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Jan. 11, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 11, 2016, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
He did, he did.
He called the Bengal Steelers game Saturday night a prison gang riot.
And wait till you hear what we hear what Deion Sanders said about Vontez Burfecht.
Oh man.
Greetings, my friends.
Great to have you here.
L. Rushbo, America's real anchor man.
And now an officially acclaimed member of the mainstream media by no less than the uh executive editor of the Washington Post.
Marty Baron says that I am the mainstream media.
I wasn't going to play this number.
Let's go since I've referenced there.
Grab audio soundbite number one.
Last night's C-SPAN QA.
Brian Lamb interviewing.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well we'll get to all the rest of that stuff.
Just say, and it's we're loaded today, too.
I mean, Trump is playing believe this.
We've solved the cruise citizenship thing.
It's not a problem.
There's no doubt.
Cruz is a citizen.
His mother was a citizen.
Trump in Reno's asking his audience, do you think Cruz is a student?
No!
And then he opens the rally with Springsteen.
Born in the U.S. Sorry.
I have to laugh.
As Trump picks up every left-wing trick on this that he can.
Anyway, we've got that.
We've got we got Hillary Pauling data.
Like I told you, Bernie Sanders creeping up, even George Stephanopoulos now says that Bernie Sanders could win Iowa and New Hampshire.
Now it's one thing to say that.
It'd be another thing if it actually happens.
But here's Marty Barron.
Here's the uh executive editor of the Washington Post, Washington Post, for those of you in real linda, being interviewed by Brian Lamb, Saturday night on C-SPAN.
Question, what's the impact over the last years of people in the talk show business?
Uh what what impact have has that beat, he called it the talk show business beat.
Uh, what effect does that have on the mainstream media every day?
Russ Limbaugh is, I think, the most successful radio talk show host in the country.
That would make him mainstream media.
So when they talk about mainstream media, they are the mainstream media in many ways.
I just don't think that this should affect us.
I think that the thing that we should do is sort of stick to that purpose, stick to that mission, and not be distracted by attacks on us.
It's hard to know what he's saying if you're a layman.
And I'm not a layman, I'm a highly trained specialist, I know what he's saying here.
Uh but I am the mainstream media, most successful radio talk show host in the country, making mainstream media.
These guys don't get it.
Mainstream media has a specific definition.
Legendary, liberal, whatever you want to call it, media, the old guys uh that have dominated since the beginning of time media.
Uh and this is all about the fact they're a monopoly's busted up.
That's what Brian Lamb's actually asking about.
What you know, he's talk radio guys that come along and they've totally blown up your business model.
I mean, you're not he didn't say this is what he means.
That's why you need a highly trained specialist like me to analyze the question.
He's basically asking you guys had a monopoly, then the talk show guys come along and uh and limbaugh and and they beat you up every day and they're ragging on you every day.
What are you gonna do about it?
How's it affecting the way you do your business?
And this guy says, well, you know, they're mainstream media now too, which is he's meant designed to criticize me.
So he's even criticized all term mainstream media is designed to uh uh take a hit.
Uh make a hit on my prestige, if you will.
Because people in this audience don't like the mainstream media, so lumping me in with it's supposed to be a mild uh criticism.
And he admits here that uh what they have to do is sort of stick to that purpose, stick to that mission, not be distracted by attacks on us.
He's admitting it's hand-to-hand combat.
Now, he's ad their mission is to do battle with us, not report the news, but he admits they're in an ideological battle.
The media versus well, the mainstream media, the drive-by's as I uh as I call them.
It was a shocking, somewhat sad day for many in the music world today, and that's the the the surprise death of David Bowie, who succumbed to cancer after 18 months.
Many did not know that he had cancer.
I have to admit, there are only a couple of David Bowie songs that I like.
I was not one of these uh died in the wool David Bowie fans, but he had a couple of tunes I really liked.
David Bowie, how old was he?
Sixty sixty-nine.
This is My generation, I just never in the Ziggy Stardust days, never got into it.
Anyway, what was he?
About five, nine and a hundred pounds.
I mean, he was a string bean, but he had this amazing voice, and to people that were big in the music business, and it's incredibly innovative and talented, but uh, and I wanted to acknowledge his passing.
Okay, folks, great to have you here as we kick off another exciting busy broadcast week.
Telephone numbers 800 282-2882, if you want to be on the program.
The uh email address L Rushbow at EIB net.com.
Hillary Clinton's lead over Bernie Sanders has nearly vanished.
George Stephanopoulos, here it is, audio soundbite number 16 Sunday morning on this week.
Uh this is Stephanopoulos talking about the presidential primary.
The Clinton campaign seems to be bracing for losses in Iowa, New Hampshire.
They still hope they can pull out Iowa, but you hear a lot of talk about how this is a delegate fight, it's going to take a long time.
Really?
It's going to take a long time, might lose Iowa, New Hampton.
None of this was supposed to happen.
This was again, this was supposed to be a coronation, folks.
Believe me, there is panic.
This is not, he makes this sound like it's just standard run-of-the-mill day-to-day Democrat politics.
This is not.
Bernie Sanders was supposed to have been long gone like now by now.
I mean, even more so than Trump was supposed to have been long gone.
Bernie Sanders was never supposed to have even arrived.
Bernie Sanders was always going to be nothing more than an asterisk.
He was just out there as a placeholder.
He was just there because the Clinton's good graces allowed him to make a pretense of running.
And in the process, the Democrat Party has become so extreme and so radical leftist that Bernie Sanders is now perceived by more Democrats as a genuine real Democrat than Hillary Clinton is.com.
The percentages of everyday Americans describing themselves as Democrat or Republican are near historic laws for both parties.
Which I believe, by the way, 29% in a Gallup survey released today identify as Democrats.
That's the lowest point in 27 years.
That's huge, folks.
You know, everybody thinks the problems exist on the Republican side, because that's where the drive-by media focuses.
They focus on the uh dysfunction that exists in the Republican Party, and they're ignoring that and more going on in the Democrat Party.
29%.
Now the people that used to call themselves uh Democrats and Republicans and no longer do are now calling themselves independents.
And then as a companion story, 20%, I've been telling you about this, 20% of Trump's support base identifies as Democrats.
It's close to being his largest, not quite, but his largest support group is blue-collar Democrats, the old Reagan Democrats.
But Bernie Sanders is now to the it's not just the election polling, the fundraising numbers.
He is outraising her in the last month or so.
He's raising as much, and she's not a Piker in the fundraising department.
And then on top of this, the the FBI probe that we've been hearing all about last week.
Remember Joe de Genova, and then a second person came forward and said the evidence is so huge, and it continues to mount, that if there isn't not an indictment of Hillary Clinton, that there will be a walkout in the Justice Department and the FBI.
It'll be like Watergate.
People will just refuse to continue to go to work because the evidence of her criminality here in trafficking in classified documents is just overwhelming.
And in fact, the latest in that, folks, is an email that was uh revealed recently in a typical Friday afternoon document dump.
There's an email in which Hillary is advising a ranking subordinate to purposely remove the labels.
Remove the markings so that she can send an email without going through the hassles of encrypting it and without having to not use her own server.
So she's she's telling you I take a classified document and take the classified markings off of it and send it through unsecured lines.
I mean that that there's no question if that really happened, what that is.
That's knowingly.
She's up to now she's been I didn't see any markings.
I didn't know any markings.
And everybody's response to that is you assume it's all classified, Mrs. Clinton.
Come on, nobody's being fooled by your your feigned ignorance here.
But this dispels the feigned ignorance.
This blows that sky high.
She had knowingly classified documents.
She told a subordinate or ranking subordinate to remove the markings so that she could send it.
And that's been discovered.
Now there's another element to this that's been added on to it.
FBI's Clinton probe expands to the public corruption track.
Now, this is long overdue, and I think it's actually been going on longer than the story indicates.
But it's Catherine Harrid at Fox News, the FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of private email as Secretary of State has expanded to look at whether the possible intersection of Clinton foundation work and State Department business may have violated public corruption laws, according to three intelligence sources not authorized speak on the record.
What this is about, the Clintons are out there raising money.
Everybody knows they're doing this.
They're raising money via the Clinton Crime Family Foundation.
It's ostensibly for charitable purposes.
But what's really happening is they are soliciting donations from powerful people in powerful positions in foreign governments and not chump change amounts.
We're talking about multiple hundreds of thousands, multiple millions of dollars.
There can be no question what this is for.
These people in foreign countries that do have business with the United States are not giving hundreds of thousands and millions of dollars to the Clintons because they want an invitation to Clinton Global Initiative.
They're not doing it because they want an invitation to whatever the party Bill throws with his next stable of babes.
They're not doing it because they like the Clintons.
They're doing this because they are buying influence in advance.
They are buying favorable influence from what they hope and presume will be President Hillary Clinton.
And the FBI's looking into this.
Now the story makes it look like that they just started their probe into that.
The fact of the matter is it's been going on for quite a while.
Um the development follows press reports over the past year about the potential overlap of State Department and Clinton Foundation work and preguntas over whether donors benefited from their contacts inside the administration.
Some of them think that the influence purchasing was taking place while she was Secretary of State.
Uh which is probably true.
There's no question, and but there was also selling it on the cum, meaning donate now, when I'm president, it'll pay off for you.
And they've been looking into this for a while.
The evidence here has to be overwhelming.
And James Comey runs the FBI, don't forget he was Ashcroft's deputy.
John Ashcraw, you remember you'd forgotten that, haven't you?
James Comey, that's that's that's assistant attorney general or whatever the title would be, but he was a deputy, high-ranking deputy to John Ashcroft, who is attorney general for W. And he's now running the FBI.
He said, no nonsense guy.
He's not particularly partisan one way or the other, at least in the way he's done business.
He's just strict law and order guy.
And I've always found it strange Obama kept him, but neither here nor there.
Uh so this stuff is just continuing to mount here, and Stephanopoulos talking about this uh Democrat primary system now devolving to a delegate count.
That's huge.
This was supposed to be a coronation.
And Stephanopoulos admitting now that this is going to take a long time.
We may, folks, before this is all said and done, we may have to reactivate Operation Chaos, but this time for Bernie, depending on how the Democrat hierarchy seeks to treat him.
I got a question about this last week.
Do you think you could possibly reinstitute Operation Chaos?
And it was uh uh asked as though I might implement it on the Republicans, can't see that, but I can see, depending on how things pan out here.
Could Bernie Sanders not supposed to win these two states?
And he's not supposed to be outraising Hillary.
None of this is supposed to happen.
And the effort in the drive-by is to make it look like casual, ordinary, everyday business in the Democrat Party, believe me, it's not that.
And the same thing with this bimbo eruption business.
You know, Hillary and her team's trying to say, This is no big deal what Trump's doing, focusing on Bill's past, and they're really not focusing on Bill so much.
This is the the the smart play here is that they're going after Hillary's role in impugning the women that came forward because Bill's not a candidate, but Hillary is.
So we've got details on all of this and much more, including what some in the drive-by media were referring to as a prison gang riot.
Not me.
I didn't say it.
Saturday night, Cincinnati, Bengals Steelers.
Back after this.
In addition to going after Ted Cruz yesterday and Reno, details on that coming up.
Donald Trump says the NFL has gone soft, just like America.
So I'm watching the game yesterday.
What used to be considered a great tackle, a violent, head on head, violent.
If that was done by Dick Butkiss, it'd say he's the greatest player.
If that were done by Lawrence Taylor, it was done by Lawrence Taylor and Dick Potkins.
And Ray Nitskey, right?
Ray Nitske.
Used to see these tackles, and it was incredible to watch, right?
Now they tackle.
Oh, head on head collision.
15 yards, the whole game is all screwed up.
He wasn't finished.
It's going to affect the NFL.
I don't even watch it as much anymore.
The referees, they want to all throw flags, so their wife sees him at home.
Oh, there's my husband.
He just gave a 15-yard penalty on one of the most beautiful tackles made this year.
Right?
That's boring.
I don't know what tackle he's talking about.
My guess is he's referring to the Von Tays Berfecht attempted decapitation of the Steelers wide receiver number 84, Antonio Brown.
You know, folks.
That game was won.
The Bengals had the game won.
Von Tay's Burfecht could have just let 18 seconds wind off the clock for the most part, and Von Tay's Burfecht could have been a hero.
He could have ridden his own ticket.
He would have been the star of the game two or three times over.
And then he tried to take Antonio Brown's head off on a tackle.
When there was no hope of Brown that the pass was already long ago incomplete.
It was just the most it was just downright stupid, whatever else it was.
Greetings, my friends.
Welcome back.
Great to have you.
Rush Limbaugh, the cutting edge of societal evolution.
Okay, I have to talk about these the Steelers and Bengals on Saturday night.
I made a study, too.
I mean, folks, I don't know how many of you saw the game.
I hope a lot of you.
For those of you who missed it, I'm I'm just going to give you the high points of what happened here that determine the outcome of the final minute.
But it was a disgrace.
It was it was a flat-out disgrace.
It was uh I don't even think the referees could have controlled this unless they had been willing to throw people out of the game long before the events late in the fourth quarter happened, and that just doesn't seem to be a step the NFL wants to take.
But the Cincinnati Bengals had been stymied for three quarters on offense.
They came back and they had a one-point lead over the Steelers.
Von Tay's Burfeck, number 55, great linebacker for the Bengals, had had the game of his career.
He sacked Rothisberger and took him out of the game with an injured right shoulder.
In fact, when Rottlesberger was being carted off the field, Bengals fans were throwing batteries and bottles and cans at him.
It was a this whole thing was a total breakdown.
In the stands, people were urinating on each other.
Bengals fans were urinating on Steelers fans.
Steelers fans were beating up on Bengals fans, and women were being beaten up in the face.
There were five or six charges, I think, or instances of crimes charged by the Cincinnati police once it was all sorted out, and it was a direct result of what was happening on the field.
It was just mind-boggling to me.
Here you have Montez Berfect who has taken Rothless Burger out of the game of what everybody thought at the time was a legal hit.
It was a sack.
There's now video that surfaced that supposedly shows Berfect uh ramming his knee into Rothlessberger's injured shoulder on the ground.
Debatable whether that happened, but it looks like it did.
Then Burfecht intercepts the Steelers' backup quarterback, Landry Jones, in what looked like the Steelers' last chance drive to get down to field goal position, field goal range.
And then for one reason or another, well, it wasn't one reason or another.
The Bengals fumbled on their next offensive drive.
The Steelers recover it, and I may be off on the times here, but they've got one drive left.
We're down here to like a minute, and they have timeouts remaining, and they've got to go at least 55 yards to get into field goal range.
And the Steelers bring Rothlessberger out with his inability to throw anything longer than 10 yards, bring him out to quarterback the final series.
Third down and long.
Tries to hit Antonio Brown over the middle.
The pass is high.
Brown has no chance of catching it, barely got a handle on it.
And out of nowhere, here comes Vontez Burfect, right shoulder, trying to take Brown's head off.
Launched himself off the ground at the head of Antonio Brown, who was knocked unconscious briefly and flopping around on the ground.
Number 24, Adam Pac-Man Jones today claims that Brown was faking it, deserves an Oscar, that he was barely even hit.
He said, Go back and look at in slow motion.
Monte's barely hit the guy.
They're just all wet on that.
But the point it was stupid.
Vontaes Berfecht at that point had been the hero that toasted the town.
Plus, they were going to win the first playoff game since 1991.
They had it as much in the bag as you can possibly have it in the bag.
They just stupid.
It was just well, it was worse than stupid.
It was totally unnecessary, and it was brought on by whatever cultural problems these players seem to have these days.
I it just watching this game was a seesaw of up and down.
But the actions that took place after Burfecht tried to decapitate Brown.
Brown's laid on the field.
Here come the Steelers medical staff out to check him.
They throw the flag for 15 yards.
The Bengals are outraged.
They start arguing and so forth.
Steelers' linebackers coach, Joey Porter, is on the field, which Adam Jones objects to.
And Adam Jones, number 24, tries to get at Porter in the process, practically knocks a referee down.
That's another flag, another 15 yards.
The Steelers end up with nines or 14 seconds left, and they have to just kick a 35-yard field goal to win, which they did.
30 yards and penalties, 15 yards of it, a dead ball foul running into an official.
All they had to do was back off.
All they had to do, the pass to Brown was incomplete.
It's fourth down.
Rothesberger cannot throw.
And Vonte's Burfect couldn't help it, despite, and they uh announcers were talking about throughout the game that coach Marvin Lewis had failed to keep him in control, keep him in check.
I mean, it made the telecast looked like a bunch of players on the Bengal side literally could not be controlled.
It was it was uh and I watched the media, as you know I'm wont to do.
I studied the media on Sunday and today to try to see how the incidents in this game would be reported and react to because it it should have been what happened in this game, how it happened, why it happened, who did it, all of it should be the story of the weekend, notwithstanding that poor kicker in Minnesota who botched the chip shot at the end of the Seattle game.
But what happened in Cincinnati is the story of the year in the NFL for what it represents, what it tells us uh and what it indicates, and it makes it it's not a surprise to me that many in the media trying to downplay it as just another game where emotions kind of ran a little hotter than usual.
It was much, much more than that.
Uh and it's it's it's fascinating to me.
Let's go to some of the audio sound bites on this.
First off, now by the way, back to Trump.
I Trump is I I think something's going on with Trump on this.
I think there are a lot of people who think the NFL is going soft in a lot of ways.
But that Vonte's Berfect hit on Antonio Brown is not an example of the NFL going too far in the other direction, trying to take the manliness out of the game.
That hit was uncalled for.
It was unnecessary.
It may have taken place in the game back in the 50s and 60s and 70s.
It may have even happened helmet to helmet back in the 50s, 60s, and 70s.
But it was unnecessary.
You know, folks, that hit, the best way to put this in that hit is criminal assault if it happens outside of a football stadium outside of a game.
What happened to Antonio Brown is criminal assault.
And it could be charged and prosecuted as such if it happened anywhere else.
So Trump the next day comes out talking about how the NFL's going soft.
There's lots of examples of how that may be true, but not after that game on SAS.
Saturday night's game was not an example of the NFL going soft.
That game was brutal.
That game and a lot of the brutality was not called.
Terms uh for penalties.
This this this was not a wussified NFL on display Saturday.
It was quite the exact opposite, in fact.
So Trump coming out and talking about the woossification of the NFL after that game, I'm scratching my head.
What game did he watch?
So it tells me like Trump has a uh a radar and he's aware of what people are saying about various things, and decides to chime in now and then if he thinks that it's politically opportune.
But the timing was because this was not the game to accuse the NFL of wussifying.
This was not the game to accuse the NFL of becoming a bunch of pansies.
This was not the game where you complain and moan about the referees uh going softer and th this this game, what I mean, there's a reason why some of the media there calling it a prison gang riot.
I w I once referred to a uh Chargers Patriots game.
I told people I thought I was watching the Crips and Blood Trump.
The media jumped all over me for that.
Called it quite have a call me racist and and and prejudiced and all this sort of stuff, and and I had specific reasons for it.
It was all about, you know, a guy lost the game for San Diego simply because he thought he had been dissed.
He lost like Burfeck lost the game.
Vontez Berfeck and Pac-Man Jones can say whatever they want to say.
They lost the game.
They had the game won.
They were both Berfect, particularly was a hero.
Despite who he is, despite whatever his character is, he could have been the toast of that town and threw it all away and probably felt happy that it all happened because of whatever cultural things go on here that define toughness and manliness.
I I I don't pretend to understand it.
But it was just stupid.
The game was won.
There was no reason for any of this to happen in terms of playing to win.
There was no reason for any of The reasons for it to happen were entirely personal, out of control emotions, an inability to focus, no professionalism.
It was just it was stunning.
And to have it for the for the most part downplayed.
Now the immediate aftermath, CBS, some of the NFL people were over the top in their criticism of everybody involved, but then it tamed out.
And by the time today got here, eh, ho-hum, no big deal, let's move on.
And I don't think it's a ho-hum.
I think it's it's it's indicative of so much that's happening throughout our culture, not just in football and not just in professional sports.
And there's no place for it.
But let's go to the audio sound by listen.
Here's Jim Nance and Phil Sims, and while all this was going on, they downplayed this too.
And it's understandable.
I mean, they work for CBS, which pays the NFL a lot of money, and the NFL, this is a back scratching thing going on.
I mean, you don't you don't rip and criticize the people paying the bills and making your programming possible and all that.
But after a certain point, they could no longer ignore it.
And when the slow-mo happened of Burfect attempting to decapitate Antonio Brown, that's when Phil Sims and Jim Nance finally had had enough.
Can it get any worse?
No.
I don't know.
It's been in so many different places tonight.
Yes, Rothwas Burger being taken off the field and cheering.
Cheering the fact that he was injured have been a couple of times tonight.
You've wanted to use the word disgraceful.
And uh certainly it's what it is.
It's disgraceful.
It's so many parts.
Everybody.
Phil Sims and Jim Nance, boomerossias in right after the game on CBS.
I'm a former bangle.
I'm embarrassed by the way that this game ended and by the way these guys acted on the field today.
I feel bad for Marvin Lewis.
And I'll tell you one thing, if Marvin Lewis can't control his players, then maybe Marvin Lewis shouldn't be standing there on the sideline coaching that direct.
They lost a game.
This is incredible.
Everybody's looking past, you know, looking at the specifics of what happened.
Yeah.
Was it criminal?
Was it this?
Was it bad?
Was it dangerous?
Was it over?
They lost the game.
They they lost the stupidity of this.
They had the game won a dead ball foul simply be you you've got a coach out there.
Like Pac-Man's running around saying, Well, Joey Porter, he called him Jerry.
Jerry Porter got no business being out there.
He's not calling our guys BI itches.
Walk away.
Pac-Man, walk away for quite what is the why do you have to bump a referee, practically knock him over to point a finger at Joey Porter, walk away.
But no, had to get to Joey Porter and give him what for.
Here came the flag, another 15 yards.
Here's Pac-Man after the game.
We had to bleep 75% of what he said.
Rif did a horrible f job.
You got f Jerry Port in the middle of the f ⁇ talking there.
When somebody say something to him, he only posts to be on the fill.
I can't tell you what he said, and stay maintain our license here, folks.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
No, no, no.
Don't misunderstand.
I'm not saying the hit was anything unusual.
I'm not saying the hit is unprecedented.
Look, George Atkinson and Jack Tatum used to do this kind of stuff to Lynn Swan all the time.
How many playoff games?
There was one or two playoff games that took Swan out with a simple blow to the head, forearm, shiver, what have you.
Swan wasn't even anywhere near to play.
Back then, uh they called a penalty on it, but but uh much like they did here, but they didn't do anything about it in terms of trying to police it down the road.
It's just something happened in the game.
But this was unnecessary.
This was the game was won.
It's it's it's more than hot heads uh losing control.
There's something seriously wrong here.
The motivation, obviously, on the part of some of these players was not to win the game.
They had another purpose being on that field Saturday night, and that's where this problem breaks down.
And the people that employ them, uh and they're college people, they're college graduates for crying out loud.
They're college men.
Uh, you know, I hear uh people ask me all the time, why why don't these coaches tell these people not to do it?
How about stupid penalties in the end zone after a touchdown?
A 15-yard penalty for celebrating.
You may think the penalty's crazy, the rules are crazy, but it is what it is.
Why can't a coach tell a young kid, don't do it?
I run this team, you're not gonna do it.
You score a touchdown, give the ball to the ref and get off the field.
But the coaches today said they're grown men, I can't tell them what to do.
It's a different era.
They're grown men.
I can't tell them what to do.
Then why do we need head coaches?
What do you mean a grown men?
I can't tell them what to do.
Be no different than a parent saying, I bet there's a kid, and he's my kid.
I can't tell him what to do.
I I'm telling you folks, there's there's a lot wrapped up in this that goes beyond the football field.
Here's Vontez Berfect himself, and you gotta hear Deion Sanders following this.
Vontez Burfect in the locker room, being interviewed by the media.
Oh no.
Any more questions?
Yeah, just lose it this way, Vontage.
Oh no.
Oh no.
What words of encouragement or what have you said to your teammates after this loss?
I don't know.
Have they said anything to you?
Oh no.
How do you summarize the season business?
Oh no.
Now look at those questions.
This guy has just personally, he and number 24 have just lost this game.
Now, look, there are a lot of people can show it.
I understand all that, but these two people incurred 30 yards of penalties when the Steelers could not advance the ball to save their lives.
With 20 seconds remaining.
I don't know.
How's it feel, Vontez?
I don't know.
Emotionally, I don't know.
What words of encouragement would you have your team?
Words of encouragement?
It's amazing.
It wasn't a mutiny.
You know, here's Dion Sanders, who watched what you just saw and commented on it.
You're not gonna get any sympathy in America.
The African American man, putting on we call it the wife beater, tank top, putting on your weight, putting on your jewelry, and saying, No, I don't know.
It doesn't look good.
Whatsoever.
Whatsoever.
That really upsets a lot of people.
All he just wants is answers, man.
So Vontaes Berfex, I purposely intelligently sitting there at his locker in a tank top with his hair and ponytail braid, and Dion saying, hey man, you're not gonna get any sympathy in America being an African American man putting on the wife beater tank top.
I did not know that a tank top signified wife beater.
It does.
Okay.
We have tank tops.
Well, I don't wear them, but but okay, learn them every day.
And then putting on your weight, meaning your jewelry, no, you don't do that, man.
You don't do that when you want America to understand.
Dion, that's the whole point here.
Oh well.
I take a break.
Time probably.
You know, for all the Trump talk here, Nitschke, Butkus.
These people were sportsmen.
There was no sportsmanship going on in these contested events on Saturday night in Cincinnati with the Bengals and Steelers.
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