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RUSH: I\u2019ve had a couple people also e-mail me, friends of mine who said they thought that I was way out on a limb, maybe gone too far when I predicted months ago that the National Football League as we know it is over<\/a>, it\u2019s only a matter of time. They said, “Rush, you\u2019re talking about the most popular, the most profitable professional sport in America where television earns its lion\u2019s share of revenue and ratings. This time, Rush, I think you\u2019ve overshot the mark.” Now they\u2019re sending me notes saying, “My gosh, I should never, ever doubt you,” because the president\u2019s out there, and in this same interview, let me read what he said to you. <\/p>\n

“I think a lot of parents feel like Barack Obama. ‘I\u2019m a big football fan, but I have to tell you, if I had a son,” like Trayvon “I\u2019d have to think long and hard before I let him play football.'” The president of the United States weighing in on this. The president, this is not insignificant. The president now suggesting this game is too dangerous for America\u2019s children, certainly for his son, Trayvon, if he had one. And he said, “And I think that those of us who love the sport are going to have to wrestle with the fact that it will probably change gradually to try to reduce some of the violence.”<\/p>\n

Violence! Not contact. Not hard hitting. Violence. Yes. <\/line><\/p>\n

The president said, “And I think that those of us who love the sport are going to have to wrestle with the fact that it will probably change gradually to try to reduce some of the violence. In some cases, that may make it a little bit less exciting, but it will be a whole lot better for the players, and those of us who are fans maybe won\u00c2\u2019t have to examine our consciences quite as much,” and thereby signaled the line of attack. It\u2019s the same line of attack that was used for global warming, to guilt you, your guilty conscience, you\u2019re destroying the planet. That\u2019s why you gotta support bigger government, higher taxes, buy small little battery-powered cars and all the rest of it. <\/p>\n

So now, they\u2019re gonna start working on this, you watch a football game and you\u2019re gonna have a guilty conscience. You know why? Because you\u2019re gonna be sitting there watching football and you\u2019re gonna be loving it. But what are you loving? Maiming, injury, concussion, life changing injuries to the point that the players you\u2019re watching today might be committing suicide in a few short years, and it\u2019s all being done for your blood lust, it\u2019s all being done for your bloodthirstiness. <\/p>\n

Well, we all know you have a guilty conscious about it, so we\u2019re gonna make this game safer. The president of the United States is saying this. If you doubted me, please don\u2019t ever doubt me. For the president to weigh in on this — exactly as I predicted the left would attack the game — means that it is already a fait accompli. I don\u2019t even know if the NFL is ready for this. I still don\u2019t know if they are aware of what\u2019s headed their way. (interruption) Well, I was gonna say, “I wonder how he\u2019d feel about his son serving in Afghanistan.”<\/p>\n

“What about his daughters? Would he send his daughters to Afghanistan? Would he feel comfortable with his daughters in Iraq? He wants to send your women and children off to combat. Put this in perspective. Imagine if a coach… Let\u2019s say one of the Harbaughs. Let\u2019s say Jim Harbaugh. Jim Harbaugh is the brawler of these two. Say Jim Harbaugh, at one of his press conferences this week, says that what he wants in the future is women on the 53-man roster. He wants women playing the game. He wants a female offensive line, kicker whatever.<\/p>\n

What do you think the reaction would be?<\/p>\n

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People would say, “What are you talking about? Women couldn\u2019t handle that! It would change the game forever. You couldn\u2019t do it.” But women in combat? Fine, perfectly understandable and reasonable. It makes every bit of sense in the world! So while Obama doesn\u2019t want his son, Trayvon, to play football as it\u2019s currently played, he\u2019ll be happy to send your daughters off to combat. (interruption) No, this is not saying something extreme. I\u2019m getting flash notes here: “You\u2019re goading Obama. It\u2019s not good. You need to dial it back, Rush. You need to try to make yourself invisible.”<\/p>\n

I did try to make myself invisible. It doesn\u2019t work. (interruption) Yes, yes, I know immigration is a fait accompli. That\u2019s all coming up on the program today.<\/a> Just sit tight. ‘Cause a lot is coming up here today, folks. Bernard Pollard. Bernard Pollard of the Baltimore Ravens, he\u2019s a safety. He\u2019s one of the hardest-hitting safeties in the National Football League. Bernard Pollard is who took out Brady out for the season with a hit to the knee in the opener two or three years ago at Gillette Stadium. He was with the Kansas City “Cheaps” at that point.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s now a safety for the Ravens. He\u2019s playing in his first Super Bowl game this Sunday. “According to Clark Judge of CBSSports.com, Pollard doesn\u2019t paint a very promising picture for the long-term future of the league. <\/line>Pollard sees a conundrum…” For those of you in Rio Linda, a “conundrum” is a multifaceted dilemma. A dilemma has two options; a conundrum has more than two. “Pollard sees a conundrum coming between the league losing fans by over-legislating the physicality of the sport,” i.e., Obama removing the guilty conscience aspect by making the game less exciting.<\/line><\/p>\n

Those are Obama\u2019s own words: We\u2019re gonna make the game less exciting, but we\u2019re gonna free your conscience. Pollard says the league is going to lose fans doing that, “in the name of player safety and the players continuing to get bigger, faster and stronger. ‘Thirty years from now,\u2019 Pollard said, ‘I don\u2019t think it will be in existence.'” Now you got a player saying it, folks, and I just want to remind you: I, your host, El Rushbo, was first. I don\u2019t know why Pollard\u2019s so optimistic. Thirty years? It isn\u2019t gonna take 30 years. This has been fast tracked now, with Obama weighing in on this. It\u2019s been fast tracked.<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s no 30 years here. The NFL will be in existence, as we know it, less than 30 years. Pollard said, “I could be wrong. It\u00c2\u2019s just my opinion, but I think with the direction things are going — where they [NFL rules makers] want to lighten up, and they\u00c2\u2019re throwing flags and everything else — there\u00c2\u2019s going to come a point where fans are going to get fed up with it.” They\u2019re not gonna find it exciting; they\u2019re not gonna go to watch it. But Obama says (summarized), “Yeah, they will. They\u2019ll feel less guilty watching it, and that means they\u2019ll enjoy it more.” How many of you people feel guilty watching football now? How many guilty consciences are there? Any? They\u2019re trying to drum it up. They\u2019re trying to drum it up. They\u2019re trying to stigmatize the game just like they stigmatized smoking and stigmatized obesity.<\/p>\n

They stigmatize any behavior they don\u2019t like. The left, they stigmatize it. They get you thinking it\u2019s bad, mean, horrible, exploitative, rotten, whatever. They haven\u2019t injected race into this yet, but that\u2019s gonna be the next thing to drum up this consciousness business. Bernard Pollard says, “The league is trying to move in the right direction [with player safety], but, at the same time, [coaches] want bigger, stronger and faster year in and year out. And that means you\u2019re going to keep getting big hits and concussions and blown-out knees. The only thing I\u2019m waiting for — and, Lord, I hope it doesn\u2019t happen — is a guy dying on the field.”<\/p>\n

That\u2019s Bernard Pollard. He\u2019s not the first to say it. Do you know who the first to say it was, at least publicly? Carson Palmer, the quarterback of the Raiders, who once speculated about that possibility because guys are getting so big and so fast. So I\u2019m just passing it on. I saw this stuff over the weekend and it\u2019s just incredible. I know these people like every square inch of my glorious (and continually shrinking) naked body. “[T]hose of us who are fans maybe won\u00c2\u2019t have to examine our consciences quite as much,” said the president, after we “make it a little bit less exciting, but it will be a whole lot better for the players…”<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t know if you watched the Pro Bowl last night in Hawaii. It was 65-32 or some such thing, the final score. The Pro Bowl is being held up today as example of how the game should be played. It was basically a live scrimmage. It wasn\u2019t a walkthrough, but it was probably 80% of normal game speed. That\u2019s what\u2019s being held up as the example. There was only one injury, and everybody was trying to avoid being hurt. Of course, that makes sense: The Pro Bowl is a meaningless game. There was an injury, however.<\/p>\n

J. J. Watt of the Houston Texans ripped the fingernail off his little finger and lost what looked like a pint of blood out there. It was as bloody as it could be, and it was just a little finger. They\u2019re holding that game up as the example. So, you know, in addition, folks, to me and Fox News being the only thing standing between Obama and a totally compliant media… Stop and think of that. In his own words, Fox News and I are the only thing standing in the way of a totally compliant media. Well, not only am I standing in the way of that, I may be the only person keeping Obama from transforming the NFL.<\/p>\n

Everybody\u2019s on Obama\u2019s side on that. Everybody. I don\u2019t think anybody is out there defending the NFL as is. So I\u2019m it. I\u2019m it. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I forgot to mention something else he said about football and then we\u2019re gonna go to the phones. In addition to saying that he wouldn\u2019t let his son, Trayvon, play football now, and saying that we need to make the game safer so that the fans can have a less guilty conscience, the president also said this. Quote: “I tend to be more worried about college players than NFL players in the sense that the NFL players have a union, they\u2019re grown men, they can make some of these decisions on their own, and most of them are well-compensated for the violence they do to their bodies. You read some of these stories about college players who undergo some of these same problems with concussions and so forth and then have nothing to fall back on. That\u00c2\u2019s something that I\u00c2\u2019d like to see the NCAA think about.”<\/p>\n

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Tend to be more worried about college players than NFL players. What\u2019s the difference? The game is the game. Concussion\u2019s a concussion whether you got a union or not. Now, true, the college player\u2019s are not compensated but the college player does probably have food stamps and a cell phone, a flat screen, in some cases, scholarships, but it\u2019s true, the college players don\u2019t have a union. That\u2019s the big difference. Anyway, he also threw that in.<\/p>\n

Here is Brian in La Porte, Indiana, as we start today on the phones. Thank you, sir, for the call. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you. I appreciate your show and the thing I really enjoy about you is your sincerity and your passion about what you do and that\u2019s what I appreciate about what you do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much, sir. I appreciate that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: My question is, if the president is so worried about the safety of football players, if Trayvon Martin was his son, he wouldn\u2019t want to have to think twice about playing football. Well, maybe he should be more worried more about if his daughters or Hillary Clinton\u2019s daughter would have been in Benghazi. I think that maybe he should be more concerned about that than about football.<\/p>\n

RUSH: See, that is an excellent rejoinder. What it illustrates, what your point illustrates is that this football business is simply a liberal cause. It has the same liberal objectives as the global warming debate has, or as any other favored liberal cause. Because you\u2019re exactly right. “I wouldn\u2019t let my son play football.” But what about his son going to Benghazi? What about his daughter going to Afghanistan?<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s exactly right. As far as football, I think the fans have control of that. If we feel as fans that the game is too violent, we\u2019ll just quit going to the games. But that hasn\u2019t happened, so obviously the majority of the people like the way it\u2019s being played.<\/p>\n

RUSH: See, what you are spotlighting is that the fans are the problem. Of course the fans are bloodthirsty. Of course the fans thrive on the violence. The fans thrive on injuries and the hard hits, and that\u2019s why we can\u2019t leave it up to the fans. When the left is in control, we can\u2019t leave it up to anybody but them, because nobody involved knows what\u2019s best for \u2019em. The players don\u2019t know what\u2019s best for them. They have to be saved from themselves. The fans don\u2019t know what\u2019s best for the game or the players or themselves. The owners, they\u2019re just a bunch of mean, rich guys exploiting these players, and they don\u2019t care what happens to \u2019em. And so somebody has to do something.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I don\u2019t think the guy in the White House is the one I want making my choices for me. I think I can make my own choices.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Oh, agreed. Agreed. But I\u2019m just telling you that whether you want to or not, though, the current mind-set is that whether it\u2019s football or driving, you don\u2019t have the ability to make these decisions for you. He\u2019s gotta do it or his agents or the government, some ruling elite, the smartest of the smartest, the best and the brightest. Because if you leave it up to the owners, they\u2019re just gonna exploit these poor guys. If you leave it up to the fans, they\u2019re just gonna want more blood. If you leave it up to the players, they\u2019re not smart enough to know what they\u2019re risking, so somebody\u2019s gotta step in and save everybody from themselves. That\u2019s the mind-set. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Yep.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The fact is, this, in truth, ought to be something a president of the United States doesn\u2019t have time for, in the real world. I\u2019m glad you called, Brian. Appreciate it. <\/p>\n

Todd in Divernon, Illinois. Welcome, sir. You\u2019re next. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, thanks for talking with me today.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet. You bet.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, I know lots and lots of football fans, many, many, and not a one do I know enjoys seeing anyone get hurt on the field. In fact, the opposite. How many times have you been to a game, home or away, when a player is down for a moment, as soon as he gets up, he gets a round of applause from the crowd, the live audience, to show that they\u2019re happy that he\u2019s not injured.<\/p>\n

RUSH: True.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I mean, if they want to start somewhere, let\u2019s go to a NASCAR race and watch the fans once there\u2019s a big crash, watch them whooping it up and hooting and hollering. You know, they act like football fans. It\u2019s like the gladiators, where, when a guy\u2019s down, we\u2019re all up with our thumbs pointing down, you know, to take their heads off. It\u2019s the complete opposite.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But you think people like NASCAR or the Indy 500, they secretly, privately want to see those wrecks?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, if you\u2019ve ever sat and tried to watch cars go around a track for two hours, it\u2019s about the only exciting thing that I see happening there. A football game is exciting from beginning to end, and that\u2019s what the fans want to see. They just want to see good football. In fact, to see a guy go out of the game, a lot of times players on the other side don\u2019t like to see it \u2019cause they want to beat their best guys.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, maybe. Maybe. There\u2019s an argument on both sides of that. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: If President Obama\u2019s gonna weigh in on football safety, maybe we need to ask Terrell Suggs of the Ravens about how to reduce the deficit. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: So if President Obama is gonna weigh in on football safety, maybe somebody — tomorrow is media day, gonna be overrun with media in the Superdome — maybe somebody could ask Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs about how to reduce the deficit. If you really want to get rid of the problems in the NFL, put Obama in charge of it. Put him in charge, make him the commissioner, and in a few months it will be so deep in debt it will have to go out of business, and that way, no more concussions. <\/p>\n

I glossed over this, but I want to share with you one more excerpt from what Obama told the guy at the New Republic when he weighed in on this. He said, “I\u2019m a big football fan, but I have to tell you, if I had a son,” Trayvon, “I\u2019d have to think long and hard before I let him play football.” We might even have to change the game and “make it a little bit less exciting, but it will be a whole lot better for the players and fans who won\u2019t have to examine our consciences quite as much.” That is a stunning thing. But then there was this. The president said, “I tend to be more worried about college players than NFL players in the sense that the NFL players have a union.” How\u2019s that working out for \u2019em on concussions? <\/p>\n

Anyway, “NFL players have a union, they\u2019re grown men, they can make some of these decisions on their own.” So here you have the president of the United States basically saying that adult NFL players are not capable of making all the decisions that need to be made, which is exactly my point. They can make some of these decisions on their own. College kids are too young, too exploited, don\u2019t know what they\u2019re doing. Adult players, they can make some of these decisions on their own.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m telling you, don\u2019t doubt me. The way the left looks at it, it\u2019s football in this case, but it\u2019s anything else. The owners, they are the ones who know full well what they\u2019re doing. They are exploiting these players. They don\u2019t care if they get hurt. They don\u2019t care if they get concussions. They don\u2019t care if they commit suicide later. It\u2019s, what can you do for me now? They don\u2019t worry about tomorrow. And the players are a dime a dozen. If a guy gets hurt, put him on injury reserve, bring somebody else in. Just keep the turnstiles open on Sunday. It doesn\u2019t matter. <\/p>\n

So the owners, you can\u2019t trust them to do anything. That\u2019s right. The players, just heard Obama, they can make some of these decisions, but they\u2019re not smart enough. The players just don\u2019t know enough about what\u2019s good for them. They need somebody like Obama or a federal commission, whatever, to oversee the game \u2019cause the players don\u2019t know what they\u2019re talking about, they don\u2019t know what they\u2019re doing, they\u2019re not smart enough. And the fans are just showing up at the Roman Colosseum watching the Christians thrown to the lions. They just want the blood lust. They just want the car crash. They want the injuries. They want the violence. They want the hard hitting. They want the oohs and ahs, can\u2019t leave it up to them. <\/p>\n

And if you have the courage to admit it, that\u2019s the left\u2019s attitude about virtually every problem in society. Jobs, income, car to drive, gasoline usage, you name it, you just can\u2019t make some of these decisions on your own. You don\u2019t know what\u2019s good for you. You don\u2019t know what\u2019s best for you. Somebody else has to move in. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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