{"id":214403,"date":"2016-09-13T18:50:03","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T22:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/09\/13\/the_nfl_backlash_begins\/"},"modified":"2017-07-17T10:20:23","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T14:20:23","slug":"the_nfl_backlash_begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/09\/13\/the_nfl_backlash_begins\/","title":{"rendered":"The NFL Backlash Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH:\u00a0 Claire in Akron, Ohio.\u00a0 Welcome. It\u2019s great to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 Thank you, Rush.\u00a0 How are you doing today?<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 I\u2019m excellent.\u00a0 Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 Awesome.\u00a0 Hey, I\u2019ve got two comments.\u00a0 I was starting out with one, but I wanted to say real quickly, first of all, with Hillary, everybody\u2019s missing the big picture.\u00a0 They\u2019re happy to pin it on a health problem because she truly is wearing out, and she\u2019s proving what Donald Trump has said that she cannot do this job. But it\u2019s because of her health.\u00a0 This has run the dog out of her, and I believe that it is just exhausting, and they can\u2019t say that.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 Wait, wait. Hold it.\u00a0 Why are they happy to pin it on her health if she\u2019s wearing out?<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 Because that can at least be explained away.\u00a0 If you\u2019re gonna be the president of the United States, you can\u2019t be taking… Well, you can, \u2019cause Barack does it. But you have to be working every day.\u00a0 It\u2019s like Donald Trump is superhuman. \u00a0That man, he never… You just don\u2019t ever see him taking the day off ever, and she can only work every couple of days and has to have a long weekday. It\u2019s just like they\u2019ve coddled her all along.<\/p>\n

But the chips are down and I don\u2019t think she can handle it because she\u2019s not fit health-wise to handle it.\u00a0 That was one comment.\u00a0 And then I have another comment and a suggestion.\u00a0 Real quickly, going back to the NFL, I wanted to say, you know, they need to understand that, yeah, they\u2019re season ticket holders. But there\u2019s a lot of people that are going to on these games that are spending money they might not even have but they want to go see their teams play.\u00a0 You know, the people want to go and enjoy football.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t really care what their political stance is on anything.\u00a0 And I feel like, you know, we\u2019re paying a lot of money to go see him, so just shut up and do your job.\u00a0 And, if Roger Goodell had an ounce of chutzpah he would say — and I\u2019m coming from a conservative point of view here and kind of tongue-in-cheek, but — “Let\u2019s make the NFL our safe zone.\u00a0 Let\u2019s say we cannot do this because all of the people need to be protected.\u00a0 This is our safe zone.\u00a0 We can go escape for a few hours and not be harmed by liberal points of view, you know, and these kinds of stands.”\u00a0 It\u2019s just ridiculous.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 Well, I\u2019m just… I had a monologue. In fact, we had the sound bite yesterday. I had it available to replay, and I didn\u2019t get to it.\u00a0 Cookie, get me that. Get that Mike.\u00a0 It\u2019ll dovetail nicely with what you\u2019ve said.\u00a0 I just want to warn you, though, Claire. It\u2019s only gonna get worse because of all the attention these players are getting doing this. I saw a story, a 12-year-old high school team is now taking a knee or refusing to stand for the national anthem.\u00a0 This is only gonna get worse.\u00a0 You\u2019re gonna see it happening with even greater frequency because the players are getting all kinds of attention for this — for things other than playing football.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 Okay.\u00a0 We had our caller at the bottom of the hour.\u00a0 She was describing the effect all these players protesting in the NFL are having on her. “Hey, we don\u2019t want to see it! That\u2019s not why we\u2019re watching. You\u2019re gonna destroy it.”\u00a0 Ratings are down opening night this year versus last year.\u00a0 It\u2019s only getting worse. Claire in Akron, that\u2019s who it was, and I told her that I had made similar comments. This is all the way back on August 30th<\/a>.\u00a0 This was shortly after Kaepernick first pulled the stunt. \u00a0I think was the next day or two days later. This is my take on all of this.<\/p>\n

BEGIN ARCHIVE CLIP<\/p>\n

<\/a>RUSH ARCHIVE:\u00a0 I just want to say something to you players of the National Football League.\u00a0 The American people love your sport.\u00a0 The American people respect you who have the unique human ability to play it at the level you play it.\u00a0 But the American people are not going to sit by idly and watch the stage of the National Football League stolen and used for personal political purposes.<\/p>\n

You players in the NFL, you can go ahead and try to continue stealing the stage of the NFL if you want.\u00a0 You can take the example of Kaepernick and you can try to get some news coverage, you can draw attention to yourself, but you run the risk of obliterating the stage on which you perform that earns you your living and gives you the opportunity to succeed beyond your wildest dreams.<\/p>\n

You better be careful in what and how you express your thoughts on this country, the greatest place in the history of mankind.\u00a0 And the residents of this country are among the luckiest in the history of all humanity.\u00a0 The National Football League is on TV.\u00a0 It can easily be turned off.\u00a0 The National Football League is sponsored by beer and cars and soft drinks that can easily be not purchased.\u00a0 It\u2019s not that hard.\u00a0 Just turn it off. You better be especially careful because the opening weekend of the National Football League this year is the 15th anniversary of 9\/11.<\/p>\n

END ARCHIVE CLIP<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 That sounds perfectly reasonable, right?\u00a0 Now, I know what some of you are saying.\u00a0 “Wait a minute, Rush! Are you saying that just \u2019cause they\u2019re athletes and players they ought to shut up about their political beliefs?”\u00a0 Not at all.\u00a0 I\u2019m saying don\u2019t do it on the NFL stage.\u00a0 Do it on ESPN when they\u2019re interviewing you after the game. Do it on ESPN when you\u2019re doing a show.\u00a0 But to take over the game and to turn the game into a political stage, you\u2019re stealing the stage that the NFL built.<\/p>\n

You are a temporary occupant of this stage, relevant and highly talented and all that. But this wasn\u2019t even really intended as criticism as much as it was guidance.\u00a0 You know, I… (sigh) I don\u2019t know.\u00a0 I really don\u2019t know how many people understand the whole concept of “compensation.”\u00a0 Why do people make what they make and where does that money come from?\u00a0 Do you realize how many people think jobs are for health care?<\/p>\n

You\u2019d be stunned if you had young people today and you asked \u2019em, “Why is there an XYZ Widget Company in your town?” They\u2019d say, “They\u2019re there to provide jobs for the community and provide health care!”\u00a0 Really?\u00a0 That\u2019s why the XYZ Widget Company is there?\u00a0 Go ask your average NFL player, “Where does the team get the money to pay you?”\u00a0 “Hey, I don\u2019t know, dude. It doesn\u2019t matter to me. All I know is, my contract\u2019s guaranteed the first couple years.”<\/p>\n

“Seriously, where do they get the money?”\u00a0 “Well, I\u2019m sure they get it from TV and I get sponsors and so forth.\u00a0 That\u2019s not my problem.”\u00a0 “Yes, it is — and the more money you make, the more you had better be intimately aware of how it gets to you.\u00a0 It obviously matters a lot to you.\u00a0 It may be a bit of an off-the-wall statement here. But I dare say if more people understood compensation — how they or anybody else gets it paid — people would be earning a lot more than they are.\u00a0 But that is for another time.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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