{"id":248064,"date":"2017-09-21T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=248064"},"modified":"2017-09-25T16:19:33","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T20:19:33","slug":"nfl-players-want-to-do-something-that-will-drive-away-more-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/09\/21\/nfl-players-want-to-do-something-that-will-drive-away-more-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Players Want to Do Something That Will Drive Away More Fans"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: The players, some of the players in the National Football League want to do something that\u2019s gonna keep even more people away from the game. That\u2019s going to make it even — do you know you can buy a ticket at the 49ers and Rams game tonight in San Francisco for the price of a pretzel at the concession stand<\/a>?<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: The 49ers and Rams are the Thursday night game tonight on the NFL Network. It\u2019s at San Francisco, Levi\u2019s Stadium, and Levi\u2019s Stadium is supposedly the most advanced high-tech stadium. If everybody wants to use Wi-Fi at the same time they can accommodate it, for example, or cell, they can accommodate it. And, you know, the 49ers haven\u2019t won anything of significance in a number of years, and they haven\u2019t scored a touchdown yet this season, two games.<\/p>\n

\"\"They hired as their head coach the offensive coordinator for the Atlanta Falcons last year, Kyle Shanahan. Not a touchdown. And they\u2019re one of I think two teams, maybe three, in two games have not scored a touchdown. That means no excitement. The fans are there to watch offense and explosive plays. They\u2019re not seeing it. So the Rams are showing up and the Rams, you know, they\u2019re not a team yet. I mean, they moved from St. Louis and got a second year quarterback. Nobody\u2019s setting it on fire.<\/p>\n

The Rams and 49ers used to be one of the greatest rivalries in the NFL, San Francisco-Los Angeles, back in the days when the Rams were in LA. Anyway, they are selling tickets for this game tonight for 15 bucks. That\u2019s the cost of two pretzels at a concession stand at Levi\u2019s Stadium. And, as it is, it may be half filled like it\u2019s been all year. This is a major problem for the NFL, and they\u2019re trying to sweep this under the rug. But it is a huge problem. When they can\u2019t get face value for tickets — I mean, even if they could get half attendance at face value, there would be at least something to cling to.<\/p>\n

But when you can\u2019t even maintain face value when you\u2019re still only filling half the place up and you haven\u2019t scored a touchdown yet this season, and people are not crazy about Thursday night games anyway. And in the Bay Area, there are a lot of other things you can do on a Thursday night than go to a football game in Santa Clara. They\u2019re not even in San Francisco anymore.<\/p>\n

So I was not making up the price of the tickets. Fifteen bucks. Not all of them, but some pretty decent seat locations are 15 bucks. And you can buy your concessions on an app at Levi\u2019s Stadium. Now they\u2019ve gone all tech. That kind of stuff doesn\u2019t matter to a real football fan. An app? What do you mean, I\u2019m gonna get up or are vendors gonna show up and I\u2019ll buy some beer. What do you mean, an app?<\/p>\n

Anyway, since I brought this up, let me mention what I had ended the previous hour with. By the way, here\u2019s the story, it\u2019s at the San Francisco Chronicle: “49ers-Rams Tickets Reselling For the Price of Two Stadium Pretzels — Thursday night\u2019s Rams-49ers game may be the toughest sell in the history of Levi\u2019s Stadium.” Anyway, I\u2019ve given the details there.<\/p>\n

Here is Pro Football Talk, the NBC NFL website. “Group of Players Asks NFL to Support Activism Awareness Month<\/a>\u00a0— The NFL will wrap itself in pink for breast cancer, and put on faux-camo to celebrate the military. Now, a group of players has asked commissioner Roger Goodell to spend a month talking about black and white.” Race.<\/p>\n

\"\"“According to Charles Robinson of Yahoo Sports, a group of four current and former players sent the league a memo in August asking for the NFL\u2019s help campaigning for racial equality and criminal justice reform. The letter was signed by Seahawks defensive end Michael Bennett, Eagles safety Malcolm Jenkins, retired wide receiver Anquan Boldin and Eagles wideout Torrey Smith.<\/p>\n

“The 10-page letter to Goodell and executive vice president of football operations Troy Vincent also asked the league to endorse efforts to promote an activism awareness month. Neither the league, nor the players who signed the memo commented, citing an agreement to keep direct communications with Goodell private. The memo requested the league to invest time and education, political involvement, finances and other commitments from the league. They also asked the league to endorse November as the time to celebrate their cause.”<\/p>\n

And again, the cause is activism awareness month. Issues of black and white, police brutality, this kind of thing. And then the story says here: “The league is all too happy to promote safer topics (as in, who can possibly be against cancer or the military?) and will also be delighted to sell you some merchandise to show how much they care. ‘To be clear, we are asking for your support,\u2019 part of the memo says. ‘We appreciate your acknowledgement on the call regarding the clear distinction between support and permission. For us,'” — these are the players that have written the letter to Goodell.<\/p>\n

“For us, support means: bear all or part of the weight of; hold up; give assistance to, especially financially; enable to function or act. We need support, collaboration and partnerships to achieve our goal of strengthening the community. There are a variety of ways for you to get involved. Similar to the model we have in place for players to get involved, there are three tiers of engagement based on your comfort level. To start, we appreciate your agreement on making this an immediate priority. In your words, from Protest to Progress, we need action.”<\/p>\n

\"\"So we have all-pink October, which is supposed to raise consciousness of breast cancer. They wear camo socks and gloves and stuff to raise consciousness of the military. I don\u2019t know what they want the league to do, but they want there to be a month-long recognition of the problems of police brutality and discrimination in law enforcement, prison population, this kind of thing. Activism awareness. And they\u2019re asking the league to endorse November as the time to celebrate the cause.<\/p>\n

They want the NFL\u2019s help in campaigning for racial equality and criminal justice reform. What criminal justice reform? I\u2019ll tell you what that is. That\u2019s police brutality and prison overpopulation. Now, what\u2019s the league gonna do? This is a group of players. This is not the players association yet. This is a group of players. We don\u2019t know how many players they represent, but it\u2019s gonna end up being significant. This is all an offshoot of the Kaepernick situation. This is all an add-on.<\/p>\n

In other words, now, taking a knee during the anthem or sitting on the bench during the anthem, that\u2019s not enough. The players want to do more, and they want the league\u2019s support in doing more. In other words, social justice warriors want recognition and permission to call attention to their cause and be permitted whatever behavior they ask on NFL games, Sunday and Monday and Thursday nights.<\/p>\n

Now, what do you think that\u2019s gonna cause? What effect is that gonna have? Everybody agrees that sports was an oasis, it was an enclave, it was a space away from all of that kind of controversy. It was a respite. It was a place to go spend three to four hours not thinking about that stuff. Now these players are asking apparently that the league join them in making this front and center for the month of November, and they want this in people\u2019s faces.<\/p>\n

Now, the players are not investors in the league. The players have put, in terms of capital and finance, nothing. They have their contracts to be paid, and they\u2019ll be paid no matter what happens. Yesterday there was a story that the NFL may be facing give-backs up to $200 million so far in lost advertising revenue because of the declining ratings. If the ratings decline continues, it\u2019s not gonna stop at $200 million.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>So the players are asking the owners and the league, who are the capital investors, who are essentially the property owners here — the players are not. The players\u2019 investment is not at risk. Not this specific. I mean, they have their contracts. What this is gonna do to the future of the game, they obviously either don\u2019t care or are wrong and think it\u2019s gonna help. But I\u2019m not sure that this is why people want to turn on the TV. They already are not. In even greater numbers, people are turning the NFL off.<\/p>\n

You can\u2019t fire these people. These are players. Snerdley is saying, “If I were Goodell, I\u2019d fire \u2019em. I\u2019d get \u2019em out of the damn league.” That\u2019s not gonna happen. That isn\u2019t gonna happen. There are teams maybe boycotting their next games. If you fire Michael Bennett I\u2019ll guarantee you Richard Sherman would lead a movement in the Seahawks and they won\u2019t show up. Well, I mean the inmates are running the asylum in universities now, and look what\u2019s happening there.<\/p>\n

Have you ever heard of the latest at Pitt? University of Pittsburgh. “Pittsburgh Students Demand Disarming of Police, Free Tuition<\/a> — University of Pittsburgh students are demanding that school officials disarm all university police while banning ‘city cops\u2019 from campus entirely. A 15-point ultimatum issued during a Friday protest also calls for Pitt to divest from fossil fuels and private prisons, guarantee student workers at least $15\/hour, and advocate for ‘federal cancellation of student debt and free tuition.\u2019<\/p>\n

“University of Pittsburgh students are demanding that school officials disarm all university police while banning ‘city cops\u2019 from campus entirely. According to The Pitt Maverick, members of the school\u2019s Fossil-Free Pitt Coalition and United Students Against Sweatshops presented a list of 15 demands to Chancellor Patrick Gallagher during a Friday protest.”<\/p>\n

No cops, no armed university cops, no city cops on the campus, everybody gets free tuition, and all student loans forgiven. And the university must divest from fossil fuels, their investments and private prison. Now, the inmates are running universities. The young snowflakes, the students, there\u2019s no argument about this.<\/p>\n

And look what it has done to the University of Missouri. University of Missouri, no crowds at their football games, enrollment is way, way down. It\u2019s a ghost town compared to what it used to be. Many universities around the country where there are snowflakes and social justice warriors, they\u2019re running the place. And Snerdley says get rid of those players, get \u2019em out of the league. That\u2019s not the way this is gonna go. Not the way this is gonna go.<\/p>\n

I told you the NFL was gone two years ago. When I saw the sports media, which derives its living from this game, all of these sports reporters, commentators, when I saw them jump on this concussion bandwagon and start beating up and creating this image that this game is dangerous, it\u2019s deadly, and the owners don\u2019t care and the commissioner doesn\u2019t care, when that started, when the media started bringing down the very league they cover, I told you two years ago, go back and find the original show, get the tape, it\u2019s over.<\/p>\n

\"\"We just don\u2019t know it yet, we don\u2019t know when, but it\u2019s over, and it\u2019s happening faster than I thought it would. I\u2019ll tell you something else that\u2019s happening in the NFL that nobody\u2019s talking about yet. All of the mothers and dads at the Pop Warner level, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, not letting their kids play football. Why would you? You can\u2019t watch a football game for the fun of it anymore. Football now is watching in fear that somebody may die. Somebody\u2019s gonna get a brain injury and die. You can\u2019t watch the game the way you used to anymore. That is the impact of this. It is over.<\/p>\n

For all practical matters, the NFL is never gonna be what it was. Social activism has taken over. It\u2019s infected. The media, being liberal social activists, have participated in this whether they know it or not. All of these players suspensions, taking your marquee players and suspending them for four games, six games, 10 games, 11 games, thinking that you\u2019re impressing fans, any allegation of spousal abuse, doesn\u2019t matter, we\u2019re gonna get rid of you whether the cops charge you or not. Hello, Ezekiel Elliott. And the media reports this like they love it!<\/p>\n

They love this kind of stuff. They love covering suspensions. They love covering court battles. Every that\u2019s got nothing to do with the game. Now, I\u2019m not saying there aren\u2019t some bad actors here; don\u2019t misunderstand. But they\u2019ve always been there. And the fans accepted it, but now that\u2019s becoming what the league is known for, the dangers, the risks, players have brain damage and are gonna commit suicide by the time they\u2019re 50, that\u2019s what people think when they watch games now, you can\u2019t blame \u2019em. That\u2019s why it\u2019s how it\u2019s been covered.<\/p>\n

The movie Concussion. Mike Webster and the Pittsburgh Steelers. It\u2019s an evolution that nobody was gonna be able to stop. And, you know, once the left — this is a universal truth — once the left sees something that needs to be fixed, look out. They never fix anything. They just identify something and break it and then make it worse. Nothing is ever resolved. And they\u2019re never happy with whatever result they are given.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, there\u2019s something else that\u2019s hurting the NFL big time. Fantasy football is now ending up a negative, with no scoring, nobody\u2019s having any fun in fantasy football. I mean, you\u2019ve got the 49ers, I think the Colts, like two or three other teams have not scored a touchdown this year. The offense is down. You know what they\u2019re saying is the reason? Get this. The reason, “Well, there aren\u2019t enough practices in pads.”<\/p>\n

Well, that\u2019s what you guys wanted. I mean, in the latest contract negotiations the CBA, “For the purposes of safety and limitation of concussions and danger and,” there are original 14 padded practices permitted per season. NFL teams practice Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, with Wednesday being the big day. They have Monday go in, get injuries treated, maybe look at film from Sunday\u2019s game. Tuesday\u2019s the off day. This is on teams that are playing on Sunday. Tuesday\u2019s the off day. Wednesday you come back, you\u2019re given the game plan, you have your meetings, you go out and practice for two hours, that\u2019s where you implement what you\u2019re gonna do against the other team, any offensive, defensive changes.<\/p>\n

\"\"There\u2019s 17 weeks in an NFL season. Each team has a bye week. One padded practice on average, and people are saying, “Well, if there\u2019s only one –” and Belichick said it, the coach of the Patriots, “– if we can\u2019t wear pads, we can\u2019t tackle, and if we can\u2019t practice tackling, we don\u2019t get better at it.” Which is absolutely right. This came in a discussion of why are so many offensive lines so bad this year. And that\u2019s because, “Well, they can\u2019t practice.” And that\u2019s what the players wanted, and it was granted because of the focus on injuries and safety, concussions and suicides and all that.<\/p>\n

What all of this has caused, I don\u2019t care, folks, whether you like football or not, all of this stuff, when you politicize things, it\u2019s the left that does it, and when the left politicizes something, I guarantee you that they\u2019re gonna destroy it. It happens in everything they politicize. Look at everything in life you\u2019re cynical about and I\u2019ll guarantee you liberal politics dominates it. Guarantee you. There\u2019s exceptions in everything, of course, but liberal politics has overtaken the NFL. Every aspect of liberalism, the presumption of guilt on the part of the wealthy owners just because they\u2019re wealthy and they\u2019re white and the players are black, 75%, that\u2019s not good. That\u2019s not good.<\/p>\n

And then you add the fact that now people cannot avoid it. They cannot help but watch football thinking maybe they shouldn\u2019t be, \u2019cause it\u2019s so dangerous. Whether it is or isn\u2019t, if you condition your fan base to believe that what they\u2019re watching is dangerous and therefore not good, they\u2019re not gonna enjoy it. You\u2019re always gonna have people that want to see the car wreck. But they don\u2019t want to see the aftermath of it. And when you have people watching football who have as their primary focus the negatives they\u2019ve been told about it, it\u2019s impossible to get the ingredients necessary to be a fan back.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m just telling you. Standard, old-fashioned fandom is I don\u2019t think possible in the NFL anymore. Not because of the way the game is portrayed, covered, characterized. Then you go to fantasy football, those people that don\u2019t have team allegiance. They don\u2019t care about individual teams. They draft players from every team, and they have their own team. Their running back may be from the Cardinals. Their quarterback may be from the Steelers. Their defensive unit may be from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. So there\u2019s no team allegiance among those people, but if there is no offense, if the players they\u2019ve drafted are not scoring, it\u2019s no fun.<\/p>\n

So if you lose the fantasy football crowd, you\u2019ve lost another element of the fan base that has been created with that unique way of becoming interested in the game. I always fall back to this position. And this is true of anything, not just football. Football used to be hard to find. Now, follow me on this. It was on every Sunday. But if you lived in an NFL city, every Sunday when that team was on the road, you had to watch that game. It was a league requirement.<\/p>\n

When your NFL team was at home, your TV stations in the local market could not televise an out of market game when your team was at home because they wanted you at the stadium. And they figured — I\u2019m going back 20 years now — they figured if another game from another market with a better game was on TV than the one in your town, you would watch it on TV.<\/p>\n

So if you had an NFL team in your town, you maybe only got two games a Sunday. If your team was on the road, you\u2019d get three. You\u2019d get a 1 o\u2019clock game or a noon game and then two games at 3 o\u2019clock or 4. And depending on when your home team is playing on the road, you might get two one o\u2019clock games and one late game. But the point is you did not get the best game of the week, by definition, unless your team was playing in it. And that meant it was special. That meant highlights were a big deal.<\/p>\n

\"\"When you didn\u2019t see — let\u2019s say your team\u2019s the Steelers, but you don\u2019t live there. Well, you\u2019re at the mercy of the networks and the league as to what Steelers games were televised into your market. And most of them would not be. So in order to see, you would have to wait for highlights or read your newspaper on the internet or whatever, but now whatever you want is whenever you want it, which is great, don\u2019t misunderstand. But it takes away the specialness of it. You know, you look at Apple, they make and announce these new phones, but damn it you can\u2019t have one.<\/p>\n

You know this iPhone X? This is state-of-the-art, technologically way advanced. Without getting into detail, they announced this phone would go on sale, you could order it October 27th and deliveries would begin on November 3rd, \u2019cause they had two other new phones that went on sale last week and start delivering tomorrow, and they didn\u2019t want those new phones to be cannibalized by the super-duper phone. So they announced the super-duper phone, but say “you can\u2019t get this \u2019til November. You can\u2019t get it \u2019til November.”<\/p>\n

Well, some people don\u2019t want to wait that long, and they want the iPhone 8 to sell, so they make it the only thing you can get. Well, guess what? The news is that they\u2019re having so much production trouble, they haven\u2019t even begun to manufacture the iPhone X yet, and they won\u2019t until the middle of October. What this means is that November 3rd, 99% of the people who want one are not gonna be able to get one this year. This phone, you\u2019re not gonna be able to get it with ease for six months. The supply-demand balance is gonna be so out of whack \u2019cause they can\u2019t make them. Apparently they just can\u2019t mass produce this phone yet, it\u2019s that unique and special.<\/p>\n

Well, that just makes you want it all the more. But at some point when it\u2019s so far off that you can\u2019t get it, you\u2019ll stop striving, \u2019cause who wants to be that revved up? You take what\u2019s available. But with stuff that\u2019s there every day for the asking, for the taking, it loses some of its, for lack of a better word, specialness. I think this has happened to the NFL. It was unavoidable. I\u2019m not commenting on decisions they\u2019ve made. It\u2019s just a fact of life. And when it\u2019s instantly available anywhere and if it\u2019s not up to snuff and if the quality isn\u2019t there, you don\u2019t have to watch it.<\/p>\n

\"\"And if they then change the whole attitude from the game is the game to the game is a high-risk, very dangerous thing that may not be worth people playing because who wants to suffer brain damage that could lead to suicide, why do that, why support something like that? That\u2019s what people are asking themselves now. And thank you NFL and sports media, because that\u2019s the picture you painted of the game. They would say, “Well, we didn\u2019t do it. We just reported what\u2019s happening.” You did it with glee. Liberalism. It just corrupts.<\/p>\n

So now, have you heard about this? In Cahokia, Illinois, which is not far from St. Louis, a football team of 8 year olds in Cahokia, all of them asked the coach to take a knee during the national anthem<\/a> or before the game so they could emulate the pros. And the coach said, “If you feel it, do it.”<\/p>\n

So now 8 year olds, at least in Cahokia, have been granted permission to emulate what they see from the Colin Kaepernicks in the NFL, and they kneel during the national anthem ahead of a recent game.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Rick in Las Vegas, you\u2019re next, sir, and it\u2019s great to have you. How are you doing?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush. I appreciate you answering my call. I was listening to you earlier today talk about the letter to Roger Goodell from the football players.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And in talking, you know, the downgrade of the viewership and stuff. I think if NFL grants them November Activism Awareness Month, they\u2019re gonna really destroy their ratings because on November 4th this nightmare must end, the Trump-Pence regime must go, and there are protests that are being already started on November 4th that are gonna be like Occupy Wall Street. And I\u2019m curious to see if the NFL\u2019s gonna make a stand on this or not, if they\u2019re gonna say “no” or “yes,” because it\u2019s out there. The information is out there that they want this, and I would think the NFL would be taking sides.<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: You know, there\u2019s another reason I think this is being done. You cannot ignore this, in addition to everything else. What this is, in part, is a voter registration drive. This is designed to rally the anti-cop and anti-establishment forces to get them active politically. The NFL, players are already now beginning to protest on the field during the game.<\/p>\n

It was Michael Bennett of the Seahawks last Sunday who, it wasn\u2019t quite a hundred percent, but it looked to everybody that saw it like he was giving the black power salute after a touchdown or after some play. Much like the athletes at the 1968 summer Olympics, USA track athletes in Mexico City, one of whose name was John Carlos, I forget the other\u2019s name. But that\u2019s the raised fist. He did that. Fist was not closed, but a lot of people thought, a-ha. And I saw a story, “Activism makes it to the field in the NFL.”<\/p>\n

What he\u2019s talking about, folks, four players in the NFL have sent a letter to Roger Goodell, the commissioner, asking the league to permit social activism against police brutality and prison overpopulation of African-Americans during the month of November. Somehow these players want that signified, and they want it much like October is, you know, they wear pink for breast cancer and a couple of weeks they wear camouflage gloves and socks and so forth to raise consciousness of the military.<\/p>\n

This is in direct contravention of why people watch. This is the kind of stuff people want to escape when they invest their time in sports. I want to repeat something to you. When I worked at the Kansas City Royals from 1979 to 1983, after every season — I was in the marketing department — we had marketing meetings league-wide, and this particular year was out in Scottsdale. And the organizers of the meeting were the people from the Oakland A\u2019s, who had won the division that year, so they put together the plan.<\/p>\n

And they got this Harvard socialist to come out and speak to us, marketing directors. And the guy, he knew you\u2019re there to get more people more often in your ballparks. So he gave us his take on the psychology and sociology of baseball fans and sports fans in general.<\/p>\n

He said one thing I have never forgotten \u2019cause it\u2019s inarguably true. Back then, this 82 or 81 is when this would have been, but he said sports is the one thing, the only thing in which you can invest total passion without consequence. And he followed that up by saying, “Try that with a woman, or if you\u2019re a woman, try that with a man.” And what he was saying was, you can tell your team every which way you know you love \u2019em. You can show them. You can show up. You can cheer. You can buy jerseys and memorabilia. And the team will never divorce you.<\/p>\n

The team will never try to take your house. The team will never kick you out. The team will always appreciate you and love you. They may lose, but they will always — And to try it with a man or woman was, you know, people are afraid to totally open up \u2019cause they fear rejection. Your team won\u2019t reject you. Well, I happen to think he was right. I mean, that\u2019s the definition of a dyed-in-the-wool sports fan. Now you can\u2019t do that. The simple fact is you can\u2019t invest total passion in your team without consequence. There is consequence.<\/p>\n

Your team will do all kinds of crazy things to tick you off and disappoint you and players playing the game will do it too. So it\u2019s not as free and clear and pure and fun as it used to be, and it will not be so long as sports, all of it, continues to be politicized. And as I said, who does the politicizing? It\u2019s not a bunch of conservatives trying to take over the NFL.<\/p>\n

It is leftist liberal Democrats, they\u2019re the ones that are trying to politicize everything, and in the process they end up corrupting everything, or much of what they touch. You can see it happening. You could see this coming three years ago in the NFL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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