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RUSH: Once again, ESPN remains obsessed with me. Last night on Pardon the Interruption, with Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon.<\/p>\n

WILBON: Rush Limbaugh reportedly said Friday night that the NFL ‘too often looks like a game between the Crips and the Bloods without any weapons,\u2019 close quote. Tony, what do you think of that?<\/p>\n

KORNHEISER: I\u2019ve said it before. This is blatant race baiting. He has done this before.<\/p>\n

WILBON: That\u2019s bigoted!<\/p>\n

RUSH: (Laughing.) Once again, they didn\u2019t hear it. Rush Limbaugh ‘reportedly said Friday night.\u2019 No, I said it during the day on Friday, but it was among comments that went on for at least two segments, maybe 20 minutes total, and here\u2019s a little excerpt of those additional comments that I made that these two bigots either didn\u2019t hear or don\u2019t know about and are not interested in learning about.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: [A] lot of people have theories on this. I\u2019ve heard this uniform black business has roots in gang culture, but I think this is also rooted in you don\u2019t diss me, you don\u2019t disrespect me, and disrespect can occur with just the wrong glance. There\u2019s a hypersensitivity to it, but it\u2019s not just black players who are engaging in this kind of behavior. I think it\u2019s a just general decline in class, and you can\u2019t leave out the television aspect of this. It gets you on TV, gets you on the highlight reel. There are many, many factors in it. There\u2019s no question and it\u2019s only going to keep getting worse.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I was discussing, as you people heard, an overall lack of class that seems to be affecting the National Football League, and it seems to be happening more and more. We just had the tenth Cincinnati Bengal arrested yesterday since the season began! We\u2019ve had players stomping on each other\u2019s faces. We\u2019ve had kicks to the groin, and all of these things have (interruption). What? I\u2019m not baiting anybody. I\u2019m telling you what I\u2019ve seen — and each one of these actions has carried a meaningful penalty that has harmed the team in the quest for victory and so forth. All this head butting going on out there! Somebody said, ‘Well, you know, Rush, why are you picking on the NFL? I mean, it\u2019s worse than the NBA. You remember what happened up there at Detroit at the Palace of Auburn Hills and so forth.\u2019 I think there\u2019s an explanation for this. <\/p>\n

Football already is a rough and tough and violent game, and the impression that people have of the people that play it is they\u2019re rough, tough, really tough guys. They imagine these guys are acting that way at home and they imagine that you\u2019ve gotta be of a certain mind-set. So these kinds of things are not all that unexpected in football because it is rough and tough. It is violent, and it is mano-a-mano. It\u2019s brutal. You guys have no concept of it. Television does not do justice to the brutality of this game when it\u2019s played legally, as the rules indicate. So I think there\u2019s less of a shock when these kind of emotions boil over into this kind of behavior that we were discussing last week, whereas in basketball, where there are no pads, it\u2019s a heavy contact game now. It used not to be. It\u2019s heavy, heavy contact game, but no pads. It\u2019s not supposed to be contact. It\u2019s a game about brutal use of force to dominate the opponent as football is, and so it seems to stand out more so in basketball.<\/p>\n

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