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\"Listen<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: Donald Trump says the NFL has gone soft just like America.<\/p>\n

TRUMP: So I\u2019m watching the game yesterday. What used to be considered a great tackle — a violent head-on and violent — if that was done by Dick Butkus, they\u2019d say, “He\u2019s the greatest player!” If that were done by Lawrence Taylor… It was done by Lawrence Taylor and Dick Butkus, and Ray Nitschke, right? Ray Nitschke. We used to see these tackles, and it was incredible to watch, right? Now they tackle. “Oh, head-on-head collision! Fifteen yards!” The whole game is all screwed up.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He wasn\u2019t finished.<\/p>\n


\nTRUMP: It\u2019s gonna affect the NFL. I don\u2019t even watch it as much anymore. The referees, they want to all throw flags so their wife sees \u2019em at home, “Oh, there\u2019s my husband! He just gave a 15-yard penalty on one of the most beautiful tackles made this year!” Right? That\u2019s boring.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t know what tackle he\u2019s talking about. My guess is he\u2019s referring to the Vontaze Burfict attempted decapitation of the Steelers wide receiver number 84, Antonio Brown. You know, folks… (sigh) That game was won. The Bengals had the game won! Vontaze Burfict could have just let 18 seconds wind off the clock for the most part, and Vontaze Burfict could have been a hero. He could have written his own ticket. He would have been the star of the game two or three times over. And then he tried to take Antonio Brown\u2019s head off on a tackle, when there was no hope of Brown catching. The pass was already long ago incomplete. It was just the most… It was just downright stupid, whatever else it was.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I have to talk about the Steelers and Bengals on Saturday night. Now, I made a study, too. Folks, I don\u2019t know how many of you saw the game. I hope a lot of you. For those of you who missed it, I\u2019m just gonna give you the high points of what happened here that determined the outcome in the final minute, but it was a disgrace.<\/p>\n

It was a flat-out disgrace. I don\u2019t even think the referees could have controlled this unless they had been willing to throw people out of the game long before the events late in the fourth quarter happened, and that just doesn\u2019t seem to be a step the NFL wants to take. But the Cincinnati Bengals had been stymied for three quarters on offense, they came back and they had a one-point lead over the Steelers.<\/p>\n

Vontaze Burfict, number 55, great linebacker for the Bengals, had had the game of his career. He sacked Roethlisberger and took him out of the game with an injured right shoulder. In fact, when Roethlisberger was being carted off the field, Bengals fans were throwing batteries and bottles and cans at him. This whole thing was a total breakdown.<\/p>\n


\nIn the stands, people were urinating on each other<\/a>, Bengals fans were urinating on Steelers fans, Steeler fans were beating up on Bengals fans, and women were being beaten up in the face. There were five or six charges, I think, or crimes charged by the Cincinnati police once it was all sorted out, and it was all a direct result of what was happening on the field.<\/p>\n

It was just mind-boggling to me. Here you have Vontaze Burfict, who has taken Roethlisberger out of the game on what everybody thought at the time was a legal hit, it was a sack. There\u2019s now video that surfaced that supposedly shows Burfict ramming his knee into Roethlisberger\u2019s injured shoulder on the ground. It\u2019s debatable whether that happened, but it looks like it did. Then Burfict intercepts the Steelers backup quarterback, Landry Jones, in what looked like the Steelers\u2019 last-chance drive to get down to field goal position, field goal range. And then for one reason or another — well, it wasn\u2019t the one reason or another — the Bengals fumbled on their next offensive drive, the Steelers recover it, and I may be off on the times here, but they\u2019ve got one drive left. We\u2019re down here to like a minute, and they have time-outs remaining, and they\u2019ve gotta go at least 55 yards to get into field goal range.<\/p>\n

And the Steelers bring Roethlisberger out with his inability to throw anything longer than 10 yards, bring him out to quarterback the final series, third down and long, tries to hit Antonio Brown over the middle. The pass is high. Brown has no chance of catching it, barely got a handle on it, and out of nowhere, here comes Vontaze Burfict, right shoulder, trying to take Brown\u2019s head off. Launched himself off the ground at the head of Antonio Brown, who was knocked unconscious briefly, flopping around on the ground. Number 24, Adam “Pacman” Jones today claims that Brown was faking it, deserves an Oscar, that he was barely even hit.<\/p>\n

He said go back and look in slow motion, Vontaze barely hit the guy. They\u2019re just all wet. But the point is, it was stupid. Vontaze Burfict at that point had been the hero, the toast of the town. Plus they were gonna win the first playoff game since 1991. They had it as much in the bag as you can possibly have it in the bag. It was just stupid. Well, it was worse than stupid. It was totally unnecessary, and it was brought on by whatever cultural problems these players seem to have these days. Just watching this game was a seesaw up and down.<\/p>\n

But the actions that took place after Burfict tried to decapitate Brown, Brown\u2019s laid out field, here come the Steelers medical staff out to check him. They throw the flag for 15 yards, the Bengals are outraged, they start arguing and so forth. Steelers linebackers coach Joey Porter is on the field, which Adam Jones objects to, and Adam Jones, number 24, tries to get at Porter. In the process, practically knocks a referee down. That\u2019s another flag, another 15 yards. The Steelers end up with 14 seconds left, and they have to just kick a 35-yard field goal to win, which they did.<\/p>\n

Thirty yards in penalties, 15 yards of it a dead-ball foul, running into an official. All they had to do was back off. All they had to do, the pass to Brown was incomplete. It\u2019s fourth down. Roethlisberger cannot throw. And Vontaze Burfict couldn\u2019t help himself. The announcers were talking throughout the game how coach Marvin Lewis had failed to keep him in control, keep him in check. I mean, the telecast looked like a bunch of players on the Bengals side literally could not be controlled.<\/p>\n

I watched the media, as you know I\u2019m wont to do, I studied the media on Sunday and today to try to see how the incidents in this game would be reported and reacted to, \u2019cause it should have been, what happened in this game, how it happened, why it happened, who did it, should be the story of the weekend, notwithstanding that poor kicker in Minnesota who botched the chip shot at the end of the Seattle game. But what happened in Cincinnati is the story of the year in the NFL, for what it represents, what it tells us, and what it indicates. It\u2019s not a surprise to me that many in the media tried to downplay it as just another game where emotions kind of ran a little hotter than usual. It was much, much more than that. And it\u2019s fascinating.<\/p>\n


\nLet\u2019s go to some of the audio sound bites on this. First off — and, by the way, back to Trump, I think something\u2019s going on with Trump on this. I think there are a lot of people who think the NFL is going soft in a lot of ways, but that Vontaze Burfict hit on Antonio Brown is not an example of the NFL going too far in the other direction trying to take the manliness out of the game. That hit was uncalled for, it was unnecessary. It may have taken place in the game back in the fifties and sixties and seventies. It may have even happened helmet-to-helmet back in the fifties, sixties, and seventies. But it was unnecessary.<\/p>\n

You know, folks, that hit, the best way to put this in perspective, that hit is criminal assault if it happens outside of a football stadium, outside of a game. What happened to Antonio Brown is criminal assault, and it could be charged and prosecuted as such, if it happened anywhere else. So Trump the next day comes out talks about how the NFL\u2019s going soft. There\u2019s lots of examples of how that may be true, but not after that game. Saturday night\u2019s game was not an example of the NFL going soft. That game was brutal, and a lot of the brutality was not called for in terms of penalties. This was not a wussified NFL on display Saturday. It was quite the exact opposite, in fact.<\/p>\n

So Trump coming out and talking about the wussification of the NFL after that game? I\u2019m scratching my head, what game did he watch? So it tells me Trump has a radar, and he\u2019s aware of what people are saying about various things and decides to chime in now and then if he thinks that it\u2019s politically opportune, but this was not the game to accuse the NFL of wussifying. This was not the game to accuse the NFL of becoming a bunch of pansies. This was not the game where you complain and moan about the referees going soft. I mean, there\u2019s a reason why some in the media are calling it a prison gang riot.<\/p>\n


\nRemember, I once referred to a Chargers-Patriots game, I told people I thought I was watching the Crips and Bloods<\/a>. Remember the media jumped all over me for that? They called me racist and prejudiced and all this sort of stuff, and I had specific reasons for it. It was all about, you know, a guy lost the game for San Diego simply \u2019cause he thought he\u2019d been dissed. He lost. Like Burfict lost the game. Vontaze Burfict and Pacman Jones can say whatever they want to say, they lost the game, they had the game won. They were both, Burfict particularly was a hero, despite who he is, despite whatever his character is, he could have been the toast of that town, and threw it all away and probably felt happy that it all happened because of whatever cultural things go on here that define toughness and manliness.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t pretend to understand it. But it was just stupid. The game was won. There was no reason for any of this to happen in terms of playing to win. The reasons for it to happen were entirely personal, out-of-control emotions, inability to focus, no professionalism. It was just stunning. And to have it, for the most part, downplayed?<\/p>\n

Now, the immediate aftermath, CBS, some of the NFL people were over the top in their criticism of everybody involved, but then it tamed out. By the time today got here, ah, ho-hum, no big deal, let\u2019s move on. And I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a ho-hum. I think it\u2019s indicative of so much that\u2019s happening throughout our culture, not just in football and not just in professional sports. And there\u2019s no place for it.<\/p>\n


\nBut let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites here. Let\u2019s hear Jim Nantz and Phil Simms. And while all this was going on, they downplayed this, too. And it\u2019s understandable. I mean, they work for CBS, which pays the NFL a lot of money, and the NFL… There\u2019s a back scratching thing going on. I mean, you don\u2019t… You don\u2019t rip and criticize the people paying the bills and making your programming possible and all that. But after a certain point, they could no longer ignore it, and when the slo-mo happened of Burfict attempting to decapitate Antonio Brown, that\u2019s when Phil Simms and Jim Nantz finally had had enough.<\/p>\n

SIMMS: Can it get any worse?<\/p>\n

NANTZ: No. … I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

SIMMS: It\u2019s a terrible hook.<\/p>\n

NANTZ: It\u2019s been so many others in places tonight —<\/p>\n

SIMMS: Yes.<\/p>\n

NANTZ: Roethlisberger being taken off the field and —<\/p>\n

SIMMS: Fans cheering.<\/p>\n

NANTZ: — fans cheering the fact that he was injured. A couple of times tonight you\u2019ve wanted to use the word “disgraceful.” And, uh, this certainly… It\u2019s — it\u2019s what it is.<\/p>\n

SIMMS: It\u2019s disgraceful, on so many fronts, by everybody.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s Phil Simms and Jim Nantz. Boomer Esiason right after game on CBS.<\/p>\n


\nESIASON: I\u2019m a former Bengal. I\u2019m embarrassed by the way that this game ended and by the way these guys acted on the field today. I feel bad for Marvin Lewis. And I\u2019ll tell you one thing: If Marvin Lewis can\u2019t control his players, then maybe Marvin Lewis shouldn\u2019t be standing there on the sideline coaching that dreck!<\/p>\n

RUSH: They lost a game! This is incredible! Everybody\u2019s looking past that, looking at the specifics of what happened. Yeah. “Was it criminal? Was it bad? Was it dangerous? Was it over the top?” They lost the game! They lost! The stupidity of this! They had the game won. A dead-ball foul. Simply be… You\u2019ve got a coach out there… Like Pacman\u2019s running around saying, “Joey Porter…” He called him “Jerry.”<\/p>\n

“Jerry Porter\u2019s got no business being out there! He\u2019s out calling our guys b-i-itches.” Walk away, Pacman! Walk away, for crying out loud! What is…? Why do you have to bump a referee and practically knock him over to point a finger at Joey Porter? Walk away! But no. He had to get to Joey Porter and give him what for. Here came the flag, another 15 yards. Here\u2019s Pacman after the game. We had to bleep 75% of what he said.<\/p>\n

JONES: (Bleep) ref did a horrible (bleep) job. You got (bleep) Jerry Porter and the middle of the (bleep) field talking (bleep) at everybody then was somebody say something to \u2019em, he only supposed to be on the (bleep) field?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I can\u2019t tell you what I said and maintain our license here, folks.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, no, no! Don\u2019t misunderstand. I\u2019m not saying the hit was anything unusual. I\u2019m not saying the hit is unprecedented. Look, George Atkinson and Jack Tatum used to do this kind of stuff to Lynn Swann all the time. How many playoff games…? There were one or two playoff games that took Swann out with a simple blow to the head, forearm shiver, what have you. Swann wasn\u2019t even anywhere near the play. Back then, they called a penalty on it much like they did here. But they didn\u2019t do anything about it in terms of trying to police it down the road.<\/p>\n

It was just something happened in the game.<\/p>\n

This was unnecessary! The game was won! It\u2019s more than hotheads losing control. There\u2019s something seriously wrong here. The motivation obviously on the part of some of these players was not to win the game. They had another purpose being on that field Saturday night, and that\u2019s where this problem breaks down. And the people that employ them — and they\u2019re college people! They\u2019re college graduates, for crying out loud. They\u2019re college men. You know, people ask me all the time, “Why don\u2019t these coaches tell these people not to do it? You know, how the…? Stupid penalties in the end zone after a touchdown, a 15-yard penalty for celebrating!”<\/p>\n

You may think the penalty\u2019s crazy or the rule\u2019s crazy, but it is what it is. Why can\u2019t a coach tell a young kid, “Don\u2019t do it! I run this team; you\u2019re not gonna do it. If you score a touchdown, give the ball to the ref and get off the field.” But the coaches today say, “They\u2019re grown men; I can\u2019t tell \u2019em what to do.” It\u2019s a different era. “They\u2019re grown men; I can\u2019t tell you what to do”? Then why do we need coaches? What do you mean, “They\u2019re grown men; I can\u2019t tell \u2019em what to do”? It\u2019d be no different than a parent saying, “This kid is my kid and he\u2019s a little out of control, but I can\u2019t tell him what to do.” It\u2019s absurd. I\u2019m telling you, folks: There\u2019s a lot wrapped up in this that goes beyond the football field.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Vontaze Burfict himself, and you gotta here Deion Sanders following this. Vontaze Burfict in the locker room being interviewed by the media…<\/p>\n

BURFICT: I don\u2019t know. Any more questions?<\/p>\n

REPORTER: … to lose in this way, Vontaze…?<\/p>\n

BURFICT: I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

REPORTER: …emotionally?<\/p>\n

BURFICT: I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

REPORTER: What words of encouragement have you said to your teammates after this loss?<\/p>\n

BURFICT: I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

REPORTER: Have they said anything to you or…?<\/p>\n

BURFICT: I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

REPORTER: How do you summarize the season?<\/p>\n


\nBURFICT: I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, look at those questions. This guy has just personally… He and number 24 have just lost this game. Now, look, there are a lot of people that contributed. It\u2019s a team; I understand all that. But these two people incurred 30 yards of penalties when the Steelers could not advance the ball to save their lives with 20 seconds remaining. “I don\u2019t know.” “How\u2019s it feel, Vontaze?” “I don\u2019t know.” “Emotionally?” “I don\u2019t know.” “What words of encouragement would you have to your team?” Words of encouragement? It\u2019s amazing there wasn\u2019t a mutiny! Now, here\u2019s Deion Sanders, who watched what you just saw and commented on it.<\/p>\n

SANDERS: You\u2019re not gonna get any sympathy in America, that African-American man putting on — we call it “the wife beater,” tank top. Putting on your weight (sic), putting on your jewelry, and saying that. “I don\u2019t know.” It doesn\u2019t look good whatsoever. Whatsoever. That really upsets a lot of people. All they just want is answers, man.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So Vontaze Burfict (I purposefully didn\u2019t play these) is sitting there at his locker in a tank top with his hair in a ponytail braid, and Deion\u2019s saying, “Hey, man you\u2019re not gonna get any sympathy in America being an African-American putting on the wife-beater tank top.” I did not know that a tank top signified “wife beater.” (interruption) It does? Well, it… (interruption) Okay. Well, I have tank tops. (interruption) Well, I don\u2019t wear \u2019em, but… (interruption) Okay, you learn something every day. And then “putting on your weight,” meaning your jewelry. (summarized) “No, you don\u2019t do that, man. You don\u2019t do when you want America to understand.”<\/p>\n

Deion, that\u2019s the point here.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, for all the talk here about Nitschke and Butkus, these people were sportsmen. There was no sportsmanship going on in these contested events on Saturday night Cincinnati with the Bengals and Steelers.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n


\nRUSH: Robert, Coronado, California, I\u2019m glad you waited. You\u2019re next. It\u2019s great to have you here, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Radicalized by Trump dittos, Rush. I\u2019d like to comment on Deion Sanders full-on defense of Vontaze Burfict\u2019s horrible hit the other night and basically try to explain very briefly why I think it was not an accident.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait, wait, wait. Did Sanders defend the hit? I didn\u2019t see that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, he did. He said it was an accident. He and L.T. got up on the stage and he tried to explain that he just ran past him and his shoulder clipped the guy in the head, but it was completely an accident.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think I can describe very quickly why I don\u2019t think it\u2019s an accident. When the human being runs your arm hangs at your side basically unflexed at the elbow and then with every stride it comes up to about a 90 degree flection.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It happens every time I run, you\u2019re right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right, absolutely. And if I said, “Rush, I need you to break down a door with your shoulder,” what would you do? You would flex your arm up past 90 degrees, fold your fist over onto your chest, and now you would have yourself in Vontaze Burfict\u2019s —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I would be leading with my forearm, you\u2019re exactly right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. You would have your forearm across your chest and bracing your shoulder, and that\u2019s how he hit the guy in the head. He didn\u2019t hit him as he casually passed him on the field with his arm in a running position.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There was nothing casual about it. He launched.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. Absolutely. And then, you know, for Deion to go on, you know, and pull a mild race card and basically wasn\u2019t even critical of him, he basically said his only problem was he didn\u2019t address the media properly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a minute, what race card?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, he said, you know, what people are gonna see is an African-American male putting on a wife beater shirt —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, that. I thought you meant racism in the hit.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No. No, no.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It was subtle. I mean, I\u2019ll give him credit. He threw it out there. I don\u2019t know what the intent was. I think his intent was to defend the NFL brand. I mean, it was an appalling scene that night to watch.<\/p>\n


\nRUSH: I can explain Deion. I\u2019ve not met Deion, but you know, Michael Irvin is great friends with Deion. I\u2019ve gotten to know Michael Irvin fairly well and I\u2019ve watched Deion, and I think Deion considers himself a mentor for current players younger than he is. He\u2019s an advisor, hired or unhired. He\u2019s trying to be helpful in a mentor way. Grab sound bite 23. This is what the caller is talking about. Burfict, in his locker room after the game at his locker, reporters were asking… The reporters are scared to death of the guy, by the way. I mean, you can tell when a reporter\u2019s afraid of a player.<\/p>\n

The questions are timid and they\u2019re soft-spoken, and reporter number one said, “Yeah, what a way to lose, Vontaze.” Another reporter said, “What words of encouragement or what have you said to your teammates after this loss? Have they said anything to you?” “How do you summarize this season, Von?” Everybody was afraid to go there, and every answer he gave was, “I don\u2019t know. I don\u2019t know. I don\u2019t know. I don\u2019t know.” Every answer. Deion was not happy, and is attempting here in this the sound bite to advise Vontaze Burfict on how to do this the right way next to.<\/p>\n

SANDERS: You\u2019re not gonna get any sympathy in America, that African-American man putting on — we call it “the wife beater,” tank top. Putting on your weight (sic), putting on your jewelry, and saying that. “I don\u2019t know.” It doesn\u2019t look good whatsoever. Whatsoever. That really upsets a lot of people. All they just want is answers, man.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. But don\u2019t answer in the tank top, Vontaze. Don\u2019t put on that wife-beater tank top after a game like this and say you don\u2019t know when everybody knows. They saw what you did and everybody says, “You don\u2019t know?” and then you don\u2019t put your “weight on,” man (meaning your jewelry). You don\u2019t throw your weight on, on top of the wife beater shirt, and run around and say you don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

So Deion\u2019s trying to mentor Vontaze here, is my humble analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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