RUSH: Sal in Lafayette, Louisiana. You\u2019re next. Great to have you here. What is this about liberals and fantasy football? How are they changing it?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, Rush, my problem is — first of all, mega dittos.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you, thank you.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I\u2019ve been listening to talk radio since before you came on, back in the early eighties. But, anyway, back at that time I was the assistant commissioner of the Cajun football league, which is fantasy football owners and everything, and prior to computers, we did everything by using the box scores, you know, and just touchdowns and field goals and safeties —<\/p>\n
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RUSH: You know, this is fascinating. Because in 1979, 1980, Inside Sports, now defunct, came out with a story on fantasy football and I and five other guys at the Kansas City Royals formed the PFL, the Paper Football League. I was the commissioner. We had to do the same thing. We had to wait for box scores every Monday before we found out who won. And it was a blast. I know exactly what you\u2019re talking about.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah, I was, like I said, the assistant commissioner where my duties were to do the scores and check with the commission to make sure my scores matched with his, and then we put the scores out. But, today, you know, now I\u2019m in a Rotary Club. I\u2019ve been in Rotary Club for the past, you know, 10, 20 years, but we started up a fantasy league, and I was the commissioner until I resigned this year.<\/p>\n
I couldn\u2019t do it anymore \u2019cause I had too many people complaining that — this is a group of you conservative guys in our club, vote conservative and everything, but they screamed and hollered at me because I was only giving them points for their touchdowns and field goals. I wasn\u2019t giving them their tenth of a point for every yard that they gained, you know, like they get in other leagues. And I was like, “Oh, I\u2019m sorry. Your runner ran for a hundred yards, did not score a touchdown, but yet you want 10 points for that.” (laughing)<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, now, wait a minute, though, was that the rules they set up for their league or were they trying to change your rules?<\/p>\n
CALLER: In other leagues. They were trying to change mine because other leagues were giving a point for every 10 yards you ran, you know, even if you didn\u2019t score a touchdown.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You can set whatever rules you want in fantasy football to make it interesting. My league was like yours; you had to score a touchdown. There were no defensive points. We did have points for kickers, but not extra points. Had to be field goals.<\/p>\n
CALLER: No, we give one point for that extra point.<\/p>\n
RUSH: That was considered automatic.<\/p>\n
CALLER: If he kicked a 50-yard field goal, we didn\u2019t give him an extra two points.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Oh, we did. Absolutely, see, this is my point. Every league can make up its own rules. If you want to give points for every tenth-of-a-yard run, rush, go ahead. The point is you had rules they came in and tried to change.<\/p>\n
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CALLER: We were coming in and setting this up as a fantasy owners, that you are an owner of a football team.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n
CALLER: And as the owner of a real football team that you\u2019re imagining, the real football team does not score a point unless they kick a field goal or score touchdown or safety.<\/p>\n
RUSH: On is you\u2019re saying the liberals did this, they\u2019re responsible for the —<\/p>\n
CALLER: Oh, my God, these conservative guys were screaming and crying \u2019cause they wanted more points for their players who did not score a touchdown.<\/p>\n
RUSH: That\u2019s typical.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I\u2019m sorry. In fantasy football you\u2019re fantasizing that you are an owner.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Liberals want trophies for losing. This shouldn\u2019t surprise you.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Exactly. It\u2019s like, I\u2019m sorry, I just can\u2019t give you these points. So I fought with them for two years and then I said I\u2019m not doing this anymore and I gave up my commissionership. And now I\u2019m in a point for every yard you make almost, you know, I\u2019m scoring 144 points a week, you know.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, whatever, if you sign up for it and those are the rules, that\u2019s fine. You can start your own league, if you want to go back to the way you did it, if you could just find four or five guys to join you.<\/p>\n
CALLER: You can\u2019t find four or five guys that are looking for the old way of scoring. They all want the liberal points.<\/p>\n
RUSH: (laughing) For doing nothing, essentially.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n
RUSH: They want points for not scoring.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Sounds like Harvey Weinstein, actually.<\/p>\n
CALLER: (laughing) That\u2019s true. So I just wanted your point of view on that, on how it got so liberal in just the scoring.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Oh, my God, the liberals are corrupting everything out there, Sal. This doesn\u2019t surprise me. Liberals couldn\u2019t create a fantasy league. This is the bottom line. Liberals don\u2019t like football to begin with. All they can do is, you know, you create it, you and your guys create it, and they look at it and they resent you enjoying it, and they resent you having a good time, so their objective is to come screw it up for you. And it sounds like you\u2019ve let them get away with it. Anyhow, before I let you go, Sal, this is iPhone X day so I\u2019m giving away iPhone 8s and 8 Plus. You want one? You want an 8 or an 8 Plus?<\/p>\n
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CALLER: I tell you what, I\u2019ll take an 8 Plus for my wife. I have a 7, and I\u2019m happy with it, but my wife has a 6 and she\u2019s talking about getting a new phone and I figure, well, that will be nice.<\/p>\n
RUSH: We\u2019ll give you an 8 Plus. I thought about this, I was thinking this is kind of not cool, the day the X comes out to be giving away the 8 but nobody can get the X yet and if you still want to get the X this was not gonna cost you anything, so you\u2019ll be able to sell it and upgrade if you want. But what color? I\u2019m gonna send her the gold one.<\/p>\n
CALLER: That\u2019s fine. You know, thank you.<\/p>\n
RUSH: It\u2019s unlocked. She wants an 8 Plus, right?<\/p>\n
CALLER: An 8 Plus. That will be great. Thank you.<\/p>\n
RUSH: It\u2019s unlocked so she can swap her SIM card and be up and running. Okay?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Okay, Rush, great.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay. Hang on so we can get the address to be able to get this out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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