{"id":320920,"date":"2019-09-06T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=320920"},"modified":"2019-09-09T15:43:51","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T19:43:51","slug":"theres-so-much-i-would-do-to-fix-the-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/09\/06\/theres-so-much-i-would-do-to-fix-the-nfl\/","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s So Much I Would Do to Fix the NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Anybody watch the NFL opener last night?<\/p>\n

Chicago Bears hosting the Green Bay Packers. Somebody tell me the difference between that game last night and a preseason game. The only difference was the starters played when they don\u2019t play in the preseason, but other than that, who can tell the difference? I asked Brian, “Did you watch the game?” “Yes. First quarter and I fell asleep.” Bingo!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

All this heralded offense? New Packer offense, new coach, Aaron Rodgers? First quarter touchdown and pfft! That\u2019s it. Defense wins the game. Now, that\u2019s standard for early in the season. These guys haven\u2019t played. The starters haven\u2019t played. This is their first game. They\u2019re gassed by the third quarter. They haven\u2019t played. There\u2019s so much I would do to change the NFL. But, of course, I will never get that chance.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Big news from the National Football League: As predicted by me mere moments ago, the malcontent Antonio Brown will play Monday night for the Raiders against the Denver Broncos, the last game of the weekend, the second game of Monday Night Football. If you haven\u2019t been following this, I don\u2019t want to take the time to bring you up to date on the month of August and Antonio Brown with the Oakland Raiders. Suffice to say, he missed practices.<\/p>\n

He missed team meetings. Because he screwed up his feet in a cryotherapy chamber in France, and then refused to wear an approved league helmet. The culmination of this was on Wednesday — after he was fined $53,000 for missing two meetings — he posted on social media the letter from the Raiders announcing his fine, and then bad-mouthed the Raiders, and then threatened to punch the general manager in the face! Nobody has ever told Antonio Brown no. This is not unusual in sports, professional athletes. (interruption)<\/p>\n

“Why wasn\u2019t he fired on the spot?”<\/p>\n

Because he\u2019s the best receiver in the league, and because they\u2019re paying him $30 million guaranteed — which they could have gotten out of, by the way. If Antonio Brown would have been suspended and not on the roster for game one, they would have owed him nothing. Nobody has told him no. The Steelers got rid of him and took nothing to do so. They were thought to get the worst end of the trade deal, but they knew what they were doing. He was a cancer in the clubhouse, causing all kinds of trouble, refusing to show up for the last game of the season that they had to win to have a chance to get into the playoffs.<\/p>\n

He fakes it out with an injury that he didn\u2019t have. Just a cancer! So he goes to the Raiders and makes it look like he doesn\u2019t want to be there. But he threatens to punch Mike Mayock in the face. He had to be restrained by teammates from doing so. So they sent him home. This is two days ago. They sent him home and then announced that he was probably going to be suspended, and I knew right there, “He\u2019s not going to get suspended. They\u2019re not going to let Mayock suspend him.” They are moving to Vegas next year; they need him on the team to sell tickets in Vegas.<\/p>\n

They need him for this, they need him on the field. He\u2019s the best receiver in football. (Pardon me, Odell Beckham Jr., and the rest of you.) But I knew. He\u2019s a Millennial. Nobody has ever told him no, which is par for the course for professional sports, anyway. There\u2019s nothing unique or generational about that. That\u2019s always been the case. But threatening to beat up your boss and having to be physically restrained? And then the Raiders say, “Well, we might suspend him.”<\/p>\n

You should read the comments on some of the sports blogs that talk about this. Virtually 90% of the commenters thought it was a no-brainer. “The guy is gone. You just don\u2019t do this. You don\u2019t threaten to punch out your boss and get away with it.” Of course, I don\u2019t post comments on these websites. I\u2019m too famous to do that. But I just sat there and chuckled. I said, “You guys, he\u2019s not going to get suspended and the Raiders are going to end up, in a sense, apologizing in one way or another because the guy is a child<\/a> and they are gonna have to treat him as such.”<\/p>\n

So the upshot is he was sent home yesterday. He returned to practice today. He had an emotional meeting with the team where he apologized; said it wasn\u2019t going to happen again. It will happen again. It will probably happen Monday if he doesn\u2019t get the ball enough! This is not going to end. There is no ending until somebody tells him no. The guy has acted as a child and as an immature, selfish solo operator and has been paid more every time for doing so.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s been rewarded for his bad behavior, including by the Raiders. They\u2019re going to be moving to Las Vegas next year. They\u2019re going to need all the star power they can get to attract a new fan base, sell tickets and all this kind of stuff. So this is a no-brainer, but it ain\u2019t going to get better with the Raiders. They think they can talk sense. They can say, “Okay, he\u2019s… He\u2019s learned his lesson now. He won\u2019t do this again.” (chuckles) He\u2019s never learned a lesson. He\u2019s never had to!<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know him. Don\u2019t misunderstand. I just know what everyone else does from following this stuff. But that\u2019s the update. Speaking of, I referenced this towards the end of the broadcast yesterday. Do you remember the name Jemele Hill? Jemele Hill was fired from ESPN. She was an anchor on the 6 o\u2019clock SportsCenter. She\u2019s an angry, leftist radical. She hates Trump. That\u2019s why she got fired. She was tweeting all kinds of stuff under ESPN\u2019s name.<\/p>\n

\"\"They didn\u2019t want to fire her, but they had to. She\u2019s working at a magazine called The Atlantic. I\u2019m sorry, it\u2019s not… Yes, The Atlantic has a piece that was published. “It\u2019s Time for Black Athletes to Leave White Colleges — They attract money and attention to the predominantly white universities that showcase them, while [Historically Black Colleges and Universities] struggle. What would happen if they collectively decided to go to black schools?” So here\u2019s somebody actually promoting segregation!<\/p>\n

What were the \u201960s for, Jemele? What was Dr. King all about? You can throw that out now; we\u2019re going to segregate everybody. She said that “black men make up 55% of the football players in those conferences, and 56% of basketball players.” I think it\u2019s higher than that. Anyway, she\u2019s tired of these black athletes selling out and going to white schools as she sees it. We\u2019re really making progress here, aren\u2019t we, folks? Thank you, Democrats.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Big news from the National Football League: As predicted by me mere moments ago, the malcontent Antonio Brown will play Monday night for the Raiders against the Denver Broncos, the last game of the weekend, the second game of Monday Night Football. If you haven\u2019t been following this, I don\u2019t want to take the time to bring you up to date on the month of August and Antonio Brown with the Oakland Raiders. Suffice to say, he missed practices.<\/p>\n

He missed team meetings. Because he screwed up his feet in a cryotherapy chamber in France, and then refused to wear an approved league helmet. The culmination of this was on Wednesday — after he was fined $53,000 for missing two meetings — he posted on social media the letter from the Raiders announcing his fine, and then bad mouthed the Raiders, and then threatened to punch the general manager in the face! Nobody has ever told Antonio Brown no. This is not unusual in sports, professional athletes. (interruption)<\/p>\n

“Why wasn\u2019t he fired on the spot?”<\/p>\n

Because he\u2019s the best receiver in the league, and because they\u2019re paying him $30 million guaranteed — which they could have gotten out of, by the way. If Antonio Brown would have been suspended and not on the roster for game one, they would have owed him nothing. Nobody has told him no. The Steelers got rid of him and took nothing to do so. They were thought to get the worst end of the trade deal, but they knew what they were doing. He was a cancer in the clubhouse, causing all kinds of trouble, refusing to show up for the last game of the season that they had to win to have a chance to get into the playoffs.<\/p>\n

He fakes it out with an injury that he didn\u2019t have. Just a cancer! So he goes to the Raiders and makes it look like he doesn\u2019t want to be there. But he threatens to punch Mike Mayock in the face. He had to be restrained by teammates from doing so. So they sent him home. This is two days ago. They sent him home and then announced that he was probably going to be suspended, and I knew right there, “He\u2019s not going to get suspended. They\u2019re not going to let Mayock suspend him.” They are moving to Vegas next year; they need him on the team to sell tickets in Vegas.<\/p>\n

They need him for this, they need him on the field. He\u2019s the best receiver in football. (Pardon me, Odell Beckham Jr., and the rest of you.) But I knew. He\u2019s a Millennial. Nobody has ever told him no, which is par for the course for professional sports, anyway. There\u2019s nothing unique or generational about that. That\u2019s always been the case. But threatening to beat up your boss and having to be physically restrained? And then the Raiders say, “Well, we might suspend him.”<\/p>\n

You should read the comments on some of the sports blogs that talk about this. Virtually 90% of the commenters thought it was a no-brainer. “The guy is gone. You just don\u2019t do this. You don\u2019t threaten to punch out your boss and get away with it.” Of course, I don\u2019t post comments on these websites. I\u2019m too famous to do that. But I just sat there and chuckled. I said, “You guys, he\u2019s not going to get suspended and the Raiders are going to end up, in a sense, apologizing in one way or another because the guy is a child and they are gonna have to treat him as such.”<\/p>\n

So the upshot is he was sent home yesterday. He returned to practice today. He had an emotional meeting with the team where he apologized; said it wasn\u2019t going to happen again. It will happen again. It will probably happen Monday if he doesn\u2019t get the ball enough! This is not going to end. There is no ending until somebody tells him no. The guy has acted as a child and as an immature, selfish solo operator and has been paid more every time for doing so.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s been rewarded for his bad behavior, including by the Raiders. They\u2019re going to be moving to Las Vegas next year. They\u2019re going to need all the star power they can get to attract a new fan base, sell tickets and all this kind of stuff. So this is a no-brainer, but it ain\u2019t going to get better with the Raiders. They think they can talk sense. They can say, “Okay, he\u2019s… He\u2019s learned his lesson now. He won\u2019t do this again.” (chuckles) He\u2019s never learned a lesson. He\u2019s never had to!<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know him. Don\u2019t misunderstand. I just know what everyone else does from following this stuff. But that\u2019s the update. Speaking of, I referenced this towards the end of the broadcast yesterday. Do you remember the name Jemele Hill? Jemele Hill was fired from ESPN. She was an anchor on the 6 o\u2019clock SportsCenter. She\u2019s an angry, leftist radical. She hates Trump. That\u2019s why she got fired. She was tweeting all kinds of stuff under ESPN\u2019s name.<\/p>\n

They didn\u2019t want to fire her, but they had to. She\u2019s working at a magazine called The Atlantic. I\u2019m sorry, it\u2019s not… Yes, The Atlantic has a piece that was published. “It\u2019s Time for Black Athletes to Leave White Colleges — They attract money and attention to the predominantly white universities that showcase them, while [Historically Black Colleges and Universities] struggle. What would happen if they collectively decided to go to black schools?” So here\u2019s somebody actually promoting segregation!<\/p>\n

\"\"What were the \u201960s for, Jemele? What was Dr. King all about? You can throw that out now; we\u2019re going to segregate everybody. She said that “black men make up 55% of the football players in those conferences, and 56% of basketball players.” I think it\u2019s higher than that. Anyway, she\u2019s tired of these black athletes selling out and going to white schools, as she sees it. We\u2019re really making progress here, aren\u2019t we, folks? Thank you, Democrats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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