{"id":253745,"date":"2017-11-06T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=253745"},"modified":"2017-11-07T15:49:40","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T20:49:40","slug":"nfl-executives-purposely-pushing-league-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/11\/06\/nfl-executives-purposely-pushing-league-left\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Executives Purposely Pushing League Left"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: More developments with the situation in the National Football League. Somebody — I forget — no, it couldn\u2019t have been Sports Illustrated that I read. I\u2019ll find it. It doesn\u2019t matter. Somebody has actually come out now and said that it is abundantly clear that the executive leadership of the National Football League is consciously and purposely steering the league toward the left, toward liberalism as an entity and that many of the owners in the NFL are not happy about this at all, including Bob McNair, who, as you know, was raked over the coals for claiming that we can\u2019t let the inmates run the prison.<\/p>\n

\"\"He claims he was talking about the league leadership, the executive team trying to tell the owners what they can and can\u2019t do and after this story, I tend to believe that that\u2019s probably true. That he wasn\u2019t talking about his team, his own players or what have you.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is Ernie in Hartsville, South Carolina. Glad you called, Ernie. What\u2019s shaking? What\u2019s happening? What\u2019s up there?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, hey, Rush, really enjoy your show and appreciate what you do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I thank you, sir, very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. Well, that was a heartfelt story you just told about the book Tanker Pilot and a wonderful flag and the airmen<\/a>, and I think we got a bit of a contrast. I want to go to the NFL and to the anthem protest, and I think the big brains of the NFL made a big mistake. I didn\u2019t get too involved or incensed about the kneeling until this weekend. The NFL ran some what I consider slick public relations blitz. I don\u2019t know if you saw it or not.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Nope. Didn\u2019t watch the NFL this weekend, was on the golf course.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, they had some kind of an ex-pro spokesperson talking about a USO trip and how the military are the real heroes —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, they do that every year. The football players, they gather together with the USO tour and some of them go, I forget under which auspices. But that\u2019s not unique.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay. Well, I took it, first of all, as all true but it did say in partnership with the NFL Players Association.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, that\u2019s right, that\u2019s what I thought, that\u2019s the union.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They do this every year. They\u2019re not doing it \u2019cause of the flag thing this year. I mean they may be hyping it now, but they do it every year.<\/p>\n

CALLER: All right. Well, I feel a bit better, then. Because I just saw it as condescending and kind of equivalency of what the kneeling was and not really addressing the kneeling controversy.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I understand. See, if you don\u2019t know that this happens every year, that players go on the USO tour and you see it now, it\u2019s the first time you\u2019ve heard of it within the context of all this, I can understand why you\u2019d be cynical about this and think that they are being cynical.<\/p>\n

By the way, here\u2019s something else that some of you may not know. And this was just uncovered by stealth discovery last year sometime. But many NFL teams over the course of many years have performed what looked to be like tributes to the military during pregame. Giant flags that cover the entire field, the national anthem being played, military bands and singers.<\/p>\n

Guess what? The Department of Defense purchased every one of them. The NFL sold those availabilities. They were not gratis. It was not the NFL inviting the Army or the Marines or the Navy to come participate. Those were prepackaged and sold things the Department of Defense paid for. When that was revealed, there was some noses out of joint. That\u2019s totally unrelated, by the way, to this current story and its iteration. But there\u2019s more to it.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Don\u2019t forget, the Wall Street Journal with an editorial over the weekend that it is their opinion (and I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any doubt about this) that the NFL executive leadership — which would be the commissioner, Roger Goodell, and any number of others, the marketing people, the executive vice presidents… By the way, it is such a top-heavy organization. It is stunning to a lot of people how big the NFL headquarters has gotten and how many people there have nothing to do with the actual product on the field, and the owners are paying for all of this.<\/p>\n

\"\"Well, I say “owners.” The fans pay for everything, but my point is that this income that the NFL\u2019s generating, so much of it is going to top-heavy executives. I mean, the marketing executive is a woman that\u2019s never been involved in football before but she\u2019s got exceedingly left-wing, liberal credentials. But the fear is that this is actually — as an entity, as a corporate entity is actually — purposely being moved to the left, and a lot of people ask, “Why? What\u2019s the point? This game has never been politicized to this point.<\/p>\n

“Why do this? It cannot possibly be helping, as the evidence abundantly shows. It\u2019s hurting! This is not what fans want. They don\u2019t want the NFL to be conservative or liberal. They want it to just be what it was: An American classic. And it did have a lot of distinctly unique American cultural values, and they\u2019re being blown up and watered down and taken over. You can feel it. The excitement for the NFL is just way, way down, and it\u2019s been trending in this direction. The NFL advertisers, this is a story that… Where did this run? Da-da-da-da. Well, who\u2019s this?<\/p>\n

This is from our buddies at NewsBusters, but they\u2019ve picked it up somewhere and I can\u2019t… It doesn\u2019t matter. NFL advertisers have said to NBC: Would you please stop showing the protests? It\u2019s killing us! Just stop showing it. Now, of course, the journalists at NBC want to show the protests because anything that makes it look like… Let me just be blunt. Anything that appears to be anti-American is approved. It\u2019s desired by journalists, sports journalists or otherwise. That\u2019s why…<\/p>\n

Would you believe, in every case where a team\u2019s quarterback gets injured, everybody in the sports Drive-Bys says, “Colin Kaepernick! Gotta hire Colin Kaepernick!” Colin Kaepernick has filed a grievance against the league, for crying out loud, and he\u2019s issuing subpoenas for depositions to owners and members of the NFL executive group to come testify to his premise that there\u2019s “collusion” involving keeping him out of the game. (interruption) Yeah, it\u2019s Mark Geragos. (interruption) Well, the league\u2019s gonna try not to give that stuff up but the lawyer\u2019s asking for emails and text messages and phone records and all kinds of stuff to try to prove collusion.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all aimed at a settlement. They\u2019re just pressuring everybody here for a settlement. But the Drive-Bys, the sports Drive-Bys love this because Kaepernick, to them, is a symbol of what\u2019s wrong with America. If the NFL is part of what\u2019s wrong with America… It\u2019s senseless here. These people, everybody in this game — one way or the other — is killing it! The players are doing their part; the sports Drive-Bys are doing their part; the executive committee of the NFL\u2019s doing its part. It\u2019s the most amazing thing! The actions that this league is taking are doing great harm to the product.<\/p>\n

You know, you can\u2019t watch… You watch NFL Sunday Night Football. I didn\u2019t watch a game last night. I caught the last 10 minutes of it and I watched the postgame, and the interviews with journalists after the game were all about the status of suspensions, the status of concussions, the status of Kaepernick, the status of this legal case or the status of that legal case. I said, “I thought this is a highlight show! I thought I\u2019m supposed to be seeing what happened in the league today that I didn\u2019t see \u2019cause I was on the golf course; instead of getting updated on every freaking legal case!”<\/p>\n

The journalists doing the updating are just eating it up! It\u2019d be like the guys that own the doughnut shop putting strychnine in every doughnut. Not enough to kill you but enough to make you sick over time to where you stop going to the doughnut shop. It\u2019s the most amazing thing I\u2019ve seen. There doesn\u2019t seem to be anybody involved here that\u2019s trying to save this league. Then Vin Scully! Have you heard about this? Vin Scully, who\u2019d broadcast Dodgers games for 70 plus years…<\/p>\n

Folks, the last year that Vin Scully worked, he did home games only for the Dodgers on radio, and that last year, sports journalists all over the country were praising Scully as one of the best. He was considered old-fashioned because he didn\u2019t do social media and he didn\u2019t have canned quips for a long foul ball, a long home run. He just described the action and he was a purist. But he was excellent. He was among the best, as 70 years behind the microphone would testify. But during his last year, constant praise.<\/p>\n

\"\"Over the weekend Scully was somewhere making a speech and in a Q&A fater the speech he was asked about the NFL protest. He says he\u2019s never going to watch another NFL game. (chuckles) Well, the sports media has totally turned on Vin Scully. Now he is a reprobate. Now he\u2019s just an old man. His time has come and gone. He doesn\u2019t know anymore what\u2019s right and wrong. I got to thinking: You know, the whole time all of these sports Drive-Bys are praising Vin Scully, why aren\u2019t they hiring more people like him instead of these cookie-cutter Ken Dolls that bring nothing to it?<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s just me. That\u2019s just the radio guy in me asking inside-baseball broadcast questions. But even Vin Scully said (summarized), “I can\u2019t watch anymore. These flag protests, I can\u2019t stand it.” He televised… By the way, he did play-by-play for NFL games on NBC for 10 years or so. He did golf and so forth. I met him once at the Kansas City Royals locker room. He was talking about Juan Valdez and Colombian coffee at the time with one of the coaches. (interruption) Well, Juan Valdez, you know, was the figure in Folger\u2019s coffee.<\/p>\n

Jose Martinez was coach for the Royals and they were having this big yuk about Juan Valdez (laughing) who was a character, fictional character, the guy that supposedly was the farmer in Colombia growing the beans. But he was just a prince of a nice person, and it was amazing how one comment and he\u2019s become public enemy number one among people that were stinging his praises just a year or two years ago. Now NFL advertisers are asking NBC to stop showing player protests. Do you think that\u2019s gonna stop this? Don\u2019t show the horrible thing that\u2019s going on and it\u2019s gonna get better?<\/p>\n

I mean, people in the stands are still gonna see it — and, by the way, with social media they\u2019re still gonna see it. That\u2019s not the answer. Stop showing it?<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Vin Scully from Saturday night in Pasadena at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium. The moderator said, “What are your feelings on the NFL players protesting during the national anthem?”<\/p>\n

SCULLY: I have only one personal thought, really, and I am so disappointed. And I used to love, during the fall and winter, to watch the NFL on Sunday. And it\u2019s not that I\u2019m some great patriot. I was in the Navy for a year — didn\u2019t go anywhere, didn\u2019t do anything.<\/p>\n

AUDIENCE: (chuckling)<\/p>\n

SCULLY: But I have overwhelmingly respect and admiration for anyone who puts on a uniform and goes to war. So the only thing I can do in my little way is — not to preach — I will never watch another NFL game.<\/p>\n

AUDIENCE: (applause)<\/p>\n

RUSH: This was an event called An Evening with Vin Scully at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium. I know what he means. “Sad” is exactly right. That\u2019s exactly the word. When this all started, it just made me sad \u2019cause I knew it was never gonna be the same, for me. Never was gonna be the same. The genie\u2019s out of the bottle now.<\/p>\n

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