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RUSH: I need to ask this question.  Did any of you tune in last night trying to watch the Hall of Fame game on ESPN?  It was scheduled at eight o\u2019clock, was gonna be the Packers and the Indianapolis Colts.  Did you tune in to watch it?  Well, I did.  I remembered at about 20 minutes after eight that it was on.  I said, “Whoa.”  I was in the middle of doing something else. <\/p>\n

So I tuned in at 20 after eight and I saw \u2019em interviewing a bunch of players, and it looked like it was live.  The sun was setting.  So I said, “This is not right.  What is this?  Is there a rain delay?”  So I got out my radar device, my radar app, is it raining?  Thunder?  Maybe they had to delay the game.  No, it\u2019s not that. <\/p>\n

So I hit the guide, maybe the game doesn\u2019t actually start \u2019til nine.  Maybe this is pregame.  Nope, game starts at eight.  So I said, “What the hell\u2019s going on?”  So I went to a couple websites.  They had to cancel it!  They had to cancel a game!  And did you hear why?  This is the most incredible thing.  I think it is symptomatic of an overall, I do not know, lack of pursuit of excellence throughout our culture.  I hope it isn\u2019t that.  When these kind of things happen, though, it\u2019s inexplicable. <\/line><\/p>\n

Okay, so they had the Hall of Fame ceremony.  Where they play the Hall of Fame game is a high school stadium in Canton, Ohio.  And they\u2019ve upgraded this stadium.  They put a brand-new field in this year because the field was in bad shape and the Steelers\u2019 kicker injured his knee last year and lost his career because of it.  Shaun Suisham.  So they put in a new field.  They had their Hall of Fame ceremonies on Saturday night, all the induction speeches and so forth and they had this giant tarp out on the field where they had stands and chairs set up for people to watch. <\/p>\n

So they pulled a tarp off, and they hadn\u2019t painted yet the Hall of Fame logo or any of the team logos in the end zone.  I don\u2019t know why; they\u2019ve only had how long to prepare?  They play one game a year on this date. They play high school games there, but those don\u2019t start for a while.  It turns out somebody used the wrong kind of paint, and the paint, an artificial surface that\u2019s used now, there are actually — you know what it\u2019s made of?  Artificial surface is made out of tires.  It\u2019s made out of the same kind of rubber that\u2019s actually made into tires on cars and other vehicles. <\/p>\n

And inside, if you\u2019ve ever watched a game and you\u2019ve noticed what looks like little black particles streaming up when a player slides in or when there\u2019s a lot of pressure on the ground, they\u2019re actually rubber pellets that are buried deep inside the fake blades of grass which are also rubber, and then there\u2019s a little cushion.  Well, what had happened was, they used the wrong paint, and it congealed with all those gazillion little pellets and became like tar and concrete. <\/p>\n

So they had to cancel the game.  The players would have got stuck in it like playing in a tar pit or, if it had dried, it would be like falling on straight concrete.  They tried to get stuff out there to grind it up and uncongeal it, whatever the word is, and that failed. They tried for about an hour, then they had to cancel the game.  They had to cancel preseason game in Philadelphia some years ago because of bad field condition there.  That was not new, that was at the old — the vet.  But this, brand-new. <\/p>\n

They\u2019ve had theoretically a year to get ready for this game.  (interruption) Well, I don\u2019t know if anybody got fired.  I don\u2019t know.  And if they do fire somebody, I don\u2019t know if they\u2019re gonna make a big public display out of it. Do you know how many management people the NFL has now?  The excuse is, “Wait a minute now, Rush, the Hall of Fame is not the NFL, that\u2019s a separate organization.” <\/p>\n

Well, yeah, that\u2019s true, but they work together on this.  You can\u2019t say it\u2019s the Hall of Fame\u2019s fault.  It\u2019s just a combination of things. Why the wrong paint?  Why wasn\u2019t it already painted?  “Rush, they\u2019re gonna put a tarp on that for the ceremony tonight.”  Fields are painted before seasons begin, they play on \u2019em, they cover \u2019em, it gets rained on. None of it\u2019s explicable. None of it makes any sense whatsoever.  From the wrong paint to not having it done in the first place. <\/p>\n

So, anyway, they cancel the game.  ESPN had a brand-new play-by-play crew. They had a brand-new pregame crew. They had all kinds of stuff planned.  The players probably really didn\u2019t mind.  They hate preseason games.  So they did a fan fest.  They let the fans in the stands out on the field to mingle with the players for a while.  Players were dressed out in the game jerseys they were gonna wear but aside from that there was no pads or anything. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ve never seen anything like it.  The closest I\u2019ve seen is when they canceled a game in Philadelphia on a Sunday night because of snow in the forecast.  That was bad.  <\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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