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Meanwhile, the latest development is that Donovan McNabb has told T.O. to stop talking about him. The leader of the Philadelphia Eagles, the quarterback, Donovan McNabb, says, ‘I\u2019m not troubled by what T.O. is doing, but I don\u2019t want to hear him mention my name. If anybody is going to talk about me, it\u2019s going to be me.\u2019 This rift cannot be allowed to continue, ladies and gentlemen. It just can\u2019t, and I would like to offer this program as a means of getting these two Americans and star players back together. They may not want to talk to each other face-to-face, but perhaps they would join me on this program and speak to each other telephonically via this program and settle this. It\u2019s silly. They\u2019re adults. They\u2019re being paid millions of dollars to play, basically, a game. I know it\u2019s a high-risk game injury-wise, but the length of time they have to make big money and play this game is limited because it\u2019s athletics. They\u2019re squandering opportunities. They came very close to the Super Bowl last year, and I know Owens has a problem with McNabb about that, he ‘got tired\u2019 at the end, but I think it was a very unfair comment — and these two people need to get back together, and I would like to facilitate that if possible. If Donovan McNabb and Owens would like to appear on the program — not in studio, but telephonically, Owens from his basketball court in New Jersey and McNabb from the Eagles training camp or wherever he wants to call from — I would be more than happy to broker this and put these two guys back together, for the sake of the Eagles, for the sake of the NFC East, and for the sake of the National Football League. I mean, it doesn\u2019t need this kind of stuff, with us being on the verge of the National Football League season. I just wanted to put it out there; let everybody know that I\u2019ve made the offer, and it is a beautiful thing, and I\u2019m standing by. I\u2019m ready.<\/p>\n

You know, it\u2019s a tough thing to get on this program. We don\u2019t have guests. I seldom invite people on this program. You know, when the guests appear on this program it\u2019s because they\u2019ve called and groveled and said they\u2019ve got a book or a movie or they\u2019ve got some issue they want to talk about, but seldom do we have them. I mean, I think this year alone we\u2019ve asked one person to come on the program — well, two, Bernard Goldberg and Rick Santorum, and then that\u2019s it. So this is a rare opportunity that\u2019s being offered here. I see Mr. Snerdley is laughing in there. I\u2019m deadly serious about this. This is childish. It\u2019s ridiculous to see all this going on. The people of Philadelphia, you ought to see. I\u2019ve been reading the papers. People have turned against T.O. They don\u2019t like T.O. This is not good for the Eagles. Yeah, they\u2019re really down on T.O. ‘T.O., go home,\u2019 or whatever they\u2019re saying — and he already is at home! So I just wanted to make the offer and let everybody know I\u2019m serious about it, and this program is available any time Donovan McNabb and Terrell Owens would like to avail themselves the opportunity for an impartial arbitrator to sit here and put these two guys back together — at least sufficiently so that they could perform at peak level during the season. (interruption) Yeah, T.O. did say that Andy Reid told him to ‘shut up,\u2019 and that his name is Owens, and nobody tells him to shut up. I\u2019m not trying to broker anything here between T.O. and Andy Reid. Andy Reid is the coach of the team. He\u2019s in effect the boss of the team. You know, that\u2019s for T.O. and Andy Reid to work out. I would not intrude on that relationship. I mean these two guys, the same thing: they\u2019re players. They\u2019re both players. I know Donovan is a quarterback, the leader of the team, but this is not good for Eagles fans. We care about Eagles fans. We love <\/emphasize>Philadelphia on this program. I\u2019ve been to Philadelphia for some of the most memorable moments in my life, so I owe the city — and I\u2019m serious. If somebody wants to spread the word, I\u2019ll sit here eagerly awaiting some sign that the two warring factions here are willing to avail themselves of this really unique and not-very-often offered opportunity. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Tacoma, Washington, we\u2019ll start with Larry. Nice to have you on the program, sir. Hello.<\/line>CALLER: Hey, Rush, nice talking to you.<\/line>RUSH: Thank you.<\/line>CALLER: Hey, I think your love for football\u2019s gotten in the way of your common sense of fair play and ethics. You know, in my opinion, T.O. is just nothing but a punk. He\u2019s one step below an average NBA player for common sense and good class. He\u2019s — you know, Donovan McNabb, on the other hand, is a classy guy. He took your comments on ESPN in the context that you portrayed them in, not the way the liberal media tried to portray it. They basically gave you the Jimmy “The Greek” job on that deal. So, you know, he doesn\u2019t understand the word “contract”? What is a contract? That\u2019s a binding agreement between two people, and he wants to renegotiate his contract. I\u2019d like to see him pay back half his money if he didn\u2019t have a good season. I think Minnesota [sic] did the right thing by getting rid of him. He\u2019s a clown. He should be out of the sport. He\u2019s a great athlete, but he\u2019s a clown. He\u2019s a punk —<\/line> RUSH: Hang on here! Two things. I want to address the NFL contract situation, and I also want to address your reference to T.O. as a “punk.” T.O. is a child of God. He\u2019s a human being. He obviously — I think people on the left would say he\u2019s engaging in “a desperate cry for help.” I am here to offer and to assist. I can. I could bring these two guys together. I\u2019ve been there, folks, and I could do this, and I\u2019m serious in my desire to do it. As to NFL contracts, the players have a point. Folks, don\u2019t think this is sports discussion. This is an employment issue here and this is going to be an economics lesson for you. So, please, for those of you who hate sports, try to still listen to this and don\u2019t tune this out. The National Football League is one of the most well-run and well-structured business models that has franchises in the history of this country, and they have managed to have peace up \u2019til now with the players union since 1983 — and it was the last work stoppage they had, 1982 or \u201983, strikes, maybe it was \u201981, but early 80s, and the way they\u2019ve done it, they were wrong about one thing. They thought free agency and players traveling from team to team would tear down the cohesion of teams and loyalty to fans, and it has done just the opposite. But in the process, free agency has also created a disparity of pay within a team. It is impossible to understand this, to accept this. I have heard this from four different NFL owners: it is impossible to lose money in the National Football League, primarily because of the amount each team gets from television, radio and other marketing venues. It\u2019s impossible to lose money in the National Football League. <\/line><\/p>\n

There is a salary cap. Now, in Terrell Owens\u2019 case, I\u2019m not going to get the specifics exactly right but, yeah, he signed a contract last year, and I understand totally everybody saying, “Live up to it, T.O. Live up to it,” but if you look at the average NFL contract, next time you hear that an NFL player signed for seven years and $49 million, don\u2019t believe a word of it, because that $49 million isn\u2019t guaranteed. What you may have of the $49 million, in T.O.\u2019s case, maybe six million of it\u2019s guaranteed or maybe nine million, but he can be cut any time. He will get the bonuses he\u2019s due for signing. The way they give you guaranteed money in the NFL is to give you a signing bonus or a roster bonus for showing up at a certain time, and they prorate that bonus over the length of your contract to apply it to the salary cap. So where Owens may get, oh, a $49 million contract, his yearly salary may be just over a million dollars, but he\u2019s got the bonus money up front — and this does not happen in baseball. Baseball money is guaranteed. You get injured, you get the money, and the NFL players are trying to say, “Wait a minute. All these big contracts, 49 million here, 60 million there, it\u2019s BS. It isn\u2019t true. We\u2019re not getting that money. We\u2019re getting cut in the second year of a seven-year deal. We don\u2019t get any, other than the bonus money that we\u2019ve been given,” and they want to try to change that around and they\u2019re trying to arrange so they get more guaranteed money in the deals that they get, and the reason they don\u2019t is because of the way the NFL has successfully structured itself and this is going to be one of the sticking points when the players association tries to put together a new deal which they\u2019re trying to do at present with the NFL. <\/line>Now, I understand the players\u2019 side of this in terms of, okay, the teams agreeing to pay them $49 million but they\u2019re not. There is no way, for example, that Terrell Owens will fulfill that contract with the Eagles if he\u2019s the best player in the history of the game and the history of the human race, because at some point he\u2019s going to get so old, those contracts are so back loaded that to keep him on the roster for the sixth or seventh year of his contract could cost the team a 10 or $11 million bonus when he\u2019s 35 or 36 years old. No 35- or 36- or 38-year-old is going to get a ten-million-dollar roster bonus in the National Football League. You\u2019re approaching Social Security at that age in the NFL — and this is really T.O.\u2019s agent. Drew Rosenhaus is one of the agents that\u2019s trying to take the lead and get the whole structuring of NFL contracts changed. I think T.O. is going about it all the wrong way. He did sign the deal just one year ago. This is not the time to come back and do this, but just in the sense that the players have a point here. The league does announce these terms, announce all these huge mega deals, but those players never see half of that money. They don\u2019t see half of it, because it\u2019s all toward the end. The salaries get up so high in the end, you know, look at a third-round draft choice traditionally will sign for a $600,000 bonus and get the minimum salary for the first three years of his deal. Second round is a little bit better. The first round, of course, is the cream of the crop, but few others. You go to work for someplace, and if you have a contract, they agree to pay you X for X-number of years, you\u2019re going to get it — unless you quit. But if you stay there and work, you\u2019re going to get it. In the NFL they\u2019re structured in such a way you can\u2019t stay there long enough to earn it.<\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n\n

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