It has been some time since Rush Limbaugh spoke the language he dared not speak and stuck a McFork in his ESPN Career. I still haven't gotten over it. Don't get me wrong. I studied Politics many years ago in my first college go-round. I learned enough to know that Limbaugh the Politico sounds a lot more like Adolf #### than he conjures memories of Ronald Reagan. I don't personally care for the guy at all. He's just another tubby windbag selling the politics of hatred and fear.

But I still remember that Sunday, as well as I remember Limbaugh's missive on opening Thursday, passionately and beautifully describing the human microcosm that is the NFL. I've long believed that all the little dramas of human existence play out in that green rectangle every Sunday. What astounded me was how absolutely and perfectly Limbaugh got it. He got it and he told us how much he got it. I immediately started looking forward to NFL Gameday, more than I ever looked forward to a pregame show. And that says something, because Jimmy, Howie and Terry are incredible. But Limbuagh really got it, he was a football poet and his every word threatened to libreate the long suffering from more mindless blithering from wobbleheads like Theismann, Berman and Young. Can you hear Louie Armstrong singing "What a wonderful world" in the background? I can. I sat and waited that Sunday to hear Limbaugh deliver the kind of articulate and intelligent insight we always hoped we'd get from Dennis Miller. Maybe the Sword of Damocles and the NFL could live together in the same sentence.

But nooooooooooooooo. Rush pulled the R Card (reversism), ESPN sat quietly for a day or two waiting to be told how enraged they were, and then pulled the plug on Rush. Forget the fact that Uncle Tom Jackson sat silently before deciding how angry he was a few days later, forget that Berman was his typically vacant "gee, I wonder if I should call him Rush "to judgement" Limbaugh, self, Forget the fact that in the moment, they just engaged Limbaugh as though he made a point about a football player. What bothers me still is that Limbaugh was not being a racist (at least at that moment) and he had a good point. The media has long been desirous of seeing black QB's make good and they have over rated them as a result. Wasn't Randle Cunningham the "Ultimate Weapon" a decade or so ago? Was I the only one who watched 700 continuous reruns of Mike Vick running rampant on a substandard Vikings D on Sportscenter a few years back? Good golly, I just can't wait to see ESPN rename "Sportscenter" "VinceYoungCenter".

But the media has also long been desirous of Peyton Manning winning something and they overrate him too. The only thing I hate more than hearing about Michael Vick, is hearing about Paidton Manning. The media loved Alien Kurt Warner, and well, they got that one right. The media just wants stories. So as much as I believe Rush was right, I know he was also crazy. Just watch the game tape of McNabb literally choking in the SB to see if Rush had a point. Oh by the way, Randall Cunningham? Gone. Mike Vick? Mediocre QB on his best days. Kurt Warner? He sucks again. Peyton Manning? Never gonna win anything.

I stil don't know what bothers me more, that the PC police dashed in to prove that they were still on watch, or that Rush was blind enough to think discussing race wouldn't cost him his job. I guess it's just another case of the Liberal Fascists championing the struggle for "freedom (of speech) their way".

But just for the record, a lot of players are over rated, by the media, by coaches and by players alike. Heck, now that Pittsburgh got over the hump, people are talking about Hines Ward like he's in a class with John Stallworth. Don't ever bet the ponies with a Steeler fan, folks. They can't tell a plowhorse from a thoroughbred these days.

The fact is, objectivity is alienating and it doesn't sell the game. What are the odds you'll ever hear Berman say, "that mike Vick can run like the wind, but he couldn't pass an English class if he took it as a second language". Wait, is that James Brown I just heard saying "Peyton Manning is a real student of the game, it's a shame he heasn't learned to win a big game yet." Few announcers take a chance even remotely as sensational as Limbaugh did on that Sunday, and naturally the folks on high didn't want him doing that again. Rush even added to the circus by issuing the statement; "duh, I was on drugs".

So Theismann and the rest of the mush-heads are safe for now. We can rest easy knowing there will be blithe-spirited, empty-headed NFL commentary for years to come. Thanks for nothin' Rush.