![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-020320-Super-Bowl-MAHOMES-1.jpg\")
<\/p>\nRUSH: I want to spend just a couple of minutes here on the Super Bowl, congratulate the Hunt family, Clark Hunt, mother, Norma, the head coach Andy Reid, number 15, Patrick Mahomes. It really turned out to be a good game to watch. The first time in 50 years the Chiefs have been back.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
A lot of the conventional wisdom about the game did not materialize, meaning media predictions. It was not the high scoring romp that everybody thought it was gonna be. It was a fantastic evening, despite television\u2019s best efforts to screw it up. Did you watch any of the pregame show? You know, when these games start, the players are rusty, the players are nervous. The first five or 10 minutes of every Super Bowl, little fumble here, bad pass there, incomplete, what have you. They\u2019re sitting around on the field for 15 minutes waiting for the game to kick off.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, all these promotions are taking place and advertiser-related things are taking place to delay the start of the game. It\u2019s getting more and more cluttered in the pregame every year. And I think the NFL had better be careful because they\u2019re forgetting the reason they\u2019re there. It\u2019s the game. It\u2019s the players. And the game and the players are beginning to take second fiddle to some of the other promotional stuff that\u2019s — I mean, you can\u2019t give away all of it, don\u2019t misunderstand.<\/p>\n
I mean, they brought those players out for the Kobe Bryant ceremony. That was botched. Nobody knew what they were doing. The moment of silence lasted three seconds. Did you catch that? And then the players broke down and they both left the field, both teams left the field because they had to leave the field to come back on the field for player introductions.<\/p>\n
And then the anthem and — speaking of the anthem, the speaking of the pregame, can we say victory? What did the NFL focus on in the pregame? The flag, with the 49ers in the game. Colin Kaepernick opposes the flag, kneeled down, didn\u2019t like the flag. The NFL makes a big deal about the flag. They played Johnny Cash\u2019s Ragged Old Flag song in its entirety in the pregame. A major, major political victory. And, hey, they politicized it, not us.<\/p>\n