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RUSH: I want to take you back to Sunday. Mr. Snerdley, listen up. Stop screening calls. I want you to hear this. Because I knew it was going to happen. On Sunday, the late game, I\u2019m watching it on the airplane. I had arrived in New York; I\u2019m watching it in my apartment in New York. I\u2019m watching the Philadelphia Eagles and the Dallas Cowboys. Tony Romo, the quarterback of the Cowboys, is having the worst game of his season, perhaps the second worst game of his career. The first worst game of his career was also against the Eagles and last year in Dallas. The two games had something in common. Last year, his girlfriend of the moment, Carrie Underwood, was in a luxury skybox looking down and waving. Sunday, Romo\u2019s new babe, Jessica Simpson, was in the skybox looking down and waving, and she had on a Cowboys jersey with pink number nine on it, which is Romo\u2019s number, and pink sleeves in place of the Dallas cowboy blue sleeves. They cut to her many times, the TV cameras did, while Romo is having a horrible outing. At halftime — because I am so observant, it\u2019s frightening — at halftime, the camera watches Romo walking to the locker room off the field, and they stick with him for quite a while. He keeps looking up into it stands, then looks back to where he\u2019s going to. He looks up in the stands; looks back to where he\u2019s going. He looks up in the stands, and gives a wave. I said, ‘This kid, his mind is not in the game. He\u2019s up there looking for Jessica!\u2019 Well, it wasn\u2019t just me that noticed this, ladies and gentlemen. Yesterday on ESPN, Terrell Owens did a phone interview. <\/p>\n

OWENS: (phone quality) Right now Jessica Simpson is not a fan favorite —<\/p>\n

REPORTERS: (laughing)<\/p>\n

OWENS: — in this locker room or in Texas Stadium. <\/p>\n

REPORTER: Why not in this locker room? <\/p>\n

OWENS: I mean, this — I mean, I think with everything that has happened and obviously the way Tony played and the comparison between her and Carrie Underwood, and, you know, I think a lot of people still like, she\u2019s kind of taking the focus away, this and that. I mean she was — she was hot on my list \u2019til last — \u2019til last week. <\/p>\n

REPORTERS: (laughter) <\/p>\n

REPORTER: Do what you do, but you want to be on TV but not inside the newspaper.<\/p>\n

OWENS: Oh, I got a message for her when we make the playoffs: Just stay tuned.<\/p>\n

RUSH: ‘I got a message for her when we make the playoffs: Just stay tuned.\u2019 Knew this was going to happen. I knew it was gonna be right. Romo was going to get blamed for having Jessica there; she was going to get blamed for distracting him. I have a theory about all this, but I\u2019m not going to share it, because it\u2019s pop culture BS, and I\u2019m not going to mess with it. (interruption) I\u2019m not… Well, I talked a little bit about it yesterday when I was discussing fame and how some people, they just come from humble backgrounds. The kid, he\u2019s from Eastern Illinois University, for crying out loud! I don\u2019t even think it exists anymore. You know, he\u2019s an average, ordinary, run-of-the-mill guy, solid guy, but fame makes him think he\u2019s launched himself into some new stratosphere — and the actress babes? The actress babes are looking not for anything other than getting noticed themselves. When your career is being noticed and you gotta do things to get noticed, you don\u2019t have a lot of substance there. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s as far as I\u2019m going to go with this, because I don\u2019t know Romo and I could be dead wrong about this. I don\u2019t know Jessica Simpson. I do know that Romo the night before the game — this is highly unusual, folks; you know the NFL — he went out to dinner with Jessica Simpson to a sushi place with his parents. Now, the pregame meal is the next day. Pregame meal is either four or five hours before the game, depending on the team. Everybody has different philosophies. But Saturday night, you are supposed to be with the team in the hotel going over final game plan adjustments and so forth. Now, he might have gone back to the hotel. I\u2019m really speaking out of school here. I love Romo; he has got a great future. I just knew this was going to happen. I just knew it was going to happen. Tom Brady found a way. He\u2019s dating Gisele ‘Bunnyhunch,\u2019 the model; apparently she\u2019s not a distraction, but I don\u2019t think she goes to the games. Well, I take that back. She did go to one game in Miami when the Patriots\u2019 wives went down earlier this year, and she was out dancing the night away with the Patriots\u2019 wives, while the team was in the hotel making final adjustments to cream the Dolphins the next day. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Jimmy in Decatur, Illinois, we\u2019re going to start with you on the phones today, get something out of the way, welcome to the program, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Dittos from the Land O\u2019 Lincoln, El Rushbo.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I gotta tell you, I\u2019m one of your biggest fans out here, but today, brother, you really stepped in it when you said Eastern Illinois, are they even still a university? Eastern Illinois is kind of like what we consider in central Illinois, it\u2019s been a quarterback factory for a long time. Mike Shanahan, Sean Payton, and now Tony Romo are all —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I wasn\u2019t putting it down.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay. All right. <\/p>\n

RUSH: No, you misunderstood. You misunderstood. I\u2019m talking about if somebody comes out of Eastern Illinois, he\u2019s an average, just solid guy. He\u2019s not some playboy running around.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing)<\/p>\n

RUSH: I was not criticizing the school. I might have said I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s still there because I remember somebody discussing Romo once, and I was confusing him with Dave Craig. Dave Craig came out of school in Wisconsin that\u2019s no longer there.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. Yeah. And, real quick, I just want to give you a name, a redshirt freshman from a little tiny town, Maroa, Illinois. He\u2019s at Eastern now. His name is Luke Hockaday. Remember that name, Rush. Write it down. He\u2019s going to follow in the footsteps of those other three.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, hang on.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Luke Hockaday from Maroa, Illinois, a great kid. He\u2019s a redshirt freshman. He\u2019ll be played there next year. He\u2019s been there with them all year.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, H-o-c-k-a-d-a-y, right?<\/p>\n

CALLER: You got it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Luke Hockaday, he\u2019s a quarterback?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, sir.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Luke Hockaday, redshirt quarterback. Okay, I wrote it down.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, we love you out here, keep up the good work.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I will, Jimmy. By the way, do you know that Decatur is the original home of what NFL team?<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s the original home of the Chicago what was called the Staley-Bears.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That is correct.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It was the Decatur Staleys named after a guy named Staley who owned an automobile dealership, right?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I believe that\u2019s correct. I believe that\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, that is correct. There\u2019s no ‘believing\u2019 about it; it is correct. I know my American history. I\u2019ve gotta take a brief time-out in the nick of time, ladies and gentlemen: Luke Hockaday, redshirt freshman, Eastern Illinois.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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