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RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, I\u2019m gonna admit it, it\u2019s amusing, and I\u2019m not trying to sound elitist or uppity. It\u2019s amusing to watch various personages in the Drive-By Media discuss the DEA raids of three NFL visiting teams yesterday as these media experts attempt to explain to their audiences what\u2019s up here. Why would the DEA do this? What were they doing? And then they explain it, “Well, what they\u2019re after, what they\u2019re trying to find, they trying to find these doctors that are prescribing painkillers. They\u2019re not allowed to overprescribe, ruining the players careers.” That\u2019s not what this was about. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m gonna take some time to explain to you what this really was about and what it might mean down the road in due course. Some people are saying it\u2019s tied to the — there\u2019s a class-action suit that a bunch of players, ex-players have filed against the NFL. That they were given drugs that were not explained to them, various drugs that caused organ damage or addiction or what have you, and there\u2019s some ex-players trying to collect financially on damages here. And some people in the media say the DEA raid of these visiting teams, that\u2019s what that was about. <\/line><\/p>\n

It could be related, but that isn\u2019t what\u2019s really going on here.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: The Drug Enforcement Agency and the raid of three visiting NFL teams yesterday. The San Francisco 49ers were raided in New Jersey after playing the New Jersey Giants. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers were raided after playing the Washington Redskins. And what was the third team? The Seahawks, I think, were raided after losing to the Chiefs or some such thing. A lot of people are…<\/p>\n

The news media\u2019s all hot to trot with this and very excited about it. Let me just ask you a quick question that might help put some of this in perspective. Well, before I ask the question, there\u2019s a setup piece here that may be a factor. I\u2019m not sure if it is. But a bunch of former players have filed a class-action lawsuit against the league and teams for prescribing them or giving them medications to allow them to play which ended up harming them.<\/p>\n

They allege that they were not informed of the dangers involved, such as organ damage or addiction. Sometimes the drugs were mixed in a cocktail formula where drugs should not have been mixed. The players assumed that the teams were looking out for \u2019em and doing what\u2019s best for \u2019em and there was implied trust there. But it turns out, the lawsuit alleges, the teams didn\u2019t care and the doctors didn\u2019t care.<\/p>\n

All that mattered was getting the players ready to play, and if it meant pain management, if it meant shooting up pain-killer injections before or during a game, fine. Whatever. Now, that lawsuit\u2019s been out there for a while. This DEA thing was run from the US Attorney\u2019s Office for the Southern District in Manhattan. I\u2019m not sure the two are connected, because these raids had nothing to do with the abuse of medication. <\/p>\n

These raids had nothing to do with that. The only thing that was being investigated (at least, from the best information at hand) and the reason they raided visiting teams, is the DEA wanted to find out if the doctors of the visiting teams were licensed to prescribe medication out of state. For example, you got the 49ers in New Jersey playing the Giants. There\u2019s a team doctor in the traveling party from San Francisco. <\/line><\/p>\n

Are the San Francisco medical staff, the doctors, licensed to practice in New Jersey and dispense medication in New Jersey? That apparently was the scope of the investigation, and apparently the NFL says everything\u2019s fine and dandy. Nothing was found to be untoward. The larger thing here is, the federal government has got something going for the NFL. There is no question. You\u2019ve got the Redskins name change.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t for a moment think that that is a nonfactor here. It may not be a major factor, it may not be the motivating factor, but it clearly is a factor because we have a federal government that has no qualms whatsoever about reaching its tentacles into the private sector any which way it can, any which day it wants it for whatever reasons it wants to. There\u2019s no question the NFL is in somebody\u2019s crosshairs here. <\/p>\n

The NFL is in a lot of people\u2019s crosshairs over concussions, over this class-action suit with the painkiller prescriptions or dispensations, the Redskins name, domestic abuse. By the way, I saw this, I guess, maybe for the second time yesterday. Have you seen this PSA that runs during games of NFL players saying, “No more”? You\u2019ve not seen this? This is kind of a crazy thing. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s a PSA and it leads with Eli Manning and then a bunch of players. Some of them you recognize and some of them you don\u2019t, and they all say, “No more! No more! Together, we can do it. No more.” It goes on like that for 35 or 45 seconds, and then the end of it, there\u2019s a graphic: “Together we can stop domestic abuse.” I watched it, and I said, “Wait a minute. Are they telling me…?”<\/p>\n