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Feb. 4, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 4, 2011, Friday, Hour #3
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Greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plain.
It's the Rush Limbaugh program, and this is Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
And we are going to get to your phone calls immediately.
Upsettingly programming format.
Well, actually, there isn't a program format.
It's whatever I happen to do.
But normally we never take calls in the monologue segments of each hour, the first segment, but we're going to do that in this hour.
We are standing by, if they have time, James Farrier and Larry Foot of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
What are you screaming about in there, Sturdley?
What are you so upset about?
Don't you didn't hang up on Ferrier, did you?
Snurdley is in there screaming at the callers again.
It's not worth it.
can't afford to suspend you because you got to be in there in case Ferrier and foot call.
Yeah, you got a free pass, I guess.
If you got to blow off steam just Just don't let me see it.
Miss something set him off in there just screaming.
I mean, even Wendy, who normally loves it, is kind of cowering there in the corner.
At any rate, Larry Foot uh and and James Farrier of the Steelers.
Their practice uh should have wrapped up about one o'clock.
Who knows?
It's uh touch and go.
We got the Hutch in the final half hour of the program today, so uh as we head into the Super Bowl.
And since uh your time as callers has been somewhat abbreviated, I want to s make up for that by getting some of your calls in now.
So where we start.
We're starting with Linda in Edgewater, Florida, and thank you for waiting.
Welcome to the program.
Oh, thank you for taking my call.
I have to say mega dittoes on you.
Oh my gosh, I can't tell you.
But um anyway, you touched on the subject earlier about the federal court judge deeming Obamacare unconstitutional.
What I would like to know is why aren't our attorney generals from the twenty-six states or the senators and representatives running to the courthouse to file a cease and desist order on the federal government because at this point they're in contempt and they're still implementing Obamacare spending the American taxpayers' money on it.
I don't really know.
I think I think that there's probably some strategy taking place among these AGs as the uh is the best way to approach this.
Who wants to do it?
Uh I I can tell you that uh was it Wisconsin uh was it was Wisconsin's governor and another governor have simply said, All right, it doesn't exist.
We're not gonna implement it here.
The governors have spoken of it.
Here in Alaska, Governor Sean Parnell said yesterday that he's asked his attorney general to advise him on whether implementing and enforcing Obamacare would put him in violation of his oath of office.
Uh he he he believes that enacting the health care law may violate the oath of office that he took.
Uh Parnell told reporters he took an oath to support and defend the constitutions of the U.S. and Alaska.
While the Republican governor concedes the issues expected to be decided by the Supreme Court, he said he has a duty to uphold the law and wants his attorney general John Burns to advise on what the duty is after the Florida ruling.
He says, I'm kind of caught between a federal government that says you must pursue this, you must pursue this, and I also have the duty to uphold the rule of law, which the judge says don't pursue it.
So I think uh Lyndon, like like what's going on in the in the Middle East, this could become contagious.
Uh I I think you're gonna see more and more governors stepping up.
Uh when you have the governor of Alaska uh refusing to implement this.
I mean, this is you're you're gonna have, I think, a lot of people stepping up, attorney generals, governors, but believe me, going on behind the scenes is a strategy, I'm sure, on how to go about this.
But it is mind-numbing, is it not?
We've had a federal judge has ruled this law void, and the administration is pretending that it didn't happen.
Well, well, I have to admit, I ain't had much book learning like all them smarties there in uh in Washington.
Well, I haven't had much book learning either.
Well, according to them, we're a bunch of dunderheads.
But um, who was that troglodite?
Dick Durbin, who cited Article 1, Section 8, you know, the Commerce Clause that he's still allowed to implement Obamacare.
I don't get it.
That's like putting a dress on a pig.
That's still a pig.
Don't insult the pig.
Yeah, that's I apologize.
Utter defiance is what that is.
I mean, to come out and claim that the Commerce Clause allows them to do this.
It's just it's just utter defiance.
Look at this is the Democrat Party, folks.
This is who it is.
This this is the uh the modern day left.
This is how they go about things.
Rule of law, these kind of secondary to them to their agenda.
Look at they have been governing against the will of the people ever since Obama was inaugurated.
So this is well within the pattern of behavior they've established.
Who's next?
Robert, Asheville, North Carolina, home of the famed Biltmore Mansion.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Right down the road from me.
Metaphysical tip toes, Rush, and it's an honor to speak to you.
Thank you, sir.
You know, you've been married for a little bit of time now, and I want to tap into your infinite wisdom of experience.
And the question is the old aid adjustment.
What does a woman want?
That's your question for the day.
What does a woman want?
You know, it's an interesting question.
Uh, because oftentimes the you have to figure that out without it's it's a wild guess.
I'm opening ears to you right now.
Uh whatever she can get, pretty much is the uh answer to the uh to the question.
Yes.
What have you found it to be?
I mean, it's uh Well, you know, I I have a kind of a brief uh summary of it, and uh what a woman wants is always a choice in the matter.
And I I think that goes pretty true to most women, you know, is is a choice, always a choice.
Yeah, I'm I'm I've got there's a there's a uh an answer to this that's on the tip of my brain.
It's just it's it's it's trying to make its way to the forefront of my consciousness here.
You gotta be careful with it, too.
You gotta you gotta tap into your feminine side.
No, no, you don't you don't have to uh you know I mean, what does a woman want more?
Um always uh final word.
Woman wants the final word.
Whatever the final word is, woman wants to have it.
You got it.
There's any number of ways to answer the uh answer the question.
The biggest mistake is to say she does know I have no idea what she does.
Don't say that.
Don't say that.
Anyway, Robert, I appreciate the call.
There is there's something percolating here on the there's a there's a brilliant line here to this answer this question, and I'm having a a brain freeze.
Just a woman once.
Anyway, it'll come to me.
Probably when talking to the Hutch.
Uh this is uh what is this?
Harlan, is that right or Marlin in Oakland, California?
Hi, Marlin.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Rush, I'm a first-time caller, and I listen to you often, man.
I grew up born and raised in Oakland.
I'm a 44-year-old black man.
When I tell people at my job, Hispanic and black, that I listen to Russian Limbaugh, they have a fit.
And you know why they have a fit, Rush?
Because of ignorance.
I said you need to listen to the man.
He is a down brother.
Okay.
I love you, Russ.
Want to let you know that um the reason why so many people dislike you is because you speak the truth.
You expose the truth, and you do it with evidence.
Keep it up, Rush.
I love you, man.
Well, I appreciate that.
Thank you.
Uh thanks very much.
That that's that takes some guts for Marlin to even call here and say.
But it is even after 22 years.
I mean, you should hear some of the comments I'm getting from the Haney Project.
I had no idea you were so funny.
Really?
Uh been doing the radio show for you've known me for 15, been doing the radio show for 22 years or so.
It's fascinating.
Uh and uh there's a story.
I forget was it Washington Post, I forget who sent me this.
Uh it's a story about how the Democrats don't control the meat anymore.
What is this?
Liberals don't control the media.
Look at Fox, look at Limbaugh, look at this, look at that, look at the other.
Um, I don't know how you want to define controlling the media, but I can tell you that people who have not listened to this program have been entirely misinformed about who I am and what I believe and what happens on this program by somebody.
I mean, there is an active media that has and a Democrat Party, which has been focused on mischaracterizing it's not just me.
So whether they dominated or control it anymore, they still have uh considerable considerable amount of influence, and the whole uh the proof of it is I've I've literally stunned.
I got a note from Vince Flynn, who's sitting up there in Minneapolis digging out of the snow, and he's he says, I just uh Lisa, his wife and I, we just finished watching the episode.
He says, I'm hearing from more and more of my friends they had no idea how hilarious you are.
Well, I'll take it.
Don't misunderstand.
I'm just kind of shocked.
Uh that there can be anything unknown about me after 23 years or 22.
At any rate, we must take a brief time out.
Sit tight, back with much more here on open line Friday on the EIB network.
Folks, it's very simple.
A woman wants the last word in every argument.
And whatever a man says after that starts the next argument.
So it really never ends.
And we're back, and we are thrilled to have with us James Farrier, number 51 of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Just finished practice.
Mr. Farrier, welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Oh, welcome.
Thanks for having me, man.
I have got to ask you a question.
I'm going nuts.
I'm I'm go I just had Rodney Harrison on the program.
Everybody that's talking about this game says that you guys can be had with four or five wides, keep Palomalo off the line of scrimmage.
Uh that the secondary is vulnerable.
I mean, you I'm sure you've heard this.
Without giving away any secrets, I mean they're making it sound like you guys have no chance.
All they've got to do is spread you out, and the Steelers have no hope.
Have you got a counterattack for this?
Oh, most definitely, man.
You know, we've been hearing that all week, and uh we've been preparing for it.
Coach Leboe has put together one of the greatest game plans in history for this Super Bowl right here.
So they better be ready for it.
Well, I'm not gonna ask you what it is, but I can't wait.
Now, you um you're this is what year for you in the league?
This is number fourteen.
Number fourteen, and now you got this the the CBA and the potential lockout in the 18 games.
I know you really don't want to think about this front and center with this game coming up, but and I know you don't want to quit playing, so where do you think this is all going?
Man, I don't know, man.
It it seems like it's inevitable, inevitable that we're gonna get locked out.
So it's hopefully it doesn't last too long.
Hopefully we can get a deal done.
Everybody puts their uh emotions to the side and uh let's get it done.
James, is is this game as exciting to you as the previous Super Bowls?
No doubt about it.
It never gets old, man.
You know, you play the game to win championships, and uh, you know, this will be my third opportunity, you know, get a championship, and it feels like you know, my very first time.
Guy named Joe Poznanski for Sports Illustrated had a great piece this week about the Steelers.
Forty years, they haven't changed.
You know what the Steelers are gonna do.
You know what the uniform is gonna look like, you know how their their players are going to behave.
Uh, you were a jet, you got traded to the Steelers.
Is the Steelers way is this all just marketing, or is there really a Steelers way of doing things in the NFL?
It's definitely a steal away.
You know, we look back at the history of the organization and the franchise and the Rooney family, and they've been doing business the same way for 70 some odd years.
So, you know, it's definitely a formula that they have that's been very successful over the years, and I don't think it's gonna change.
Well, how do you you approach a game like this?
Uh you've got a chance here to win more Super Bowls than any team in the National Football League has.
You have to hear all the hype about, well, these guys are great on uh on indoor carpet, uh Rogers with his quick release.
Uh hardly nobody's talking about the Steelers offense other than Ben and how he can scramble and play Sandlot football better than anybody else.
But they're making you guys out really if the Packers are on their game, you don't have a chance.
Do you like that?
You like that underdog positioning they put you in?
Oh, yeah, we definitely like it.
We feel like that the pressure is on those guys more than anything, and uh, we're just gonna sit back and let everybody do all the talking, and when 630 rolls around and those pass start popping, we'll we're gonna see what happens.
James Ferrier, the Pittsburgh Steelers here, the quarterback of the defense is um Troy Palomalo a hundred percent.
Oh, yeah, he's ready to go.
He's uh had a couple days to rest.
He's had almost a week and a half of of good rest, and he hasn't really been doing much but rehabbing, so he's gonna be ready to go.
And this is the biggest game of the year, so no matter how he's feeling, he he's gonna be out there making plays.
Aaron Smith, any chance he'll play.
I don't know.
I think it's gonna be a game day decision, but you know, just having that guy in the locker room with us is gonna be inspirational for us.
You know, we know he had a hard time this year with his injury and uh just having him out there on the field, just being on the sideline to just be enough boost for us.
Well, best of luck.
I know that you've got uh Larry Foot there, and I'd like to say hi to him, but best of life's really a thrill to talk to you, and um you are you you really James are uh a prince of a guy.
Everybody on that team represents the city of Pittsburgh well, the NFL well, and it's uh uh genuinely a special thing, especially.
I hope you're not one of the teams moving to LA.
Oh no, not a chance.
Just kidding.
Anyway, is Larry Foote there?
I know you guys got one phone that you're passing back and forth.
Yeah, he's right here, man.
He can't wait to talk to you, old dog.
Yo, real Mr. Larry Foot.
What's going on, man?
Thanks for having me.
You bet.
Now let's see.
The last time you were in this game, it was in Detroit, right?
Which is your hometown?
No, no, that was the first one.
The first one.
The last one was in Tampa.
Uh that was the full cake.
Uh uh, but you were with them.
That you were you were that was the Jerome Bettis game.
You were you were going home.
Now, you've you spent one year with Detroit and you're back with the Steelers.
Um is this I just asked Ferrier the same question.
Is this game it's not old hat to you, right?
This game is exciting as any of the others have been to you.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, just for the the team that we're playing against and uh the three Super Bowls, it's probably our biggest challenge as far as they're balance on defense and offense.
You like you like the defensive game plan that you have?
Oh, yeah.
I mean, you know, Dickie LeBow's gonna put something together for the Super Bowl, and uh, you know, anytime he's leading this ship, we always confident and knowing he's gonna give us his best.
Well, but the Packers say that Dom Capers is uh is Dick LeBoe light that's basically you guys are identical defenses.
Uh and both play three fours, uh, and both both uh very cerebral and so forth.
Uh I asked Ferrier, I'm gonna ask you, does it bother you?
You hear all this talk that you're easy to beat if they just spread the field on your four wide receivers, take Paul Malu off the line of scrimmage, and it uh basically is no contest.
I mean, the last ten years we got the number one overall defense, so uh teams have tried everything to attack us, and we keep uh answering the call every time.
So it's gonna be a challenge.
No doubt a brother defenses are similar, same style, same type of uh attacking approach, but uh at the end of the day, you know, which dogs gonna hunt the longest.
Did you have a good practice today?
Oh yeah, we prepare, we uh ready to go.
Uh, you know, it's kind of like that quietness before the storm.
What's the toughest part of that between now and the game?
What's the toughest part of me?
I imagine these are two really long days ahead of you.
How do you how do you how do you keep from um uh blowing your energy way too soon?
Well, the tough part majority of guys' family and friends are in today, come in on Friday, so you gotta entertain them for the day, then Saturday we're more, you know, more isolated, do some walkthroughs, and we go off to a separate hotel, so we get ready.
Oh, yeah, the super secret hotel that ESPN will find out about.
Um what do you have for the pregame meal?
You eat much?
Yeah, I eat a little bit, try to get some pasta, some of them carves, uh, keep me going.
You know, it's gonna be a long day.
And the difference about the Super Bowl and other games, the halftime is a little longer, so they'll be having snacks in there for us.
Right.
That's right.
You've got a long pregame here.
After you go out and warm up, you've got an hour while that pregame show goes on, and you've got a longer halftime than usual.
Uh by the way, let's uh uh something else that people are talking about.
You guys have many more players that have actual Super Bowl experience than the Packers have.
And Mike Tomlins said that he thinks once the game starts, that doesn't really matter.
Do you?
Well, I hope it, you know, I hope it uh helps us to our advantage, but uh, you know, it's a little different.
Because our first Super Bowl, we were a little tight.
You know, we're caught up in the lice and just playing in the Super Bowl.
But I think it might the biggest dis distraction will be like the week, the bye week last week and this week with all, you know, the parties and the hoopla.
So hopefully they got uh caught up in that, and so we can uh you know take care of Ben.
Well, I remember that the the Super Bowl in Detroit was that Ben's first against the Seattle Seahawks.
Yeah, that's the one.
He said he was never more nervous before a football game than that one.
Uh and this is Aaron Rodgers' first Super Bowl.
Uh so I think this experience stuff, you know, knowing how to win, knowing how to close people out in games like this, clearly you guys have an advantage and an edge if that kind of thing exists here.
Absolutely.
I mean, I don't care how much how much you prepare for it and study the game plan.
When you get when you step foot on the biggest stage, I mean you're gonna hit your mind gonna be talking to you, telling you in the Super Bowl, so uh we you know, we get a rattle a little bit and uh help us get the victory.
Well, best of luck, man, the whole country is pulling for you guys travel better than any team in the National Football League.
There's gonna be there's gonna be a lot of gold in that place because the uh Packers have it in their color scheme as well.
But look, I appreciate your time here.
It's really um is a thrill to be able to talk to you and tell James Ferrier I said thanks to as well.
Uh thanks for having it.
It's truly an honor.
Appreciate it.
You bet.
That's Larry Foot, number 53 of the Pittsburgh Steelers, James Ferrier was uh was up first.
We've got a break here at the uh bottom of the hour, and sometime after the break, we'll then go to our standard resident expert on all things Super Bowl, the Hutch.
The Reverend Dr. Ken Hutcherson, who will endeavor to explain how everything I've discussed up till now has been wrong.
Right after this.
Before we get to the Hutch, um the lady did have a good question.
Why is there no action from one of these AGs or governors to actually enjoy the federal government from implementing Obamacare?
And I don't have the answer to that, but I have to think, as I said, that there is some some strategizing going on about how best to uh approach this.
It's a gold mine sitting out there.
I mean, the federal judge has decreed that this uh Obamacare is unconstitutional.
He has voided it.
They are violating the Constitution as they continue to implement this.
So uh I'm I'm sure that rather than rushing it, because everybody knows it is gonna go to the Supreme Court.
And maybe part of the strategy is let them go ahead and violate the Constitution.
Let them just continue here.
Uh most of it doesn't get implemented in 2013, 2014 anyway.
Let them behave in an extra constitutional matter for a little while.
And with the evidence of that uh uh pile up.
It it's sort of like by the way, we welcome now to the hutch to the program, the Hutch, the Reverend Dr. Ken Hutcherson from Seattle.
How are you doing, my brother?
I'm very well.
You know, I was just sitting here thinking, but all this talk about the Packers coming out with four wide receivers or five wide receivers and spreading the field with all this talk, they'll probably come out try to run the ball.
Well, you know, that's probably one of the weakest points of the uh Packers uh is their running back and fullback situation.
Uh but they got a lot of the guns.
They got Rogers back there.
They do have Rogers, but this James Starks guy, he's uh he's rookie, they popped out of nowhere in the Philadelphia playoff game.
So they the Steelers have the number one run defense in the league anyway, so that but they they if they want to run the ball, they've got personnel to do it.
They get a personnel grouping, but I think they're balanced.
They didn't get to the Super Bowl because they are lucky.
They have done some things very well.
And uh this is the year of the upset, so that's why I think you're gonna be crying Sunday night.
Well, but the Steelers are no no no.
The upset would be the Steelers winning.
Packers are Packers are the way the news has been, man, everyone thinks that the uh the Packers are gonna lose.
I don't uh I I I'm just really surprised at that thinking.
But one thing I want to get straight before we get into football and give somebody some of these names and say it.
Yeah, yeah, right.
I want to know what the Pittsburgh Steelers is gonna do for you.
What will the Pittsburgh Steelers do for me?
Yeah.
I mean, you've been the biggest fan ever.
You've given them more free time than Ban Camp's got pork and beans.
I I I can't believe that that can't be that what size ring do you wear?
Um I don't know.
You gotta know what size.
I think they're gonna get me what's that.
They don't call you all Captain uh excrement stirrer for nothing.
I'm just telling the the Rooneys and John Starworth, you know, that's my man we went to in the same round, had the same agent when he went to pi uh Pittsburgh and I went to Dallas.
I'm gonna tell him if if the Steelers win.
Now that's a big if, you know, if it's the biggest word in English language.
If Custer went and went to a little big horn, he wouldn't have been at Arrow Shirts.
So I want you to know that if the Pittsburgh Steelers win, Rooney needs to ha write one more check and get you a Super Bowl ring.
Well, that's very kind of you, Hutch, but you and I know that it ain't happening.
Well, we know they ain't gonna win, but they should.
You know what they do, they better get you a ring.
Uh how do you actually see this turning out?
Do you think it's gonna be a Packers blowout?
You'll see where that can happen.
Well, I do.
I that's why I was gonna make you promise me that you won't turn the TV off at halftime.
I promise you, I won't turn I never I would never turn the Super Bowl off at halftime, no matter what's happening.
Well, I but I think that they people are gonna be surprised.
Uh I think uh, you know, Ben, Big Ben, he's he's a boy.
Uh this is a phenomenal comeback season after all the controversy of starting off rush.
No one can say that these guys have not come through controversy and they've shown a lot of class.
Right.
But I do believe that uh we just we just uh we just got the power.
You're looking at the linebacker core there against the running back.
Mendon Hall was the work horse two weeks ago.
Yeah, they're gonna take Mendon Hall out of that game quick.
I mean, you got the predator over there, you know, Clay Matthews.
Uh he they they're gonna mess up the running game.
And uh the and Pittsburgh has really done a great job passing and done very good job whole year running uh the ball and rushing the ball.
But as far as passing, they've done a phenomenal job.
Well, are you saying gonna put our linebackers on that and take that out of it?
You are you saying they're gonna take Mendon Hall out, or are you gonna stop whoever's running the ball?
Whoever.
But Mindenhall is the big horse.
Uh he he was the main reason they won two weeks ago with the running game they had with him.
Against the Jets.
Yeah.
Yeah, well, the Jets linebackers aren't chump change.
Yeah, but then hey, wait till you see uh what's gonna happen this Sunday.
Uh I look at I watch game film myself.
I know what the Mendon Hall vulnerabilities are.
He's got a stutter step before he hits a hole.
He doesn't he doesn't start off at a hundred miles an hour.
And if and if they if they've spotted this on film, if they clog up lanes, I mean can see where you could be right.
Yeah, they they're gonna have to to get to they're gonna have to get to Ben.
They're not gonna have they can't have any broken plays because if you know it is over the year, the the uh Steelers is really taking advantage of mistakes.
All right.
What are the Packers' vulnerabilities?
The Packers vulnerability i i is definitely gonna be their their uh secondary.
Um I I think that they're gonna have to really, really, really put pressure on Ben and not give them enough time because uh they they are uh the corners and their um safeties uh are vulnerable.
Well, but they got Woodson.
I mean, you wouldn't see it he's Well, I mean, you know, w one out of four, Rush.
I mean, it takes more than one to make a good defense.
Well, obviously.
And the Steelers cornerbacks, I mean, they're they're good, but they're not the greatest in the league.
Oh no.
Uh, you know, McFadden, you got him, you got Taylor.
Uh, but man, you got three wide receivers over there, could be first team on any team uh with with the uh Packers.
You got Driver, you got uh Jennings, you got Nelson.
Any of those guys could start for any team.
So they're gonna put the pressure on them big time, and if they as long as they're spreading them out, and which I hope they do, uh Paolo Marlowe is gonna be out of the game.
And they're gonna keep Timmins from from Well, you know they're gonna spread them out.
That's all that look that that has been the key.
I hate to say this, but it's been the key to beating the Steelers.
The Saints did it this year, the Patriots do it every time they play them, and the Steelers have to know it's coming, and they haven't been able to stop it when people spread the field up.
Decent.
Now, Cleveland Brown spread the field on, you can handle it.
But you get somebody like Tom, you get somebody Tom Brady or Drew Brees, not Aaron Rodgers doing it, you have a problem.
Well, you got you got a lot better quarterback with Brees uh and you know, Rogers.
Uh, and it's gonna be very difficult uh for them to keep those linebackers from uh from dropping back.
Uh if they do, they're gonna get picked to death by uh Roger.
He I mean he can he read so well.
Uh and uh now that line that they got, and I hope the one thing that's gonna be very vulnerable for the Steelers, and that is they better not start Poncey.
Pouncy, I think, yeah, I'm sorry.
They better not start Pouncey.
I mean, Roger's gonna have a field that he's gonna be all pro in that one game when they start that guy center.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know, I've been I've been hearing this kind of talk all week long, and you're making it sound, and you're just part of the chorus here, that the Steelers are really an afterthought here that it'd probably be safer for them if they didn't even show up.
You haven't mentioned Casey No, no, no, no, no.
You haven't mentioned Casey Hampton.
You haven't talked about James Harrison.
You've made it sound like the Steelers all are made up of is their cornerbacks in the secondary, and at Rogers is gonna have a just a little fun day at the picnic, he's gotta put up with Farrier, Temmins, uh Lamar Woodley.
Yeah, you gotta prove all those things.
But they're ready for him.
Well, I've got to think they're ready for it on both sides of the ball.
Hey, if if both teams hadn't played well, Rush, you know as well as I do, they wouldn't be at the Super Bowl, they'd be watching.
That's true.
They would be watching.
But if you would notice, why does most advertisers want to advertise on the first half?
Well, I I why do Hutch.
It's because the women stop watching at halftime.
No, because they know, man, that the Super Bowl has a tendency to be one side.
We've had some great Super Bowls.
But it hasn't been hasn't been the case in the last five or six years.
It really this game has gone down to the last play.
But there is a possibility that someone could be put ashamed here this week, but I'm I'm not gonna push, but I believe my Green Bay Packers are gonna come back come through with it.
Now, if you're right, let's just take your hypothesis.
Because you I want you to think about this during the break and tell people about it, because the Super Bowl making it can be one of the greatest things, or it can be a curse that ends dynasties.
If the Steelers get blown out of this game, given they're the average age, I think they're older than anybody in the league.
Uh if they do get blown out of this game, it's it's it's ten amount to blowing up that team and starting over.
I mean, this is if if it's a close loss of the they get blown out, it's almost as though it'd rather not have been there at all.
You got that right.
That's right.
Okay, I knew that.
One thing before I go to the break, John Stalworth and you have the same agent.
Yeah, yeah.
We uh uh I also drafted in the same round.
Well, I had no clue.
Yeah, he's my man.
He's you know, he's the Alabama boy.
Well, I know that.
I know that.
Um I I had no idea that you had the same.
I every time I talked to you, I learned things about you that I didn't know.
See, you should talk to me more often.
Absolutely.
Do you still talk to Stalworth?
I haven't talked to John, and it's gotta be at least five, six years.
Well, you know, you and he have a lot in common.
He parlayed his football football career into a into a remarkable private sector uh successfully.
Up there in Huntsville, Alabama.
Yep.
He really has computer sciences and some such thing.
Man, he is.
He is.
He is one of the prime example of what athletes need to do after they get out of the ball.
Yeah, smart guy, obviously.
I've never met him.
But I've I would love him.
Maybe we have to set up a time we can get together.
Love to.
All right, I get quick time out here, and uh we'll be back.
This is Ken Hutcherson, who performed the most talked about wedding ceremony in the history of weddings, mine and Catherine's.
Hutch, they're still still talking about it.
Wow.
Well, they are.
They're quoting you verbatim in a lot of cases, and we will be back after this.
Don't go away.
All right, now we go back to the Hutch.
Yeah, bro.
A decent man and of a guy about whom I am honored to uh call my friend.
You're a great human being, Hutch.
Thank you, my brother.
You know, it's friends like you to keep me straight.
I just want to throw a name at you, and that's Isaac Redman.
If if they I guarantee you that if they have problems with Mendenhall, uh Isaac Redmond's not gonna dance to the line, he's not gonna dance to the hole, he'll get through there.
They haven't I I I I don't think that like I said, if Pouncey trying to go against Roggie, uh Redman's not gonna have a chance.
If Pouncey I don't think that Adams and I don't think the Scott, the left tackle and right tackle, is gonna be able to handle the the Predator, Matthews.
And I think that they're gonna shut down the running game because they gotta stop the running game so the passing game of the Steelers would not be affected.
Well, I understand the theory.
And if Pouncey plays, believe me, it's gonna be a couple plays to get him in there.
He's a rookie, all pro first year and so forth.
He's not no way with a broken bone and a high high sprain he's gonna be affected, but they might want to get him in for a couple plays just to they're that kind of organization, uh Hutch.
I know they are, but that boy's as a rookie, he's got a whole bunch of season ahead of him.
They better keep him on the sideline, or he he's gonna get more than his uh his bone hurt again.
He's gonna get his feelings hurt.
Well, what's now I uh look at I'm not trying to cause any trouble here, but what's so special to BJ Roger as opposed to Casey Hampton on the I mean he's the he's a Steelers nose tackle.
What yeah what's all what's a huff to do about BJ Rogee?
Yeah, but you gotta you gotta under Wells isn't hurt.
The center for the for the uh for the Packers aren't hurt, right?
Well, you're talking okay, the center.
I know they they call Roggie the the freezer.
Uh as opposed to the fridge.
Yeah, I mean so the the issue that we gotta look at is both these teams, if you look at outside a passing rush, is very, very close to being equal.
Yeah, one thing that I'll tell you one thing impresses me about the Packers.
If you look at the the players they have on injured reserve, yeah, they lost half a team in the uh in week one against the Packers.
They lost Ryan Grant.
Uh they lost all kinds of, they lost their tight end, Jermichael Finley.
They've lost they really uh that coach has has done a has done a good job keeping that team together.
Hutch, neither the Steelers nor the Packers have cheerleaders.
This is gonna be the first Super Bowl in history, I think, without cheerleaders.
Now, as a man of the cloth, is this progress?
Uh the whole aspect of chickenfication of the game.
I'm proud that finally they did something to keep women off the field.
Tell me how the game's being chicken.
I got I've got one minute.
Okay.
Look at all of the new rules.
Everything that keeps you from being boys, they'll they they'll make you get penalties for.
You can't celebrate.
And if you do, you gotta do it alone.
You helmet the helmet.
You can't have two bitches of a hook.
That's the game of football.
And they're they they're totally feminizing the game, and we're getting getting a little tired of it.
You think there's gonna be there's a lot more prostate cancer in the world than breast cancer, bruh.
Let's put some black out there on the field.
I hear you, pal.
I hear you.
Uh quick.
Uh no doubt there's gonna be a lockout.
Will there be football next season?
I think they're gonna I think too many guys want their checks, and I think that they're gonna figure some way to get this uh worked out, Rush.
I do, and I think we will have football for the end of the year.
All right.
That's the Hutch, the Reverend Dr. Kevin Hutchison uh from the AB church in Seattle.
We've got a brief time out and be back right after this.
Uh ladies and gentlemen, I um I want to thank you seriously for indulging me uh today in my love for the National Football League and the occasion here to to use my program to talk to these guys that I would never otherwise have a chance to talk to.
Uh I realize it was I know it's my show, but I used it for me today in uh in an avocational kind of way, and I appreciate you indulging me uh doing that.
So I'm not gonna be here Monday.
We got Stein, I think, sitting in on Monday, and uh be back Tuesday raring and ready to go and so forth, and we'll see you then.
And once again, thanks so much.
Had a great time.
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