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RUSH: The biggest controversy at the Super Bowl? It\u2019s hard to say. You got the Ray Lewis deer antler spray thing<\/a>, and Ray says (summarized), “Nah, that\u2019s the work of the devil. It\u2019s a trick. It\u2019s a trick of the devil, the deer antler spray story.” He says he\u2019s never taken it, never done nothing. Deer antler spray. But that\u2019s got competition. There\u2019s a player for the San Francisco Fort\u2019iners by the name of Chris Culliver, and he was on a syndicated radio program yesterday.<\/p>\n

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The host of this program asked Chris Culliver of the Fort\u2019iners… (interruption) No. I\u2019ll explain it one more time. When I lived in Sacramento, the 49er radio network lead announcer was a guy by the name of, I think, Don Klein. I know what happened here. The guy had done the 49ers games for so long that he didn\u2019t want to waste all the time it took to say 49ers. So over the course of his career, 49ers just came out sort of jumbled as “Fort\u2019iners.” He was trying to say it too fast and say it as fast as he could.<\/p>\n

You know, I\u2019ve always been a mimic. I heard that, and it just struck me. Because nobody seemed to think anything of it. You know, all the hometown radio play-by-play people — baseball, radio — had their own cult following, their own fan base. So whatever they do, the signature things they do, are appreciated. I don\u2019t know if it was a signature thing or not, but it always struck me. I found it humorous.<\/p>\n

So I started trying to imitate it, and I just haven\u2019t let go of it. It\u2019s sort of like like my love for people in Rio Linda. I still have it, even though I haven\u2019t been there since 1987. So this play-by-play guy all over their network kept referring to the 49ers as “the Fort\u2019iners.” Sometimes he would say “the Noi\u2019ners,” but other than that it was “the Fort\u2019iners.” It\u2019s like the Reverend Jackson. You know, one day he pronounced Mario Cuomo, Mario the Pious\u2019 name as “Coomo.”<\/p>\n

Well, I said, “I better start pronouncing it ‘Coomo\u2019 otherwise people are gonna think I\u2019m making fun of Jesse Jackson,” \u2019cause if that\u2019s how Jackson thinks you pronounce it, you don\u2019t call attention to the fact that he\u2019s wrong. If he says, ” Coomo,” you just say, Cuomo is “Coomo,” and that\u2019s no different than this. Anyway, Chris Culliver was asked a question by the syndicated radio guy: “What about gay guys? Have any of them approached you? You got any gay guys on the 49ers?”<\/p>\n

CULLIVER: I don\u2019t do the gay guys, man. I don\u2019t do that. Nah. Don\u2019t got no gay people on the team. No, they gotta get up outta here if they do. Can\u2019t be with that sweet stuff. Nah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (impression) “Nah. Don\u2019t got no gay people on the team. No, they gotta get up outta here if they do. Can\u2019t be with that sweet stuff.” Well, that didn\u2019t sit well with the diversity crowd. That didn\u2019t sit well with the politically correct. I mean, to say that you don\u2019t have any gay guys on the Fort\u2019iners? That led to all kinds of coverage. I mean, the media particularly launched into this poor guy, Chris Culliver. He\u2019s too young to know what he shouldn\u2019t say.<\/line><\/p>\n

He\u2019s too young to divulge the truth about certain elements of the league. That led to the coach, Jim Harbaugh, this morning in New Orleans at the Superdome, he was asked by a reporter, “When you heard what Chris Culliver said…” That you don\u2019t do the gay guys. (“Don\u2019t got no gay people on the team. No, they gotta get up outta here if they do. Can\u2019t be with that sweet stuff. Nah.”) “Can you walk us through what you thought and what you said to him?”<\/p>\n

HARBAUGH: No, uh, I wouldn\u2019t gonna… walk you through it. There wasn\u2019t malice in his heart. He\u2019s not that kind of person. He\u2019s not a[n] ugly person. He\u2019s not a, uh, discriminating person. He regrets that. And, uhhh, that\u2019s not… But that\u2019s not who he is, that\u2019s not what he really believes in. I think, you know, [it] took this incident to, you know, hear those words being said by him and, uh, to see them being written down on paper for him to realize that those were — were hurtful and ugly.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Right. It\u2019s the old, “That isn\u2019t me explanation.” (paraphrasing) “That ain\u2019t me! That\u2019s not who I really am. I don\u2019t know how that happened. I don\u2019t know how that happened to be said. I don\u2019t know why I said that, because that ain\u2019t me. That\u2019s not who I am. And when I saw it in print, I said, ‘Whoa, that is really not me.\u2019 They brought me what I said in print, and I said, ‘Whoa, it\u2019s even worse than what I said when I said it!\u2019 Now that I can I read what I said, ‘Ho, man! Now we\u2019re really outta here now. That ain\u2019t me.'”<\/p>\n

Now, I\u2019m wondering. This is an opening for Obama. (interruption) You know, Obama weighs in on this kind of stuff. The other day Obama said he wouldn\u2019t let his son, Trayvon, play football because it\u2019s so dangerous<\/a>. This could be another reason that he wouldn\u2019t want his son playing football, because look at all this prejudice you got going on there in the locker rooms. That\u2019s undercover, not out in the open. (interruption) Don\u2019t tempt me there. Don\u2019t even tempt me.<\/p>\n

But I\u2019m telling you, the president\u2019s doing an interview with Scott Pelley. CBS has the Super Bowl this year, and I think during the pregame show at like 4:10 or 4:20 Eastern on Sunday afternoon, there\u2019s a 10- or 12-minute interview with Obama. It\u2019s a golden opportunity here. In fact, Obama can fly down to New Orleans and make a statement of some kind. Because what this means is the NFL cannot police its own. The NFL can\u2019t handle its own. The NFL can\u2019t handle its injuries. The NFL cannot handle its medical issues and so forth.<\/p>\n

Obama could push legislation requiring that gays and women be on active rosters now for every team. We are going to have to regulate this game, folks. Look at what\u2019s happening here! When you leave it up to the people who play it, when you leave it up to the people who own a team, when you leave it up to the league people, when you leave it up to the officials, when you leave it up to everybody on their own, look what happens! You got racism, you got sexism, you got bigotry, and now you got homophobia.<\/p>\n

You got brain injury, concussions. Again this reminder: A professor here, a scientist of some kind, Mark Wilson (I found this as Gizmodo, which is a gadget tech blog), says there\u2019s nothing you can do to stop concussions in football. The helmet does not do it. What causes brain trauma will continue to happen as long as they play the game the way they play it. There\u2019s no helmet in the world that can stop it. In other words, there\u2019s no helmet that would have saved Junior Seau. That\u2019s what this guy is saying.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m gonna tell you: Yesterday on MSNBC in the middle of the day, they had a panel of left-wing activists talking about the need to regulate the NFL.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t want to sit here being “I told you so” all the time, but stand by and get ready. It\u2019s coming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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