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Well, here's the quotation in context:

RUSH: To set the table for people who do not know, after the Chargers and Patriots game, the Chargers sitting around moping, all depressed, because they had the game won, it was just all kinds of stupid mistakes, and let me tell you what happened. Some of the Patriots went to midfield where the Chargers logo is and started doing an imitation of a victory dance done by Chargers player Shawne Merriman after he sacks a quarterback. Now, here are the Chargers who have lost a game they should have won, who lost a game precisely because of the same kind of behavior they’re ripping the Patriots for, and LaDainian Tomlinson says that was classless, (paraphrasing) “We went in there, we beat them twice on their field and we didn’t disrespect them. This obviously comes from the head coach,” meaning Belichick. LaDainian Tomlinson was accusing Belichick of ordering his players and creating a culture that would make it okay for players to go on the field and taunt and so forth and so on.

Now, LaDainian Tomlinson to me is the classiest player in the National Football League. He doesn’t do a dance, he doesn’t spike the ball when he scores. He and Marvin Harrison are the two most classy individuals playing in the National Football League today, in skill positions. They just hand the ball back to the referee. They act like they’ve been there and done that, like scoring a touchdown is no big deal, they don’t taunt, they don’t act like they’ve been dissed or any of this. Let me tell you, the Chargers would not have lost that game were it not for a bunch of — I gotta be very careful here. It’s not just irresponsible, but there is a cultural problem in the NFL that has resulted in a total lack of class on the part of professional players.

There was a play where Brady was third and long, he was sacked, fumbled the ball, the Patriots recovered it, it will be fourth and long, forcing an interesting decision late in the game by the Patriots. After the play is over, a Chargers player gets in the face of a Patriots player, head butts him and starts jawing. This is the reason these guys are getting shot in bars, folks, late at night. Fifteen-yard penalty, automatic first down. So for the Chargers to complain about the lack of class by the Patriots, I found laughable. I think something ought to be done about it, because I love the game of football, and I don’t like the kind of culture that’s taking over, that “you can’t diss me, you can’t disrespect me.” After every sack, players are acting like they’ve won the Super Bowl, and they’re prancing around with these idiotic dances. The latest thing is to act like they’re making a jump shot in basketball. It’s all done to taunt; it’s all done to taunt the other team’s fans.

I don’t want boring football. I don’t want the no-fun league, but you can certainly have great football games without a lack of class. I don’t know how it’s been allowed to happen this way. I guess the coaches don’t feel confident to continue — this was very rare for the Patriots to act the way they did, and who knows what led to it. I don’t think of Belichick as that kind of coach, but Tomlinson’s words reverberated around the league. A lot of people said, “I’m glad he said something, because Belichick is getting away here with an image that he doesn’t deserve.” I’ve played golf with Belichick; he’s a mild-mannered, soft-spoken man. I even saw him at a cocktail party here in Palm Beach before dinner one night. That whole organization to me exudes class, as does Tom Brady, and you don’t see them doing this kind of stuff.

One of the reasons the Pittsburgh Steelers had trouble this year was a total lack of discipline, in addition to all their turnovers, total lack of discipline, 15-yard penalties, unnecessary roughness, taunting after plays are over, after successful defensive stands, they blow it. There’s something culturally wrong here that is leading to all this. It’s gotta be dealt with at the top, because it simply is classless. I can I understand LaDainian Tomlinson being upset because he doesn’t do this stuff. But in the current NFL climate the best way for the Chargers to prevent that from happening is win the game and keep this insidious, ridiculous, boorish, classless behavior to a minimum so that you don’t lose it on account of that. It’s just disappointing, and it’s a mystery to me why it’s being allowed to continue.
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Look it, let me put it to you this way. The NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it.
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It's a legitimate argument, and using the Bloods and Crips as metaphoric vehicles to denounce boorish behavior in the NFL is objectionable only insofar as these gangs are associated with black culture. (That is, few would defend the Bloods and Crips per se.) Is Rush insinuating that the NFL "culture of taunting" is a "black thing"? Well, sorta, sorta not. He has black heroes (Tomlinson, Harrison) and villains (Owens, Merriman), and one tentative white villain (Belichick). But on balance, I don't see this as a hanging offense.

And for the record, I support taunting and boorish behavior as contributing to the intrinsic interest of sporting events of all kinds.

I'm impressed...very detailed, educated, observation of the "true" NFL. But I must disagree with the statement "The NFL all too often looks like a game between Bloods and the Crips without any weapons." I too have to be careful how I word this......I wouldn't say Bloods and Crips. However, they do look like a bunch of arrogant dip s!@#s wiggling around like the idiots they are! Clowns and retards is what they look like. It's hilarious to watch them act like superstar jerks when they have that little touchdown, but put a microphone in front of them! Now that's entertainment. I'm not a big fan of sports or retards therefore I can't stomach watching these morons "play" I mean act stupid! LOL

If I were Rush Limbaugh I wouldn't have any interest in owning part in anything to do with the NFL. What's he need them for, a tax write off? LOL

"He likely won’t be an owner, either, primarily because of his own reckless and insensitive comments."
Any other racist comments you care to re quote on this public forum, Allen? I agree with you much of the time, but if offensive remarks are enough to deny someone the ability to pursue a dream, then there needs to be a whole buncha folks at all points of the ethnic continuum that need to be taken out to the woodshed.

In the end Rush Limbaugh will have the last laugh becuase the truth will come out. Did you notice only Rush Limbaugh's name was leaked? Did you notice that Al Sharpton was very quick to jump at this opportunity to jump in and "defend" the black players but the players are of all races. We even had the black caucus making statements in the House of Representatives. What does the government have to do with this? No, there is more to this than meets the eye. For once in my life I will say "GO RUSH LIMBAUGH" publicly. Brian444 thank you for your quote.

From what I heard this is for the most part, liberal lies.
Obama's hit squad goes after anyone that does not go for his far left liberal agenda.