{"id":8364,"date":"2014-09-17T18:57:22","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T18:57:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-09-17T18:57:22","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T18:57:22","slug":"a_call_from_an_nfl_wife_and_her_husband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/09\/17\/a_call_from_an_nfl_wife_and_her_husband\/","title":{"rendered":"A Call from an NFL Wife (and Her Husband)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Okay, here is Jane in Portland, Oregon. Jane, I\u2019m glad you waited. You\u2019re next. It\u2019s great to have you here. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush. Thank you very much. I absolutely had to get on as soon as possible because as the wife of a retired NFL football player — I\u2019m married to Jon Arnett, who spent 10 years in the NFL — we are, as wives, in this community —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait, wait. Did you say Arnett or Arness?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Arnett. Jon Arnett. Played for USC, the Rams and the Bears?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right, right, right, right. Arnett.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. In fact before I let you off the phone or you let me off the phone, I\u2019d love it if you\u2019d say hello to him. He\u2019s been listening to you since you were in Sacramento.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, cool!<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. He just loves you. Every morning, every morning. I am a bit of an activist with the retired players community. In fact — and I don\u2019t want to take the conversation in this direction, although it fits in — I was a part of some of the activism to draw attention to the issues of concussions. I will say that it got completely out of hand and taken over by people with other agendas, and you\u2019ve alluded to it.<\/p>\n

Not just alluded, you\u2019ve directly spoken about it many times. In regards to the Ray Rice issue and Adrian Peterson, I don\u2019t know if anybody\u2019s noticed, but no one is really talking to those of us who actually live these lives of professional football players. Although my husband is retired, we live in this community and with this culture. People aren\u2019t really talking to us. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ve noticed a few shows have brought on some of the younger wives who have made statements like, “Well, I would stand by my man, as horrible as it is,” and, “We don\u2019t know Ray to be violent. We don\u2019t know Adrian to be violent. I would stick with him.” Those conversations are not sought out by the media. Obviously there is an agenda here to destroy football, to destroy the NFL<\/a>, in our opinion.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s outrageous and infuriating to those of us who are part of this family. Have you noticed that when someone does something atrocious or horrible in the Hollywood community, that person is singled out, they\u2019re dragged over the coals, and then they\u2019re redeemed and forgiven and they go back to having their career? No one goes after Hollywood as a whole.<\/p>\n

No one goes after all of the entertainers, all of the television stars or what have you, because of the transgressions of one person. In fact, we use that as a vehicle for sensationalism, and — I\u2019m gonna repeat myself — for redemption and forgiveness. But not here. They want to take away a man\u2019s livelihood. I am not sitting in judgment of Ray Rice and his wife. I don\u2019t know them. I don\u2019t condone domestic violence. It\u2019s something I\u2019ve actually worked as a volunteer to prevent.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Jane, I need to interrupt you for a question because my time is dwindling. Who has hijacked the concussion… I\u2019ll call it a “movement” for the sake of the question. Who\u2019s hijacked it?<\/p>\n

<\/a>CALLER: Okay. Well, to be very general in a statement, it\u2019s people who don\u2019t like the NFL<\/a> and people who don\u2019t like football. It isn\u2019t people from within the organization. We, as retired football player families, never said that football was dangerous in the sense that it needed to be discontinued and banned. We simply talked about the fact that there needed to be care given to those with concussions, which seemed to be a very common occurrence. And, quite frankly, I think the NFL<\/a> may have even not necessarily managed their reaction entirely properly. But I\u2019m just one person. My attitude is, if you\u2019re going to go after football and decimate football because of concussions, then we need to stop children from playing soccer.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Exactly right! Exactly right. It\u2019s also a great point that you made, that they\u2019re not seeking out you who have lived this life in the NFL<\/a> for any comment on this.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They\u2019re seeking all these outside psychiatric experts and political experts to analyze it. Put Jon on the phone real quick because I have to make tracks here and I want to say hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely. I\u2019ll let you go, but I have to tell you we wives have banded together and we\u2019ve got a little blog talk thing called Real Football Wives<\/a>, and we\u2019re gonna start speaking out. We\u2019re pretty feeble in our organization, but we\u2019re sick and tired of this.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, good for you! Amen. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I think that\u2019s fabulous.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Here\u2019s Jon. Hold on.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush! (chuckling) How are you?<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughs) Jon! I\u2019m great, Jon. It\u2019s a pleasure to speak to you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, you know my buddies. You know the Brett boys, don\u2019t you? You know, when I lived in Manhattan Beach, we spent a lot of time together. They spoke very highly of you, and I listen to you every day, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I appreciate it. Jon, it\u2019s mutual. People I know who know you have said the same thing. It\u2019s my hearing. I wanted to make sure it was “Arnett” not “Arness” that I was hearing, \u2019cause I\u2019ve heard both names. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, well, I\u2019m just a little bit older. I don\u2019t know that I\u2019m any wiser, but I\u2019m a little bit older.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) I\u2019m sure you\u2019re both.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Awww.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Anyway, it\u2019s great to talk to you. It really is. What a way to finish the program. And your wife is fabulous. I can tell, can just sense that in talking about this. I mean, she is loyal and she is obviously committed to the truth about this. I mean, it\u2019s great. How many people do you encounter at the moment who are acting proud of the NFL rather than embarrassed of it or thinking excuses have to be made for it? So, anyway, that\u2019s great. <\/p>\n

So Jane and Jon, thanks much for the call. I appreciate it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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