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RUSH: Grab audio sound bite number 24. Snerdley, listen to this. This is ABC\u2019s This Week. It\u2019s the roundtable on Sunday. Jacob Tapper was sitting in for George Stephanopoulos, who\u2019s sitting in for — or no. Stephanopoulos, I guess, is permanent now. And Jake Tapper says to George Will, “George, is football in trouble, or is this just the media making a muck?”<\/p>\n

<\/a>WILL: It\u2019s in trouble for two reasons. First of all: The human body is not built for the violence that is inherent in football at the highest level. Second: People are gonna watch football differently from now on because they\u2019re gonna feel a little bit like the speculators in the Colosseum in Rome, watching people sacrificed for their entertainment with a kind of violence that is unseemly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Told you. Tooooold you<\/a>. Folks, this is gonna happen faster than I thought. Maybe not an outright ban of the game, but I guarantee you this is gonna happen faster than I thought. It\u2019s funny for me. I read a lot of NFL blogs, and they\u2019re mostly written by typical liberal media types — and these guys don\u2019t know what they\u2019re doing. As they write about this, they are paving the way for fundamental structural changes in this game that will make it not football, while they think they\u2019re doing compassionate stories.<\/p>\n

For example, they\u2019re asking for federal commissions on concussions, “and we\u2019d better have mandatory counseling for every player who retires otherwise they\u2019re all gonna commit suicide. For two reasons: A, all the head trauma; and B, people stop cheering for them, and their lives immediately turn meaningless. Every one of them.” It\u2019s amazing to read this stuff. And I\u2019m sure these guys all think that they\u2019re writing and positing with great compassion.<\/p>\n

<\/a>But they are paving the way for people who want to take the risk out of life to move in on football. There was a story by the author Friday Night Lights,<\/a> “Buzz” Bissinger. He had a piece over the weekend, I think might have been the Wall Street Journal: “Why College Football Should Be Banned.” Ban it! It loses money for most universities. It does not emphasize academics. It\u2019s nothing more than an unpaid minor league system for the NFL. Get rid of college football! I\u2019m telling you: This is a groundswell now.<\/p>\n

And I told you. I told you.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me tell how this is gonna work, this NFL stuff, and you\u2019ll recognize this the minute I remind you of it. It\u2019s gonna start this season. With all this attention now to the concussions, the head injuries, the brutality of the game, all the focus on this stuff — and, you know, with the suicide of Junior Seau and the study of brains. Other players, David Duerson and some others, have committed suicide this year. With so much attention focused on this, the first game of the season…<\/p>\n

Which is gonna be a Wednesday night. It\u2019s September 5th, I believe. I\u2019m not sure of the day. It\u2019s the Wednesday night before Obama accepts the nomination. I wonder how many people will show up at that one? He announced<\/a> his campaign over the weekend and barely half of a 20,000 seat arena was filled. More on that in due course. Oh, you hear Tom Brokaw says it\u2019s time to rethink the White House Correspondents Dinner? It doesn\u2019t look good for members of the press to be seen drinking Cristal Champagne on camera. Members of the media are drifting too far away from the audience, from the people they are supposed to be covering the news for. I\u2019ll have more on that as the program unfolds. <\/p>\n

You remember when the SUV thing first started 1996? The Sierra Club called to ban the SUV. They said it caused global warming. Global warming itself! After a while, every unseasonably warm day at whatever time of year, didn\u2019t your first thought go to either, “Wow, global warming. Maybe it\u2019s true,” or some consciousness on your part that somebody was gonna say that? It\u2019s the same with various food warnings. People have said that coffee causes heart attacks.<\/p>\n

You see somebody ordering coffee and you say, “No, no, no! Don\u2019t drink that.” Everybody gets all uptight. It doesn\u2019t take much for people to get caught up in this stuff. So the first injury that is seen on national TV in a football game this coming season, you watch: The discussions of the brutality of the game and the potential damage to a father (a player, a father) who, in his retirement, wakes up one day and doesn\u2019t know the name of his kids. That will be a story, and it will be because of football, and the consciousness raising will have already taken place, and there will be a groundswell. <\/p>\n

George Will is right. People are gonna start watching the game and the casual fan is gonna feel guilty as heck watching the game when there\u2019s a serious injury and say, “Why did they let that happen? Why don\u2019t they do something about that? Why don\u2019t they make that illegal?” I\u2019m telling you, folks, the day\u2019s come. The people who make a living off the game are in the process of killing it, and they don\u2019t know that yet. They think they\u2019re doing a good thing here. Their intentions are honorable, just like Lyndon Johnson\u2019s<\/a>, although I doubt his were.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think LBJ did the Civil Rights Act with good intentions. <\/line><\/p>\n

I really don\u2019t. In fact, LBJ said as much. LBJ was like FDR. “I\u2019m locking up the black vote for the Democrat Party for the rest of time with this legislation.” FDR said, “I\u2019m locking up the welfare and the poverty vote for the Democrat Party for the rest of time with the New Deal.” Everybody wants to praise great, compassion and wonderful intentions, but it\u2019s all political. The motives are all political. And it\u2019s the same thing here with the sportswriters. They have to show compassion. They have to look like they care. Yet they have to cover the brutality of the game.<\/p>\n

They have to support the game. The game is their livelihood, the game is their living. They don\u2019t know it, but they are paving the way for its end. And it\u2019s gonna happen sooner than I thought. I thought it wouldn\u2019t happen in my lifetime. Probably still won\u2019t. But you watch the pressure brought to bear this season. It\u2019s not conspiratorial. This is just gonna be the result of inertia. It\u2019s gonna be a tidal wave. Nobody\u2019s gonna be able to stop it. Somebody who tries to talk sense in the middle of this is gonna be shouted down, laughed at, thought to be insensitive or cruel or what have you. <\/p>\n

This guy, “Buzz” Bissinger: “Why College Football Should Be Banned.” Ban it? And his reasons are numerous. The last reasons he mentions in his piece happen to be the physical dangers. His primary reason is the game\u2019s a fraud. There aren\u2019t any student athletes. There\u2019s too much time required to play football. These guys don\u2019t go to class. Everybody knows that. And then most of these programs don\u2019t make money for the schools. The only reason football\u2019s a big deal is because the quality of the school is determined by the quality of the team.<\/p>\n

I mean, who would care about Oklahoma if it weren\u2019t for the football team, this guy\u2019s point is, and the boosters and so forth. So the move is all over the place to get rid of the game. And, in large part, the people behind getting rid of the game, whether they know it or not… Some of it is activist libs. I think it\u2019s libs behind this. They are behind most things like this. But it\u2019s people who want to take the risk out of everything, take the danger out of everything. “It\u2019s just not right. Civilized people should not be engaging in this kind of brutal behavior! It\u2019s the Roman Colosseum. Those days are in the past. We shouldn\u2019t be doing this kind of thing!” <\/p>\n

It\u2019s gonna happen.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: From the Chicago Tribune, quote: “The Bone-Shattering Truth: US Football is Doomed.” From the Kansas City Star: “How Many More Deaths Can NFL Fans Take?” I kid you not. You didn\u2019t believe me. You thought, just like when I warned you people they were coming after SUVs, “Ah, here goes Rush! Football is one of his personal passions and he\u2019s scared about it. But, eh, they\u2019ll never ban it! Too much money.” Look at the groundswell already. Chicago Tribune: “The Bone-Shattering Truth: US Football is Doomed.” George Will (paraphrased): “Hey, it\u2019s no different than Roman Colosseum days. It\u2019s barbaric. We don\u2019t have this anymore in America.” <\/p>\n

It\u2019s spiraling out of control much, much faster than even I, El Rushbo, thought that it would. And now it has an inertia and a momentum all its own. There\u2019s probably no stopping this.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Some people think I\u2019m wrong on this football stuff when I say that it is spinning out of control. “No, Rush, it\u2019s not spinning ‘out of\u2019 control. It is being spun ‘into\u2019 control,” and that might be true. I still maintain to you there are people who are engineering what could well be disaster for the sport. Well, for the industry, the National Football League, who don\u2019t know they\u2019re doing it. Then there are others who do know they are doing it. <\/p>\n

Don\u2019t misunderstand. There are basically two or three kinds of people involved here. You got the wusses, you got the people who have played the game, and then you\u2019ve got innocent bystanders — and the wusses want to get rid of it. The people who have played the game want to hold onto it and the innocent bystanders are the ones that are gonna be swayed by the wusses. And I do mean that. And then you\u2019ve got these well-intentioned liberal sports writers, as I say.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the last time I\u2019m gonna say it, but it\u2019s important enough to say. They don\u2019t know it. I\u2019m gonna give them the benefit of the doubt because I don\u2019t think they want to write themselves out of work. I don\u2019t think they want to write themselves out of jobs, but they are paving the way for this game to be done away with, fundamentally changed, what have you. Because they\u2019re liberals. They don\u2019t know any better. They think they\u2019re taking the compassionate, well-reasoned, well-thought-out side and all this. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I also got an e-mail about the National Football League from someone disagreeing with me. And I\u2019ve gotta be very careful how I read this e-mail. I can\u2019t read this verbatim. I just can\u2019t. Just can\u2019t. “Dear Mr. Limbaugh: The National Football League — nor college football, but particularly the NFL — will NEVER go away. It is a business where the vast majority of employees are black. They will never get rid of football. It would be called racist.” Au contraire. Let me present an alternative view, and let\u2019s take George Will\u2019s example that football is the Roman Colosseum. <\/line><\/p>\n

What happened in the Colosseum that everybody talks about? What is the legend? That Christians were given to the lions and that the crowd roared! The crowd loved it. And if you don\u2019t like that, go further back to the gladiators wiping each other out. Thumbs up, thumbs down. The Roman Caesar and his women sitting there. Thumbs up, thumbs down. Think Russell Crowe if you\u2019re a Hollywood type. Well, in both those cases, people were dying and it was being cheered. On the one hand, in the jaws of lions; on the other hand, by swords and other weapons.<\/p>\n

Now, I guarantee you, this is going to happen, folks. It\u2019s going to happen in the sports media. It\u2019s going to happen in the sports media under the guise of compassion and an attempt to be sensitive and helpful. It\u2019s gonna be just the opposite. Somebody is going to report, after they figure it out… (interruption) Snerdley is in there laughing \u2019cause he knows I gotta be careful the way I put this. But let me preface with, “I am not in favor of this.” I don\u2019t want anybody thinking I am. I don\u2019t want the NFL shut down. I think all of it is bogus. <\/p>\n

Not all. <\/p>\n

The effort to make it safer is not bogus.<\/p>\n

But the idea that it can\u2019t be made safe so we have to get rid of the game, I\u2019m telling you: It\u2019s a groundswell that\u2019s being spun “into control” or “out of control,” however you want to look at it. What\u2019s gonna happen is somebody is gonna figure out here pretty soon that since 75% of the players in the NFL are African-American, that 75% of the concussions are being suffered by African-Americans; 75% of the heart attacks, early deaths, whatever, are African-Americans. And then somebody is going to ask (maybe this week after I put it out here), “How long are we going to put up with the sacrifice of African-American males for a bloodthirsty American audience? <\/p>\n

“How long are we willingly going to submit African-American males to maiming, concussions, early death, and perhaps suicide? For what? The blood lust of the American population!” And they\u2019ll make the obvious connection to the old plantation days. You watch. That\u2019s what\u2019s gonna happen. It will be used as a further arrow in the quiver to ban the game, not as something we have to protect because it employs so many African-Americans. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s my little prediction. <\/p>\n

We shall see. <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Patrick in Greensboro, North Carolina. Hi, Patrick. Glad you waited. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush. I get to cross you off my bucket list now talking to you. <\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) All right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m a former college football player and current law student at Elon University.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait, wait, wait. You\u2019re former college football player and you\u2019re currently … a law student. Okay. “Law student.” That\u2019s what I didn\u2019t hear.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, sir. I\u2019m in my first year of law school but I had to stop playing football because I woke up in the hospital with a concussion. They told me I had about seven severe concussions and any more would be permanent brain damage. But I\u2019m just calling today because it\u2019s ridiculous what they\u2019re turning the game of football into. They\u2019re turning it almost into soccer. It\u2019s just a game where you can\u2019t even be physical anymore.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Are you aware of the number of injuries in soccer? People aren\u2019t aware. The head injuries in soccer are very high. People wouldn\u2019t believe this, but soccer has its own injury problem. It\u2019s just not such a mass spectator sport in this country as football is, but it does have its share of injuries. Do you happen to know the name Eric LeGrand?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, sir.<\/p>\n

<\/a>RUSH: Eric LeGrand, Rutgers, was paralyzed a couple seasons ago on a kickoff, and he\u2019s paralyzed from the neck down. He played for Rutgers. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers this year signed him after the draft in a ceremonial move to honor him. He obviously can\u2019t play. He\u2019s in a wheelchair. But he was in New York last summer. He was paralyzed on a kickoff, and he is — like you are doing here, Eric LeGrand is — criticizing the new kickoff rules in the NFL. <\/p>\n

And, by the way, the NFL is going to quickly and soon ban the kickoff because of possible concussions. You watch. Not this season, but it\u2019s coming sooner than anybody else thinks. They\u2019re gonna ban the kickoff. The ball is gonna be put on the 20 yard line after every touchdown. You say, “What about onside kicks?” They\u2019ll deal with that later. But they\u2019re gonna get rid of the kickoff because of potential injuries and this kid was injured at Rutgers — paralyzed on kickoff — and he is criticizing the League for its rules changes. He says the game is what it is, and every one of us who plays it know the risks.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, sir.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But that doesn\u2019t matter because, see, you don\u2019t know what you\u2019re doing. You might say you know the risks. But when liberals are involved — whether you\u2019re playing football or just getting in your car to go down to the Kwik Shop — you don\u2019t know how to do it. You might pick up your phone while you\u2019re driving. “We can\u2019t allow you to do that! You might miss a stop sign and run through it.” All of us, not just you. When liberals get involved, they have contempt for everybody and their lack of ability to live life properly and make the right decisions. So we have to be protected from things that put us at risk. And that would be kickoffs in the NFL or football. But you played the game knowing full well what the risks were, and you wanted to play it.<\/p>\n

And everybody that plays the game knows what the risks are. <\/p>\n

Right?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, sir. My dad played for Carolina, and I played for State, and I hope one day that the game is still around so I can have a son that can play college football.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m afraid that\u2019s not looking so good.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What did you think…? Maybe you didn\u2019t hear this. Kurt Warner said that knowing what he knows now, he hopes his kids don\u2019t play the game, and then there was a lot of reaction. Merril Hoge — who, for example, doesn\u2019t think Tim Tebow should wear a jock strap and play quarterback; just doesn\u2019t like Tebow at all. Hoge said (I think it was Hoge), “Warner is crazy. What, is he ripping the game that made him rich? He\u2019s ripping the game that made him famous? He\u2019s ripping the game that employs him? He\u2019s at the NFL Network saying his kid shouldn\u2019t play?” So that started a new argument among the left: “Does Kurt Warner have the right to say whether or not his kid should play football?” There are some people that say, “He doesn\u2019t have the right to say that because he made his living at it.” And others say, “He can say what he wants. It\u2019s the United States of America.” <\/p>\n

Others say, “Yeah, but for how long?”<\/p>\n

CALLER: (chuckles) Yes, sir.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This football stuff, folks, I\u2019m telling you: You might think, “Rush, could you get off of this?” This is exactly the issue. This stuff in the NFL is a microcosm throughout our entire culture. You have the left who think people don\u2019t know what they\u2019re doing and have to be protected from themselves. You have the American sportswriter community (very left-leaning, very politically left-leaning) thinking they have to do everything in their power to make the game safer and they don\u2019t know they\u2019re paving the way for its demise. <\/p>\n

You have the assumption that the people who play the game don\u2019t know what they\u2019re doing, that they\u2019re being lied to, that they\u2019re being exploited, that they\u2019re being used. You\u2019ve got these poor kids from very bad neighborhoods whose only route out is athletics, and they\u2019re destroying themselves for the entertainment of the bloodthirsty American population because they don\u2019t know what they\u2019re doing. And the truth of the dangers and the risks is not being told to them. <\/p>\n

All these things are being said.<\/p>\n

And you can say that about any subset of the American culture in terms of how the left looks at it. Look, do I need to give you a list of everything else they\u2019re trying to ban? Every risky game. You can\u2019t play dodgeball anymore, can you? Can\u2019t play dodgeball! Not in high school, not in junior high, not in grade school. (sobbing) “Because somebody might get hit. Somebody might get hit in the head and it might hurt. (sobbing) It\u2019s not fair! And then bullies might target one kid over all the others! It\u2019s just not fair.”<\/p>\n

So they ban dodgeball. Gotta ban this and ban that. Then you have to ban tag.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s unfair that somebody is ‘it.\u2019 Why should you be ‘it\u2019 and I\u2019m never ‘it\u2019?”<\/p>\n

“No, you will be ‘it\u2019 if I tag you.” <\/p>\n

“Well, we\u2019re banning tag.” <\/p>\n

What\u2019s happening here is a microcosm. There\u2019s a life lesson, a teachable moment, in what\u2019s going on here.<\/p>\n

If they could ban your SUV, they\u2019d do it. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Daniel in Las Vegas, it\u2019s great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Good afternoon, Rush! How are you?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Fine, sir. Thanks much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Listen, I\u2019ve been watching sports since I grew up in Pittsburgh. And, as a matter of fact, I listened to you when you were at WPXI in Pittsburgh back in the day.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah?<\/p>\n

CALLER: As Jeff Christie, I believe.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That would have been at KQV.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, KQV. Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: PXI was Channel 11, I think.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. And before I continue one more small correction. You mentioned the “Tootsie Roll” in Caddy Shack. I believe it was a Baby Ruth.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Was it a Baby Ruth? All right. Same difference.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, same difference. Right. But anyway, I love your show. I\u2019ve been a fan of yours since you started. I even lost girlfriends over you. And I have a girlfriend now, Lucy, that just loves you like I do.<\/p>\n

<\/a>RUSH: Well! It all worked out in the end.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It all worked out, yes, yes. And that\u2019s true. But I got so many issues. I\u2019ve been trying to call you since the Clinton days. Because, you know, it was so great of you to speak the way you do about him and his administration. And I couldn\u2019t get through. And it frustrated me all these years, and I\u2019m so thankful I finally got a hold of you now.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, here you are. Congratulations.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I appreciate your persistence.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And I only wish I had the budget to afford to go online and be a part of your Rush 24 program where I could e-mail you my thoughts but I can\u2019t. I apologize for that. But anyway, a couple points I wanted to make. I grew up in Pittsburgh in the seventies, and I met several of the Steelers back then: Terry Bradshaw, Rocky Bleier, Franco Harris and so on to mention a few. Those guys, they took their hits and they never whined to the referee, all right? Joe Greene, I think, said, “If you hit me, I\u2019m gonna hit you.” In other words, the game was in check. We didn\u2019t violate each other. You know what I\u2019m saying?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And that\u2019s the way it should be today. Not this, “Well, if somebody did something wrong to me, I\u2019m gonna go to the ref and have this arbitrated.” You know what I\u2019m saying?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I don\u2019t know that it\u2019s the players. What\u2019s fascinating about what\u2019s happening in the NFL right now is that the players — the vast majority, 90% of them — are saying, “Leave us alone. We want to play the game! The game is what it is, and we know the risks.”<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And while they\u2019re playing they\u2019re saying, “We love it,” and a lot of them are being quoted (by the way, this is not helpful) saying, “I know I\u2019m running the risk of not knowing who my kids are when I\u2019m 50. I know I\u2019m running the risk for Alzheimer\u2019s and so forth.” Because, by the way, they\u2019re trying to attach every mental illness that is known to exist to football when it happens to a football player after he quits playing. Whether there\u2019s evidence to support it or not, they\u2019re linking it to football. <\/p>\n

Alzheimer\u2019s, dementia, dizziness, forgetfulness, suicide. Whatever it is, they are linking it to football. There is an all-out effort to do it. Now, the players are the ones, the vast majority of them who are saying, “Wait a minute, don\u2019t change the game. We love the game.” And of course the sportswriters are saying, “They don\u2019t know what\u2019s good for \u2019em.” All the smart people say, “They don\u2019t know what\u2019s good for \u2019em. Of course they play the game. Take it out of their hands. They\u2019re the last to know! The ones playing, they\u2019re the last to know what\u2019s going on here.”<\/p>\n

And the fans. The fans are not clamoring for big changes. That\u2019s what\u2019s remarkable here. And of course that\u2019s being used. “Well, see, the fans are a bunch of bloodthirsty mobs! They want this violence. The fans want to see horrible injuries. They want to see the big hits.” That\u2019s why George Will says that it\u2019s taking on aspects of the barbarism in the Roman Colosseum. So the players and the fans are the two primary groups who are not upset about anything. The retired players, the media and the commissioner\u2019s office are saying, “We\u2019ve got a big problem here.”<\/p>\n

The commissioner, I can understand. This is a multi-, multi-, multibillion-dollar business, industry, that it is his responsibility to shepherd, to protect, and to grow. And he can see what\u2019s happening. He knows, on a number of different fronts, where the game is being attacked. And it\u2019s not just concussions and head injuries. It\u2019s being attacked in a number of ways from a number of different places. Cultural, taunting penalties, trying to maintain control of the game on the field, all kinds of different things. <\/p>\n

But this, I don\u2019t know that anybody involved here really yet understands that the train has left the station and it\u2019s well down the tracks now toward a fundamental altering of this game. Now, I\u2019m not gonna predict \u2019cause I don\u2019t know whether the people that are really claiming to be profoundly upset by the mental injuries… Because nobody can prove anything yet. There\u2019s some limited evidence of brain injury in football players when they studied some brains, but there\u2019s not enough of them yet to make it any more than anecdotal. <\/p>\n

They can\u2019t scientifically say that playing the game leads to Alzheimer\u2019s or playing the game leads to mental illness or leads to suicide. They can\u2019t say it. But they can imply it, and they can say it enough to make people think that there\u2019s a link, which is what\u2019s happening now. I just think it\u2019s fascinating to see this, because the players don\u2019t want any change. This is how they make their living, and they love the game. They love it. They\u2019ve been brought up to play it and they\u2019ve been taught to play it this way. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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