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<\/a>RUSH: NFL football over the weekend, 42 million people watched the Packers and the Fort\u2019iners — 42 million people for a Sunday afternoon 4:30 start. That\u2019s phenomenal numbers. Now, granted, there wasn\u2019t much else to do, particularly in the frozen tundra north of the Mason-Dixon Line. You had to stay inside. But still. A lot of people are talking about the Chiefs and the Indianapolis Colts. “Whoa, what a great game, Rush! What a great game.” Do not count me among those who thought that was a great game. It was fun to watch, don\u2019t misunderstand. I had no vested interest in it. It didn\u2019t matter to me who won, but I didn\u2019t think that was great football. It might have been fun and entertaining, like ping-pong, if you like watching pong back and forth, but don\u2019t count me among those people. A great football game was the 49ers and Packers. That was a football game. That was a game.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Look, everybody\u2019s asking, “What do you mean, Chiefs and the Colts?” I\u2019m just telling you, last year and years prior, the Chiefs lost three players who were said to be concussed. Last year, they woulda kept playing. The year before, they woulda kept playing. This year they lost \u2019em, and there are couple other things. Coach. Eagles fans know what I mean.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: I\u2019m not kidding and I\u2019m not trying to be provocative. I don\u2019t have to try. I\u2019m just telling you, a lot of people think that the Kansas City Chiefs, Indianapolis Colts was a great, great game. There was no defense in that game. How anybody thought… It wasn\u2019t great football. There wasn\u2019t any defense! Particularly… I don\u2019t know how a team up 38-10 in the third quarter loses. Well, yeah, actually I do. You got a coach that botched the clock management, time-outs in the second half.<\/p>\n

But I\u2019m just telling you. The Chiefs lost three key players, Jamaal Charles being the first, in the first quarter, to concussions. Last year, previous years, they would have come back in the game. They were gone. They lost a couple other people to hamstring and knee injuries. That\u2019s part of the game. Don\u2019t misunderstand. I\u2019m not claiming it\u2019s unfair. But the concussion business<\/a>, some of these guys would have been back, and it would have made a difference.<\/line><\/p>\n

In fact, in the Green Bay-Fort\u2019iner game… You may not know this. Bryan Bulaga, I think, is the starting left tackle, might right tackle. He blew out a knee in training camp and has been on injury reserve the whole season. He had a backup named David Bakhtiari, and in the game yesterday, the backup got a concussion, okay? Fine. But you know what he did? He snuck past the doctors and the coaches and he got back in the game, and there were some people in the media really mad about that.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not kidding you. There were stories about this guy. Bakhtiari, I think was his last name. Bakhtiari. Yeah, he\u2019s an offensive lineman, and he went out for an extra point try. The doctors were trying to determine if he had a concussion. He said, “To hell with you,” and he went back out there. He went back out there — and, of course, the news story said, “Well, what are a bunch of doctors gonna do?How are a bunch of doctors gonna stop a mad offensive lineman of 300-plus pounds?<\/line><\/p>\n

“If he wants to go back, he\u2019s gonna go back.” But the media was livid that this guy was permitted back in the game, livid that he would even try to get back in the game. “The NFL just can\u2019t be serious about this concussion business, if you\u2019re gonna let this kind of thing happen.” The guy didn\u2019t want to lose the game. Anyway, I thought it fascinating that a guy might have suffered a concussion, tried and succeeded in putting himself back in the game, and there were some people in the media really upset about it.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Let\u2019s go to San Diego. John, hi. You\u2019re up first today on the phones. Great to have you with us, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, how you doing? I got a question on the NFL thing here, you know, as far as helmet-to-helmet contact.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hit me.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Basically I think the only way to solve it, \u2019cause I don\u2019t know what the protocol is for the doctors on the sideline to ask these players if they have a concussion or not unless they have a dilated pupil or obvious brain damage. I mean, most of them sound confused anyways off the field, so I think, you know, asking them a question like what day is it or who\u2019s the president, you know, I don\u2019t know what they do on the sideline, but I think just put an accelerometer in their helmet, they get a certain number of G forces, you\u2019re out, and, you know, last man standing wins the game, you know? I don\u2019t know. It\u2019s kind of crazy. How do they figure this stuff out?<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, here\u2019s what they do. Before the season starts every year, every player is given a rudimentary test. It\u2019s not really an IQ test, it\u2019s a who\u2019s your grandmother, when was she born, that kind of stuff, and that\u2019s the concussion baseline. And when the player has a concussion he has to be able to answer all those questions or a certain percentage of \u2019em. This among other things, but that\u2019s one of the things they do.<\/p>\n

So what the players have begun doing is acting really stupid during the original test, because they want to play. So the players have been lowering the baseline on purpose so that they\u2019ll more easily be cleared. Now, the rule when you have a concussion, you have to stay out three or four days. What they ask \u2019em on the sideline, I don\u2019t really know.<\/p>\n

Now, I will tell you this. Jamaal Charles was hurt in the first quarter of the Chiefs-Colts game. They played the replay. Nobody could figure out where in that replay. The announcers, nobody, the viewers, we were told that Jamaal Charles had a concussion. We watched the replay, no player hit his helmet. So then they concluded, well, his head must have hit the turf on the way down, but that didn\u2019t even look particularly vicious. Yet we were told he had a concussion.<\/p>\n

So they cut away later to Jamaal Charles being examined by doctors on the sideline, and the sideline reporter — I don\u2019t know who it was. Might have been Alex Flanagan, the NFL. The sideline reporter actually intimated that the doctors can\u2019t figure out when it happened. They\u2019re not sure what happened because you look at the replay, and it doesn\u2019t look like Jamaal Charles\u2019 head hit anything, much less hard enough to cause a concussion. Yet he\u2019s out for the game. My only point is that last year, the year before, Jamaal Charles would have been back in. And there were two other concussions I think the Chiefs players suffered, they\u2019re gone. Once that happens, concussion in a game and you are finished.<\/p>\n

If the team calls it a head injury, then you might have a chance of a player coming back. But if it\u2019s called a concussion, and they\u2019ve got doctors on the sideline now, they made a big deal about the doctors being independent, not paid by the teams, so that they\u2019re not working against the players\u2019 interests. And if a concussion is diagnosed, then that\u2019s it, you\u2019re histoire, you\u2019re gone, and you\u2019re not cleared until you pass what is called the concussion protocol all during the next week. And that involves that baseline test that every player takes before the season starts. Simple questions that just in the normal course of a day you\u2019d know the answer to. What\u2019s your mother\u2019s maiden name? When were you born?<\/p>\n

So the players will get that stuff wrong on purpose to lower the baseline. Some of them do. They want to play. They particularly want to play in the playoffs, as evidenced by the offensive lineman for the Packers, Bakhtiari, who said the hell with it, I\u2019m going back in, and he forced his way back in, irritating — (interruption) Well, they\u2019re champions. They want to win a championship. They want to play. Snerdley\u2019s peppering me with if they\u2019re slaves and if they\u2019re being exploited by rich owners and so forth. That\u2019s coming. You just wait. That\u2019s coming. But the rudimentary concussion test is memory, concentration, and balance. Those are the things that they examine on the sideline after a player\u2019s been concussed.<\/p>\n

But the Jamaal Charles, if you go back, if you\u2019ve got NFL Rewind, I don\u2019t know if you do, it costs money, but every NFL game is on it, the website, you go back and look at it. And I made a point, \u2019cause I didn\u2019t see the injury either. And do not anybody say, you know, don\u2019t do a pope thing on me here. I am not saying there wasn\u2019t a concussion there. I\u2019m just telling you nobody could see how — kind of like the phantom punch, Muhammad Ali and Sonny Liston. Nobody saw it, except Ali said he threw it. Liston said, “What?” ‘Cause he didn\u2019t know. He was on the canvas. As a fan, nobody saw it, remember? Ali said, “You didn\u2019t see it \u2019cause it goes down. Most punches are uppercuts, this one went down, nobody saw it.” And people said Liston took a dive. Obviously Liston took a dive. “No, no, no, no. You just didn\u2019t see the punch.”<\/line><\/p>\n

The only thing I\u2019m saying is, and I\u2019ll repeat it, there are some injuries that happened in that game that in years past the players woulda kept playing. That\u2019s it. I\u2019m gonna get in enough trouble for that. Don\u2019t ask me to add to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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