{"id":10248,"date":"2014-02-03T19:48:01","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T19:48:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-02-03T19:48:01","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T19:48:01","slug":"super_bowl_sound_bites_russell_wilson_peyton_manning_john_elway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/02\/03\/super_bowl_sound_bites_russell_wilson_peyton_manning_john_elway\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Bowl Sound Bites: Russell Wilson, Peyton Manning, John Elway"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: I said I\u2019ve got some sound bites from the Super Bowl<\/a> and I wanted to get to \u2019em. Up first is Russell Wilson. Winning quarterback, University of Wisconsin, out of Seattle. Let me tell you a story. Well, I only know his story from the time he was drafted. He was the quarterback at Wisconsin. He gets drafted the same year that the Seahawks sign as a free agent the guy thought to be the greatest backup quarterback in the league, a guy named Matt Flynn. He had backed up Aaron Rodgers for the Packers and he had come close to winning a couple games and just played lights out. He became a free agent after that season, and he was highly sought by a number of teams, the Seahawks made the deal. <\/p>\n

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So they go to training camp with that guy expected to be their starting quarterback, Matt Flynn. And Russell Wilson shows up as a mid-round draft choice out of Wisconsin and within a couple of weeks gets the starting quarterback job, and Matt Flynn ends up released and out of football. Then he signed with I think the Raiders for a while, didn\u2019t work there, went to Buffalo. He ended up back with the Packers this season. Nothing against him. It\u2019s just that this guy Russell Wilson was drafted the same year. The Seahawks thought they had their quarterback for 10 years and instead he got thrust into the starting job two weeks into training camp. In the postgame last night, the sideline reporter, Pam Oliver, said, “You told your teammates before the game, ‘Why not us? Now, didn\u2019t that echo something your dad once told you, “Russell, why not you?”‘”<\/p>\n

WILSON: He\u2019s always telling me, “Russ, why not you?” You know, and what that kinda meant is believe in yourself, believe in the talent God\u2019s given you. Even though you\u2019re five eleven, you can go a long way. And that\u2019s why I decided to play football. And I wanted to go against the odds a little bit.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What he was saying there, Russ, his dad chose to mode him that way, “Why not you? All these other guys, why not you, Russell?” The rap on him is he\u2019s too short. Third base, baseball, he couldn\u2019t see over the pitcher\u2019s mound, short, to throw to first base. Too short, can\u2019t throw the ball over the linebackers and the defensive linemen. And of course that\u2019s all been blown to smithereens. But his dad said, “Well, why not you, Russell? You can do it just like anybody else can,” and it stuck with him, and he\u2019s now becoming, it\u2019s his second or third season, he\u2019s become a leader on the team.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Peyton Manning, who got mad in the post-game when a reporter asked him how “embarrassing” it was to have happen last night what happened, after the record season he had.<\/p>\n

MANNING: It\u2019s not embarrassing at all. It\u2019s… I would never use that word. There\u2019s a lot of professional football players in that room, in the locker room, that put a lot of hard work and effort into — into being here, into playing in that game — and the word “embarrassing” is an insulting word, to tell you the truth.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So he didn\u2019t want to hear about that. “What do you mean embarrassing? We got beat. They played better than we did. We\u2019re not embarrassed.” It\u2019s an insight into the way he thinks, but the average Broncos fan was probably feeling a little embarrassed, or perplexed. I guarantee you your average Broncos fan still hasn\u2019t been told in a satisfying way what the hell happened last night. <\/p>\n

He is saying that the Broncos players are not embarrassed. They tried. They showed up. They were prepared. They gave it everything they had. They\u2019re not embarrassed. They might be humiliated, might be angry. They\u2019re not embarrassed. “Peyton Manning doesn\u2019t get embarrassed! He doesn\u2019t want you using that word to describe his team.” That\u2019s what he\u2019s saying. <\/p>\n

John Elway, Fox News Sunday, was being interviewed by Chris Wallace, and Wallace said, “Look, Mr. Elway… This is a political question; it\u2019s a political show. I have to ask you a political question. In the course of researching you for this interview, I found out — and I didn\u2019t know, Mr. Elway — that you\u2019re a big Republican, and, in fact, you contributed a lot of money in 2012 to Mitt Romney. Why do you support the GOP?”<\/p>\n