{"id":15782,"date":"2012-05-04T19:24:19","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T19:24:19","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2018-02-26T14:09:33","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T19:09:33","slug":"football_s_end_is_closer_than_you_think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/05\/04\/football_s_end_is_closer_than_you_think\/","title":{"rendered":"Football\u2019s End is Closer Than You Think"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I don\u2019t know when it was that I first predicted to you that somebody was gonna come along and suggest that football be banned. Yesterday, in leisure time, I\u2019m reading a bunch of Apple blogs trying to figure out what\u2019s going on in the high-tech world. “When\u2019s the next iPhone coming? What are the rumors? What\u2019s it gonna have?” I\u2019ve got a story: “What Would the End of Football Look Like?” It prints out to eight pages, and it\u2019s on a tech blog. Not a sports blog. Not a news blog. It\u2019s on a tech blog, which is populated by young liberals. <\/p>\n

“The NFL is done for the year, but it is not pure fantasy to suggest that it may be done for good in the not-too-distant future. How might such a doomsday scenario play out and what would be the economic and social consequences?” They go on and describe what\u2019s gonna bring football down is all of these lawsuits over concussions and injuries, and this guy predicts once we have the suicide of a high school football player, that\u2019s gonna be the beginning of the end. Then the parents aren\u2019t gonna let their kids play.<\/line><\/p>\n

Then will come the lawsuits against the helmet-makers and the coaches and the trainers, and then it\u2019s gonna be over. Now, Snerdley\u2019s in there shaking his head. I can guarantee you this is going to happen. There are going to be lawsuits. This is it: A liberal tech blog. ‘Cause after all, football\u2019s full of what? Violent, brutish bullies, when you get right down to it. Violent brute bullies who don\u2019t know any better, who couldn\u2019t do anything else in life, and so they are trained and programmed to make themselves insane with never-ending hits to the head.<\/p>\n

From the time they start playing Pop Warner all the way up to the NFL, if they make it. They are victims of a brutish culture led by the American people who want to see brutal hits and injuries every Sunday. You watch. It\u2019s closer than you think. (interruption) “What happens if the lawsuits fail?” Well, I don\u2019t know what happens, but they all aren\u2019t gonna fail. One of them is gonna win. There are so many of them that one of them is going to win. There\u2019s a giant one now, a class-action suit with now over a thousand NFL players, but there are smaller ones. <\/p>\n

But that\u2019s not this guy\u2019s point. His point is: When a high school player, because of too many hits to the head, takes his own life and they can say it\u2019s because of concussions — or alleged it is… Or a college player not “dies because of an accident on the field,” but commits suicide because of it… My point with this is just that I know who these people are, and now that this is being speculated about on a tech blog, wait \u2019til the forerunners of the liberal sports media get hold of it. Even though their bread is buttered with this stuff, I know these people.<\/p>\n

Some of them are leading the charge and don\u2019t even know it with the way they\u2019re covering the sport. Some of them are leading the charge for getting the game banned and they don\u2019t even know it! By the way they\u2019re covering it. They\u2019re demanding this and demanding all these new safety features, safety regulations, safety rules. Empowering the government to police the game. They\u2019re begging for it, and they don\u2019t even realize it. They, in their naivete, think they\u2019re working hard to make the game safer and so forth, and all they\u2019re doing is paving the way for the game to be banned. <\/p>\n

They don\u2019t even know it.<\/p>\n

Because most liberals don\u2019t understand the consequences of their success. What are the consequences of LBJ\u2019s success and the War on Poverty<\/a>? More poverty! Medicare\/Medicaid? What are the consequences? Going broke! It doesn\u2019t work. Liberals do not understand the consequences of their quote, unquote “success.” <\/a>Their success is failure. December 14th is when I made the prediction, last year<\/a>. December 14th, 2011.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Jane in Lake Oswego, Oregon. Jane, great to have you on the program. Welcome to Open Line Friday.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush. I have to tell you that my husband has been a fan of yours since you were operating out of Sacramento. He listens to you regularly, and I can\u2019t tell you how many times he\u2019s wanted to pick up the phone and applaud you and add thoughts and so forth. He is a ten-year NFL vet, played in the fifties and the sixties, went to USC where he was a running back.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me tell you something about the NFL in the fifties and sixties. I mean it\u2019s brutal today, there\u2019s no question, but back then, clotheslining, for example, was legal. The equipment was not nearly what it is today. People like your husband played that game, and — as brutal as it is today, it was more so back then, I believe.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I think you\u2019re absolutely right. And I have to tell you, these are some of the toughest guys around. In fact, one of my favorite pictures of John is a picture where “Night Train” Lane is clotheslining him. In fact, it\u2019s one of his favorite pictures. He looks at that and says, “Yeah, he was awfully tough.” I mean, that\u2019s the attitude that they had back then. It\u2019s great to hear these guys get together, too, and reminisce because they laugh about it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: She\u2019s exactly right. The average human being wouldn\u2019t last one play on the offensive line out — those guys are so tough, the average person wouldn\u2019t last. And you\u2019re right. I mean Chuck Bednarik beat the hell out of Chuck Noll one year. Look what he did to Frank Gifford back in fifties with a huge hit. I mean, Gifford was knocked cold for weeks. It\u2019s a game now that\u2019s under attack, Jane, and I\u2019m telling you, there are well-intentioned liberals that think it\u2019s too risky and too dangerous, and they\u2019re going to try to change it, I guarantee you. And the liberal sports media doesn\u2019t realize it, but they\u2019re helping pave the way for it by the way they\u2019re covering all this.<\/line>