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March 19, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 19, 2015, Thursday, Hour #2
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In fact, it's not even a one-state solution that the Palestinians want.
It's not a one-state solution the Iranians.
Well, I'm picking up where I left off because I got offended, I was interrupted.
But I couldn't do anything about it.
What we're talking about here is a final solution.
And the final solution is there is no Israel, and there are no Jews living where Israel is now.
And that's the objective.
And this is never going to get solved from the Palestinian side and the Iranian side from the Arab side until that happens.
Pure and simple.
If that ever happens, you've got a solution.
And how are they going to do that, folks?
How's that solution?
If that were to happen, how is there no Israel?
And how are there no Jews living on the land that is now Israel?
How does that happen?
You think somebody's going to negotiate that?
You think somebody's going to come along in the Middle East peace process and agree to that?
You think the United Nations going to pass a Security Council resolution everybody's going to vote for that wipes Israel as it exists off the map and puts the Jews that live there somewhere else, preferably in the Mediterranean is what the Palestinians want.
Do you think that's going to happen?
That hasn't a an iodis of a chance happening unless there is a military conflict and Israel would lose.
Which is how conflicts like this have traditionally been solved throughout human history.
So what is this two-state, one state, all this that's why Thomas Loopy Friedman here just is idiotic.
I can't believe that well, yes, I can, because this the process to them, this is all that matters is the process itself.
The fact that it never solves anything is part and parcel of it.
The process is where you get to show how smart you are.
The process is where you get to demonstrate your brain power.
The process is where you get to demonstrate where your allegiances lie.
The process is where you get to identify who the bad guys are and who the good guys are, so that you can be a good guy.
The process is where you get to identify racism and bigotry and sexism all over the place.
The process is whereby you establish your credentials as some sort of expert.
The process is meaningless.
The process is worthless in terms of its stated objective, and that's a solution, because there is no solution, except a final solution.
Now the Israelis would be fine dandy with a negotiated Palestinian state, except they know that that's not what the Palestinians really want.
And therefore, how do you negotiate seriously when you know what they claim to want isn't true?
When their stated objectives are not what their real objectives are, when you know what their objectives are, their objectives are your elimination.
And so it's it's insolence, it's disrespect to the American president Barack Obama when you stand up for your own nation's existence.
It's insolence is disrespect when you dare to win your own election.
The opposition, by the way, being aided and assisted by Barack Obama, and let's remember once again, spending money, targeting other resources, running campaign ads to turn out the Arab vote in the Israeli election.
That was the American Democrat Party.
That was the American president Barack Obama.
That's the advice that the Herzog campaign got.
That's how the money that was spent over there, American money was spent, targeting objectives, resources, and running campaign ads at Israeli Arabs designed to get them to turn out and vote.
But that wasn't racist.
In the magic of Democrat Party politics, that wasn't racist.
To target ads and resources at Arab Israelis.
Whoa, there's no racism in that.
Don't you dare accuse us of racism.
But Netanyahu and the Lakud Party responding to it, defending against it.
Somehow is racist.
This stuff has to stop.
This is nothing but pure destructive.
There's nothing inspiring, there's nothing uplifting, there's no good that comes of this.
And then these brainiacs like Thomas Loopy Friedman toss in their five cents.
And tack on with their, oh yeah, kind of race baited there, Netanyahu.
Yeah, yeah, I race baited.
How in the hell?
Again, when everybody there is of the same race.
How do you race bait?
Anyway.
And then Netanyahu committed the real offense.
He went out and he appealed to the even farther right parties.
Oh, that's really low.
That's really the scum of the earth, those further right parties.
We can't put up with that.
And then after all of this, Obama still lost.
In a land slide.
And so there's going to be a price for this.
And that price is going to be we are going to abandon Israel at the UN.
And we are going to assist the Iranians.
We may put sanctions on Israel now and lift them on Iran.
I mean, this is.
Imagine Eddie Haskell with nuclear weapons, and the beaver keeps beating him.
That's what we're looking at here.
We've got a man child, an immature child, spoiled brat who's had his way his whole life, been treated as something special his whole life.
And his life recently is a series of humiliations from losing the automatic bid for Chicago to get the Olympics.
I can go down a list of things that were supposed to be slam dunks.
That Obama has lost, and this is just the last straw.
And so now everybody's going to pay for this act of insolence.
I think I'm watching Game of Thrones here.
And the 15-year-old king wants to start chopping off heads.
And everybody's afraid to say no to the 15-year-old king because it might be their head that gets chopped off.
Meanwhile, Netanyahu is doing everything he can to save his state, save his country, to save his people.
Even people in Israel who don't like him miss this, but that's what his objective is.
But I'm telling you, don't fall for this two-state, one-state solution guard.
It's the final solution.
By the way, one of the biggest jokes here in Friedman's comment is that the Iranians are sitting over there giving themselves a bunch of high fives, as in Alahu Akbar's.
That I'd like to see.
I'd like to see the Mollus high five at each other wherever they live.
Hey, I got Tomahamity.
Hey, five me, buddy!
Hello, Wakbar.
I can just see this.
This is the picture that Friedman paints.
And that they're happy about this.
They're happy, Netanyahu.
Of course they're happy because they want a one-state solution.
What one state solution is he talking about?
What one state solution would make the mullas in Iran happy?
How is how are the mulas in Iran kept happy with Netanyahu winning?
The only way that makes sense is if the mullahs in Iran know that the Middle East peace process has no end by definition and by design.
And it doesn't.
You know why?
They they're good.
They need an enemy.
They need just like the Democrat Party needs a demon, needs an enemy, needs a villain, so do those guys.
And Israel is made to order.
Israel can never ever be allowed to participate in a solution.
Because Israel's the bad guys.
They can't ever do anything good.
They can't ever do anything noteworthy.
They can't ever do anything laudatory.
That would blow everything sky high.
The Israelis must always remain the bad guys, and as such, there will never ever be a solution until they get their nuke.
And then look out.
And that is what Netanyahu knows.
And anybody with common sense knows.
And it doesn't take much common sense.
All it takes is the courage to believe what the Iranians have told everybody.
From Mahmood Ahmedini Zad to the Ayatollah Homeini to the Ayatollah Homini, to the whatever Ayatollah, whatever Mala, whoever you want to talk to.
That's their stated objective.
ISIS, you name it.
That's their objective.
And that, the elimination of Israel, and the expulsion of the Jews from that real estate, that is the objective, and that is the only solution they're interested in, and that is the final solution.
It's not a one-state, it's not a two-state.
It's the final.
And nothing short of that will ever be acceptable.
Time now, ladies and gentlemen, go to the phones.
I just realized, and we haven't yet taken a phone call.
By the way, that guy, the last call yesterday, did he give us permission to call him back?
You haven't called him back yet.
He wants to talk, what's he want to talk about?
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Scott Walker.
You about anybody who wanted to talk about uh this NFL stuff?
You know, because there's there's it look, we got lots of other news here.
Mrs. Clinton and the ongoing soccer.
Jesus is so.
They're going to pull out all the stops to make Mrs. Clinton look like a moderate.
Um some Democrats are trying to find her emails about the Keystone Excel pipeline.
Um, some other things.
But anyway, we've got uh the the neurosurgeon at uh uh University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Joseph Maroon, who is also one of the doctors of the Pittsburgh Steelers, and happens to be, I think, I could be wrong about this.
I think he's one of the doctors who first discovered, explained the whole notion of the post-death study of the brain that produces CTE, the damage to the brain, the swelling of the brain that can only be discovered posthumously.
For those of you in Rio Linda, that means after someone has died.
And it's very important to note that you cannot diagnose CTE while someone's alive.
Well, Dr. Maroon, on the on the as a result of the retirement of Chris Borland, is now saying, wait, wait, wait, wait a minute.
I think we need to put the brakes on on this.
We are we have gone a little bit overboard in this CTE business.
It's not as bad as everybody thinks.
Football is safe.
I told you this borlin thing was gonna be a tipping point.
It has caused a panic within the confines of the NFL.
Now you you you probably aren't yet seeing signs of the panic, but do not doubt me.
Panic is there.
It has set in, and they've only got themselves to blame for it, just like good liberals.
Okay, some bunch of people come up and start talking about your game kills.
Your game destroys the brains of the people who play it.
Why look at all the suicides?
And rather than stand up and say, wait, you don't know that.
What can we dial back some of this scare fear-mongering stuff?
Instead of doing that, they said, Oh, well, we must have investigation.
We must do research.
They essentially accepted the premise.
Accepted the premise, that was the end of it.
Once you accept the premise, that's why the neurosurgeons coming up now.
Say, wait, wait, wait, wait, we've gone a little bit too far on this.
It's not that bad.
The point is there's never been any definitive scientific evidence on this CTE business.
It's always been a construct.
But all it took, all it took, was the first mention of the game being deadly and the very media that covers the game, the very media that feeds Itself covering the game began covering the game on the premise that it kills.
And now a player who reads the media, a player, a star player around whom a defense could be built, a very solid star defense, the 49er defense, decides after one year to quit because he believes what he's been told.
He believes that if he keeps playing this game, his lifespan might be reduced 15 to 20 years.
And he doesn't want to live 15 or 20 years less than a life expectancy.
And to him, the way to make sure he does that is to quit playing the game.
I mean, they kind of brought it on themselves.
Rather than standing up and demanding proof.
You know, it's no different than when these these leftists come up and start telling you coconut oil kills, and you got to ban movie theater popcorn.
Oh, oh, really?
Oh no!
Okay, well then how about canola oil?
Is that okay?
Well, it's somewhat better.
It's not the perfect solution, but we'll go with it.
Okay, good.
You'll leave us alone if we drop coconut.
That's what the NFL did.
Instead of what you people, who the hell are you?
The Center for Science and Public Interest?
Who are you?
What gives you the right to tell us coconut oil is bad when it turns out it's actually a good fat?
It's actually how many other of these claims have come along?
Cocaine or caffeine, either gonna kill you, now it's good for you.
Now it might stave off Parkinson's.
Every day, something you eat or drink is gonna kill you, and then a year later, sorry, it isn't.
It's absurd.
And when this stuff starts, then what happens?
Then governments say, you know what, you're not smart enough to eat for yourself.
We have to tell you what to eat.
We have to tell you what's good and what's bad.
We have to tell you what'll kill you and what'll keep you alive.
And little by little we give away our freedom over something as inconsequential as feeding ourselves.
We give that up.
So all these leftists, these these social do-gooders, nannies, do boot busybodies.
Instead of standing up to them, everybody cowers.
Same in the global warming crowd.
Reverend said, wait a minute, global warming, you told us last year we're facing an ice age.
Make up your minds.
And go on with your life.
Everybody kowtows to it.
And they just get their hooks into our culture and society each and every day by doing things like this.
And they set out, make no mistake, they wanted to conduct irreparable harm to football, particularly National Football League and college football.
That is a Nathma.
That's that college football, the NFL, high school football, the whole feeder system.
Why, that's capitalism on steroids.
We cannot have that.
Why is it capitalism on steroids?
Because it's merit-based all the way, babe.
You get there or not based on your ability, based on your hard work, based on your God-given talent.
That's it.
Well, that's not fair, because not everybody has that talent, so it's not fair that some can do it and some can't.
And so we have to move in and equalize it.
The only way to equalize it is really take the danger and the risk out of it, and you destroy the game.
And the league has sat by and tried to manage all this.
And that what they've what they've ended up doing, that there's, I guess, I guarantee you Chris Borland is not the only guy in the NFL contemplating quitting in order to save his life.
But my point is they brought it on themselves.
Liberal busybody over here claims playing football is responsible for suicides.
Oh no.
The league gets defensive, has to accept the premise and say we're going to study it.
And they get a bunch of athletes of promise to donate their brains to science after they die.
We're going to get to the bottom of this.
In the meantime, every death a former player is attributed to the fact that he played.
Well, the guys that are playing the game at present, like anybody else, they consume the media, they see it.
If you're now being told, you're you're in the NFL, you're 25 years old, just out of college, and you can't turn on TV without reading the game kill somebody or injure somebody or maim somebody.
What are you gonna do?
You're gonna come to your Wait, why am I doing this?
And the answer is gonna always come back.
I'm doing it for the money.
I can't make as much money anywhere else.
Shannon Sharp, do you hear what he said?
We had a sound bite him yesterday, we didn't get to it.
Shannon Sharp played tight end for the Denver Broncos and the uh and the Baltimore Ravens.
Made the Hall of Fame.
Thinks I don't know what a screen pass is.
I don't know the difference in a screen pass and a screened-in porch.
I thought it was a funny line.
I thought his brother Sterling is a good guy.
But Shannon is a different cloth.
Anyway, Shannon Sharp said, what is all this?
The National Football League rescued my family.
I I'll never forget his Hall of Fame induction speech.
He talked about how his family was so poor they ate raccoon.
And the NFL is what enabled them to escape a lifestyle like that.
And he's a little bit alarmed at all of these assaults and all these attacks on the game and on the NFL and on the owners, because who are they?
Why they know all this stuff, but they don't care because they're the equivalent of the Tea Party.
They don't care.
They don't care that their employees are dying.
See, that's the way this stuff gets covered.
They're just a dime a dozen these players, and these owners are making millions, and the colleges are even worse.
They're not paying them anything, and they're getting diseased and they're getting sick and they're getting concussions and they're dying.
This news gets spread and promulgated, and the players read it.
What do you expect them to do?
And the media wonders why the game's in trouble when they are the engineers of it.
I don't know.
I meant to take a call therefore.
Okay, your phone calls are coming up, and I promise.
I just have one soundbite here.
This is Shannon Sharp.
And this actually from yesterday morning on uh on Fox and Friends, Brian Kilmead is uh talking to Shannon Sharp.
No, he did.
It was it was during the Rams business.
That ill-fated uh story when I was part of the group that wanted to buy the Rams, and Shannon Sharp was among the the malcontents said, Rush, limbo, you wouldn't know the difference in a screen porch and a screen pass.
You know, which I thought was a funny line, even though it was all wet.
I still appreciated the humor.
Anyway, Killmead said to Shannon Sharp, your reaction to this, this sent shockwaves throughout the league.
Chris Morland retiring.
He hadn't been diagnosed with concussions.
He's had shoulder injury.
That's true, by the way.
A bad shoulder injury last December in a playoff game, maybe January, I forget, against the Seahawks, and he had a bad shoulder injury on the same shoulder when he was at Wisconsin in his uh in his senior year, but he has not had a concussion.
He thinks he might have had a concussion in training camp last summer with the Fordiners, but it was never diagnosed.
He didn't tell anybody because he's a rookie, he needed it, he needed to get on the field.
See, that's part of it too.
Players are encouraged to do things against their own interests.
Yes, and we must stop this.
So the warrior mentality, we gotta get rid of that.
We can't have a warrior mentality in American culture.
Why, that would that would lead to disobedience of the Democrat Party.
And we need obedient, subservient people.
And that does not mean we're gonna have warriors.
We gotta weed the warriors out of American culture, which is what they're trying to do.
So anyway, Kilmead points out that that Morland never had a concussion that he knew of, and here's Shannon Sharp's uh reply.
For me, if I had to do it all over again, I would do it a thousand times over.
I can assure you, Chris Borland's background is a lot different than mine.
I grew up in rural South Georgia, ten people living in a thousand square foot cement floors, no paneling, no insulation.
We ate raccoon and rabbit and squirrel and armadilla.
I survived for 20 years, but I didn't want to survive another 20, 30 years.
I wanted to live.
Playing in the National Football League gave my brother and I an opportunity, not only for us to live, but for my grandmother, my sister, my mom.
We both have kids.
It gave us an opportunity for our kids to live.
As a parent, you always say, I want better for my kids than I had it for myself.
Shannon Sharp said, that's the that's the contra view to the attitude out there now that game couldn't maim me.
Game could cause me to get suicide, game could kill me.
I'm gonna quit.
And he's pointing out that the game is meant an escape to so many.
But folks, do not laugh.
Do not discount me.
Do not poo-poo this notion that the warrior mentality is one of the things being targeted by people that don't like football.
The warrior mentality, the special forces military kind of guys, that's targeted.
That represents individuality.
A warrior is not subservient.
A warrior is not docile.
Warriors by nature do not accept attempts to control them and this sort of thing.
And that just that flies in the face of uh of the grand designs of the modern day Democrat Party and the American left.
And that's one of the reasons the game's being targeted.
Okay.
To the phones, finally as promised this Michael in Washington.
I'm glad you waited.
I really do appreciate your patience.
Thank you.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Nice to talk to you.
Thank you, sir.
Um it's interesting that they're they're looking at the Israeli election as being um something that is pointing towards uh some sort of racism, but why isn't it racist that uh there's no democratic elections in any of the surrounding Arab countries, all of those Arabs are denied the right to vote, uh, and even in the Palestinian territories.
They haven't had an election in ten years.
Exactly.
That's my whole point.
The Arab Israeli population has more freedom and liberty than they have any other country in the Middle East.
And they're allowed to participate in Israeli elections.
Somehow you've nailed it.
Somehow that's racist.
I it's it's it's absurd on its on its face.
No, that's a great point you're making out there, and I thank you for for getting through and making it.
Well, you're welcome.
Well, I'm I'm glad you're out there.
Because it, you know, that's again.
If you ever do go to Israel, and I imagine a lot of people would would probably not go because they think it's too unstable.
Terrorism happening left and right, suicide bombers and all that.
It's it's worth going.
And I'm telling you, so many things would shock you.
If if all of if if all you think you know of Israel is what you've been told by the American political media, you're in for surprise after surprise after surprise.
One of the things you probably believe is the Israelis hate the Arabs, and they're intolerant, and they don't accept them, and they don't want any part of them.
And you get to you get to Israel, Jerusalem, and you see happy, content, Arab population, and they're running around and they're living there.
They have access to everything the nation provides any other citizen.
They have total freedom, they participate in Israeli elections.
It's one of the biggest surprises anybody getting off the plane in Israel will discover if all they know of Israel is what they've been told as part of their consuming of news in this country.
Or the babies anywhere.
Western news media doesn't matter.
Here's uh here's Christopher Manhattan.
Great that you called, sir.
Great to have you here too.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
It's great to talk to you.
You do such a wonderful service.
Well, thank you.
Yesterday we were talking about the bomb in Iran getting the bomb.
I I don't see why they would use the bomb against Israel because they'd wipe themselves out.
I'd be more worried about them using a nuclear weapon against somebody that supported Israel.
Meaning the United States.
Or, well, okay, meaning the United States.
I mean, you know, I'm I'm more worried about terrorism than than a bomb going off in my backyard in Manhattan.
Well, that can happen now, uh, Iranian sponsored.
They don't need to acquire a nuclear weapon for that to happen.
Right, but why would Iran bomb Israel?
Why would they pee in their own well if they have to drink out of it?
I mean they couldn't destroy Israel without destroying themselves in the immediate area within a nuclear weapon.
Um theoretically, yeah.
People are just going on what they've said.
They've vowed to do it.
I think if you do the story of the 12th Imam.
No.
Well, go the 12th Imam basically is their version of the apocalypse.
And they bring that about by destroying Israel.
And they die too.
Oh, okay.
Well, I mean, if they're gonna do it that way, then it's makes perfect sense.
I'm not gonna be able to do that.
It's the end of the world.
I just wonder why they'd use it and blow themselves up too.
Well, if they think that's what's called for in their in in their own religious teachings, if they don't expect to survive it, if the glory is the destruction of the enemy, which enables, dare I say, the equivalent antichrist to show up.
You gotta take look at.
That's why I take these people, see when they say this.
I Hitler tells everybody what told everybody was gonna do.
And these guys, the militant Islamists have made no bones about it.
I and it I think it's risky to run around, ah, they just huffin'.
I don't mean that.
They would never do not even yet just they're just trying to intimidate me.
They're just trying to make themselves look like I think it's risky not to take them at their word.
Yeah.
They're they're beheading people, they're lighting people on fire, they're wiping out and a real offense, according to Wolf Blitzard, they're obliterating museum artifacts.
Can you believe that?
I mean, beheading people's one thing and setting people on fire, but they're actually destroying ancient museum pieces.
I mean, what a bunch of schlubs.
Well, you've got to take them at their word.
Common sense says take them at their word and create a deterrent to it.
That's what that's what defense policy is.
Most of your defense arsenal.
People never understand this.
The reason you build the B-2 bomber, the reason you invest in stealth technology is so that you never have to use it.
And that you lose people with what do you mean?
You're gonna build all these stealth bombers and never gonna use them, it's a waste of money.
No, you have them if you need them.
You hope their existence is a deterrent.
This is why this, you know, this whole notion of the nuclear arms race way back in the 80s.
It was specious.
The number didn't matter.
So we had an arms reduction talks.
We get together with the Soviets.
Well, we'll get rid of 15 if you get rid of 15.
Okay, we'll both get rid of 15.
Hasn't nothing's changed.
If the balance of power doesn't change, nothing changes.
If each side has five, each side has five.
If each size has five thousand, doesn't matter.
If one side has 10,000, the other side has two thousand, that matters.
And that's what you strive for.
You strive to be bigger and more powerful at all times than the people who want to wipe you out.
And it is the idea that even if they try, they're finished that acts as a deterrence.
But that always doesn't work when you're dealing with insane madmen.
This this stuff is it's it's it's gonna get complicated and hairy, and it's why you need really incredible people involved in these kinds of subjects, policies, negotiations, what have you.
Really serious people, not a bunch of pie-eyed utopians who think that they got some sort of magic power with the use of their speeches that can somehow convert hatred into love.
That's the kind of danger we have now.
Kind of narcissism and arrogance that thinks I'm so special, and my speeches are so good that our enemies will automatically love us.
As soon as we get rid of our cowboy Bush, love for America will be the how's that worked out for us?
I don't think it has.
Anyway, I appreciate the call, Greg uh uh not Greg caller Christopher was his name.
I gotta take another time out, but sit tight, there's much more straight ahead when we get back.
Get this.
If I've if I've got this right, Rupert Murdoch, who is the founder, the CEO of News Corp, Fox News, if you will, 20th Century Fox and so forth.
Rupert Murdoch uh just tweeted senior intelligence people say certain that Hillary's messages totally hacked by several foreign governments.
Now Rupert Murdoch might be in a position to know this stuff.
So Rupert Murdoch has put it out there in a tweet.
We'll see where this goes.
Senior intelligence people, whoever they are, not named, telling Rupert that it is certain that Hillary's messages were totally hacked by several foreign governments.
Monica Crowley has a column today in the Washington Times.
Have you seen it, Snerdley?
Or you didn't, you didn't use the Washington Times your show prep rotation.
She's got a piece claiming that what this really was all about.
She says the key to it is Sidney Blumenthal, that she can't do anything without Blumenthal.
Blumenthal is is her consigliary enforcer, you name it, strategirist advisor, hatchet man, what whatever dirt she needs done, Blumenthal does it, okay?
And Obama would not allow him.
She wanted Blumenthal to be on the State Department payroll.
And and the regime nixed it.
And now some people think if Obama doesn't want Blumenthal around Blumenthal must really, really be bad news, because normally a guy like Blumenthal uh Obama would eat up, you know.
But Obama I mean Obama doesn't need him, he's got Bill Ayers.
But nevertheless, denied Hillary her request to use Blumenthal on the State Department payroll.
So Monica Crowley's theory is that this whole home server business was set up to keep things from Obama, in addition to everybody else, but actually to make sure what she was doing would not be known by Obama, and to shield the fact that Blumenthal was out doing whatever dirty work she needed doing.
Interesting theory.
And now and now Rupert pipes in with a tweet.
Senior intelligence people say certain that Hillary's messages totally hacked by several foreign governments.
Well, we could speculate what that means.
I mean, how many foreign governments would actually disagree with anything that they discovered Hillary to have written?
So what kind of problem could there really be?
This is continuing to effervest, too, folks.
It continue to bubble up out there.
In the meantime, Paul in Kansas City, Missouri, you're next.
It's great to have you here, sir.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
My name's Paul Kaufman, and uh actually had the privilege of playing in the NFL for eleven years.
Uh from 78 to 85 up in Green Bay.
I played with your buddy Ken Rutgers up there.
And you play you you you played with Rutgers?
Yes.
Ken Rutgers, folks, number 75 left offensive tackle for the Packers, started the rush room in the Packers locker room.
And I think it was Brett Farbs third or fourth year with the teams after he'd been traded.
But but uh Rutgers and a guy named Ken Moran, who was the right guard, you know him too.
R Rich Moran.
Rich Moran, they ran the rush room.
And uh in a word, Rutgers retired, and he started a um he's he started an organization to help retired players uh uh make their move into the private world, private sector, is that right?
And I haven't heard from him uh since long after that.
But I saw saw him last year.
He got inducted into the Green Bay Packer Hall of Fame last year.
That's awesome.
What position did you play, Paul?
I was a tight end.
I played up in Green Bay from 78 to 85, played with the Chiefs in 86 and 87, finished up with the Vikings in eighty eight, and uh uh like most people that played the game I had some concussions uh but I'm you know fifty nine years old now and uh you know doing well I go to a lot of NFL alumni events golf tournaments fundraisers uh you know I see a lot of guys and you know I I think you're right I think a lot of this is overblown.
I don't see that many guys that are really you know struggling.
I I believe there probably are a few from head trauma but you know the percentages are are minimal and uh well it's like it's like any other group of people a certain percentage are gonna have negative experiences no matter what the activity this got it did get overblown and predictably so because of the panic oriented nature of the media and everybody involved with this.
Hey Paul I have to take a break here and I know you've been holding for a while could you hold on for a few more minutes?
Yes I'll hope.
I appreciate that.
Paul Kaufman former tight end Green Bay Packers the Kansas City Chiefs Minnesota Vikings will be back after this don't go away I have a qu if if if concussions if they're that bad if they're that debilitating why do we even talk about Hillary Clinton being present because she's had a bunch of them.
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