{"id":228076,"date":"2017-04-04T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T18:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=228076"},"modified":"2017-04-04T17:17:27","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T21:17:27","slug":"the-generic-unfairness-of-tom-brady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/04\/04\/the-generic-unfairness-of-tom-brady\/","title":{"rendered":"The Genetic Unfairness of Tom Brady?"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: There\u2019s a story here involving what might be considered genetic unfairness regarding Tom Brady, the quarterback of the New England Patriots. The story is from the U.K. Guardian. Headline: “‘More Than Just Luck\u2019: the Science Behind Tom Brady\u2019s Preposterous Longevity<\/a>.” Tom Brady is 40. He thinks he can play football in the NFL for six or seven more years. At age 40, most everybody at that age in the NFL is gone by a couple\/three years. There are exceptions. George Blanda of the old Oakland Raiders, and a few others. But nobody aged 40 or 39 has ever performed with the proficiency of Brady.<\/p>\n

\"\"Brady has been on a revised health regimen — including exercise and diet — for two years, maybe. Maybe three. And Brady says that he has never been healthier. Brady says in the 15 years he\u2019s been playing, he never feels better after a game, that his arm doesn\u2019t hurt, that his body doesn\u2019t hurt. As opposed to his first five or 10 years, he was sore for three or four days after a game. Now, not at all. And he\u2019s talking about the various aspects. One of the things that gets mentioned frequently is he eats avocado ice cream. I don\u2019t know what it is. I\u2019ve never heard of it before. I\u2019m just giving you an example.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s almost like a vegan-like diet with some exceptions, but it has a tailored exercise regimen, a very, very strict diet. It involves going to bed before nine o\u2019clock every night no matter what, getting up at five a.m., getting started on the day. It is total commitment to the job, one hundred percent total commitment to the job, as if he were a rookie and had to prove himself to make the roster.<\/p>\n

So he has become the envy and the object of curiosity of many athletes. Look at Tiger Woods. Tiger Woods is 42 and may not ever play golf again. Numerous surgeries on his back, who knows whatever else. Tom Brady is 40, doesn\u2019t look it, doesn\u2019t look a day over 30, and is playing at a level that nobody else in the league is playing at. And people are just envious as they can be, but also interested in trying to replicate what Brady\u2019s doing.<\/p>\n

As such, Brady is thinking about, I don\u2019t know, getting into the health business in a way, selling various things or advice. I\u2019m not sure how extensive that is. So that\u2019s the pretext for this story. The story basically tells you what I just told you. It begins this way.<\/p>\n

\"\"“Love him, hate him, but never doubt him. That may stick in the throat of many Patriots haters, but with the gaudy statistics and five Super Bowl victories to prove it, Tom Brady seems to achieve whatever he wills. And what he wants, according to team owner Robert Kraft, is to play another seven years. What makes Brady different, though, isn\u2019t a will to continue playing … Rather, it\u2019s that Brady seems to have a legitimate chance to play as long as he wishes.”<\/p>\n

Now, here\u2019s where it gets tricky, folks, in this story. Don\u2019t leave me here. Stick with me.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s an option not available to every player. Skill and economics factor heavily into how long a player lasts in the NFL, but the decision to retire is often made by MRIs and MDs. Tendons tear, cartilage shreds, the feet slow — and teams realize that the third-round pick can put up the same numbers at a lower cost.<\/p>\n

“So how has Brady, in a league where hits are likened to car crashes, stayed healthy? ‘I have no doubt that Tom Brady\u2019s ability to recover is due to his lifestyle health,\u2019 says Fergus Connolly, football performance director for Brady\u2019s alma mater, the University of Michigan.”<\/p>\n

Fergus Connolly says that maintaining a healthy lifestyle — diet, sleep, strength, flexibility, and spiritual cognizant resilience is a critical factor in a long NFL career. “‘You can\u2019t survive in the NFL without giving lifestyle an emphasis and for a long career it has to be all aspects.\u2019 In that sense, Brady\u2019s longevity is more than just luck. His all-encompassing approach to the variables that he can control has made Brady the master of his own destiny, making his desire to play into his mid-40s all the more realistic.”<\/p>\n

Okay. So what makes Brady different? “It\u2019s not an option available to every player.” Ready for the next? This quote hints at what I think people are beginning to prepare. “But is there something in Brady\u2019s genetics, a stacked deck that allows him advantages not available,” to less genetically endowed players? So, you see, they are thinking Brady has an unfair advantage. He\u2019s got a genetics advantage that not every player has. A stacked deck. His mom and dad equal a stacked deck.<\/p>\n

\"\"“Fergus Connolly doesn\u2019t think so. Since most at the professional level are blessed with good genes, athletes can\u2019t be separated into winners and losers of the genetic lottery. In fact, Connolly believes that for professional athletes, especially those at Brady\u2019s level, how you take of your genes matters more than genetic makeup.”<\/p>\n

How do you take care of your genes? Brian, you\u2019re a big workout regimen, eating those protein shakes. Are you taking care of your genes? How in the hell do you do that? How do you take care of your genes? G-e-n-e-s. Don\u2019t anybody throw Levi\u2019s at me here. Let me tell you where I think this is headed. No, I think this is headed for white privilege.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m just telling you, with where we are in our culture, you go to any college campus and white privilege is all over. Special rooms where white students can go and discuss their collective guilt at being white. The unfairness of being white in America is what\u2019s constantly discussed on higher education campuses. It has permeated many different levels of education.<\/p>\n

So when I see things like what makes Brady different, and “it\u2019s not an option available to every player.” And then we have it\u2019s his genetics, a stacked deck that allows him advantages not available to less genetically endowed players. Well, what are we talking about here? No, you can\u2019t cheat your genetics. This is the point. You cannot work out your genes. You cannot therapy your genes. You have \u2019em or you don\u2019t. Exactly right. Good breeding. Who was the first to ever discuss this, in fact, in a similar setting? It would be now the infamous James the Greek. Jimmy “The Greek” who talked about this. He got fired for it.<\/p>\n

Folks, when I see this paragraph, “There\u2019s something in Brady\u2019s genetics, a stacked deck, that allows him advantages not available to less genetically endowed players. It\u2019s more than luck. It\u2019s not an option available to every player.” You know how consumed with fairness the left is. And this is the media. You know how consumed with all of this. I\u2019m just telling you. I got take a break. So have to wait on what I\u2019m just telling you.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, where I\u2019m getting at with this Tom Brady business, you know as well as I that we are in a divided culture. We\u2019re divided on gender, sexual orientation. We\u2019re divided on race, we\u2019re divided male-female, you name it.\u00a0 And we also have a thing about us, we love to tear down people that have achieved greatness.\u00a0 We just love to.\u00a0 We\u2019ll build \u2019em up on the way.\u00a0 Build \u2019em, but we love it when they implode. We love it when something happens to tell us they\u2019re no better than we are. We love it when they succumb to average, ordinary things like all the rest of us do.\u00a0 It\u2019s just human nature.<\/p>\n

So here you have Tom Brady, perhaps the greatest quarterback in the history of the league — no offense, Joe Montana — and you know as well as I do that there are going to be — well, first you got the Patriot haters, number one, but beside them you\u2019re gonna have people that just by nature are gonna try to say that Brady had an unfair advantage. That you can\u2019t assign hard work and commitment, you can\u2019t make those the reasons \u2019cause everybody works hard, a lot of people put in commitment.<\/p>\n

So there has to be something that Brady has that nobody else does that explains Brady\u2019s singular greatness.\u00a0 You know as well as I do that people like that are everywhere.\u00a0 You start throwing the racial component in and you have this story alluding to breeding and genetics.\u00a0 I don\u2019t have to tell you where it could possibly next go.\u00a0 You can figure that out yourself without me having to say so and have the media all over my case about it.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 Oh.\u00a0 Wait a minute.\u00a0 I forgot to include one other thing.\u00a0 They\u2019re gonna have people say Brady is taking supplements that are undetectable, and he\u2019s getting away with juicing.\u00a0 I forgot that, that people are gonna… So there\u2019s possibilities that abound.\u00a0 “Genetic superiority? That\u2019s unfair based upon breeding. That\u2019s not fair, and some kind of ‘supplements,\u2019 shall we say? What are these supplements? These are performance-enhancing drugs that speed up recovery and…” Anyway, there\u2019s all kinds of banned substances.\u00a0 But you\u2019re gonna have people who say, “It\u2019s not humanly possible.<\/p>\n

“It isn\u2019t humanly possible for a guy to be younger, to look younger, to play better at 40 than he did at 25 or 30.\u00a0 It\u2019s just not humanly possible.\u00a0 There has to be a reason.”\u00a0 So you\u2019re gonna have all kinds of naysayers.\u00a0 That\u2019s my only point.\u00a0 Because we love to deny.\u00a0 I\u2019m leveling no accusations here.\u00a0 I\u2019m just telling you. I see a story, and I tell you how my mind works. And I see a story that says Tom Brady has an unfair advantage, and they talk about genes (ha!)\u00a0 and a stacked deck, and they\u2019re talking about genes?\u00a0 You wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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