RUSH: We have the NFL season coming up. We\u2019ve got perhaps the worst NFL preseason there\u2019s ever been.\u00a0Now, normally, this is the third week of the four weeks of the NFL preseason. Normally, this is when you get the dress rehearsal. The starters play traditionally for the first half. Now, the Indianapolis Colts are not gonna start any starters in their game tonight. They\u2019re not gonna take the chance.<\/p>\n
Cam Newton, the starting quarterback for the Carolina Panthers, bum ankle, bum foot, hit last night, got sacked, don\u2019t know the status, meaningless game, would have been disastrous, could be if he\u2019s lost for any significant time. The NFL\u2019s gonna have to do something about this at some point. It\u2019s just getting worse. I mean, these are not even as valuable as practices, these games.<\/p>\n
Normally, they\u2019re supposed to be rehearsal, get everybody ready for stadium football, game day football. The officials get to rehearse, get to get in shape, all of the press box staff, the video review people, all these people are supposed to get a workout, but players who don\u2019t matter are the ones who are playing.<\/p>\n
And, as a famous NFL coach said, the problem with these games is, if somebody makes a mistake, you can\u2019t go out and redo it to try to fix it. Joint practices are far more valuable than these games. But these games, fans are charged full boat for them. And so something is gonna have to happen. This is all trending toward an 18 game regular season, a two-game preseason.<\/p>\n
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And the reason I bring this up, ladies and gentlemen — you might be, \u201cWhat the hell does this have –?\u201d Everything to do with it. Because, my friends, I am being sat down. My syndication and broadcast partners have decided that next week is an irrelevant week and that, if there is any week for me to not be here, to be sat down, to be protected from injury or other calamity, I should take next week off, just as the starters in the NFL preseason game three are taking time off.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s genuinely a nothing week. It\u2019s the week leading into Labor Day. We\u2019re gonna be taking the Labor Day holiday off and Friday of Labor Day weekend off anyway. So I don\u2019t want this to be thought of as I am going on vacation. I haven\u2019t had a vacation in over a year and a half, and next week will not be a vacation. It will not count against vacation. I\u2019m being held out. I\u2019m being sat down. They\u2019re not even gonna dress me out next week. I am being held out to protect Trump\u2019s chances for the 2020 presidential run, to be geared up and ready for when it really counts. And next week doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
So, it doesn\u2019t count against vacation time. Of course, vacation time for me is irrelevant anyway since I decide how much there\u2019s gonna be. But it was literally — I can\u2019t say forced on me because it\u2019s an exaggeration, but it was highly suggested, and I wanted to mention this at the top of the program rather than wait for it to be the last thing I say.<\/p>\n
So now that there\u2019s no shock and no surprise when next Monday comes, and the people who will never play the game for real are hosting the program. (laughing) I\u2019m just kidding about that. They know that. It\u2019s all good natured. It\u2019s all good-natured fun.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: I\u2019m being sat down for a week, meaningless week, don\u2019t want to waste any great stuff until it\u2019s important when I get back.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Here we are, the final big broadcast hour, hosted by me, Rush Limbaugh. Welcome back. I\u2019m not gonna be here next week. Much like the NFL is in the preseason that are not gonna play the starters the rest of the preseason — they don\u2019t want to get \u2019em hurt in meaningless games — next week is judged to be rather slow and meaningless. It\u2019s not important ratings-wise; so I\u2019m being sat down. My broadcast partners are asking me (since I haven\u2019t taken any meaningful time in way too long) to do so. So this is it. This is the final hour for a week. I\u2019ll be back on the Tuesday after Labor Day.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Thank you, folks, very much for always being here. I\u2019ll be back on the Tuesday after Labor Day, and I will miss you. I just want everybody to know that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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