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RUSH: Stan in Surprise, Arizona. Great to have you, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Good morning, Rush. Lovable, little fuzzball dittos to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir, very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, before I get to my actual question, can I make just a real quick comment on the story you haven\u2019t gotten to yet about overmothered men?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. “America is Awash in Overmothered Men” right here in the formerly nicotine-stained fingers awaiting my treatment coming up<\/a> —<\/p>\n

CALLER: I can\u2019t wait to hear it. But actually there is a growing body of scientific evidence that the increase in the amount of so-called estrogenic compounds in the environment are having a negative effect on masculine traits, and there\u2019s more studies being done over in Japan, also in Western Europe. I haven\u2019t heard of anything coming out of the United States yet, but there may be some actual biological reasons behind that story.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I\u2019ll be sure to investigate that aspect of it. This is primarily cultural.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This story and its claims.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I look forward to hearing that. Anyway, to my question. I just wondered if you had a comment on Don Shula\u2019s passing and if you happened to know him personally.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Well, I had met him a couple times at some charity golf tournaments. He was one of these people that you\u2019ve known them on television that is bigger than life for your whole life, then one day you have a chance to meet them, and he was always exactly the way you hoped he would be. He was not distant. He was more than willing to talk to you about anything. He loved the NFL.<\/p>\n

You know, I found a lot of people who, when they retire from whatever it is they\u2019ve done, they don\u2019t want to talk about it, they\u2019ve had their life fill of it, they\u2019re done with it. But he couldn\u2019t get enough of it. I asked him, I said, “Do you miss it? You still miss coaching?” He said, “You know what I miss most is the big games, the Monday night games and the playoffs. You can\u2019t get enough of those if you\u2019re coach, if you\u2019re player, you just can\u2019t get enough.” But he\u2019s the warmest, nicest person. He had no airs about him. He was not put-offish, like I say, wasn\u2019t distant. I had a pleasant time talking to him three or four different times when I had run into him at various charity golf tournaments.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, speaking of golf, then, let me throw a little curveball at you, maybe a question to think about for a while. Who would be the other three people in your dream golf foursome?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ahhhh, dream golf foursome. Now, that is something that I would have to take some time to think about. I love those kinds of questions. I always love it when I\u2019m in the answer to those kinds of questions. You know how often that happens, people, “Who would you love to have dinner with?” I love it when I am in the answer to those questions. I haven\u2019t been asked that question so I\u2019ll have to think about it.<\/p>\n

You know what else about Don Shula? He was deeply respected throughout the league. I\u2019ll never forget, Bum Phillips, who was the coach of the Houston Oilers, had a way of describing the talent of Don Shula as a coach. And Bum Phillips spun all these old home-isms. He had country sayings for any number of circumstances, and he said about Don Shula, he said, “He can take his\u2019n and beat your\u2019n. And then he can take your\u2019n and beat his\u2019n.” Meaning he was the coach that made the difference.<\/p>\n

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He was the coach that made the players champions. And he could take your players and win with \u2019em. He could take his own players and win with \u2019em. And within the coaching community, that would be a pretty lofty compliment. (interruption) Hm-hm. (interruption) Oh, man that\u2019s hard to say when they were better — Snerdley wanting to know if Landry and Shula and that era, those coaches were better than the coaches of today. That\u2019s so hard to say. Because the game has some things about it that are universal that never change.<\/p>\n

And then for marketing purposes they want fans to think the game is being revolutionized every year by some highfalutin coach who\u2019s come up with new zone blitzes or new this or new that. But Shula and Landry, they had seen it all. I once asked Pat Summerall this. I was at a Warren Buffett golf tournament, and I said, “Look. I need to ask you a question. Is the game these guys are playing today really that much different than what you old-timers were playing?”<\/p>\n

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He said, “Well, in the passing game it is. In the passing game it\u2019s been totally revolutionized from the days that I played.” Pat Summerall was in the fifties and sixties, the kicker so forth, New York Giants. But, yeah, that\u2019s a tough one. If you look at a coach, is a coach an X\u2019s and O\u2019s schemer, a guy that comes up with plays that fool others, is he a good motivator, is he a great organizer?<\/p>\n

I mean, there\u2019s so much that goes into what a coach does and whether a coach is good or not. I don\u2019t know that I could tell you whether the coaches of yesteryear were better coaches than the coaches of today \u2019cause you have to be real careful of the PR. And I don\u2019t say this negatively. But I\u2019m not kidding. The sports media, the PR, the league itself routinely present the game as being revolutionized every year by whoever the hot dog coach is or whoever the hot dog player, or whoever the hot dog offensive coordinator, it\u2019s all marketing.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all designed to make you think there\u2019s some hot new coach that\u2019s come up with some scheme that nobody\u2019s ever thought of. It could be a zone blitz scheme. It could be route running. And they do it every year to try to get coaches jobs, offensive coordinators or head coaches or what have you. And it\u2019s all marketing. It\u2019s not to take away from the coaches and so forth.<\/p>\n

But I think it\u2019s brilliantly executed the way they\u2019ve taken this game and basically made many of the fans who love it think that it is being literally revolutionized every season with things that have never been done before, which is simply not possible. I mean, there\u2019s only one way to run a zone blitz. There\u2019s only one way to design some of these plays, right, Brian? Brian knows what I\u2019m talking about. And, plus, when you got quarterbacks with an IQ of about 8, there\u2019s not a whole lot that you can do on offense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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