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RUSH: Twenty-seven NFL players have been arrested since the Super Bowl, and, you know, a lot of people are gonna say, “Rush, it\u2019s the concussions.” A lot of the lawyers are gonna say, “It\u2019s the concussions. It\u2019s the brain injuries.” Other people are going to assign this to other things. But clearly, folks — clearly — there is something that has been effervescing out there. It\u2019s been bubbling up within the feeder system for the National Football League. Here are examples:<\/p>\n

“Michael Boley, New York Giants (Feb. 8): Arrested for child abuse in Alabama. Da\u2019Quan Bowers, Tampa Bay Buccaneers (Feb. 18): Arrested for having a gun in his luggage at LaGuardia Airport, charges later reduced to disorderly conduct. Al Netter, San Francisco 49ers (Feb. 22): Arrested for DUI in California. Desmond Bryant, Cleveland Browns (Feb. 24): Arrested for criminal mischief in Miami. J\u2019Marcus Webb, Chicago Bears (Feb. 24): Arrested for marijuana possession in Illinois, charges dropped. Javarris James, Arizona Cardinals (March 7): Arrested for failing to appear in court in Florida.<\/p>\n

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“Quinton Carter, Denver Broncos (March 9): Arrested for allegedly cheating at craps at a Vegas casino, case dismissed. Cody Grimm, Tampa Bay Buccaneers (March 10 and May 28): Arrested for public intoxication in Virginia twice. Evan Rodriguez, Chicago Bears (March 21 and May 31): Arrested for resisting an officer in Miami (charged later dropped), and then for DUI, speeding and ‘improper lane usage.\u2019 Trumaine Johnson, St. Louis Rams (March 22): Arrested for misdemeanor DUI in Montana.<\/p>\n

“Brandon Barden, Tennessee Titans (March 23): Arrested on suspicion of DUI after driving his car off the road in Georgia. Amari Spivey, Detroit Lions (March 27): Arrested for third-degree assault in an alleged domestic violence incident … William Moore, Atlanta Falcons (April 18): Arrested for simple battery after allegedly grabbing a woman by the shoulder in Atlanta. Rolando McClain, Baltimore Ravens (April 22): Arrested for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest in Alabama,” and it goes on.<\/p>\n

“Quentin Groves, Cleveland Browns (April 24): Arrested for solicitation in a prostitution sting in Ohio. Cliff Harris, New York Jets (May 2): Arrested for marijuana possession in New Jersey.” They are gonna say that it is the concussions and stuff. Now, the Patriots handled the Hernandez thing quite differently than the Baltimore Ravens handled the Ray Lewis thing. The Baltimore Ravens went as far as they could in defending Ray Lewis. <\/p>\n

The New England Patriots, last weekend it was reported that if Hernandez was arrested for anything in this case, they were gonna drop him, and they did.<\/p>\n

So the game is changing.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, back to the phones we go, Lisa in New Orleans, great to have you on the program. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush. How you doing today?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Just fine. Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Good. You were listing the laundry list of players who have had trouble in the past in the NFL.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, I stopped. I didn\u2019t go through all 27. It was starting to sound monotonous. I was getting bored.<\/p>\n

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CALLER: I understand. It called to mind, I had heard Tony Dungy in an interview on a national sports show after Bob Costas gave his little commentary on guns<\/a> a while back.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And he was speaking about how there\u2019s very much a gun culture with the NFL players. A lot of it he likened to their upbringing and, you know, the environments in which they were raised.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Tony Dungy did?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. It was an interview he gave, and I remember because I really like Tony Dungy. I think he\u2019s got a great head on his shoulders, and is a good influence for these kids. But he spoke about how at the beginning of the season, he would go in the locker room, talk to the players, and point-blank ask them with a show of hands, “How many of you all own a gun?” I think the number was 70, 80% would raise their hands. Really all he could contribute to it was how to protect the shield of the team, how to protect the NFL.<\/p>\n

“Don\u2019t bring it to the training facility. Don\u2019t bring it to the game. What you do on your own time is up to you.” I know you like societal indicators. To me, when you have a city like New Orleans that\u2019s as violent as it is — we have shootings on MLK Day, we have a shooting on Mother\u2019s Day — these players matter to these kids. Whether you want \u2019em to or not, they do. When you get a guy like Tony Dungy who\u2019s spelling it out, and these kids who are in such positions with the money they\u2019re making — I\u2019m talking the 23, 25-year-old NFL players. You got this Hernandez kid. I don\u2019t know if he did it or not, but these guys matter to these kids, and we see it every evening on the news in New Orleans, every evening on the news. <\/line>RUSH: Okay, where are you going with this? We need to ban guns?<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: No, I don\u2019t think so. No, we\u2019re a Second Amendment household. I can assure you. I go back to societally, what the president does and the first lady —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Are you trying to say something that you\u2019re afraid to say?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No. I\u2019m not afraid to say anything, believe me. You can ask my kids.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Because you started out by saying that Tony Dungy said that the problem with all this is that these young NFL players are coming from upbringings and neighborhoods or whatever from a culture that\u2019s oriented around guns.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, that was his commentary back when Bob Costas was talking about the gun issue back during the season when he gave his little chat on guns during an NFL broadcast. Later that week or within that time span, they were interviewing Dungy<\/a>, and he was saying that it exists. It\u2019s there.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, what did he say we should do about it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, he offered… You know, he is — he is a gentleman. He\u2019s a class act. He offered that something has to change, you know. That\u2019s…<\/p>\n

RUSH: What?<\/p>\n

CALLER: That was the impression he left with me, was something has to change societally for these kids.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What has to change?<\/p>\n

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CALLER: Not gun laws, not invoking more gun laws. It\u2019s just, you know… Let\u2019s face it. Now, these are my words, not his. We need dads in the home. We need these kids, big boys, brought up to men in the right way. Culturally, that\u2019s where it\u2019s falling apart with a lot of these players when you see it having so many problems that you just listed, and you didn\u2019t even finish the list. So, no, I don\u2019t believe we need more gun laws, believe me. We need to stay away from —<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s not just NFL players, though. I mean, look at Chicago.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Sure, sure, absolutely.<\/p>\n

RUSH: People are using guns there, young people there don\u2019t have a prayer of playing in the NFL.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly. Well, and then you look culturally. What\u2019s the cause the first lady took on? Obesity. Well, if they really wanted to effect some sort of change —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ah, you know, the first lady is over in Senegal, and do you know what she\u2019s telling them? She\u2019s over at the Martin Luther King School in Dakar, Senegal.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And this the place that Drakkar Noir cologne\u2019s named after.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n

RUSH: She\u2019s telling these kids that she knows exactly what they\u2019re going through; she grew up just like they are. She grew up with no money. She grew up with parents that weren\u2019t educated. She grew up with people who thought going to school was a waste of time and it was too much money. She\u2019s telling these kids that she knows exactly what they\u2019re going through in Senegal, because she was raised just like they are. So it\u2019s either obesity or poverty or something.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, even the NFL itself took on her cause with their Play 60 stuff and their Get Fit and their “get away from the video machines” and all this.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, they did that before the first lady came along.<\/p>\n

CALLER: If they really wanted to effect any sort of change with gun violence — I don\u2019t mean gun laws, I mean the gun violence — they would start from the top down and do something for these inner cities.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What, with the commissioner?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Sure. Why shouldn\u2019t he get on board? He\u2019s on board with the (crosstalk) program.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Who did he shoot?<\/p>\n

CALLER: They need to affect these players, and then it would trickle through the ranks.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m only teasing. I have to take a break. Look, Lisa, thank you. Seriously. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Boston officials, the cops, now say Aaron Hernandez might be involved in a double murder. He might have been involved in another crime, involved a double murder and a double murder cover-up. Look, all of these guns that Tony Dungy\u2019s talking about that the players in the NFL have, they\u2019re all legal. The vast majority of these guns are legal. You know in that, there\u2019s no winning here, folks. You know, you can\u2019t win talking about this.<\/line><\/p>\n

You literally can\u2019t win talking about it. <\/p>\n

The NBA guys wish they were gangsta rappers, the gangsta rappers wish they are NBA guys, and the NFL guys want to be part of it, too. They all want to be part of hip-hop — you know, the East Coast vs. West Coast. Tupac became OnePac before they killed him. Tupac Shakur, driving around chewing gum with a pistol. Tupac was shot in the street in Las Vegas, right? He pulled up beside a drive-by shooting. Bam, bam! It\u2019s all over rap music, or whatever the hell it was. But there\u2019s glamour. <\/p>\n

You got Jay-Z trying to build a sports agency, a firm where he represents players and so forth. So I don\u2019t know what you want when you say it\u2019s a cultural thing. But the guns that they own (just to get back with what Dungy said), probably the vast majority of them are quite legal. But clearly, I mean, the NFL does have a problem with its feeder system, culturally. (interruption) You remember last time I got in big trouble talking about this? What do you think I\u2019m talking about? (interruption)<\/p>\n

When was the last time I got in big trouble talking about this? Crips and Bloods, right? Here\u2019s what it was. There was a playoff game out in San Diego. In fact, it was the Patriots. This is some years ago now. It was a Patriots and San Diego Chargers playoff game, and if I remember right, the Chargers had this game pretty much in the bag except a defensive back for the Chargers engaged in play that ended up in a penalty, which prolonged the game, which led to Patriots tying it up.<\/p>\n

They went to overtime and Patriots won, but the player involved got the flag because he thought he\u2019d been “dissed” by a player from the Patriots and took action that was away from play after the play was over. And the NFL, they threw flags and so forth. I said at the time that the NFL is trying to maintain control of the game. That\u2019s why the referees are throwing flags on this taunting stiff.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s why they\u2019re getting really strict, paying strict attention to all of these away-from-the-ball fouls that involve being “disrespected” and this kind of stuff. I did say that at times, it looks like it\u2019s the Crips and Bloods out there. Well, I mean, the left-wing apparatus in this country descended on me for the usual things, alleging the usual things that they claim I\u2019m guilty of and so forth. All I was pointing out then was that…<\/p>\n

Because I remember part of the controversy was the flag itself, the referee throwing the flag. And I opined on the program, the NFL\u2019s trying to keep control of the game on the field. They\u2019re trying to make it remain a football game out there. It\u2019s a business. That led to… Well, it wasn\u2019t deep doo-doo. But when the Rams thing came up, you know, the potential ownership, that came back. That quote was thrown out there totally out of context in conjunction with an owners meeting.<\/p>\n

“You can\u2019t talk about this stuff! You just can\u2019t talk about it!” So Dungy, in the interview on NBC after one of the incidents… There were two big gun incidents in the NFL this past hear. One was the Chiefs player who killed his wife or ex-wife, and then committed suicide, and there was another one and — No! No, no. That was the big one in the NFL. It was, I don\u2019t know, on Sandy Hook or something that Costas did his halftime commentary on guns and everybody flipped out over it.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s when Dungy did the interview and said, “Well, there\u2019s a culture of guns in the NFL,” and he did say that at the beginning of every season he grabs the players and puts them all in the locker room and says, “Look, how many of you have guns?” She said (the caller, Lisa) that 75, 80% raised their hands. That\u2019s it. That\u2019s all that was. Okay, what does that mean, 75, 80% of the players in the NFL have guns? (interruption)<\/p>\n

Well, wait a second. You can\u2019t say that. (interruption) You can\u2019t say that! You can\u2019t say that it\u2019s a “culture of gangsterism” out there. I mean, even if… (interruption) No, even if it is true, you can\u2019t say it. That\u2019s the point. That cannot be said. When is the last time you said it that anybody heard you say it? (interruption) Sure, you can say it all day long. Who hears it? I do. (interruption) Nah, just razzing Mr. Snerdley here. <\/p>\n

I mean, if somebody in public, if somebody were to go on cable TV tonight talking about this Aaron Hernandez thing and if they said, “Oh, look, it\u2019s just part of the culture. You\u2019ve got these guys in the NFL and they want to be gangsters,” there would be hell to pay. Whoever says that, whoever would say that on cable TV would be descended upon, would be hit on, and they would be intimidated into apologizing and then forever remaining silent about it. (interruption)<\/p>\n

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Well, that\u2019s right. You can\u2019t say it. You can point and say, “It\u2019s in the music.” You can say, “It\u2019s in the music videos. It\u2019s on the television and movies.” It\u2019s there, but you can\u2019t say it. You cannot say it. You literally cannot say it. It\u2019s just like smoking. Nobody\u2019s in favor of it; everybody hates it. But Hollywood can get way with portraying everybody in every movie smoking, and nobody comes down on \u2019em. <\/p>\n

Well, very few. Nothing\u2019s ever gonna really be done about it. You can portray any kind of thing you want in a movie, and it\u2019s called art. But you let a social commentator say the same thing that a movie is displaying or showing, and all hell is gonna come down. That\u2019s why I asked Lisa, what I did. I said, “You\u2019re afraid to say where you\u2019re really headed on this.” <\/p>\n

“Oh, no, no! I\u2019m not afraid of saying anything,” but after she made the Dungy comment… That\u2019s why I\u2019m trying to refocus her. “Where are we going with this? What\u2019s the point? They\u2019ve all got guns? So what? A lot of people in the country have guns.” But most of them are not accused of murder. So what\u2019s the difference? You can\u2019t talk about that. Certain people can\u2019t talk about it.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I guess, folks, it is the concussions that led Aaron Hernandez to do what he\u2019s allegedly to have done, and that\u2019s kill somebody. This afternoon on Fox News\u2019s America Live with Megyn Kelly, she spoke with noted psychiatrist and author Dr. Keith Ablow about the arrest of the former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez. She said, “He is being sued for shooting another man and he may be investigated for a separate double murder. We don\u2019t have that confirmed. We\u2019ll see where it takes us. And steroids are rampant in sports. A lot of athletes are on them and don\u2019t commit murders. We don\u2019t know that he\u2019s on them, but what are your thoughts on whether that sort of a drug may be playing a role?”<\/p>\n

She\u2019s talking about in the aggressive nature, personality that might lead to murder.<\/p>\n

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ABLOW: I would wonder about steroids. I would wonder about other drugs of abuse. I would wonder whether the NFL has done enough to look at repeated head trauma in potentially violent people like Aaron Hernandez and how that evolves over time, and I hope they\u2019ll reflect that this was entirely preventable because had he been hospitalized, psychiatrically to look at him, this may never have happened after he allegedly shot a man in the face.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That is an interesting aspect of this. Over the weekend or earlier in this week, part of the story was that sometime not long ago Aaron Hernandez “shot a guy in the face,” and that was it! As though it happens all the time, somebody shoots somebody else in the face. There were no other details. There was no correlation to shooting that person in the face and this crime. It just thrown in there.<\/p>\n

So Dr. Keith is saying, “Look, if we\u2019da put the guy on the couch, or if we\u2019da hooked him up to the machines and given him a PET scan, an MRI, and found out something going on in the brain, we might have been able to prevent this.” I don\u2019t think Dr. Ablow has treated him, but in any event, what we have here is the beginnings — and I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s gonna take root, but we have the beginnings — of, “It might not be his fault. It could be the fault of the NFL for not being attentive enough to potential head injuries. It could be the result of taking some drugs. We just don\u2019t know.”<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Sports Illustrated has a story: “Aaron Hernandez Linked to Bristol Bloods Gang!” There\u2019s a tattoo. He\u2019s got a tattoo on one of his hands, and they\u2019re alleging here that Aaron Hernandez has been linked to a gang, the Bristol Bloods, of the Crips and the Bloods.<\/p>\n

Who said that? <\/p>\n

Who said that a long time ago?<\/p>\n

I forget who said that Crips and Bloods thing. <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t remember. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: On this Aaron Hernandez business… (sigh) You know, even though I\u2019m gonna tell you what the law enforcement authorities are telling the media, I\u2019m still nervous about this because it\u2019s all alleged, and law enforcement is always believed. Whenever law enforcement leaks something, says something, everybody automatically believes it. It\u2019s just the nature of the beast, and it\u2019s not always true. But here\u2019s the latest in this Aaron Hernandez stuff. <\/p>\n

He\u2019s been charged with murder in the case of Odin whatever this poor guy\u2019s last name is. But now the cops are telling us the motivation. Apparently there is a double murder that Hernandez might have been involved in, and the reason that this Odin guy was killed was because he apparently told some other people to be wary of Hernandez. “Don\u2019t make this guy mad. Look what happens when you do,” and cited this other double murder. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s one of the things that\u2019s being leaked to Boston media, and they are reporting it as to why this latest victim of Hernandez, the only one that we know of for sure — well, the only alleged one for sure — was said to have been killed. In addition to that, Sports Illustrated has a story on their website. It was just placed in front of me before the previous hour ended. <\/p>\n

“Aaron Hernandez Linked to Bristol Bloods Gang — You\u00c2\u2019re surely aware of the legal trouble New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez has gotten himself into. Part of the unearthing of Aaron Hernandez\u00c2\u2019s secret life was his gang affiliation. Aaron Hernandez was rumored to be affiliated with gangs in his hometown of Bristol, Connecticut.”<\/line><\/p>\n

Bristol, by the way, is where ESPN is, and I thought they were the gang there. I didn\u2019t know that there were other gangs. I thought ESPN was the gang, but nevertheless apparently there are gangs there in Bristol, and Aaron Hernandez “was rumored to be affiliated with gangs in his hometown of Bristol, Connecticut. Those suspected affiliations have been credited for his slip into the fourth round of the NFL draft.”<\/p>\n

It\u2019s being reported that teams knew of his gang involvement, and that\u2019s why he slipped to the fourth round of the NFL draft, rather than being drafted in a higher round. They had character concerns because he\u2019d be a member of gangs in Bristol. “At yesterday\u00c2\u2019s arraignment it was noticed that amongst Aaron Hernandez\u00c2\u2019s numerous tattoos was a ‘blood\u2019 tattoo on his right hand. The bloods are a famous gang that has been chronicled extensively in rap music.”<\/p>\n

I wonder if anybody will go get that quote of mine now. <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think they will, Mr. Snerdley. <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think anybody will dig that quote up now. <\/p>\n

“Now TMZ has discovered a picture of Aaron Hernandez throwing gang signs in high school. It\u00c2\u2019s worth noting that he is dressed in all red, the color associated with the gang. He was also arrested wearing red shorts, though that could purely be coincidence.” Now, that\u2019s the kind of stuff this has descended to. You want to know something else about colors? I didn\u2019t know this. But there are numerous sportswriters who write about this. As you know, many sports teams have their home uniforms and their away uniforms. <\/p>\n

The home uniform is the primary color; the away uniform is white or gray, depending on the sport. Some teams add a third, alternate jersey — or even in the primary home jersey they add a third color, and that is black. I\u2019ve read numerous sportswriters alleging that teams are adding black to their uniforms because it\u2019s a gang color. It is a color that is loved by gangs. Now if that\u2019s true, why would teams do that? <\/p>\n

Why would teams encourage the gang mentality by adding black to their uniforms, when black is not part of the color scheme? A number of NFL teams have done it. The Detroit Lions have added black. There\u2019s no black in the Detroit Lions color scheme. There never has been, but there is now. A lot of teams have a third jersey that\u2019s black when black is not part of the color scheme, and there are certain sportswriters who say it\u2019s because it\u2019s a gang color. <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s TMZ saying that red is a gang color. Now, the gangs don\u2019t have any exclusivity in terms of ownership of the color. Don\u2019t misunderstand. What is being reported is that because the gangs have adopted these colors, certain teams have gone ahead and put those colors in their uniforms because that\u2019s what their players want. Snerdley said to me mere moments ago, “Rush, what\u2019s going on here is all these guys want to be part of the gangsta culture.” You mean in hip-hop? Is that what you\u2019re talking about?<\/p>\n

They all want to be part of gang? (interruption) Well, I guess there may be some of that. There may be some players that want to be in a gang, and some of the gangs want to be athletes. So there may be some overlap or crisscross. Anyway, they claim here that they have discovered… Well, I don\u2019t know if he\u2019s claiming it. Aaron Hernandez apparently was well known as a member of the Bloods in Bristol, Connecticut, and it led to him being drafted fourth round instead of the first or second round.<\/p>\n

Imagine that, having on your resume that you\u2019re a member of a gang. Most places you don\u2019t stand a prayer. But in the NFL, you just lose a couple rounds of the draft order. Anyway, that\u2019s he latest about that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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