{"id":12952,"date":"2013-03-15T16:34:03","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T16:34:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-03-15T16:34:03","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T16:34:03","slug":"proposed_nfl_rule_change_for_ball_carrier_no_lowering_the_helmet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/03\/15\/proposed_nfl_rule_change_for_ball_carrier_no_lowering_the_helmet\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposed NFL Rule Change for Ball Carrier: No Lowering the Helmet!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/videos\/37\/48397\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\" alt=\"Listen to it Button\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Have you heard this news about the NFL? You haven\u2019t heard this about the NFL? Running backs are not gonna be allowed to duck their heads? I mean, I told you people this was coming. I warned you. You all thought that I was exaggerating just like you did back during the SUV craze, 1996. Yep, no longer will you be able to use the crown of your head as a running back because you might hurt somebody, including yourself.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I am not making this up. And I think if the NFL keeps going, they may as well make Michael Bloomberg the commissioner.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: This is amazing. A rule is gonna be proposed to the NFL competition committee that would make it a penalty for a ball carrier to smash into a defender with the crown of his helmet in open space. Even if he\u2019s gay, it will be a penalty to smash into a defender with the crown of his helmet. Of course, nobody\u2019s gonna really know if he\u2019s gay, and therefore that will be permitted.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"eZObject_74109\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RushNFLRIP.jpg\"\/><BR\/>Now, I know many of you haven\u2019t played football, but I of course have. I\u2019ll never forget. We used to play these flag football or touch football games when I worked for the Kansas City Royals. Every Thursday afternoon, the baseball season ended, we would play touch football games, the Kansas City Chiefs front office. It was not tackle football. It was nothing. But even then, I mean the instinct when you are carrying the ball, the instinct is to lower your head and plow through. It\u2019s an instinct. People that have never been taught to play the game do it automatically. That\u2019s how instinctive it is. You lower your head and you plow through. They\u2019re gonna make that a penalty now if this actually comes to pass.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It would be the first rule in American football history limiting a runner\u2019s contact with a defender.&#8221; Now, this is from a Canadian website. I\u2019ve looked at a bunch of American websites, and it\u2019s not all over the place. You have to really hunt for this to find it. Popular NFL websites in this country have not yet run with this story because, I\u2019ll tell you, there are people who are flabbergasted over this. And there are a lot of people who probably remember my prediction. It was the middle of the year last year, maybe even longer ago. I could see what was coming. You know, the politically correct were embracing and getting their arms around this game and were gonna forever change it, and I warned everybody, &#8220;Enjoy it while you can because they\u2019re gonna forever change it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If the owners are not careful here &#8212; I know it\u2019s ultimately the owners who vote &#8212; but so much of this, like everything else, is rooted in, rather than taking a stand and believing in something, it\u2019s rooted in trying to figure out what the fans want or what the noisiest social do-gooders want and making \u2019em happy. &#8220;First rule in American football history limiting a runner\u2019s contact with a defender, outside of egregious acts such as punching a tackler, or grabbing his facemask.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So they went and grabbed Emmitt Smith, the Hall of Fame running back for the Dallas Cowboys. They got him on the radio down in Dallas and a co-host said, &#8220;There is a new rule being proposed, saying basically you can\u2019t put your head down to crash into a tackle.&#8221; Here\u2019s Emmitt Smith\u2019s reaction, the Hall of Fame running back for the Dallas Cowboys.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"eZObject_74114\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Smith_large.jpg\"\/><BR\/>SMITH: As a running back, it\u2019s almost impossible. &#8216;Cause the first thing you do is get behind your shoulder pads. And what that means is you\u2019re leaning forward and the first part of contact that\u2019s going to take place is going to be your head, regardless. I disagree with the rule altogether. It doesn\u2019t make any sense for that position. It sounds like it\u2019s been made up by people that never played the game of football. I don\u2019t know how you\u2019re going to be able to enforce that rule without really jeopardizing the integrity of the game itself<\/line><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Exactly. But did you note what he said here? This is really crucial. &#8220;It sounds like the rule has been made up by people who\u2019ve never played the game of football.&#8221; Just like it sounds like health care has been taken over in this country by people who have never had any experience in that business at all. It\u2019s the same thing, folks. If you think it\u2019s probably the best thing for the government to run health care, realize this, from Obama on down, there isn\u2019t anybody, outside of maybe a couple of doctors that are in Congress, that have the slightest idea what they\u2019re doing. They\u2019ve never run insurance companies. They\u2019ve never run hospitals. They don\u2019t know the first thing about insurance, medicine, treatment, any of the sort.<\/p>\n<p>All they know is power. All they know is arrogance. They think they know how to do everything better than everybody else. They have contempt for average people. &#8220;You don\u2019t know how to run your own life. You don\u2019t know how to make the decisions to live a normal life. You\u2019re just incompetent,&#8221; and here Emmitt Smith is basically saying it\u2019s as if people that never played the game are making this rule. Because, folks, trust me: Go out and play football.<\/p>\n<p>Not just with three or four people. Go out and play football. Get the ball in your hands and try to simulate gaining yardage, and you will find you instinctively lower your head whether you\u2019ve been trained, coached, or not. This is a rule that is the equivalent of saying, &#8220;Don\u2019t think pink.&#8221; What are you thinking right now? You\u2019re thinking pink. It\u2019s just absurd. Here\u2019s the next Emmitt bite. He kept talking in his answer&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>SMITH: If I\u2019m a running back and I\u2019m running into a linebacker, and you\u2019re telling me I gotta keep my head up so he can take my chin off, you absolutely lost your mind.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: It\u2019s exactly right. If you have to run through the line with your head up, you\u2019ll get clotheslined or forearmed in the face, what have you. Now, again, you can\u2019t find very much about this on a lot of American football websites, but it isn\u2019t being denied anywhere. I bring this up because I want you to know, especially those of you who are new in the program &#8212; we have new people tuning in every day listening for the first time. I want you to understand, particularly you low-information people out there.<\/p>\n<p>I want you to know that when I make a prediction about where we\u2019re headed, I\u2019m on the cutting edge of societal evolution. Particularly when it involves liberals when they\u2019ve gotten their hands on something, don\u2019t doubt me. I warned everybody that the game, particularly in the National Football League, was never gonna be the same once they started focusing on trying to eliminate concussions and quote\/unquote, &#8220;making the game safer.&#8221; I\u2019m not in favor of the game being different. The game is what it is.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re either gonna play it the way it is or you ban it.<\/p>\n<p>But to try to change it this way, it\u2019s gonna become something else. You may as well put flags on everybody and forget tackle football. People are gonna get hurt playing the game. It\u2019s just the way it is. But we live in a culture where nobody should ever get hurt doing anything. Nobody should get hurt emotionally. Nobody should ever get hurt physically. Nobody should ever suffer. Nobody should ever get depressed. Nobody should ever feel any kind of pain in any way, shape, manner, or form.<\/p>\n<p>Of course if you don\u2019t, you\u2019re not living!<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s all part of the whole equation. So, once again, it is what it is. Do you know what I think they ought to do? Those of you who play golf, you know what a &#8220;gimme&#8221; is. A gimme is when you\u2019re on the green, you\u2019re putting, and you\u2019re a foot or within two feet away from the hole. Depending on who you\u2019re playing with (I play with guys, three feet is good), at that distance you say, &#8220;Okay, that\u2019s good. Pick it up. Move on to the next hole. You don\u2019t actually have to putt it out.&#8221; Why don\u2019t we just say that if a team gets at the one-yard line, give them the touchdown?<\/p>\n<p>Eliminate the one-yard plunge play where people get hurt, maybe. (interruption) Yeah, it would &#8220;take away the most dramatic plays of the game,&#8221; but it would also take injuries out of the game, and that\u2019s what we\u2019re trying to do. We\u2019re trying to make it safe. We\u2019re trying to make sure nobody gets hurt playing this game. We\u2019re trying to take the roughness out of it, the barbarism out of it. So if you get down to the one-yard line, it\u2019s just a gimme. Give \u2019em the touchdown. Well, they\u2019re already getting ready to ban the kickoff.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re talking about banning the kickoff as well.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Donovan McNabb. Donovan McNabb, the former quarterback of the Philadelphia Eagles, who finished his career with the Minnesota Vikings, is going to host his own radio talk show. You know, it\u2019s getting to the point, folks, where it would take less time to mention all the people that don\u2019t have a show than it would to list all the people that do. &#8220;NBC will formally announce Friday that McNabb, who retired after the 2011 season after 13 years as an NFL quarterback, will co-host an NBC Sports Radio show with another former NFL quarterback &#8212; Mark Malone. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The new radio show will air weekdays from 3-7 p.m. ET and will be produced in Phoenix, where McNabb and Malone live. &#8230; &#8216;NBC has given me a platform to continue to expand in broadcasting&#8230; And with radio, you don\u2019t want to be stuck just talking NFL. We\u2019ll talk baseball, basketball, the Olympics, current events. We\u2019re also fans.'&#8221; So McNabb and Mark Malone with their own radio show on NBC. I don\u2019t know anything about stations or any of that. Tom on Long Island. Tom, great to have you. Hi.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hi, Rush. I wanted to know, why do you think the media focus on safety in the NFL is orders of magnitude higher than in the NHL?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Let me ask you a question in reaction. It\u2019s not quite the perfect analogy. Well, first: Why they\u2019re focusing on the NFL instead of the NHL is there\u2019s a far, far, far bigger audience. Far, far, far more money. The NFL is the biggest sport, biggest athletic business in the country by far. It\u2019s not even close. You have to hunt for hockey games on TV. NFL, people make appointments. But why all the regulation in the NFL? Let me ask you this. Have you ever thought why, a year or two ago, no matter where you went every business was focusing on how green it is? They\u2019d have green sales, and they would brag about their new environmental regulations in the store. Did you wonder why that happened?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Sure. I mean, marketing reasons.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: It\u2019s because the people that are in charge of marketing and want to move product, believe that the people, their customers, care about this.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: They believe that they can separate people from their money by convincing them they care about the environment. The left sets the agenda on these things. The left and the media gets everybody worked up into a frenzy over these things that are gonna kill us, hurt us, destroy us, harm us, make us sad, what have you. &#8220;It\u2019s all our fault! Here\u2019s how you can fix it. Give up a little of your freedom. Let government grow, pay more taxes, and you\u2019ll be safe and you\u2019ll never die and all.&#8221; It\u2019s the same thing with the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a gigantic lawsuit, thousands of players suing them claiming they didn\u2019t know how dangerous it was. They were never told they could get concussions. Well, you know, once the trial lawyers start coming after you you\u2019ve gotta make some changes to limit the awards that might come down your way. It\u2019s a hideous thing. It\u2019s simplistic to say, but this is what happens when people on the left get their hooks into something and want to &#8220;reform&#8221; it and change it, and make it so that they approve of it.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s over.<\/p>\n<p>If the NFL doesn\u2019t set itself up as some individual entity and tell these people, &#8220;Stuff it! We know our business,&#8221; the game\u2019s never gonna be the same.<\/p>\n<p>Mark my words.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: By the way, they are gonna crack down on hockey. I didn\u2019t mean to give hockey a pass. It\u2019s gonna be the next target. They\u2019re already looking at it now. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Have you heard this news about the NFL? You haven\u2019t heard this about the NFL? 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