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RUSH: The caller has just said the NFL is racist because in Detroit they brought in the Rolling Stones rather than use a Motown group. Now, I wouldn’t look at it that way, but some people might. I don’t happen to look at things that way, but obviously some people did. Jack Cashill, American Thinker: “The NFL’s Diversity Problem.” He quotes the Colts owner Jim Irsay: “’I, myself, couldn’t even consider voting for him,’ said Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay of accused thought criminal Rush Limbaugh. ‘As a nation, and as a world, we’ve got to watch our words and our thoughts.’” How do we watch our thoughts, by the way? Have you ever seen one? Jim Irsay must see thoughts. Anyway, “’Divisive comments are not what the NFL is all about,’ agreed NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. ‘I would not want to see those kind of comments from people.’”

We can kill dogs; we can shoot ourselves in nightclubs; we can run over people while we’re drunk, but we don’t want to do anything divisive with some people who think a certain way. Now, Cashill writes, “Before these execs start doing their end zone dance about Limbaugh’s exclusion from the NFL ownership club, they might want to address a major diversity scandal brewing in their own house. I refer here not to the exclusion of women from the NFL, although I could.” After all, we put them in fire departments. But the NFL steadfastly refuses to allow women in the NFL. “The difference, of course, is that fire departments can adjust their assignments to keep women out of harm’s way ... Football teams have no such cover. Everyone is visible. What is difficult to justify, however, is the veritable exclusion of Asian-American and, even more incredibly, Mexican-American men from the NFL. An analysis of Irsay’s AFC South division reveals a shocking lack of genuine diversity.”

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