RUSH: Here\u2019s Laurie in Colorado Springs.<\/p>\n
CALLER: (Gasp!)<\/p>\n
RUSH: I\u2019m glad you called. Great to have you here.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, hi, Rush! (pause) It\u2019s just awesome to talk to you.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I can\u2019t even believe I\u2019m talking to you. (giggling)<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, here you are. It\u2019s great to have you with us. It really is.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hi. I just wanted to call. Longtime fan. Our whole family\u2019s a longtime fan of yours, back from Kansas City Royals. My grandpa was a longtime season ticket holder and club member all through the eighties. He loved you then — and through my mom, I\u2019m definitely a Rush Baby.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Wow.<\/p>\n
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CALLER: I\u2019m a 27-year veteran of the Army, just retired in January. So we\u2019re big military supporters as well. But I had to call — and I can\u2019t even believe I\u2019m talking to you — when you mentioned my dad\u2019s name, Bill Tobin, earlier.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Are you Bill Tobin\u2019s…? You\u2019re Bill Tobin\u2019s daughter?<\/p>\n
CALLER: I am. (giggling)<\/p>\n
RUSH: Holy smokes!<\/p>\n
CALLER: (giggling)<\/p>\n
RUSH: Is it Bill or Vince that worked at the Lions?<\/p>\n
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CALLER: Bill worked at the Lions. Vince was the head coach of the Arizona Cardinals. My dad started 1975 with the Packers for a few years, and he was instrumental. He drafted Walter Payton. He was instrumental in the Bears\u2019 \u201985 Super Bowl. After that went to the Colts, was with the Lions recently and is now actually working for my brother, Duke, with the Bengals, so —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Laurie, our phone system\u2019s very bad; when you\u2019re talking you can\u2019t hear me. It\u2019s not your fault.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n
RUSH: But I need to ask you specific question.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Was Bill Tobin, was your dad at the Lions when Matt Millen was the general manager?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay, because I talked to him. The reason I\u2019m asking you, I went in the day Ford Field opened; it was a pregame exhibition game intense the Steelers. It was the first game, maybe the second game of the season. And as I\u2019m — they were escorting me through the stadium meeting people, and your dad came up and said hello to me and introduced himself, and said, “Hey, we\u2019re big fans and all.” He was nice as he could be. I\u2019ve never forgotten it. That\u2019s why the name — I remember the name Bill Tobin when I saw the news story with him quoted today.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, that\u2019s — let me tell you, he\u2019s seen a lot, and over the years, the many, many years he\u2019s been with the NFL, and, you know, he\u2019s definitely seen the changes. And, you know, it\u2019s not for the better. But it\u2019s been a great ride growing up with the Bears and the exciting time when we were in Chicago as well as, you know, down the line.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Oh, yeah, absolutely.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah. One thing I was gonna say, you know, I was glad to see, I know the Bengals, you know, they\u2019ve had their share of downs this year, but, you know, Fox News had Johnny Joey, you know, the gentleman that lost his legs in Iraq. I guess he spoke with the Bengals on Monday and talked about how they, you know, no one will sit on our sidelines. And I didn\u2019t see anything, I didn\u2019t see any pictures of their game this weekend against the Packers, but, you know, I hope that… I don\u2019t know. There\u2019s just so much going. My dad\u2019s still alive and watching.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Your dad… I\u2019m looking for the story now, and it must be in the Stack. I can\u2019t get to it right now. But your dad had some really… I mean, they were clear-cut and to-the-point comments about what\u2019s happening in the NFL in which he said (paraphrased), “Look. People have concussions outside the NFL. People die outside — people who never played football. These things all happen, and to claim that football is responsible for all these things, it\u2019s sad. And what they ought to do is don\u2019t harm the game. Let people that want to play the games sign something and let them play the game the way the game is meant to be played. There are plenty of people that want to,” and all that. And I let, Laurie, that it was a courageous-as-hell thing to say in this particular atmosphere.<\/p>\n
CALLER: (chuckles) Well, you know what it is, I think it\u2019s from the — my mom sent me the link, and I didn\u2019t read the article yet, \u2019cause they went up to play in Green Bay, and my dad started his career back in 1975 with Dan Devine at the Packers. So I think it was a sportswriter, I\u2019m pretty sure, up there. Now I wish I had read it all (chuckling) and stuff. But, you know, I\u2019m busy with kids. My mom sends me a lot of things that I get to eventually. Unfortunately, that\u2019s the difference between —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, you need to read this link. I can tell you you\u2019re proud of your dad, but you should read —<\/p>\n
CALLER: Oh, very. (chuckles)<\/p>\n
RUSH: — this because he\u2019s clearly an old school guy —<\/p>\n
CALLER: Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n
RUSH: — and he loves the game as it\u2019s always been played and so forth, and it was — mentioning he was with Bengals. It was a really big. It\u2019s why it stands out with me today.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Drew Brees is the one player that said something today, or yesterday, that I saw that stands out. Brees acknowledged… You know, he said what he had to say about Trump\u2019s comments and so forth. But he said, “I\u2019m never gonna understand not standing for the anthem. I don\u2019t ever want to see that,” and that was — CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n RUSH: — the only guy, only player that I\u2019ve heard say that.<\/p>\n CALLER: Well, one more thing, just to throw a real big kink in it. You know, if you\u2019re Google his name, he played back in \u201963 and \u201964 with the Missouri Tigers (laughing), Mizzou. So here\u2019s a Mizzou grad. So, needless to say, he has seen a lot.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/MizzouLogo-300x235.png\")
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