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RUSH: The Odell Beckham Jr., slash, Josh Norman story. There\u2019s a backstory to this that actually starts with Rodney Harrison and the NBC Football Night in America pregame show on Sunday night. And the basics of this are that Rodney Harrison was a safety, and he\u2019s gonna be in the Hall of Fame. Rodney Harrison was one of the greatest to ever play the game, one of the hardest hitting, one of the most penalized. I mean, the guy was just a beast, as they say in inside circles, tough as they come, just a great, great player. He started with the San Diego Chargers and ended with the New England Patriots. <\/p>\n

And the past two or three weeks on that Sunday night NBC pregame show, Rodney Harrison and Josh Norman, the cornerback, number 24 for the Carolina Panthers, have had a little back-and-forth involving a wide receiver for the Atlanta Falcons named Julio Jones. It all started with Rodney Harrison suggesting that Josh Norman is not as good as Josh Norman thinks he is, but he\u2019s gonna be if he keeps his head on the straight and narrow. I don\u2019t want to get into too much of this, but the point is there\u2019s a back-and-forth, Rodney Harrison dealing with Josh Norman. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s a generational difference there. Their ages are not that great, but there\u2019s still a generational difference. Harrison has one way of playing the game, and these young guys have another way. Harrison has one way of respecting the game, these young guys a different way. And Harrison has been warning Norman (imitating Harrison), “Hey, you know what, you\u2019re gonna be good, but you\u2019re not that good yet. I was you, bud. I was you. I know, I\u2019ve been where you are. I\u2019ve made the mistakes you\u2019re making. Don\u2019t get so cocky off the bat here. You got a long way to go, pal.” <\/line><\/p>\n

And Norman\u2019s been saying (imitating Norman), “Who are you? You\u2019re lousy at your job. I couldn\u2019t care less what you say about me, Harrison, screw you.” Essentially those are paraphrases. So that\u2019s a backstory that just involves Norman. So Norman\u2019s had his talent questioned. He\u2019s been talked down to by a vet and a retired player who is reputed to be among the best. Then you bring in this Odell Beckham situation on top of that. The only reason this backstory with NBC and Rodney Harrison is relevant is that it\u2019s already amped Norman up, and Norman already thinks that all eyes are on him because of the back-and-forth he\u2019s had with Rodney Harrison on this Sunday night NBC show. <\/p>\n

Now we get to this game that happened on Sunday and we\u2019re learning all kinds of things. If you don\u2019t know, basically Beckham lost his cool the whole game and engaged in behavior that many say he should have been thrown out of the game after the second incident, there should have been penalties, should have been thrown out, should have been expelled, suspended for one or two games, but nothing happened during the game. Well, there were penalty flags thrown, but the coach, Coughlin, didn\u2019t sit him down, didn\u2019t bench him and the referees didn\u2019t three him out of the game. <\/line><\/p>\n

Josh Norman, number 24 with the Panthers, was judged to be a guilty party, too, but nowhere near as out of bounds and over the top as Beckham was. The real coup de grace for Beckham was in the third, maybe the fourth quarter, Beckham is a decoy wide receiver on a running play for the running back Shane Vereen, and after the play is over, Beckham doubles back and launches himself helmet-to-helmet into the head of Josh Norman right there in the ear hole. No penalty was called. It was headhunting, I mean, it was blatant what it was. He should have been thrown out of the game at that point, 15-yard penalty, you name it. Nothing happened. <\/p>\n

Okay. So Beckham gets suspended. They announce the suspension yesterday, one game. He can appeal. The appeal\u2019s gonna be tomorrow. The Beckham-New York Giants PR machine has gotten into gear since the suspension was announced, and the first thing that came out was, “Well, hey, you know what, the Panthers are not innocent players here. You know what Panthers did? They brought a baseball bat or two out to the pregame and they were saying the baseball bat\u2019s part of the way they fire themselves up, saying, ‘bring the wood.\u2019 Well, you don\u2019t take a baseball bat out and you don\u2019t start taunting the other team with a baseball bat.”<\/p>\n

They were swinging the bat around. They didn\u2019t threaten anybody with it, but just the very fact that they\u2019re out there swinging a baseball bat. Black bat, relevant, too. The color of the bat matters, folks. It does. In our culture today, it\u2019s a black bat, it matters. And then the media and the sportswriters all say, “Well, wait a minute now, that still doesn\u2019t excuse what Beckham did.” So then the Giants and Beckham PR machine got into further gear. <\/p>\n

Snerdley, have you heard the latest? Apparently in pregame warmups, the Panthers were making fun of Odell Beckham Jr.\u2019s sexuality. Yes, indeed, they were intimating that he\u2019s gay. They were calling him a ballerina. They were saying he\u2019s got a cute bunch of dance moves, and this was preceded by postgame comments from Josh Norman who said (paraphrasing), “Yeah, he\u2019s a little feminine out there. The kid\u2019s a little bit over the top, acting a little feminine. This Michael Jackson routine he\u2019s got going, that\u2019s not football, that\u2019s not how you play the game.” <\/p>\n

<\/a>So now the Panthers, according to the Giants PR — well, I don\u2019t know who\u2019s putting it out there, but obviously somebody trying to level the scales, and this has thrown the media for a loss now because if, indeed, Odell Beckham Jr. was a victim of homophobia and blatant homophobic comments, the media is caught. Oh, no, does that change everything? Does that explain why Beckham lost it all afternoon? Does that explain why Beckham was doing what he did? Does it excuse what Beckham was doing? <\/p>\n

Now, some sports Drive-Bys who are as liberal as their news buddies, say it doesn\u2019t matter, doesn\u2019t excuse what he did, but it changes the thing greatly. It explains a little bit more why Beckham was do what he was doing before anybody knew that there were taunts, gay, homosexual, sexuality orientation taunts at Beckham from many on the Panthers team during pregame warmups. There was no penalty thrown on any of that, that was pregame. But it would if they did throw a flag on pregame stuff, which they have done. I mean, people have been kicked out of the game during pregame warmups. Joey Porter for the Steelers got thrown out once in Cleveland for it. And he\u2019s not the only one. But, yeah, I guess you\u2019d call it a hate penalty. <\/p>\n

So, anyway, Beckham\u2019s appeal will be heard tomorrow. A lot of people thought it would be today \u2019cause Wednesday is the first practice day of the week in the NFL. Tuesday is players day off if the game is on Sunday. So it remains to be seen now with the baseball bat, the taunting, the gay taunts, the homophobia taunts, all these other things. Plus now the specter is, wait a minute, now people are asking the question about Beckham. See, I mean, this opens a whole new window, a whole new can of worms. Why were they saying those things about Beckham? Oh, gee. Oh, oh, oh, oh. So people in the Drive-Bys are now really conflicted. And I love it when Drive-Bys get conflicted, folks. I\u2019m sorry. I just love it.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: No, no. I\u2019m not kidding you. And you ought to read the Drive-Bys. They\u2019re reading how horrible it was that they called young Beckham names. The league needs to look into this. You should see the sports Drive-Bys on this. Okay, folks, for those of you that have never played football or have never been in a baseball locker room at the major leagues in the NFL, it\u2019s brutal in there. There\u2019s all kinds of teasing. There\u2019s hazing, even on the closest teams, and particularly with rookies and young people and so forth, opposing teams to boot. These are men, and these are testosterone-laden young men. <\/p>\n

I guarantee you there isn\u2019t any political correctness running around these locker rooms, but the sports Drive-Bys, who are imbued with left-wing Democrat Party political correctness, they\u2019re outraged that players and the Panthers would call Beckham names. That\u2019s just mean. And you know, many of the Drive-Bys are calling for an investigation into the Carolina Panthers to find out if indeed there were slurs being stated about Beckham. There are slurs, there are insults about half the time on the field during an average NFL game. These are men! <\/line><\/p>\n

You know, it\u2019s one of the last refuges of manliness out there. It\u2019s one of the reasons the game\u2019s so damn popular. There is nothing metrosexual about it. There\u2019s nothing politically correct about it, although there\u2019s pressure being brought to make the game PC. But, yeah, they\u2019re all, “Oh, he called him names. The league really better look into that. That\u2019s something we can\u2019t tolerate. There needs to be an investigation.” I tell you, these people are gonna be the death of backbone. They\u2019re gonna the death of strength. They\u2019re gonna be the death of toughness. These metrosexual left-wing guys.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Oh, yeah, the sports Drive-Bys, some of them, are now pushing for Odell Beckham\u2019s suspension to be lifted and replaced to just a fine, since it might be that he was a victim of gay bashing, he might have been the recipient of gay insulting comments, they called him names and so forth. Well, that can explain. It doesn\u2019t justify it, you understand, but it could explain Beckham losing his cool and going nuts out there and therefore lift the suspension and just fine him. There\u2019s a movement on for that. <\/p>\n

I have to tell you something here, folks, I don\u2019t know where this comes from, everybody\u2019s assuming that it\u2019s Beckham\u2019s people, the Giants\u2019 people putting out the news that the Panthers were calling their player names. Stop and think of that. You NFL fans, can you imagine this happening back in the era of Stabler and Dave Casper and Al Davis? Can you imagine the news of the week about the NFL, a player being called names by the opposing team? <\/p>\n

But anyway, here\u2019s the deal. Here\u2019s the thing. Whoever put this out, whoever is launching this story that they were harassing Beckham with insults of his sexuality and calling him a ballerina, making fun of his hairdo and his hair color, calling him Michael Jackson and flitting around out there and that that\u2019s not football, I mean, they have just sent an engraved invitation to every opponent from now on out that that\u2019s how you rattle Odell Beckham Jr. <\/p>\n

The Giants have slim playoff hopes remaining. They gotta win out, and they want Beckham. They feel they don\u2019t have a prayer without Beckham so I guess they\u2019re willing to run the risk of turning Beckham into an every week target in exchange for having him this coming weekend. They play the Vikings. Oh, yeah, Sunday night game, Minneapolis, late December. Right. So that\u2019s next to the Giants schedule. So there\u2019s a lot of things here that just — I don\u2019t know how many of you people read the sports Drive-Bys out there, but it\u2019s a sight to behold. I mean, you would think that the Carolina Panthers, they\u2019re all Donald Trumps, and they\u2019re all out insulting everybody and it\u2019s just unacceptable, and the league needs to investigate. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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