ve got audio sound bites here, the O\u2019Reilly interview of Obama during the pregame show<\/a>. Now, folks, let me tell you something. I think that is the wrong venue to do a serious interview of the president of the United States. O\u2019Reilly actually asked really good questions that Obama hasn\u2019t been asked before.<\/a> But that\u2019s not the place people want to see that, particularly not on the network that\u2019s televising the game, not on the network televising the pregame show. <\/line>