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RUSH: Jeff in Omaha. I\u2019m glad you called. Welcome to the EIB Network, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s a real honor to talk to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, I just wanted to further the point you were making with the Rams deal that\u2019s going on and what a joke it is and they\u2019re saying that, you know, you can\u2019t own a team because of some, you know, quote, unquote, controversial things that you said even though everything you do say is a part of your free speech. And, you know, with you being controversial —<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, wait just now, wait a second. They are saying I said things I didn\u2019t say.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. But even like the McNabb thing, I mean, that is your opinion, and —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — and their opinion is not the same, most of your stuff I agree, and that\u2019s my opinion, but, you know, why don\u2019t they start dealing with the facts like, you know, as you were talking about Michael Vick with the dogfighting, and now he\u2019s back into the NFL. Pacman Jones. You know, Ricky Williams. Shawne Merriman. You know, how do all these people who are actual criminals and that\u2019s a fact, you know, how come they can come back into the NFL but yet you aren\u2019t supposed to own a team because of some things that you said? And I keep hearing people say that, you know, it\u2019s a privilege to be an NFL team owner, and it\u2019s a privilege to play in the NFL, it\u2019s not a right. Like, well, talk to these people who are committing crimes but yet, you know, they just somehow end up back in the NFL, but somebody wants to own a team that they don\u2019t agree with and there\u2019s a big problem now. Where are those people at now?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I\u2019m in a position here where I can\u2019t address — I\u2019d love to — but I can\u2019t address the thrust of your comments here. Well, maybe I can because I have said something that they are taking out of context, the Bloods and Crips comment, maybe I can explain that. But, look, nobody is clean and pure as the wind-driven snow, and everybody gets second chances. People pay the price when they pay their debt, if they are convicted of something, you wipe the slate clean. I don\u2019t have any desire to deny people second chances and that kind of thing. What you\u2019re really talking about here is the hypocrisy of things. Hypocrisy is all over the place. It\u2019s always there. But it is the reality. It is what it is. And that has to be dealt with. And the way to deal with it is not so much point it out as to recognize it as an obstacle and how to deal with it. And those are the kinds of things I can\u2019t discuss, but let me take the occasion of your call to explain the Bloods and Crips comment, because these guys who are now admitting, ‘Okay, maybe we can\u2019t source those quotes about Limbaugh and James Earl Ray and slavery, but he said Bloods and Crips! He said Bloods and Crips!\u2019 <\/p>\n

They\u2019re trying to get anything else to continue the narrative here that I am some subhuman species with no rights to exist anywhere outside this radio studio and within these radio waves. I believe the comment\u2019s from 2007, and I believe the comments were made to a phone call, I had a phone call — I think — I\u2019d have to check the transcript of that date, which I\u2019ve not done, but my memory is, it was a playoff game in San Diego between the Chargers and the Patriots, and the Patriots had a fourth down with a very few seconds left in the game, fourth and ball game, and the Chargers held \u2019em. Chargers win. Chargers were leading. Then all of a sudden a ref throws a flag, 15 yards or something for taunting, unsportsmanlike conduct, some Chargers DB had gotten in the face of some Patriots player, was doing a ‘you can\u2019t diss me\u2019 act and so forth, and it lost the game for the Chargers. And I praised the official for throwing the flag. See, I love the game. I love the National Football League. <\/p>\n

We all have Walter Mitty in us. We all wish we could do something that we can\u2019t. Some people get paralyzed by those desires and continue to try to do things they can\u2019t. A man has got to know his limitations. But at the same time, you gotta have a never-quit attitude. But at some point, I mean if you\u2019re not qualified to play in the NFL, you shouldn\u2019t ruin your life dreaming about it. Go do what you\u2019re good at. I would love to be able to do it. Now, I\u2019ve always wanted to be able to do it. I admire and respect the talent that those few Americans have to qualify for the National Football League, and the game is about what happens on the field. The NFL is like any other business, it\u2019s got off-field problems. Every business has employees that have problems and troubles when they\u2019re away from the office. NFL\u2019s no different there. But the NFL wants to keep control of the game. It\u2019s the product on the field. And they cannot allow the tendency, the integrity of the game to be blown up by whatever cultural trends are going on. So the Bloods and Crips comment I think I said sometimes the game looks like Bloods and Crips without the weapons. <\/p>\n

Now, we had Mercury Morris who was I guess on CNN a couple days ago say, ‘I know what he\u2019s talking about and he\u2019s right, I know exactly what he\u2019s talking about.\u2019 Mercury Morris played for the Dolphins back in the Don Shula era. My comment could easily be taken as criticism of players. It was criticism of that kind of — it was totally unnecessary — it lost the ball game. Lost the ball game all for the purpose of strutting around. And what it was, folks, was criticism of a mind-set. Regardless what happens here I am a fan of the National Football League. I devote my Sundays to it. I travel to stadiums to be part of it. It\u2019s fun being there in person. I want to continue to be a fan. I want that game to be up on the pedestal I\u2019ve put it, and I want the players to be on the pedestal that I\u2019ve put them. The players are the game. You want the best people playing the game you can get in the league, and that\u2019s a hard job to find \u2019em, scouting and all that, the draft. It\u2019s fascinating to me because everybody is trying to pick who they think are the best, and some people are better at picking those players than others, why one team\u2019s better than another, traditionally over the years and so on. <\/p>\n

But that comment was more of a, ‘Oh, no, jeez, don\u2019t let this happen to the game.\u2019 I don\u2019t want to see it. I have the game on a pedestal. I have the people who play it on a pedestal. I don\u2019t want that to change. So I was criticizing a mind-set that is destructive, and it was not helpful. It was not racial. Bloods and Crips makes it look racial, the way I chose to describe it. I could have perhaps chosen a different term.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: By the way, folks, I\u2019m actually on the same page with the commissioner of the National Football League, Roger Goodell, on this aspect I just spoke of. He\u2019s trying to protect the game, too. I\u2019ve got a stack of stories here of the way the commissioner has reacted to even off-field disciplinary problems. I\u2019m not going to mention any teams, I\u2019m not going to mention the stories, but I\u2019ve got a bunch of stacks here. The people involved in the game love it and they want to protect it, and that\u2019s me. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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