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Jan. 22, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 22, 2007, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Wow, what a weekend, folks.
What a weekend.
This is a more jam-packed weekend than the average Monday through Friday.
And we are rearing and ready.
We are revved up.
I am America's anchorman, and this is the one and only Excellence in Broadcasting Network, Rush Limbaugh, saying more in five seconds than most hosts say in an entire week here behind the Golden EIB microphone, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
All right, kill the music.
We got to get going.
Here is Mrs. Clinton on her website Saturday announcing what everybody knew.
You know, after six years of George Bush, it is time to renew the promise of America.
Our basic bargain, that no matter who you are or where you live, if you work hard and play by the rules, you can build a good life for yourself and your family.
Doesn't believe that.
So let's talk.
Let's chat.
Let's start a dialogue about your ideas and mine.
Yeah.
Because the conversation in Washington has been just a little one-sided lately, don't you think?
What the hell is she talking about?
The Democrats just won the election.
When was this thing recorded?
I know the spin is it was recorded last week, but the trees are green, the flowers are blooming outside the window there in her Washington home.
I don't know if the background is real or in a TV studio or what have you, but for crying out loud.
Let's talk, let's chat, let's start a dialogue about your ideas and mine.
Can I tell you what that's really all about?
I'll tell you right now.
You remember her Senate campaign?
She had a listening tour.
And she went around the state and she listened to what the people of New York wanted and wanted to tell her.
You know what the purpose of the listening tour was?
It was to avoid questions.
It was to avoid questions from reporters and anybody else so that she wouldn't have to pin herself down issue by issue by issue.
I mean, this is one of the, if you can maneuver that, if you're a political candidate and you can get away without taking firm positions on issue after issue after issue, then your approval numbers are less exposed to erratic movements.
And so this let's have a chat, let's have a conversation is no more than an extension of the listening tour nationwide.
She's going to talk with people and they're going to tell her what they think.
And she is going to receive kudos and credit for caring what the people of America think while all the while never having to explain herself and never having to entertain hard-hitting questions from reporters.
In fact, when was the last time Hillary allowed reporters to actually ask her questions about anything they wanted without trying to control the situation with the testicle lockbox?
It hasn't happened.
I mean, she doesn't get tough questions.
What if they wanted to?
When did they, what that's the point?
They don't want to ask her tough questions.
They don't have any questions as far as she's good.
The dirty little secret is the drive-by media doesn't really have any questions about her issues.
They don't have any questions.
She's not going to be subjected to the typical media anal exam like everybody else is.
She may get a little dose of it to make it look good, but she's not going to, she's a protected species.
But let's change the conversation.
It's been just a little one-sided in Washington lately.
Man, that's what makes me wonder when this thing was actually, if not taped, her announcement, when it was actually written.
But, you know, Democrats are saying that they're promising this new direction for America.
And Hillary is basically saying here that no matter who you are or where you live, if you work hard and play by the rules, you can build a good life for yourself and your family.
They're really not crazy about that.
No leftist is.
They think you really can't do that.
They look at most people with a sort of a condescension and a contempt.
But let's survey the domestic situation, shall we?
Leaving aside the war in Iraq, which is making a lot of people nervous, understandably, Democrats promising a new direction for America.
Where is unemployment today?
15, 20-year lows, something like that.
Taxes, where are they today?
Taxes are at near 20-year lows.
Federal tax revenues, revenues to the Treasury are at an all-time high.
Oil prices are plummeting.
Federal deficit down almost 50% because of these surging revenues.
Home valuations in the past three and a half years have gone up over 100%.
Even though there may be a downturn in the market now, look at the progress that was made there.
Inflation, hardly any to speak of.
We haven't had a terrorist attack on our soil since 9-11.
Stock market setting all-time highs.
Your 401ks have bounced back.
Bin Laden doesn't seem to be a factor anywhere.
And we have thwarted several terrorist attacks by British and U.S. intelligence agencies.
What is this new direction that the Democrats keep talking?
I know that when you go through your daily life, all of these facts that I just mentioned don't really register because there's this disquiet out there.
There's this sense of unease.
And it exists for a whole bunch of different reasons depending on who you talk to.
The liberals are uneasy because we're in Iraq and they're still not in the White House and Bush is still there.
The conservatives or Republicans are ill at ease because they're wandering in the desert all of a sudden with no hope in sight to ever get back in power anywhere.
And they don't see anybody out there that's inspiring them to think that that'll happen anytime soon.
And all of this comes under the umbrella of the instability and insecurity, the unsurrty, if you will, uncertainty of the situation in Iraq.
But the domestic situation here couldn't get much better despite the fact that its strength may not permeate your daily mindset.
It's hard to imagine what the Democrats are going to do to make you all feel better in terms of the domestic agenda and this new direction.
Because any new direction, any new direction from unemployment, taxes, federal tax revenues all-time high, oil prices plummeting, federal deficit down almost 50%, home valuations up tremendously, inflation in check, no terrorism on our soil, stock market an all-time high.
The new direction for all those has to be what?
Worse.
How can it get any better?
And a lot of you people say, well, how can it get any worse?
Well, in this case, can it get much better?
I happen to think it can.
But I don't think that's what the Democrats have in mind when they're talking about their new direction or Mrs. Clinton.
Now, we have a montage of Hillary from last Saturday when she made her announcement.
She wants to have a conversation, right?
Well, 10-4, good buddy.
Let's have a conversation.
Generally, when you have a conversation with Mrs. Clinton, you get screamed at.
This is a montage of Hillary from last Saturday and her announcement and from April 28th of 2003.
So let's talk.
Let's chat.
I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration, somehow you're not patriotic.
Let's start a dialogue about your ideas and mine, don't you think?
Should stand up and say, we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree.
Pothetti administration.
So let the conversation begin.
Puisetti administration!
Pwisetti administration!
There you have it.
Hillary Clinton and her new conversation with America, which is designed to keep her from getting and answering any questions.
Now, get this.
Or previously pointed this.
Oh, oh, where is?
Oh, here it is, folks.
I'm glad I put this at the top of the stack or I would have had trouble finding it now.
You have heard my theory as to why Hillary is the presumptive anointee, the Democratic Party presidential nomination, right?
Brian, you remember my theory?
You don't remember the theory.
See, I have to, Dawn, do you remember my theory as to why Hillary is the anointee?
Oh, this makes it so frustrating, yet it's such an opportunity.
Mr. Snerdley, do you remember my theory as to why Hillary is the anointee of the Democrat?
Scratching his head, too.
All right, got to keep saying it until it permeates.
We have that.
I have some serious comments about the Super Bowl.
A couple of things happened in the games yesterday and the storyline of the upcoming Super Bowl first game with two African-American head coaches in the head coaching role.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back.
All that and more right after this.
You know, I'm getting just a little impatient.
How many days is it now?
Four or five days in a row, we had a story.
Is American Idol too mean?
Are the judges on American Idol too mean to the contestants?
The contestants know what they're getting into.
And I would have to think most of these contestants know that they don't have a prayer or a wing.
I want to sound cruel.
What a nation of softies.
Okay, you want to ask the question once?
Fine.
But a five-day media examination of whether the judges on American Idol are too mean?
Get used to it.
Most people do not have the kind of talent that's going to launch them to win a show like that, which is basically national talent search.
What are we supposed to do?
Let everybody win once, one week, just to find out what it's like?
All right.
Back to Mrs. Clinton.
You've all heard my theory as to why she is the anointed one.
And let me run through it very briefly just to get because it has been confirmed right here in the UK Daily Mail.
Here you've got this bright, supposedly now, supposedly bright, up-and-coming star in her own right, Hillary Rodham from Chicago.
She's got those big Coke bottle glasses.
She doesn't care about her appearance because she is a serious woman.
And she goes to Yale, she goes to Wellesley, and she's able to carve a career for herself on her own merits, and she doesn't need a man.
Damn it.
She is the early dawn of the feminist modern reincarnation.
And then what happens?
At Yale, she meets him, Der Schlichmeister, and she makes a decision.
Now, this guy's going someplace.
I think I'll hitch my wagon to him, and wherever he ends up, I'll take over.
Well, the route required her to go to the outback, to the sticks, to the swamps of Arkansas.
And when she did that, she had to become the primary breadwinner at the Rose Law Firm because her husband's making $26,000 a year as governor and is out there finding all kinds of fun outside the house with Jennifer Flowers and who knows who else.
And there's Hillary with a stiff upper lip, and she hangs in.
And she knows all this is going on, but she hangs in.
She makes it possible for this guy's career to continue to prosper by making sure she remains solid with him.
They leave Washington, leave Arkansas after two terms.
Cattle Futures was a little sop to her to going to Arkansas.
grease the skids for her.
She gets 100 grand after investing 10 grand, then quits, which is what a lot of brainy investors do after that kind of return, just quit.
Anyway, gets to Washington.
He's in the White House.
She's co-president Mangles Healthcare.
Hello, Paula Jones.
Hello, Kathleen Willie, and all that.
And she still hangs in.
And if it were not for her, he wouldn't have been able to accomplish what he accomplished.
And so she's owed this now.
She has eaten the excrement sandwich with no mayonnaise, no mustard.
She has put up with humiliation on a national scale most women, except Jackie Onassis, couldn't possibly understand or relate to.
She's owed this, don't you understand?
It's her turn.
All right.
UK Daily Mail story by Sarah Sands.
Headline, Will Hillary be cheated once again.
An ability to apply hard work to a shining intelligence marked out the young Hillary Clinton for high public office.
So when the high-achieving Yale student abandoned her own ambitions in order to help her boyfriend Bill fulfill his own political career, her best friend asked, are you out of your mind?
Why on earth would you throw away your future?
Now, more than 30 years later, Hillary Clinton is trying to get her future back.
The earnest young lawyer in bottled glasses is now 60, a tough and glamorous New York senator within sight of being the next president of the United States.
This is her moment.
Finally, she is poised to stand as the person she is rather than as who her husband is.
She has the record, the position, the money, the support, the right hairstylist at last.
Yet the only quality she cannot summon, however hard she works at it, is charm.
Well, you people may have laughed at my original theory, but here it is confirmed by no less than the UK Daily Mail.
This is how the left looks at it, folks.
She's owed this.
She put aside her own ambition.
She sacrificed herself for 30 long, humiliating years.
And now it's hers.
This is the way the left looks at it.
Mark my words.
That's the theory behind this.
And just to show you how 180 degrees out of phase things are, remember Nancy Pelosi, when she took over the house, the swearing-in ceremonies out there, got the grandkids on the knees and the kids in the chamber and the husband somewhere looking on.
And Charlie Gibson, ABC News, says, wow, wow, look at this.
She can breastfeed.
She can handle the problems of the grandkids and take care of the country at the same time.
He was in awe.
Yesterday on CNN this morning, I'm sorry, this morning on CNN this morning, Ann Kornblut from the Washington Post was on with Soledette O'Brien.
And Soledette O'Brien says, when you saw her at her first event, this is Mrs. Clinton, surrounded by children.
It was some kind of healthcare event, surrounded by some children.
When you look at her web announcement, she's sort of on the couch, a lamp glowing behind her.
How much do you think is how she's going to picture herself in this campaign?
Is this an overt pitch, sort of our mom vote, do you think?
If you'd asked me that same question six months ago, I would have predicted that she would announce at a naval base or something to do the sort of Margaret Thatcher tough on the war thing.
What we're seeing now is actually not that different from what we've seen from Nancy Pelosi.
It's more of the sort of mom party that's showing that she's a mother, that she connects with people.
Wow, what must the feminists think running for president as the mom, the mother of America?
Of course, could it be the Queen Bee syndrome that's forcing her into this since Pelosi has already staked out the turf as America's mom and grandmom?
Chelsea got to get busy.
Because Pelosi has the grandmom leg on the stool.
Hillary doesn't yet have that.
So we have a competition here of who's going to be America's mom.
By the way, Bill Parcells has resigned as the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys just mere moments ago.
Now, on to this.
Oh, one other thing.
This business, what do we have out there?
Hillary, the first woman who has a chance to be president.
Obama, the first black who has a chance to be president.
Bill Richardson, the first Hispanic who has a chance to be president.
John Edwards, the first ambulance-chasing lawyer who has a chance to be president.
And Joe Biden, the first hair implantee who has a chance to be president.
We had a lot of firsts out there.
But these are not the firsts running for president.
I personally know of three blacks who have sought that office.
The Reverend Jackson.
Reverend Sharpton, and of course, Alan Keyes once sought the presidency.
And there have been two other women to seek the presidency.
One was Shirley Chisholm.
Anyone want to take a stab at who the other woman that sought the well, no, I don't think it was Angela Davis.
It was the lovely and gracious Carol Mosley Braun.
But, of course, those were not viable candidacies, ladies and gentlemen.
Anyway, I am deeply troubled.
Well, that maybe is putting it a little heavy.
But I am, I'm just as I watch this first woman to do this, first black to do this, the first two black head coaches in the Super Bowl.
I mean, I understand why people are saying it, and I particularly understand why the media is promoting it.
But, you know, I honestly do not like all these labels and firsts and all the rest.
I mean, we're all Americans.
Only in America can anyone with talent and motivation become anything they want.
Liberals and media seem to think this is unusual for our country because they don't understand our greatness.
They think this is actually unusual that qualified, competent people would have a chance to reach the heights.
They think that a lot of qualified, competent people can't reach the heights because certain powerful forces are constantly pressing them down.
And so when Obama emerges, when Hillary emerges, it somehow is a sign to them that America finally is ridding itself of the horrors of 200 years ago or 150 years ago that finally something remarkable is happening in America.
When something remarkable happens in this country countless times a day, we end up diminishing these people when we cast these labels on them based on race and gender, if you ask me.
And we give them credit for things that denies the credit that they actually do.
And that is the credit for their achievement and their accomplishments, such as is the case with Lovey Smith and Tony Dungy.
More on all this when we come back.
Amen, bro.
That's exactly what's happening here, real life.
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All right, here we go.
Lovey Smith, the coach of the Chicago.
By the way, congratulations to Chicago and to Indianapolis.
Those were great games yesterday.
It's going to be a great Super Bowl, too.
The horses, the horses and the bears.
What an environmentalist wacko pick this is going to end up being.
But anyway, I want to congratulate Lovey Smith and Tony Dungy.
They are much more than the first, this is what I mean.
They're so much more than the first two African-American head coaches in the Super Bowl.
These labels, folks, are balkanizing our society.
And again, you know, I just don't like them.
We are all Americans.
And only in America can anyone with talent and motivation become anything they want.
And the problem here is that liberals and the media seem to think this is unusual for our country because they don't understand our greatness.
I mean, I understand all the talk about how Tony Dungy and Lovie Smith can be role models for young blacks.
And, oh, now I can be a coach.
Well, that's fine and dandy.
I'm all for that.
I'm all for people having role models and having people to inspire them because everybody needs that.
But the media and the left in this country, I'm sorry, do their best to beat down some other great role models such as Condoleezza Rice and Clarence Thomas.
Why is it also not said by the same media that young black kids can run around America and say, wow, I can be a Supreme Court justice or I can end up being Secretary of State like Colin Powell or Condoleezza Rice.
It's because of liberalism.
It's pure and simple.
Lovey Smith and Tony Dungy are great coaches and they have been great coaches for a long time.
They have been assistants.
They have worked and toiled in obscurity.
They are not where they are because they're black.
They're where they are because they're good.
They competed and they won.
You know, we all want to project, and the left especially wants to project their racial views and social agendas into this.
But that isn't why they're where they are.
Lovey Smith and Tony Dungy are in the Super Bowl because they were the best this year, as it should be.
And I, you know, I really do, folks, I think all these racial and gender labels cheapen successful people.
It's as if you listen to the media on this, Tony Dungy and Lovie Smith are going to the Super Bowl because some racial barriers have been broken down.
And that's not why.
They're going to the Super Bowl because they are the best.
They've worked long and hard for this.
And to somehow focus attention on their skin color, even if the attempt is in a positive way, cheapens them, in my opinion, because it focuses attention on something other than their work.
These racial and gender labels are also a slight against a country that is the most open, free, and progressive on the face of the earth.
This storyline is going to be around for the next two weeks.
And one of the purposes of the storyline from the Drive-By media, which will be promulgating the story, is that somehow, despite the odds, and this racist, sexist, bigoted country of America, where we are all obsessed with guilt, finally, two African Americans are going to be coaching in a Super Bowl at the same time.
This is not the first time two African Americans coached against each other in the National Football League, but this is the first time in a Super Bowl with this worldwide audience.
And so the left and the media, and believe me, the one in the same, look at this as some sort of what?
Well, I wouldn't call it the Hope Bowl.
I'm just saying, they look at this as extraordinary.
They look at this as, wow, wow, America may finally be getting its act together.
When in fact, the opportunity, the affluence, The ability to be whoever you want based on your ambition and desire has never, that opportunity, never been greater than it is in the United States of America today.
But the left, the media, they still act like we live in a world of segregation and stereotypes when for most of us, it doesn't even enter our heads.
They want to perpetuate a mindset that most people in this country don't have anymore.
Racist, sexist, bigoted, homophobe country.
You know, they tried this in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, too.
People of all races and religions were contributing billions of dollars in charity and time to help the people there, regardless of color.
The Duke La Crosse story is another situation.
These templates, these formulaic scenarios that the left has about what life in this country really is all about, based on, if we're going to call this anything, not the hope bowl, this the guilt bowl.
In fact, the presidential race in 08 is going to be the presidential race of guilt.
The country's on the warpath for guilt.
We're feeling guilty about everything.
And so any of these stereotypes that make us assuage our guilt or can feel like we're assuaging it, well, then we'll gladly get on board.
The problem is we diminish the achievements of the people that we are objectifying on the basis of their gender or their race.
You know, Americans of all creeds, sizes, shapes, colors, religions donated for tsunami relief as well.
The left out there did defend illegal immigration by arguing, among other things, that these people only want to come here to work and they only want to come here to better themselves.
And yet, when they do, they act like there's something unique about their success related to race.
On the one hand, the left will totally defend illegal immigration and they'll be, well, these people are coming to my country and they're trying to improve themselves.
I'm not going to stand in the way of anybody trying to improve themselves if my country can.
And yet, when those achievements take place, there's something unique about it because of their race.
The same thing here with Lovey Smith and Tony Dungy.
Whereas everybody acknowledges the opportunity for success here somehow, we still have to beat ourselves up over the notion.
No, it's really not a fair opportunity out there, ladies and gentlemen.
I was reading something last night before retiring to my comfortable select comfort sleep number bed, sleep number 75.
And it was a story, I forget where it was, is one of the sports websites about, well, now we've Mike Tomlin's been hired, a head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Art Schell got canned.
Denny Green got canned.
There's two black coaches down, one hired to replace.
So we've got four head coaches in the National Football League out of 32 teams.
Yet the tone of the story was, we have so far to go.
It's a great start here with Dungy and Lovey Smith as opposing coaches in the Super Bowl.
But we've got a long way to go.
Nobody talks about the fact that 75% of the players in the NFL are black.
Nobody talks about the fact that, you know, what is the black population of the country?
I'm talking about the media here, folks.
Now, hang with me.
Black population in the country is about 10%, right?
The adult black population.
You've got 32 teams in the National Football League.
You're going to have four head coaches who are black.
That's better than the national average.
And yet, by the way, none of that, I don't care if every head coach are black.
It doesn't matter to me.
I love the game.
I just want the best people owners can find running it.
I want the best people owners can find playing it.
I want the best people owners can find being general may.
Care about this.
But the media is going to continue to hype this, even though we're going to have four blackhead coaches in the league and a couple or three general managers.
It's still a long way to go, which is only going to reinforce the guilt that everybody is going to feel about this.
And it's problematic because in the end, it stigmatizes these achievers.
And it says that what they really should be known for is their skin color, not their achievement.
When I look at the careers of Tony Dungy and Lovey Smith, they've worked in places you wouldn't, I mean, little Dust Bowl towns learning to coach, finally getting their opportunity and making the most of it.
And that, you know, you don't hear Bill Parcells being praised, a great coach or Bill Cower because they're white or because they come from Western Pennsylvania or New Jersey or any of that.
And yet it stigmatizes these people.
This is what I've always been my problem with affirmative action, is that it replaces achievement with some sort of entitlement based on quotas of race.
You know, these coaches are great coaches, and they're wonderful men.
Did you notice both of them at the end of the games yesterday?
First and foremost, thank God, as did the owner of the Indianapolis Colts, Jim Ursay.
You've got two really class organizations here.
And these coaches, by all accounts, do not use profanity in the locker room in public.
They go about it a different way than what the stereotype is of a modern-day coach.
You know, hellfire and brimstone.
They go about it a different way.
They're very humble people.
And there's a lot about them that if that were said, that would be the reason they're role models.
They're decent people.
Tony Dungy lost his son a year ago.
His son committed suicide.
He's not the only one, but there are remarkable things about both of these guys that recommend them as terrific role models, and their skin color has nothing to do with it.
You look in the stands during a football game.
And the fact is that people pay no attention to race.
They're rooting for a team.
They're high-fiving each other.
It's not about race.
It's about winning, which these two coaches did.
A quick timeout.
We'll be back and continue after this.
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I want to wrap up the football games yesterday.
Well, I may not wrap it up.
There's something else I want to say here about motivation and inspiration.
Over the course of the many years of this busy broadcast, we're now into our 19th year, it's been a central theme because I grow weary of people telling people that they can't do this or that, they don't have a chance, these obstacles are against them, or the system won't let you do that.
Why do you mean wanting to be a doctor?
Who do you think you're kidding?
It's so easy to beat people down.
And as a result, everybody needs to be inspired.
There are really very, very few self-starters.
And even among the self-starters, they need people occasionally to remind them they have more inside them than what they think they do.
And a small illustration of this can be found yesterday in the game between the Chicago Bears and the New Orleans, sorry, United States Saints.
The Saints were having a tough time of it.
They turned over the ball a number of times and had a miracle play.
88-yard pass reception of Reggie Bush, longest pass play in playoffs, NFC playoffs history.
And Reggie Bush outran virtually every Chicago Bear defender who chased him.
Before he got to the end zone, he turned around and taunted and pointed at Brian Erlacher, number 54, the star middle linebacker, the Bears, and then took a somersault dive into the end zone for the touchdown.
This comment is not about Reggie Bush and the taunting.
Well, it is in a sense, but he's not the focus.
The Bears said, after that happened, they were fired up.
That made them mad.
They weren't going to be dissed like that.
That was just childish, and it was rookie inexperience, but they were not going to be treated like that in their own stadium.
Now, the point of this is, here you are in the NFC championship game.
Theoretically, you shouldn't need any more motivation than winning that game and going to the Super Bowl.
And it's not a criticism of anything or anybody, by the way.
I don't want to be confusing about this.
Don't misunderstand.
And yet, I'm sure the Bears, to a man, thought they were giving it everything they had.
I'll bet you that they were as stoked.
This is a big deal.
First time since 1985 of everything on the line here, home game in the snow, typical football weather for January.
These guys are revved up.
They're coming off a big win the week before.
And yet, something as innocuous as Reggie Bush turning around and taunting Brian Erlacher before he scored got even more out of them than was already there.
Now, you can imagine the kind of motivation they had.
You can imagine the kind of energy and inspiration these guys had to go out and win this game for the Super Bowl.
They're professionals.
They are paid.
And yet, the Bears that commented on this said, that fired us up.
Well, what were they before?
Well, they were certainly fired up.
You know they had to be fired up.
Besides, they'd heard all week about how the vaunted Saints offense couldn't be stopped.
They're running game of Deuce McAllister and Reggie Bush.
And the Bears have the statistically, anyway, the greatest defense in the NFC this year.
They said, what is this?
Saints going to come here, run all over.
So they were stoked.
I mean, they were fired up.
And yet, there was still more in them, even though they were professionals and were probably as stoked as they thought they could get.
I know there's momentum in football, and that play would have changed the momentum around for the Saints had it not been for Reggie Bush and a rookie mistake.
The point here is: no matter at whether you think you're giving it your all, there's probably more all in you than you are aware.
Even when you think you're giving it your best, the odds are there's a reservoir somewhere, somewhere inside you, that has just a little more.
It's like George Toma, the groundskeeper for the Kansas City Royals and the Chiefs when I worked there from the 70s and early 80s, and he's now the official groundskeeper for the NFL.
I was in Atlanta for the Super Bowl in 1995, was it?
94, 95.
It's Cowboys and Bills.
And I'm up in the press box.
I'm looking down before the game, and there's a guy on his hands and knees, and he's got masking tape and electrical tape on his hands and knees.
He's crawling around.
I looked down the binocular.
It was Toma.
So I went down there and said, What are you doing, George?
I mean, it's great.
I hadn't seen him before I shook hands.
He said, well, you know me.
Always do everything you can, and then just a little more.
And that's the way he ran his own life and his business, the way he treated his employees.
Thought that was a fascinating moment yesterday because here you have a team that couldn't possibly be more motivated in their minds than they already were.
Super Bowl on the other side of three hours of football.
And yet that one incident revved them up even more.
So next time you think you're giving it your all, the next time you think you've got nothing left, just know that you do.
It just takes a certain spark to get it out.
And we're all this way.
It's human nature.
It goes back to my oft-stated theory.
Most people have no idea what's inside them, how good they can be, and how much fortitude they have.
Because frankly, not enough people have had high enough expectations of us for most of our lives.
Back in just a sec.
Oh, where'd that hour go?
You know, I just love listening to myself talk.
Love listening to somebody knows what they're talking about and is right.
It's a pleasure.
Plus, the time flies.
We got two hours left.
We'll get your phone calls mixed in.
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