Posted on 08/30/2017 12:41:21 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: In the sports Drive-Bys, they won’t let go of this Colin Kaepernick thing. They just won’t let it go. Oh! Speaking which, in fact, let me tell you what’s coming next, based on this story.
Here’s the headline. It’s from the New York Times. “ESPN Football Analyst Walks Away, Disturbed by Brain Trauma on Field.” Ed Cunningham, 48 years old, a former NFL player, resigned as a college football analyst for ESPN and ABC in the prime of his broadcasting career.
“If Ed Cunningham had not already seen enough, he would be back in a broadcast booth on Saturday afternoon, serving as the color analyst for another top college football game televised on ABC or ESPN. It is the work he has done each fall for nearly 20 years.
“But Cunningham, 48, resigned from one of the top jobs in sports broadcasting because of his growing discomfort with the damage being inflicted on the players he was watching each week. The hits kept coming, right in front of him, until Cunningham said he could not, in good conscience, continue his supporting role in football’s multibillion-dollar apparatus. ‘I take full ownership of my alignment with the sport,’ he said. ‘I can just no longer be in that cheerleader’s spot.'”
So you know what this is. This is going to begin what’s called the shaming of anybody who earns money in any away connected to football. “How dare you. How dare you earn your money on the backs of people suffering brain damage and in concussions and eventual CTE and perhaps suicide. You’re encouraging this. You’re broadcasting this stuff, and you’re telling people it’s great, and you’re encouraging them, and you’re promoting it and you’re making them watch it. It’s fueling this beast, this immorality. How dare you.”
You think he’s gonna be the only one? The way people become famous today, as they’ve seen it happen on Twitter and on Facebook, is you get part of a movement that the media loves. Well, right now, we live in a time where the media is predisposed to oppose and try to destroy anything that is distinctly American. And in that list of things is the National Football League and football, college, high school, you name it.
It is a uniquely American game. And that’s why they love Kaepernick. Kaepernick came out and protested not just the country, but the NFL. And this is what the media is. The media is supportive of anybody and anything that is anti-America, all while claiming that they’re the best Americans, all the while claiming they love America. “We journalists love America. We are the biggest patriots. We are the ones who want America to be perfected. We’re the ones who want America to reach its glowing ideals!” And that’s simply a crock.
They are part of the Obamaesque group of people that believe this country is flawed and unjust and immoral and deserves to be punished for all of its grievances. And football is on that list because football kills. Football maims. Did I not tell you when this whole thing began with concussions and the social justice warriors getting on this case? I told you. It was years ago, that the days of the National Football League or football as you and I know it are numbered. We just don’t know how many they have left, but it’s over. And this is just the latest example.
So here you have a 48-year-old announcer who is going to be the biggest star he’s ever dreamed of being in his life. Nobody ever heard of this guy, even though he’s a color analyst on ESPN. I mean, there’s so many of them out there now, they’re cookie cutters. They’re a dime a dozen. But this guy, Ed Cunningham, he’s gonna stand out. He can no longer be a party to this, not in his name. No, ma’am. No, sir. Not in his name are young men going to be disfigured and permanently damaged. Not in his name is gonna happen and he’s gonna be celebrated and he’s gonna be a hero and then anybody else who doesn’t follow along, depending on who they are, this is the beginning of the whole process of shaming anybody who earns money connected to football, anybody who acquires fame.
Now, the players will be exempt for a while. But if the players end up protesting the flag or protesting the NFL or protesting America like Kaepernick did, they will be celebrated, and they will be promoted. So keep a sharp eye. You know, when the left gets going on things, there’s never an end. There’s just always the next phase. You think at some point in every leftist movement, “Okay, that’s it, they don’t have anywhere else to go,” but they always have somewhere new to go. I imagine there are those of you out there saying, “Rush, you’re overreacting.” No, I’m not. And he may be the only guy this season, but I guarantee you he’s gonna be so celebrated.
I mean, there’s already a story about the guy in the New York Times! He’s more famous quitting his job than he ever was doing his job. He’s gonna be a hero. He’s gonna be on TV as often as he wants to be. “I just can’t do it any longer. Not with what I’ve known, not with what I’ve learned. I can’t sit here and actually encourage people to enjoy this game knowing what it is doing to the guys playing it. I can’t, I can’t, I can’t do it, I can’t, I can’t do it.” He’ll be a hero. And the pressure will build on others to follow suit. And pretty soon it’s gonna be Roger Goodell in the booth doing game play-by-play and color commentary.
In a couple of years, owners will be looking at the shattered, worthless remains of their franchises and wondering what the Hell happened.
Our owner (Shad Khan - Jacksonville Jaguars) supposedly stated the other day that he would consider Kaepernick.
If true, it shows how out of touch he is with the residents of this active/retired military town.
Of course, no bacon, no cars, no sex, no wine, no swimming, no ......
Sorry Rush but I heard of him. He was also the starting center for the Univ. of Washington when they won the national championship in 91.
Can’t say I agree with Ed on this though.
And you wonder why Roger Goodell—who was supposed to get an extension of his contract to be NFL Commissioner through 2024 as breathlessly reported by Left-leaning ESPN—has yet to get his contract confirmed. Is it because both Robert Kraft and Jerry Jones, the two most influential owners in the NFL, are “behind the scenes” preparing an owner revolt that will push Goodell out the door?
And that woman in the NFL booth during the Vikings/49ers game wearing that cocktail dress; black, off the shoulder with a split up the side mid-thigh? What the heck was that?
Cunningham was an excellent broadcaster...
A good time?
Cars, bacon, wine, swimming, sex? Sounds like a fun weekend ...
If someone asked Kapernik today, "I understand you're protesting, you're not happy about something...if I were in a position to mend those things you're protesting, what would I have to do to satisfy you, to get you back in the game...without protesting, of course?"
Would he be able to answer?
Kraft and Jones are actually real businessmen. They know all the PC crap is going to kill the bottom line. They will have to get the rest of the mental case misfits who seem to be common in the NFL ownership to see this in order to get rid of Goodell.
I gave up on the NFL when this first started.
Never watched a pro game last year and don’t plan to this year.
>> breathlessly reported by Left-leaning ESPN
That’s Disney. Don’t go there.
A lot more attractive than a sweatsuit?
Rush is right on this. The guy is a virtual nobody, unknown. YOU may know who he is, but I bet if you ask, 99% of NFL fans have no idea who he is. But this is his ticket to fame.
As long as you enjoy yourself, we are all fine with that. Thanks for letting us know!
“Never watched a pro game last year and don’t plan to this year.”
Same here.
I don’t watch the NBA for similar reasons. It’s the thug culture, glorified.
That’s what happens when the owners chose to be in league with those who want them destroyed. I have no sympathy.
They thought to partner with the crocodile so that he eats them last. What a bunch of losers!
I really liked him too
Also on College Football Live. Kanell and Trevor whatizname.
Purging the knowledgeable white guys with affirmative action types
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