{"id":13056,"date":"2013-03-04T17:36:58","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T17:36:58","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-03-04T17:36:58","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T17:36:58","slug":"lauren_silberman_kicks_through_the_nfl_glass_ceiling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/03\/04\/lauren_silberman_kicks_through_the_nfl_glass_ceiling\/","title":{"rendered":"Lauren Silberman Kicks Through the NFL Glass Ceiling"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: It didn\u2019t go well for Lauren Silberman. We told you about Lauren Silberman last week. Lauren Silberman tried out for the National Football League in a regional combine over the weekend. She wanted to be a female kicker. So she showed up at the Jets training center. That\u2019s in Florham Park, New Jersey, which is where the regional combine was, and her tryout consisted of two kickoffs. The two kickoffs totaled 30 yards. One kick was 19 yards, the other kick was 11. It\u2019s a combination, it equaled 30 yards, and then she had to retire from the effort. <\/p>\n

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She aggravated a quadriceps injury that she suffered in training last week. Quadriceps, for those of you in Rio Linda, that\u2019s the big thigh muscle on the top. She had an injury there. That would be relevant if you\u2019re trying to kick. So she showed up hurt. She aggravated the injury after two kickoffs, totaling 30 yards. And as it says here in USA Today, “It left a lot of people wondering whether the whole thing was a promotional sham.” Really? Think so?<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Now, the female kicker, Lauren Silberman, two kicks. The AP says 19 and 13 yards, a total of 32 yards, two kicks. It is obvious that the woman has never kicked a football. And, in fact, according to USA Today, she had to ask other players how to do it. USA Today is saying that, not me. USA Today is reporting that she had to ask her players how to kick the ball. Fortunately, she left before the debriefing of the other kickers. According to other media reports, Miss Silberman said at the end of her tryout, “Look, it\u2019s not the length that counts, it\u2019s the technique.” No, I\u2019m just making that up. (laughing) She didn\u2019t really say that. <\/p>\n

Folks, there are two ways to report this. There\u2019s the low-information voter way, and then there\u2019s the real way. Now, the low-information voter way of reporting this would be to go, “Oh, what a valiant effort. Did you see this lady kicker try out for the National Football League? You want to talk about guts, this is a woman who really is challenging the orthodoxy of the day. This is a woman who is not content with her lot in life and her place in this culture. She wanted to try out for the National Football League, and more power to her. Why shouldn\u2019t she? And she gave it everything she had. She tried. She did everything. She prepped. She worked hard. She did everything possible. It\u2019s just a shame, and, boy, we hope that she can get well soon and come back and kick for real so that we can find out how really good she is. But what an effort. What a wonderful thing.” <\/p>\n