{"id":36566,"date":"2010-10-08T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T00:30:10","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T00:30:10","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T00:30:10","slug":"too_much_pink_in_the_nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2010\/10\/08\/too_much_pink_in_the_nfl\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Much Pink in the NFL?"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

RUSH: We start on the phones in Sacramento, my adopted hometown. This is Frank, and welcome, sir. Great to have you here.<\/line><\/line>CALLER: Well, good day, Rush. Dittos. First-time caller. I\u2019ve been listening since my brother, Fritz, in Boise told me about you in 1991.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Great. Thank you very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m calling today, heartfelt, asking for your help. I love the NFL, but this year\u2019s push for breast cancer money seems over the top. I don\u2019t mean to be cynical but my mom had a mastectomy 25 years ago, and I don\u2019t see them making real progress no matter how much money they have, and when I\u2019m watching the game it feels like there\u2019s a guy at my door banging on it, you know, with his hand out and he won\u2019t go away. I\u2019m hoping you would have some insight or some help to get me past this attitude.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re basically saying you\u2019re not happy with all the pink on Sunday afternoon NFL games? You don\u2019t like the guys wearing pink shoes, pink chin straps, pink towels, pink gloves. Is it basically you don\u2019t think the color pink works well with the National Football League?<\/p>\n

CALLER: There\u2019s some of that, and I would be very happy with a pink ribbon on the back of the helmet, but, you know, who pays for this stuff? I mean, did the breast Cancer Society buy this stuff? I know they\u2019re going to auction it off at the end of the month and hopefully make the money and get in the black on that, but it just feels like just —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. What do you mean, who buys what stuff? You mean the gloves, the pink stuff?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. Who put out the money to buy the shoes, the gloves, the chin straps to later on be auctioned off?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, now, you\u2019ve come to the right place. Now I can help out.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Please.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (interruption) What? Somebody warning me not to go any further here? Somebody in my IFB telling me not to go any further? Okay. The NFL has an agreement with Reebok. If you\u2019ll notice, on every NFL jersey and every NFL pair of pants and almost every NFL pair of shoes you\u2019ll see the Reebok logo. Now, the NFL in their arrangement with Reebok, some people think that Reebok totally donates all that equipment to the teams in exchange for the exclusivity in use of the product. It\u2019s not a total donation. But it\u2019s a combination of Reebok and the NFL spending what\u2019s necessary to outfit, as a charitable donation. It\u2019s an outreach to women by the group, by the league, as much of what\u2019s happening in the league now is an outreach to women (Ahem.)<\/p>\n

In fact, I didn\u2019t tell you this. I\u2019m gonna announce it now. If he has time, the Hutch, Ken Hutcherson, is gonna call the program in the next hour to talk specifically about this. He played for the Dallas Cowboys, Seattle Seahawks. He\u2019s very concerned about the chickification of the league, and he\u2019s going to call here and share his thoughts on this. Now, I have to tell you something, Frank. … It\u2019s … (interruption) Now… (laughing) Now, they\u2019re saying, ‘Now be careful.\u2019 Why? What do you think I need to be careful about? (interruption) What…? (interruption) Well, I just… (interruption) I was just gonna say… I don\u2019t know. I\u2019m watching the games and I had the same feeling last year as I did this past Sunday. It\u2019s just a little too much pink out there. I don\u2019t know. (sigh) I just. You know me. I\u2019m not into symbolism over substance. I\u2019m into substance. <\/p>\n

I remember once on my immensely popular television show one night, I wore every colored ribbon that there was at the time on my suit jacket. The pink, the red, the yellow, whatever. And I pointed and said, ‘See, I\u2019m wearing all these ribbons. I care more than you do.\u2019 Just like, ‘I drive this hybrid. That means I care more than you do,\u2019 and you don\u2019t really know that. You don\u2019t know that. It makes you feel good. But this is a marketing thing the league\u2019s into here. It\u2019s an outreach to women, trying to broaden the overall base of the audience of the NFL. Do you know (I\u2019m going to have to look this up and confirm it; I\u2019ve heard it from a number of different people) that more men come down with prostate cancer every year than women do with breast cancer? But you don\u2019t see that. I mean, what color would the NFL have to wear to raise consciousness for prostate cancer? Now, on the other side of this, last year Ben Roethlisberger, the quarterback of the Steelers, had a great game, first game in October, wearing the pink shoes. He wanted to wear \u2019em the next week, as he thought the pink empowered him, sort of like long hair and Samson before Delilah came along.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

Look, I don\u2019t mean to impugn the people that wear the ribbons. I\u2019m sure that there are a lot of people who wear the ribbons and it\u2019s a private thing. They believe in the cause and it means something to the people that wear the ribbons. But at the same time there are a lot of people that are doing it to make a statement, to make a political statement. People that drive certain cars do this, wear certain color ribbons. Now, we looked it up here during the break. From the National Institute of Health, the estimate is in 2010 over 209,000 men and women will be diagnosed with breast cancer, far more women, of course, and 40,230 will die from it. Two-hundred seventeen thousand men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer, and 32,050 will die. So the total for men and women, breast cancer, is 209,000, the estimate this year. Prostate cancer, men only, is 217,000. <\/p>\n

Now, Snerdley is our resident sexist, and during the break he was weighing in on this. He said, ‘You\u2019re dancing around the point. I understand even you, you\u2019re getting afraid of this stuff, I can tell, Rush. You\u2019re getting afraid.\u2019 I\u2019m not afraid of it. ‘Yes, you are.\u2019 Snerdley, if you had guts, what you\u2019d really say is there\u2019s not one single male endeavor that women haven\u2019t invaded now. They are invading virtually everything. They\u2019ve invaded the country clubs, the business clubs, and now the National Football League. And Snerdley said, ‘I\u2019ll believe all this when I see the WNBA wear latex gloves for Prostate Cancer Month.\u2019 So this is the range of emotion out there. I did think it was pretty clever. Latex gloves for prostate cancer month. September was prostate awareness month. Did you hear anything about it? You didn\u2019t, did you? Because men are not a minority. Women are considered an oppressed minority, so breast cancer — and folks, there\u2019s one thing you have to say. I mean it works, no matter what people think of it. Everybody saw pink in the NFL that was watching it, no matter what they thought of it they saw it, and, ‘What the hell is that?\u2019 And those who didn\u2019t know what it meant found out, ‘breast cancer awareness.\u2019 ‘Oh, okay.\u2019 Now, at that point people\u2019s own personal beliefs then take over as to what they think of it, how they react to it. But women are the only genuine majority that get by as a minority. There are more women at any one time in the country, any country, except China, than men, by design, by efficient intelligent design.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, I checked subscriber line e-mail, website e-mail. I got an interesting e-mail here from woman who thinks that the NFL is the going about attracting women the wrong way with pink. That isn\u2019t the way to do it. The women they can attract to football are going to be by definition not going to be the type to respond to pink stuff. She says what they ought to do is give Sarah Palin a moose gun and do a commercial, and that would attract women to the National Football League. But, folks, look, there has to be some compromise here. (sigh) We can agree that there\u2019s too much pink in the NFL, but can we also agree that good-looking women wearing an NFL jersey is cool? I mean, we don\u2019t want to bifurcate things here. There has to be a way to bring us all together. <\/p>\n

There has to be a way to bring all of us, men and women, together on this. Men love football and women. They should not have to choose one or the other. There has to be a way to show our support for both without dipping NFL apparel into a paint bucket of pink paint. There\u2019s gotta be a better way. We need a bigender… (interruption) No, the cheerleaders don\u2019t cut it, Snerdley. Maybe in college football, they don\u2019t cut it in the pros. No, no, no. We need a bigender plan, I think, to preserve the integrity of the National Football League while at the same time acknowledging the role of attractive women to bring us beer and wear sexy clothes while we watch. If we can find some common ground along these lines, then we could all get along. We don\u2019t need to start running around wearing pink shoes during the game and that kind of stuff.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Tommy, Richmond, Virginia. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you. Mega Pittsburgh Steelers dittos.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: I wanted to call and talk about the chickification of football.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, ma\u2019am.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I don\u2019t think you need to do pink breast cancer awareness to get women to like football. Either you like it or you don\u2019t. And if you\u2019re a woman, you want to see men being men and hitting hard and hard hitting football. I don\u2019t want to wear a pink Steelers jersey, I want to wear a black and gold jersey.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I also do bring my husband beers while we\u2019re watching the game. So I thought you would like that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, hubba hubba. All right, so you want men to be men, you want —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — to watch manly?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, I do. I want to watch Troy Polamalu jumping over the pile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: We start on the phones in Sacramento, my adopted hometown. This is Frank, and welcome, sir. Great to have you here.CALLER: Well, good day, Rush. Dittos. First-time caller. I\u2019ve been listening since my brother, Fritz, in Boise told me about you in 1991. RUSH: Great. Thank you very much. CALLER: I\u2019m calling today, heartfelt, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nToo Much Pink in the NFL? - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2010\/10\/08\/too_much_pink_in_the_nfl\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Too Much Pink in the NFL? - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: We start on the phones in Sacramento, my adopted hometown. This is Frank, and welcome, sir. Great to have you here.CALLER: Well, good day, Rush. Dittos. First-time caller. I\u2019ve been listening since my brother, Fritz, in Boise told me about you in 1991. RUSH: Great. Thank you very much. CALLER: I\u2019m calling today, heartfelt, […]\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125109.Par.89380.ImageFile_5791449985cf7.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"9 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/\",\"name\":\"The Rush Limbaugh Show\",\"description\":\"Excellence In Broadcasting\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2010\/10\/08\/too_much_pink_in_the_nfl\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125109.Par.89380.ImageFile_5791449985cf7.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125109.Par.89380.ImageFile_5791449985cf7.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2010\/10\/08\/too_much_pink_in_the_nfl\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2010\/10\/08\/too_much_pink_in_the_nfl\/\",\"name\":\"Too Much Pink in the NFL? - The Rush Limbaugh Show\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2010\/10\/08\/too_much_pink_in_the_nfl\/#primaryimage\"},\"datePublished\":\"2011-05-19T00:30:10+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2011-05-19T00:30:10+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/911066e449df26406b107ca78cbbde0b\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2010\/10\/08\/too_much_pink_in_the_nfl\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2010\/10\/08\/too_much_pink_in_the_nfl\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2010\/10\/08\/too_much_pink_in_the_nfl\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Too Much Pink in the NFL?\"}]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/911066e449df26406b107ca78cbbde0b\",\"name\":\"admin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/#personlogo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f18195e0073013fa0e16b040686c2924?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f18195e0073013fa0e16b040686c2924?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"admin\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/author\/admin\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Too Much Pink in the NFL? - The Rush Limbaugh Show","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2010\/10\/08\/too_much_pink_in_the_nfl\/","twitter_card":"summary","twitter_title":"Too Much Pink in the NFL? - The Rush Limbaugh Show","twitter_description":"RUSH: We start on the phones in Sacramento, my adopted hometown. This is Frank, and welcome, sir. Great to have you here.CALLER: Well, good day, Rush. Dittos. First-time caller. I\u2019ve been listening since my brother, Fritz, in Boise told me about you in 1991. RUSH: Great. Thank you very much. CALLER: I\u2019m calling today, heartfelt, […]","twitter_image":"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125109.Par.89380.ImageFile_5791449985cf7.jpg","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"admin","Est. reading time":"9 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/","name":"The Rush Limbaugh Show","description":"Excellence In Broadcasting","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2010\/10\/08\/too_much_pink_in_the_nfl\/#primaryimage","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125109.Par.89380.ImageFile_5791449985cf7.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125109.Par.89380.ImageFile_5791449985cf7.jpg"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2010\/10\/08\/too_much_pink_in_the_nfl\/#webpage","url":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2010\/10\/08\/too_much_pink_in_the_nfl\/","name":"Too Much Pink in the NFL? - The Rush Limbaugh Show","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2010\/10\/08\/too_much_pink_in_the_nfl\/#primaryimage"},"datePublished":"2011-05-19T00:30:10+00:00","dateModified":"2011-05-19T00:30:10+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/911066e449df26406b107ca78cbbde0b"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2010\/10\/08\/too_much_pink_in_the_nfl\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2010\/10\/08\/too_much_pink_in_the_nfl\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2010\/10\/08\/too_much_pink_in_the_nfl\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Too Much Pink in the NFL?"}]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/911066e449df26406b107ca78cbbde0b","name":"admin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/#personlogo","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f18195e0073013fa0e16b040686c2924?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f18195e0073013fa0e16b040686c2924?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"admin"},"url":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36566"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}