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Jan. 19, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 19, 2015, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 podcast.
I'm so glad today that I am not a fan of Green Bay Packers.
I don't know what I'd be going crazy.
I would literally be nuts.
If I were a fan of the and it's not that I don't like the Packers, it just I like the Packers, as you know, I'm a Steelers guy, but man, if I were a Packers fan, I'd so many things I'd be questioning.
Anyway, uh, folks, it's great to have you, Rush Lynn Ball, the EIB network, and here we are on what many people think is the most depressing day of the year.
Uh Blue Monday, and no, it's got nothing to do with Martin Luther King.
By the way, I may be engaged in one of the greatest career risks ever taken.
I mean, given all this controversy out in Hollywood, showing up here on Martin Luther King Day could be seen as an act of disrespect.
What I'll do is just fall back on the idea.
I had no idea.
The staff didn't tell me again that this was a celebrated Monday holiday.
And I've got history on my side.
I don't take too many Monday holidays anyway.
So, and besides Dr. King wanted everybody to work.
That's what separates him from the modern day Democrat Party.
And uh Oprah, Oprah, Oprah, Oprah, and by the way, folks, it's not Selma.
You don't say Selma.
That's you have to listen to what Al Sharpton says Selma.
Selma is said with sadness and pain in your voice as much as you can muster.
It's sort of like Selma.
You talking along it's like, yeah, Oprah Winfrey, she decided to go down and join the march at Selma.
And Snerdley came in today.
What in the world is Oprah Winfrey, billionaire black woman doing, replicating the march at Selma?
And of course I had an answer for him, and it's not it's about promoting her movie.
You know the controversy over that, folks.
Do you know that the head honcho of the motion picture science of academy arts or whatever it's called?
She's black.
She's a female.
And they've been they they've they've kept that under their rug for a long time during this whole controversy.
That bit of news only surfaced over the weekend or late on Friday.
And they finally got to this babe and said, okay, so what's up?
How come it's all white nominees out there?
She said, Well, it's a problem.
And we've uh we we've certainly have to get into uh Hollywood must recognize diversity and so I thought, wait a minute, Hollywood was about merit.
What do you mean about the idea that this is racism?
I mean, is anybody remember in the heat of the night beating out the graduate?
No, not the heat of the night.
Guess who's coming to dinner?
It was the Sydney Pointier movie.
It was up against a graduate in 1967, and it was uh uh it was about interracial interracial dating, and it ran it went the best picture.
I mean, the idea that there's racism out there, I mean, there is institutionalized leftist racism and racism in the Democrat Party.
I think what happened here is really no more complicated than the fact that whoever produced this movie, I just can't remember the name of the studio, forgot to distribute the DVD screeners to members of the Academy.
One of the best kept secrets in all of Hollywood is that many of the voters for the Oscars never go to the theater.
And they are treated to the studios produce DVDs around this time, every year starting in December, they're called screeners.
They're watermarked like crazy.
I, as a powerful, influential member of the media have seen and had had possession of my shift.
I've got one right now for uh I've got two.
No, I've got three.
I've got Gone Girl, which I haven't watched yet.
I have Unbroken, which I haven't watched yet, like many of the Academy voters.
And I had um I had American Sniper.
And so I uh that I have seen, and I get these as I say, because I'm a powerful influential member of the media, and they're watermarked like crazy.
Meaning every five minutes or so you get a warning that you will die if you copy this, or if you give it to anybody else, or if you even say to anybody that you have one.
So if I'm not here tomorrow now, you know why.
Apparently, the the studio that did Selma didn't distribute a bunch of these things.
Didn't they get a bunch of screeners out.
They had another movie that they thought had a much better chance of winning some awards, and they spent time promoting it.
It may be no more complicated than the fact the guys and people that vote haven't seen it.
They didn't even get their screeners.
And yet, built in case, built in opportunity to once again demonstrate racism or to prove it, or do establish it or what have you.
But it's a big stretch, I think, to try to say that Hollywood is racist.
I don't mind watching it.
You know, liberal on liberal crime is kind of fun to watch.
Libs going after libs is a is a fun thing to watch.
Well, they'd probably look back at last year.
Didn't once a slave or 12 years of 12 years of slave, didn't it win big?
Okay, cleaned up.
Okay, so it cleaned up last year.
So they might be okay, been there, done that, let's spread it around this year.
I mean, who knows?
This place is consumed with political correctness and liberalism, and they can't have African Americans winning everything every year.
But the PC crowd said, but this year is more important 12 years of slave because this is MLK, this is Selma, it's LBJ, it's the anniversary of all that, and how can it get shut out?
And it got shut out.
I'm I'm pretty confident that the voters haven't even seen the thing.
Most of them don't go to the theater.
They'll never admit that, folks.
They'll never admit that.
But that's why they send out all these screeners.
That's why they produce them and why they distribute them to the voters.
That's how they watch them on a TV set at home.
Now, some of them may have home theaters, but none of them have home theaters like a real theater you would go.
I mean, uh, even if you have a 14-foot screen, that's not like going to the theater and watching it on that size screen with an audience in the room and a crowd and uh and all that.
Well, now Snerdley came and what in the world is Oprah doing at Selma and leading a well, she's got a movie to promote.
And this movie is on is it this movie Snerdley is not doing well, and the movie is taking it on the chin, a lot of criticism from the left over the way LBJ has been portrayed in this movie.
And that an African American director, uh, and they had high hopes that this woman would be the first African American woman to get nominated.
She didn't, because it is said she got LBJ all wrong in this thing.
But I want to go back to something I said last week.
Why is Oprah at Selma?
Selma wasn't about Oprah.
Why is she there?
She's there to promote a movie.
But I folks, it's more than that.
And when this I I've got to repeat this to you because I think it's fundamentally important for people to understand.
The by the way, and if if the movie Selma didn't get nominated because of the screener problem, there's another reason for it.
I guarantee you, the fact that this movie is an attack on LBJ is enough to tick off some of the time-honored civil rights leftists that are in the academy.
That would that would freeze it out anyway.
That really ticked them off the way LBJ was portrayed in this thing.
But Oprah, you know, last week when the nominations were announced, there were apparently two shocking surprises.
One is that the Roger Ebert documentary got shut out, didn't win anything.
Everybody was stunned.
Everybody was shocked.
Roger Ebert, my god, what a great guy.
Died of cancer, married a black woman, loved Hollywood.
How in the world is he not get an Oscar?
And I explained it.
And the same thing about Oprah.
Yeah, they color purple.
We've had any number of efforts Oprah has made.
She never won.
She shut out, and now Selma with another fat zero in term of nominations.
People didn't understand it, and I said last week, and this is what it is.
It's upstairs downstairs, folks.
The public perception of celebrity and fame and stardom, do not doubt me on this, is so different than what it really is.
The entertainment media's presentation of celebrity and fame in stardom, among many other things, creates the impression that all the stars and all the celebrities love each other.
And it's one giant good time.
And it is a very select and unique club where everybody respects everybody.
And everybody loves everybody.
Why they marry each other, they party together, they hang out with each other.
It looks like something you would desperately want to be a member of if you could.
So you get a Facebook account and try to make yourself famous by vomiting every bit of information about yourself.
You can.
And then you start doing that on Twitter because that's what you think they do.
But the truth of the matter is, it's like anything else, it's not the way it is portrayed.
And Hollywood, particularly on the on the stardom side, is one of the most exclusive clubs in the country.
And getting into it is increasingly hard.
And I'm just here to tell you, and I don't mean this as a slight, but Roger Ebert is never going to get an Oscar.
He's a critic.
He's the media.
He's always going to be perceived as on the outside.
Wanting in.
He was not in the business.
He was in a satellite business.
He got to rub elbows now and then, but he never ever was going to cross that moat and get in on the celebrity stardom side of it.
And shockingly, too many of you, neither will Oprah.
Oprah is maybe, and this is my personal opinion, and I welcome anybody who wants to blow it to smithereens.
But Oprah is perhaps the best illustration of the phony and plastic banana publicity and image making of celebrity and stardom that there is.
The popular conception is, okay, here's Oprah, get a TV show.
On that TV show will show up Tom Cruise.
He makes an absolute fool of himself, bouncing up and down on his couch, announcing he's fallen in love again.
And every other actress and every other actor will appear on that program.
And the impression left is that they're all buddies.
And when the show's over, they all go out to dinner, they all go to Oprah's house, they all get an Oprah's plane, they all go to the same red carpet parties, and it's not the way it is.
When the show's over, they go their own separate ways.
And Oprah is no matter what she is, she's the media, she is not an actress.
Do you remember, maybe not, the country music awards one year.
Gwyneth Paltrow sang a song starred in a country movie.
It's called Country Strong.
And she showed up at one of the CMA awards in Nashville to sing the title song of her movie.
And they hated her.
They didn't want any part of her.
The country, you could see it, Miranda Lambert.
I mean, these are shooting daggers at her while she's up there on stage performing during the show.
Whoosh, she's an actress.
She's not one of us.
What is she doing?
Jamming our business.
What she do you think it's so easy that somebody's never done it can come in here and do it?
I understand this totally.
I don't care.
It's not, I don't care if she sang good or not.
She's an actress, she's not a country singer.
She's an interloper.
She came in and she injected herself.
She inserted herself in their board.
They've paid their dues.
They have ridden the buses.
They've, and her first appearance as a country star is on stage in a movie, screw that.
I'm telling you, it's one of the reasons I was aced out of ESPN folks, they were waiting for me.
No matter what, that wasn't going to be permitted.
Me in sports, no way.
It's enough.
I became successful in my own show and the radio, but they were just laying in wait for the first opportunity to make sure they're by new that uh we don't like Rush being here.
It's it's human nature.
It is the way it's a protective thing.
The thing that's going to surprise most people is that this would impact Oprah.
But I'm telling you, it does.
So Oprah's in Salva because Oprah has not yet overcome.
Oprah's still trying to get in that club, folks, and I know if you run around and posit my theory, not a single person's gonna tell you I'm right.
They're all gonna tell you I'm nuts and Winnie Tunes and Crazy and so forth, but that's your best evidence that I've nailed.
It's not a big deal, but if you're wondering why Oprah's in Selma, she's once in that club.
Oprah doesn't want to have to be the one hosting a TV show to have these people come see her.
She wants to be invited because she's Oprah.
Not because she got a TV show, not because she's got a vehicle they could promote their own stuff on.
She wants to be with them just because they want her with them.
Not because she got a TV show.
And she's tried color purple now, Selma and whatever else.
Shut out, zero nominations.
Why do you think that is?
Do not doubt me on it.
Now, football games yesterday.
Patriots accused of deflating their balls.
You heard about this?
New England Patriots accused of deflating their balls during this game.
During rain and wind, it's apparently eager to grip and throw a football when it's not properly inflated.
NFL is investigating.
Don't know where the charge comes from, but it's a media guy from Indianapolis, Bob Kravitz, who first made it public.
Tom Brace is crazy.
This is asinine.
This is silly.
We didn't deflate our balls.
Our balls are just fine.
People are wondering how this can happen.
And you're a Packers fan.
This has got to be a day of utter misery if you're if you're a Packers fan.
Oh man.
And then Obama and his State of the Union, Santa Claus.
Folks, I'll tell you what I'm gonna go with that today.
Remember the exit poll question that I told you when I saw it at 5 o'clock on election day 2012, I knew it was over.
The question cares about people like me, Obama 81, Romney 19.
That's when I knew it was over.
And the second question I knew it was over was over half the voters still blame Bush for the economy.
It's 2012.
Okay, so here comes Obama proposing massive new tax increases and massive redistribution for what?
Why to chip away at the income inequality to chip away at the wealth inequality to uh upgrade, uplift the middle class, and here come the Republicans with their response, and they're gonna blow it if they're not careful.
And I'm gonna tell them how not to blow it.
All of that at Billy Crystal saying, would it would you people stop shoving gay sex scenes in my face?
Billy Crystal.
Would you please stop shoving gay sex scenes in my face?
I guess he's talking about TV shows back in a second.
I want to let you hear, you may not have heard this.
It was the very last thing that I said on the program last Friday.
We're gonna have Patriots and Seahawks are going to be in the Super Bowl.
That's what's gonna happen on Sunday.
Patriots and Seahawks win.
Show ended.
That's the only things I said about the games, although I had uh I had no idea that the Seahawks are gonna play as poorly.
I had no idea that game was gonna turn out the way it did.
What I just there's so many things in that game that I do not understand about the Packers and their execution.
Maybe we'll get to that later.
Uh on Indianapolis, IBOL News TV 13 Sports Director Dave Calabros talking with Bob Kravitz, a columnist for the local newspaper about the NFL investigating the Patriots for using deflated footballs in the championship game last night.
Question getting some breaking news, Bob.
What have you learned out there, old buddy Opal?
A league source tells me that uh the NFL is uh investigating the New England Patriots for possibly deflating the footballs in the AFC championship game.
Nobody is beginning to suggest that that's the reason that the Colts lost, but that is an issue that they're going to take a look at.
The Colts are a passing team, and the Patriots like to run the ball.
And a deflated football is very, very difficult to throw.
Now, I've had a lot of people send me questions about this, and apparently I I think this is still the case.
People say, well, wait a minute, wouldn't the balls be the same for both teams?
No, folks.
Each team in the NFL now is allowed.
It's been this way for some time.
Each team is allowed to bring its own balls.
Each team is allowed to designate its own balls for the kicking game, punting and field goals.
They have a K on them, and they're not to be used during standard play.
So the Patriots bring their balls.
It's a it's a specific number, and the Colts bring theirs, and they're turned over to the referee an hour or two hours before the game, and they're supposedly checked and weighed and and all that.
Um the Patriots deflating their balls.
I don't know how that would uh the Colts wouldn't even end up using those balls.
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh.
America's real anchor man having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Now, folks, on this inflated football business.
You know, I can't say for sure I've thought about it here during the break.
Uh I do know at one point that in the National Football League teams, at least for the regular season, were allowed to bring their own balls to games.
Game the balls they had used in practice, balls they were familiar with, uh, or or brand new balls.
But it was one it was one way of preventing things like this.
Al Davis, when he owned the Raiders, routinely did this kind of stuff and more.
Deflated footballs, muddy sections of the field.
So there were lots of rules changes.
Now, I I can't must be honest, I can't recall if each team being allowed to bring its own balls was for all player just a kicking game now that I think about it.
And I don't know, even if that is the way it is, each team is allowed to bring its own footballs.
I don't know if that's still the case in postseason.
Uh it may not be the case in postseason.
They start out with brand new balls, and uh home team has to provide them.
I really I don't know how that works now.
Uh the league provides them.
But if the teams are allowed to bring their own footballs, team balls they're familiar with, balls they've used in practice or in previous games, which makes sense, then and they're not supposed to be mixed up when the, for example, a game like that when the Colts have the ball, their balls are used.
When the Patriots have the ball, their balls are used.
If that's the case, which I can't swear to, then the Patriots could deflate footballs all night and the Colts would never encounter one.
Unless they happen to intercept Brady.
Well, that's obviously not the case.
This wouldn't even be an issue.
So maybe I'm not right about this.
Uh maybe it's not true in in postseason.
But still the idea that the home team is in charge of all of the footballs, that I'm not aware of that being the case in um in years, but maybe postseason it is.
And it is being investigated.
Uh it it is being looked at.
Now, if it were found that this actually happened and the Patriots had the ability to deflate the footballs that the Colts were using, then the penalty would be money and draft choices or whatever.
They wouldn't have to forfeit the game or any of that.
Um it's kind of it's kind of crazy.
One more sound by Bob Kravitz uh last night on uh eyeball news NBC in Indianapolis.
He was asked, you know, we did notice there was a timeout early in the first half.
They they came out and actually got a ball and they took it off the field.
I'm told by this league source that they took the ball off and weighed it, and it's going to become an issue.
There may be lost draft picks if they find the Patriots guilty of this.
Of course, the Patriots were involved in spygate and some other uh unsavory uh dealings.
Well, now if if all this is true, then apparently I'm not right about the way footballs are dealt with in the proceed in the postseason.
Then if if the Patriots, if the home team's in charge of the footballs, uh that hasn't been the case in a long time.
I something that's gotten by me.
But that's the only way this could affect the Colts.
Or the Colts, as Phil Sims says.
Maybe the only way is if the Patriots provide the footballs.
Because even whoever provides them, they go to the referee or somebody an hour or two before the game where they are weighed and checked for proper inflation or deflation.
And they spot check them during games at the same time, which is one of the reasons one ball was spot checked and and and taken out.
Tom Brady was on the radio today in Boston and was asked about before he had even heard about it.
He was asked about it.
No, I don't.
I have no idea.
Would you care to weigh in on that?
I think I heard it all at this point.
It's ridiculous.
That's the last of my worries.
Yeah.
I don't even respond to stuff like this.
It is kind of uh strange.
It wouldn't have mattered a hill of beans anyway to the outcome of that game.
That game it's a sad circumstance that that game even ended up being scheduled the way the Colts just are not ready.
But they ended up beating the Bronco.
I mean, they were legitimately genuinely there, but that game was a yes, I and the scheduling on that.
I had to make that the prime time game.
I know they have to alternate CBS and Fox, each get the night game on championship weekend.
They rotate it every year.
CBS had it last year.
Fox got it this year, which meant Seattle had to start at noon local time, which had never happened.
Uh before got a couple of calls I want to get in here before we dovetail or or split the scene on this and get back to some other uh issue oriented stuff.
Let me start with Lucy in Berlin, Wisconsin.
Lucy is eleven, folks.
Eleven years old.
Hi, Lucy.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
What's up?
What's happening?
Um, nothing right now.
Um I'm at school one day and we were watching CNN student news, and there's this question that said, Well, was Paul Rev um here's career, and I was the only one who got it right because I read your books.
Isn't that sweet?
Isn't that sweet?
Watching CNN student news.
That's not gotta be a good thing, I have to say.
CNN student news re did they make you watch that, uh, Lucy.
Is that part of your school?
Yep, they make us watch it.
CNN student news.
Yep.
Uh how much news?
I mean, how like how long does it go?
Ten minutes.
Ten is it every day?
Yep, mostly.
So this was probably about the time capsule that was found with Paul Revere and Sam Adams that they had left.
Yep.
And you were the only one in class who knew the answer because you had read the Rush Revere books.
Yep.
That's astounding.
That is fabulous.
Congratulations to you.
Thank you.
Have you read all three books, Lucy?
Um, well, I'm reading the third one right now.
You are.
Okay.
Well, look, you deserve a gold star for this.
So I need you to hang on and you know, ask your parents if it would be okay if we sent you some uh some prize stuff.
Well, actually, all of them are at work right now.
But I bet you that would be okay.
Okay, I'm sure it will be too, but I always like to respect the parents.
See, what we'll do here is you hang on, and Mr. Snerdley will get an address, make sure it's a FedEx address.
We don't use the mail for this.
Okay.
And then if your parents have a problem with it, you tell them to get hold of us.
Actually, my mom loves you, so well, then it's not gonna be a problem.
But what I was gonna say is if their parents have a problem with it, you tell them to get hold of us, but don't tell them how.
Okay.
That way you're guaranteed to get the prize.
Okay.
All right, so don't hang up, Lucy.
Okay, bye.
Bye.
Thank you.
We got one more.
This is Nicole in uh in Oramutal.
Hi, Nicole, great to have you on the program today.
Hello.
Hi, Mr. Limbaugh.
Hi.
What's up?
So I I really love you and your show.
Me and my mom listen to you all the time.
Um, so yeah, you're pretty amazing.
Well, thank you very much.
I I I love hearing that.
I was fabulous to hear that.
That's great.
That's great.
Nobody ever hears that kind of stuff enough, Nicole?
Never.
I could hear it all day.
That's great.
Thank you.
Yeah, so I just wanted to call and let you know that I have a liberal geography teacher at my school, and he tells us a lot of crap about global warming and the government's supposed to take care of us.
And our next topic has been religion.
And he has been talking about how Islam is a religion based on peace, and he tells us the story of Muhammad.
And wait a minute.
Nicole, how old are you?
I'm 14.
Fourteen.
So what grade does that put you in?
Ninth grade.
Okay, so you're in middle school, you're in Orim Utah, and you've got a teacher that is proselytizing religion to you?
Yes, sir.
And he's telling you about the religion of peace.
Yeah.
That would be militant Islam.
Well, islam.
Apparently.
And you hear it all of global warming and the the government will protect everybody, and you've learned the story of Muhammad.
Where does this end?
What else do you hear?
What else do you taught?
Um he made us watch a video called The Story of Stuff, which told us um it said that the government is there to take care of us.
And so he said, How many of you disagree with that?
And I was like one of the only people who stood up.
How many in your class?
Um there's probably like thirty-five.
And you're the only one that stood up.
Yes, sir.
What happened to you?
Um he said, why?
And I told him, because the government has like three main has three jobs to protect us from foreign um foreign forces, to do currency and mail, and to protect the rights of the people.
Oh, that last one had to get him.
Oh man, that is right.
Protect the rights of the people.
Oh gold star to you, Nicole.
What did this uh what did this teacher say to that?
Is it geography?
Did you say teacher?
Yeah, he's a human geography and world civilization teacher.
Human geography, yeah.
Yeah, I took that.
Human geography.
Yeah, he's the AP teacher.
Yeah, we call it social studies back then.
Human geography.
Yeah.
He told me, he told me that so what about seatbelts?
Would are you saying that we shouldn't be protected, that they shouldn't make laws about seat belts?
What about all those people who die?
And you said And I told him that's not their place, that's up to the states, and he sort of tore me apart.
Oh man, I'm sure he had.
In front of the whole class.
I mean, tore you apart how?
Personally?
I mean, did he just he um he took my opinion and he just sort of hit it at it with his liberal ideological opinionslash perspective?
Did you um did you feel humiliated?
Yeah, just a bit.
This is not uncommon.
You're gonna encounter a whole lot of this as you continue to go through um school.
Because these most of the teachers are gonna have are like this guy.
But uh, you know, that's that's kind of cheap.
I mean, the asking for opinions, ask you to stand up, and then you do.
And it sounds like he sat out on a course to tear you back down.
Um, how does it what's it make you want to do?
Do you do you want to now shut up in the class just to not get this guy's attention, just escape through?
How are you gonna deal with it?
Um actually I just studied more on the topic so that I could have a better argument and tear him to shreds.
Holy smokes, this is incredible.
I do not believe 14 years old.
You need to be the teacher in this class.
Nicole, you're great.
I look need you to hang on too, uh, so we can get your dress in you some stuff too.
This is just great.
Don't change.
Don't what you're don't change.
Just hang in there, be tough, and continue doing what you're doing.
It's fabulous.
That's Nicole in Orim, Utah.
We'll be back after this, folks.
Don't go away.
By the way, other things coming up on the program today Relating to Hollywood, the movie American Sniper is under assault from Hollywood.
The left in Hollywood and the left in the media, the leftists everywhere in this country have now targeted American sniper.
They're coming at it from every direction you could imagine.
Details coming up.
Our first caller from Wisconsin, Lucy.
Did you notice, ladies?
She said when I asked her to get her parents' permission before we send her some stuff.
She said, no, no, they're not here today.
I'm calling by my She's listening to the program without her mommy and daddy there.
She's listening to it on her own.
I'm going to give you a little, I'm going to give you a little trivia about where she's calling from.
Berlin, Wisconsin.
Back in the 70s, uh, the 80s, practically 95% of National Football League jerseys were made in Berlin, Wisconsin.
The company was medalist sand knit.
And the uh the primary material was nylon during.
Uh the Pittsburgh Steelers were the only team not to wear mesh jerseys.
They didn't wear jerseys with holes in them.
And their jerseys were nylon during, but the medalist sand was in, was uh was in Berlin, Wisconsin.
They made overwhelmingly like 90% of the NFL uniforms for the longest time.
Now, uh I was right, by the way, on this football business.
I went back and looked, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
During the Ravens Fortners Super Bowl, Joe Flacco complained at one point that they were given a Forders ball.
It's right there at NFL.com.
What we learned from Sound FX or Super Bowl, whatever it was live, they mic the players.
Um Joe Flacco realizes the Ravens are using the wrong football during the game.
He realizes that they are using a 49ers ball.
It was a mistake.
Each ball is marked, and he was uh he we asked for it to be replaced with a Ravens ball.
The balls have the team's name on them, so the quarterbacks get the ball they want during the game.
Here's the rule book.
Home teams are responsible for furnishing playable balls at all time.
Each team brings 12 primary balls.
The home team is required to bring 12 backup balls.
So there's a total of 12 to 36 footballs at the beginning game, probably more than that.
But the visiting team brings its own footballs, is the point.
And even in the Super Bowl, the 49ers had their own balls and the Ravens had theirs, and Flacco, the quarterback for the Ravens, noticed at one point that he was given a 49ers ball and asked for it to be switched out, which he was granted.
My point here is, and that Super Bowl was just two or three years ago.
My point here is how do the Colts end up with the Patriots?
I mean, how do the Patriots get hold of the Colts' balls to deflate them?
There's something really screwy about this, folks.
Here it is in the rule book again.
Home teams are responsible for furnishing playable balls at all times.
Take that and set it aside.
Next sentence.
Each team brings 12 primary balls.
Okay.
Meaning last night the Colts were using balls they brought with them, and the Patriots were using their own balls.
And then the Patriots have to supply an additional 12 balls as backup in case something happens.
Goes wrong.
In addition to that, what's not in the rule book here is that there are balls set aside for the kicking game only, and they have a K on them.
And it's it's the responsibility of the ball boys running up and down the sidelines to get all this right.
Now, taking a ball out of play and weighing it and whatever they do to check its legality, I don't know.
But I given this, uh the Patriots could deflate footballs all day long, and it would only be their own, unless the Colts were then given those balls to play with, but uh they should have seen that because the uh the balls are marked.
Now, the the 12K balls, they're called K balls, they're unwrapped the day of the game, and the equipment guys get 45 minutes to try to break them in.
The kicking game footballs are brand new.
The balls that teams bring to the game are balls that they've used either in previous games or in practice.
They do not have to be brand new, is the point.
They're balls that are comfortable.
They've been broken in, they've been used by by the teams in their own endeavors.
Got to take a break.
Back with much more after this.
Don't go.
I see ya.
I see you pointing at me.
Okay, my friends, sit tight.
We still have much more to go.
As I say, the movie American Sniper is under assault.
It now holds the record for most money made in the opening weekend, and they're coming after it.
Like the people at film wish people were paying attention to it.
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