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RUSH: When I predicted, ladies and gentlemen, that the American left would soon begin its effort to ban professional football, I realized I\u2019d be greeted with a bunch of catcalls. And I knew that I would be greeted with, “Come on, Rush, I\u2019ve never heard anything more ridiculous! It is the national pastime. It is the most popular sport in the history of sports. It\u2019s the wealthiest. It\u2019s the richest. You gotta be crazy.”<\/p>\n

I said, “I know liberals. I know them! When the legal community gets involved, when the plaintiff\u2019s bar gets revved up, when lawsuits start flying about concussions and all that, it\u2019s over, folks. I\u2019m telling you. It\u2019s just a matter of when.” I thought it would be 15, 20 years. But over the weekend, George Will (no liberal he) submitted a column that was headlined in the New York Post, “Football\u2019s Growing Killer Problem.” Basically George Will in his column says that football is killing its players and cannot be fixed.<\/p>\n

There is simply no way to change the game to make it safer and maintain the game as it is. You can\u2019t take head contact out of football. There\u2019s no way you can coach changes. For example, when I played football in high school, they always taught you to see what you hit. Do not lower your head as in a battering ram and go after somebody \u2019cause that\u2019s spinal and neck compression. That\u2019s how you break your neck. Don\u2019t do that. Always keep your head up and always see what you hit. Okay. That was to prevent broken necks.<\/p>\n

Well, what that led to was more and more concussions.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Because guys are hitting each other with the crown of their helmet right there on the front of the lobe, sometimes in the head of another player. Or somebody gets kneed. His point is: You can\u2019t take this out of the game. You cannot stop people getting concussions in this game as the players are growing larger. He says, “In 1980, only three NFL players weighed 300 or more pounds.” Last year, there were 352 players who weighed over 300, and three players who weighed over 350. And he says in his piece they\u2019re as fast as cats. I mean, these guys aren\u2019t lumbering, doddering old slobs. These are fast-moving and very quick. The kinetic energy that they are generating is something the human body can no longer tolerate. He talked about it on This Week Sunday as well. I\u2019ll pay you some sound bites of that when we get back.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, look, folks, we\u2019re gonna talk about football here for a second, but I want you to hang in because this is cultural and this has to do with the future of the country. This is not football prognostication, it\u2019s not X\u2019s and O\u2019s. Stick with me on this. It\u2019s important, and it matters. Not just George Will. George Will has a column basically saying that football is killing its players, and it can\u2019t be fixed. He opens the column: “Are you ready for some football? First, however, are you ready for some autopsies?” <\/p>\n

Now, there are a lot of other sports that feature concussions. Boxing. You know one of the fastest growing sports out there is the cage stuff, UFC, Ultimate Fighting Championship. That stuff\u2019s growing by leaps and bounds. I even hear the Southern Poverty Law Center likes that sport. Rugby has concussions. Baseball has concussions. There are injuries in every sport. But I\u2019m telling you it\u2019s open season on football. That\u2019s the thing. It\u2019s open season on football, and it\u2019s now become bipartisan. It\u2019s crossed the partisanship divide with George Will weighing in on it. <\/p>\n

Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bite. He was on This Week. During the roundtable, George Stephanopoulos, said, “All of us were actually struck by what you wrote this week about football. Pretty simple but staggering conclusion. You write that football can\u2019t be fixed.” See, we\u2019ve gotten to point, football needs to be fixed. That\u2019s when it\u2019s over. Football needs to be fixed. Who says it needs to be? Everybody playing the game knows what they\u2019re signing up for. But, see, the liberals, “This is purposeful, disfiguring. This is permanent brain damage, and we\u2019re not a barbaric society. We can\u2019t allow this. We can\u2019t have any risk.”<\/p>\n

<\/a>Once football can\u2019t be fixed, once football can\u2019t be perfected — I even heard Obama use the word, talking about our country and our Constitution. It\u2019s imperfect, but it could be perfected. That\u2019s liberal drivel. The so-called march to perfection, as my buddy Mark Levin wrote, Ameritopia<\/a>, which is a takeoff on utopia, this inexorable forward march to perfection. But now they\u2019ve determined football can\u2019t be perfected, can\u2019t be fixed. Now, it\u2019s not just Will saying this. People on the left came to this conclusion long before he wrote his piece. It can\u2019t be fixed. Who says it has to? See, this is the point. Somebody somewhere, I don\u2019t know if we\u2019re ever gonna find person zero in this, decided football needed to be fixed. And I\u2019ll tell you who\u2019s gonna be responsible if this actually happens, as I\u2019m predicting years from now, the media, the sports media, which thrives on the existence of the sport, I mean guys and women, sportswriters, telecasters, broadcasters, earn a living covering the sport, and they\u2019re the ones unwittingly — well, I\u2019ll give you an example how. <\/p>\n

One of the football websites that I read is ProFootballTalk.com. It\u2019s a pretty good website. It\u2019s run by a good guy named Mike Florio. Now, you guys are all aware of the bounty punishments on the New Orleans Saints. If you\u2019re not, I\u2019m not gonna waste time bringing you up to speed. Basically they suspended the coach for a year, maybe for life, because he was offering bounties to the players on his defense if they would commit injuries that forced guys out of the game, to be carted off, ambulanced out. They\u2019ve got it on tape. There\u2019s arguments over whether it actually happened or whether it was just motivational technique, but the coach\u2019s words are on tape so he\u2019s in trouble and a bunch of players have been suspended. One of them is a guy named Jonathan Vilma, linebacker for the ‘Aints suspended for a year. <\/p>\n

Now, the Saints played the first preseason game last night against the Arizona Cardinals, and the Cardinals\u2019 first offensive series, their quarterback, Kevin Kolb, flushed out of the pocket, is tackled and a clean hit, pulled a muscle, chest injury or something, threw an interception, had to leave the game with an injury. And you know how it\u2019s covered today? That is the kind of legal hit that the Saints were being paid to make, according to the bounty. The whole way the game is going to be covered now is going to change. Here you had a tackle, nothing more than a tackle. A guy pulled a muscle on a tackle, a quarterback flushed out of the pocket. But, no, now it\u2019s gotta be reported. That\u2019s the kind of hit that the Saints were legally engaging in and were exchanging dollars for. <\/p>\n

The whole universe in which this game is now played and being reported on is forever changed. The media will not be able to let this bounty thing go. Every tackle, somebody on TV, “You think that would have been something that the Saints would have paid for? Is that a legal hit or an illegal hit? Do you think they were trying to put that guy out of the game?” Once that stuff starts, there\u2019s no fixing that, either. So here\u2019s George Will and Stephanopoulos says, “You write the game can\u2019t be fixed.”<\/p>\n

WILL: The human body is no longer built for the kinetic energy of the National Football League and even further down to high school. In 1980, George, there were three NFL players over 300 pounds. Today there are three over 350 pounds, and 352 people on the 2011 rosters weighed more than 300 pounds. Over 20 yards, which is where a lot of football is played, these guys are as fast as cats, fast as running backs, and the kinetic energy is producing what is called chronic traumatic encephalopathy, CTE, get used to that, because it\u2019s going to be the subject of lawsuits and other things. The crucial word is “chronic.” Repeated, small but repeated, blows to the head, the brain floating in the pan in the skull, now we know causes early dementia and other problems.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is a Sunday morning political show, roundtable, This Week with George Stephanopoulos. This is the roundtable on a political Sunday morning show discussing all of this stuff in football. That football can\u2019t be fixed. The Constitution can be, huh? The Constitution can be fixed. Football can\u2019t be fixed. Let\u2019s throw hockey into the mix here. Why football, folks? Why is nobody wanting to ban hockey or UFC or boxing because of concussions or anything else, why? Why only football? And why is it now being said football can\u2019t be fixed? And, say, once the plaintiff\u2019s bar gets involved here, and that\u2019s the tort lawyers, and there are massive lawsuits that have been filed… I don\u2019t know that I\u2019m ever gonna be able to watch this game the same now. I\u2019m gonna have to turn the sound off, I guarantee you.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

The commentary of this game is forever changed now. Everything will be looked at in the context of the Saints bounty program. “You think that woulda been a hit that woulda fallen under the jurisdiction of the commissioner to levy a penalty? That hit, what if that were a bounty program involved here?” And then the analyst will weigh in on this, and then the highlight show. You wait \u2019til the first quarterback or anybody hit with a concussion gets taken out of the game, it\u2019s gonna be covered almost like a gangland shooting is covered, like a crime\u2019s been committed, and how can we sit here and watch this and enjoy it? <\/p>\n

Then wait \u2019til they get the racial component in it. Wait \u2019til they figure out that 75% of players are black and therefore 75% of the damage is being incurred by blacks and guess who\u2019s being entertained by it and guess who owns the teams. Wait \u2019til that component gets thrown in. Folks, I tell you it\u2019s gonna happen sooner than I thought and you\u2019re gonna end up saying, “Well, Rush knew what he was talking about.” And just like in the old SUV days, “We thought Rush had finally gone over the edge, but he hadn\u2019t. Knows exactly what he\u2019s talking about.” Because I know liberals. <\/p>\n

Now, I don\u2019t know what George Will\u2019s doing. (sigh) It just shows it\u2019s crossed the boundary now. It\u2019s just crossed the partisan divide. Here\u2019s Stephanopoulos: “Well, so what\u2019s to be done about it, George, if it can\u2019t be fixed \u2019cause right now there\u2019s no evidence the American public is wanting to turn away from the game.” Ah, that\u2019s right! Now, that\u2019s the next thing to happen, folks. The next thing to happen is for efforts to be made to get you not to watch this barbaric bloodbath. To compare you to someone who\u2019s no different than the ancient Romans who gathered in the Colosseum to watch the Christians given to the lions.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll be no different than those bloodthirsty people back then. “How dare you want to watch something like this? How dare you pay to see it? It\u2019s just like a car race. You go there to see these injuries, don\u2019t you, you reprobate fans?” Stephanopoulos: “George, there\u2019s no evidence the American public is ready to turn away. So what can be done about it?” See, now “something” needs to be done. Okay, that\u2019s where we are. That\u2019s where liberals take us: Something has to be done. Football needs to be fixed, but it can\u2019t be.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s George Will\u2019s answer…<\/p>\n

WILL: It\u2019ll start down below. It\u2019ll start at the small level of kids playing football in grade school and then in high school. We now, in our hyper-cautious parenting, put crash helmets on children riding tricycles.<\/p>\n

PANEL: (snickering)<\/p>\n

WILL: How many of these parents are gonna let their children go out and play football once they learn — again — the chronic, the cumulative effect of small-brain trauma?<\/p>\n

RUSH: There you have it, folks. There you have it. Okay. Great while it lasted. I\u2019m glad that I lived the bulk of my life when football was what it was.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. This is Paul. Great to have you, sir. Welcome to the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. I wanted to comment on your take about the NFL. I think you may have it all wrong on this one, and rarely I disagree.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m not surprised. I fully expect to be a lone wolf on this until it happens.<\/p>\n

CALLER: This is my reasoning, Rush, and I\u2019ll tell you why. It\u2019s got to do with, they got a built-in protection with college football, and I say that because your instincts are right. There\u2019s gonna be a lot of hand-wringing and new ideas and liberal ideas and kook theories about changing football or getting rid of it. But the fact of the matter is college football is the huge source of revenue for the athletic department, and those athletic departments take that money and are giving it to sports like women\u2019s polo, table tennis, badminton.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I understand all that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: These colleges fly these girls teams around from state college to, say, Notre Dame for a badminton competition.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m not predicting that the game\u2019s gonna be banned. That\u2019s not how this is going to happen. They\u2019re not gonna ban the game. What\u2019s gonna happen — and I don\u2019t know how many years it\u2019s gonna take, but — is it\u2019s going to eventually lose (slowly but surely) its fans, its audience. There\u2019s going to be a deterioration at all levels. I\u2019ll be happy to detail how I think this is going to manifest itself. It\u2019s already begun. It\u2019s already begun. “Football can\u2019t be fixed. There\u2019s something inexorably wrong about it.” It does generate a lot of money, but, remember: The liberal left on college campi hate that.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s only a minor factor.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Look, I know I\u2019m all alone on my prediction about what\u2019s gonna happen with football. And as the program unfolds, maybe if anybody asks me anything further about it, I\u2019ll tell you how I think this all is gonna happen. There\u2019s not gonna be a ban. That wouldn\u2019t work. Everybody knows it wouldn\u2019t work. There wouldn\u2019t be a ban. Fans love the game too much. So the people that want this game banned, the people that want it gotten rid of — which is silly because it\u2019s a cash cow for so many people, but we\u2019re talking liberals, now. Look at how popular boxing used to be. Look at how popular smoking used to be.<\/p>\n

Tort lawyers got involved in both. Tort lawyers are involved here now. Liberals are involved: “Game needs to be fixed. Game can\u2019t be fixed, though. Oh, it can\u2019t be fixed!” Mike Ditka says you can\u2019t take the hits out of it. Take the face mask off, Ditka says! You want to stop head injuries, take the face mask off. There are all kinds of ideas like that. That\u2019s not gonna satisfy. Once the game “needs to be fixed,” that\u2019s it. So how are the people that want this game irreparably harmed going to pull it off?<\/p>\n

I know how they\u2019re gonna do it.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re gonna make you sick and tired of watching it.<\/p>\n

And if you want further details, I\u2019ll provide \u2019em. But there\u2019s other stuff going on out there that I want to weigh in on.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, here, folks, right here. Right here, just got it, Wall Street Journal. Headline: “Is It Time to Retire the Football Helmet?” Yes, my friends, the march is on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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