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RUSH: Back to the phones, Open Line Friday. Rush Limbaugh to Palm Harbor, Florida. Hi Chris. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hey, Rush, how are you? Nice to speak with you.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Sir, I wanted to get your thoughts on Tim Tebow starting on Sunday.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Sure, that\u2019s the consensus.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I\u2019m not so sure. They claim his throwing motion, his release is not quick enough, that he can\u2019t be a pocket passer. I remember Champ Bailey, cornerback of the Broncos, number 24, saying early on in Tebow\u2019s arrival, never seen anybody work any harder than Tebow. He clearly has the fans behind him in Denver, at least for now. But his first game\u2019s on the road against the Dolphins in Miami. I don\u2019t know. My gut is all I\u2019ve got on this. My gut tells me that Tebow\u2019s gonna surprise people.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, you know, they\u2019re also honoring the 2008 Gators team before the game.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah, is there any other reason to go see the Dolphins right now? I mean the new owner down there has decided to go Hollywood. He\u2019s got all these limited partners that wouldn\u2019t know a football if they saw one, like Fergie and Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony and so forth. So here comes Tebow and the sportswriter community is even ripping the Dolphins for doing that but they sold out. They had the earliest sellout that they\u2019ve had all season honoring the Gators and Tebow coming in, so there\u2019s clearly a lot of interest. I don\u2019t know. Just a fan.<\/p>\n
CALLER: So you\u2019re pulling for him?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Of course. Absolutely I\u2019m pulling for the guy.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Okay, yeah. I think it\u2019s gonna be an interesting week. I\u2019m pulling for him as well. I just think it\u2019s interesting.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You know, you have to respect people who play the game. You have to respect the coaches. You have to respect the people whose business is professional football, and there aren\u2019t too many people who think he\u2019s got the ability to be a successful pro quarterback.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, Steve Young\u2019s high on him.<\/p>\n
RUSH: He is? I hadn\u2019t heard that.<\/p>\n
CALLER: He is.<\/p>\n
RUSH: It\u2019s good to know. I hadn\u2019t heard. Anybody else that you know that\u2019s high on him?<\/p>\n
CALLER: You know, it\u2019s scant, but Steve Young seems like an honest person. He was of the same style as Tebow I think early in his career, so —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah, scrambler, big guy, could get out of trouble, did have a rather elongated flowing motion in his throwing motion.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Right. So anyway, just thought I\u2019d get that out there. It\u2019s an interesting —<\/p>\n
RUSH: What about you?<\/p>\n
CALLER: What about me?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Your thoughts on Tebow.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, I think he\u2019s a winner, and I think that supersedes any sort of — you can never quantify that.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n
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CALLER: You know, Merril Hoge and all those guys, they can come on but I think it\u2019s clear that Tim Tebow, just like Michael Jordan or a Lance Armstrong, these guys who just know, yeah, when you can close a deal, you can close a deal.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Let me ask you this. How much do you think the criticism of Tebow is rooted in the fact that he is a publicly devout Christian? <\/p>\n
CALLER: I would say from the analyst standpoint, it\u2019s probably very small. But I would think most of the talking heads out there of course it\u2019s probably 85%.<\/p>\n
RUSH: So in the sportswriter community it\u2019s a big deal. The people that play the game, not that big a deal?<\/p>\n
CALLER: No, I don\u2019t think Merril Hoge could care less that he\u2019s a conservative Christian. I mean, do you?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, no. Not with Merril Hoge. I don\u2019t think it would matter a hill of beans to Bill Cowher.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Right. So but, yeah, the sportswriters, the beat writers, I\u2019m sure they detest it.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Right. Okay. Well, I appreciate the call.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Thanks a lot, Rush. Have a good evening.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You bet. It\u2019s a great Open Line Friday kind of question. Way to find it out there, Snerdley. <\/p>\n
Brett, Taylors, South Carolina. Hello, and welcome to the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hi, Rush. How you doing?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Very good, sir. Thanks very much.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hey, listen, I wanted to get your views on these new girlie men NFL rules. You know, you can\u2019t touch the quarterback, the defenseless receiver and all that kind of stuff.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Let\u2019s explain what\u2019s happening, some people may not know. The National Football League has become obsessed with preventing head injuries. They are just obsessed with concussions, head injuries, particularly against defenseless players. You know what you ought to do, you ought to go back, if you can — I\u2019ve done this — get some footage of college football back in the 1940s, fifties, sixties. You will find a rough-as-nails game, but you will not find players launching at each other. You won\u2019t find head shots. You don\u2019t find kill shots. You\u2019ll find classic, properly taught and executed tackling. The game did morph and evolve into quite a different game than has been in years past. <\/p>\n
Now, the professional game is different. If you go back to the forties and fifties to professional game, those guys were headhunters. It is a pansy game today compared — as a stand alone, it\u2019s not a pansy game and they\u2019re not using girlie man rules today. But compared to what the pro game used to be, clotheslining was allowed. The San Francisco 49ers had a guy that played in the fifties named Hardy Brown. They were worried in that era that Hardy Brown was going to kill somebody is how hard that he hit. The pro game, I mean, Chuck Bednarik, look what Chuck Bednarik did to Frank Gifford. Chuck Bednarik took out Chuck Noll. Chuck Noll was a player for the Cleveland Browns. Chuck Bednarik, some of these guys back in the old days when the NFL was new and it was lawless, it was an entirely different game, and it is policed now. <\/p>\n
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So they\u2019re being told they\u2019ve gotta change the way they\u2019ve been taught to play the game overnight on a dime. And they\u2019re saying, “I can\u2019t change the way I play. That\u2019s the way I play. I\u2019m gonna keep playing, I don\u2019t care about the fines.” The NFL claims to have stats that show that head injuries are down, the number of concussions are down. Not that injuries themselves are down, but serious head injuries, concussions are down, which is what they\u2019re after. But I think if you think that there are girlie man rules, and if you think they\u2019ve softened the game — I know you can\u2019t do this, but I wish you could — watch a game even today from the sideline. If you could get as close to it, the truth of the matter is that the people who play that game are so tough you and I would not last if we were offensive or defensive linemen or wide receivers. You and I wouldn\u2019t last two plays before we\u2019re carted off and sent to the hospital with something. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s a man\u2019s game, and there\u2019s nothing soft about it. In the context of the rules changes that they\u2019re making and the things they\u2019re saying about it, coupled with the comments being made by players subject to the rules change that are creating the impression that they\u2019re softening it, but it\u2019s still a brutal game, and they are never gonna be able to take that out of it unless they go flag and take the face mask off the helmet and that would be the only thing they could do, and they\u2019re not gonna do that. I appreciate the call.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: You know, I\u2019ll even say this. And a lot of you are not gonna understand this, you\u2019re gonna think I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m talking about. The average human being could not catch a John Elway pass. It would knock you down. But you\u2019d get out of the way of it before it did. You wouldn\u2019t want any part of it. It\u2019s an entirely different level. I say this because a lot of people think the NFL\u2019s gone girlie man now with these rule changes, and it is not a soft game. Just put it that way. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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