{"id":275864,"date":"2018-06-06T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=275864"},"modified":"2018-06-11T16:38:24","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T20:38:24","slug":"the-eagles-controversy-was-a-setup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/06\/06\/the-eagles-controversy-was-a-setup\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Was a Step Ahead of the Eagles Setup"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: The Philadelphia Eagles story. You know what that turned out to be? I think that… (interruption) Are you tired of hearing about the Eagles? (interruption) Well, I saw you shake your head. You\u2019re mad at the Eagles?<\/a> I think that it turned out… I think that was a setup. Because late last week the Eagles reported to the White House that their traveling party would be 70 people, and a bunch of people in Philadelphia, Eagles fans, made plans to be in Washington for the Eagles to be honored at the White House.<\/p>\n

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They got hotel rooms; they traveled up there. And then earlier this week when the Eagles phoned in to confirm, they said, “Maximum 10 people, more like three to five, and only one player.” Nick Foles, the quarterback. That\u2019s when Trump said… And the mascot, they were gonna send the mascot. Trump said, “That\u2019s crazy. We\u2019ll just cancel the thing.” But they had originally reported 70 were gonna show up. I think it was… I actually do think… I think it was an effort that they were going to try to humiliate the president.<\/p>\n

I think they were trying to finagle this so that Trump did the ceremony with only three to five people from the Eagles organization. I think that\u2019s what their objective was, and Trump canceled so now they get mad at Trump and they start dumping all on him. But he was the one ahead of the ball, ahead of the game on this one. So chalk up another victory for Trump in an effort to undermine him and make him look bad. And I\u2019ll guarantee you this: You\u2019re not gonna see any stories on this.<\/p>\n

But on Park Avenue in New York where the NFL headquarters, this is not the kind of off-season PR they want! I mean, I don\u2019t know how many of \u2019em in the NFL office hate Trump. There probably are some. But this is not what they want. The Super Bowl Champion football team openly refusing to go after committing to be there — and having it become this big, major story? Folks, believe me. The NFL knows they are not gonna sell an additional ticket because of this.<\/p>\n

Now, there are a bunch of idiots on the left who do not understand business who think that a plan or an event where Donald Trump is shown up or disrespected is gonna be appreciated so much by left-wing radicals that they\u2019re gonna go out and buy tickets to the Eagles games or any other NFL games. That\u2019s not how it works! Especially with a track record over the past two years of the NFL.<\/p>\n

The NFL owners passed a new rule: The players, if they\u2019re on the field, cannot kneel. That is not kowtowing to leftist radicals. But I\u2019ll guarantee you there were some people who thought that if the Eagles or any other team had pulled something like this off, that it would really resonate with the American people because these people all believe that Donald Trump is hated and despised.<\/p>\n

Since they do, everybody must. But people in-the-know at the NFL headquarters on Park Avenue are looking at this. This is not good. This is not good for the league. I mean, it\u2019s traditional for championship teams to take a trip to the White House to be honored.<\/p>\n

\"\"And then to pull a little stunt where you\u2019re only gonna have five to 10 people there, and then that becomes — like the coach of the Eagles, to give you an example, Doug Pederson is the head coach of the Eagles. And they\u2019re in the middle of OTAs, organized team activities. These are the voluntary, involuntary off season practices that you really better attend if you\u2019re trying to make the team. And I think they\u2019ve got three of them this week and four of them next week.<\/p>\n

So he had a regularly scheduled press conference today, as all NFL head coaches do, to meet with the sports media to talk about OTAs, the practice, how the team\u2019s gelling, how they\u2019re coming together, how\u2019s it looking for the upcoming season. The Drive-Bys, the Drive-Bys today — I was watching — they told everybody that this press conference was Doug Pederson responding to what happened at the White House.<\/p>\n

I said, “Well, I can\u2019t miss that. I gotta see this. The head coach of the Eagles, not the owner, the head coach of the Eagles is going to have a press conference reacting to what happened in the White House?” Well, guess what, Pederson comes out to do his press conference, and the Drive-Bys start asking him (paraphrasing), “That happened last week. I\u2019m not talking about that. We\u2019re moving forward here. We\u2019re already looking forward.”<\/p>\n

His press conference was not to address what happened at the White House! The Drive-Bys just told everybody it was! He was just doing a standard, ordinary head coach press conference addressed to the media in sports to get to the fans, “Hey, we\u2019re the Eagles, we know we won the Super Bowl, we\u2019re trying to keep it going. Here\u2019s our plan, our breakouts are going really well. Our workouts are happening fine, practices are great.”<\/p>\n

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He had no intention of talking about what happened at the White House. But I\u2019m watching CNN, and they\u2019re chomping at the bit waiting for it to begin, and they were right there when it did, and Pederson seemed a little taken aback. But he didn\u2019t go there. He didn\u2019t want to go anywhere near it. As far as he was concerned, that was yesterday. And in the NFL, we only look forward. And that\u2019s a sports mantra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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