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Dick Butkus's Monologue

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I mean think of what they’ve done to us. We’ve given them because they’re taking over as, sure as you’re standing here we didn’t have room for chairs by the way I should apologize. Should we keep going? Yes absolutely. Right? You know what I know it’s time to stop. There’s still people coming in. I know and what the hell, it 's a Sunday. Who the hell wants to watch these crummy games. I just want to watch at the end, and they are, by the way, okay, let me go there for a second. So we gave Iraq. Let’s end this. Sure we gave them Iraq. We were stupid. We gave them Iraq. Okay. I’ll change things, believe me, I’ll change things. And again we are gonna so respected. I don’t want to, I don’t want the use the word fear, we’re gonna be so but i just …show more content…

If that was done by Dick Butkus that says he is the greatest player. If that were done by Laurence Heller, it was done by Laurence Heller and Dick Butkus and Ray Nitschke, right Ray Nitschke. Use to see these tackles and it was incredible to watch, right? Now they tackle...Oh head on head collision, 15 yard. The whole game is all screwed up. You say wow, what a tackle, being flagged. Football’s become soft. Football’s has become soft. Now I’ll be criticized for that. They’ll say, “Oh isn 't that terrible.” But football become soft like our country has become soft. It’s true. It’s true. The outcome of games have been changed by what used to be phenomenal, phenomenal stuff. Now these are rough guys. These are rough guys. These guys want, what they are doing is incredible, but I looked at it and I watched yesterday in particula. So many right? So many flags and I could imagine a guy like Lawrence Taylor and and Dick Butkus, who was really rough and some of these guys, sitting there watching, “ wow what a beautiful tackle, 15 yards that’s the game. The game is over you can’t kick a field goal anymore. It’s become weak, and you know what, it’s going is to affect the …show more content…

It’s going to affect the NFL, I don’t watch it. The referees, they want to all throw flags so their wife sees them at home, “Oh there’s my husband.” True, he just broke up, he just gave a 15 yard penalty on one of the most beautiful tackles made this year, right? I mean it’s boring but although, I love Tom Brady. I got to tell you, I do love Tom. He’s a great guy, but but it’s a different, you know it’s different. It becomes soft and our country become soft. Our country has become soft. Do you know one of the reasons this is true, reported by these...people. One of the reasons we haven’t bombed the oil over there, you know, environmental impacts. They didn’t want to disturb the environment. No, no this is true. Can you believe it. Okay, environmental impact. You know one of the reasons they never built the wall along the southern border to stop drugs and people and everything from coming in. The environmental impact study, they couldn’t get it approved. It’s true and this was a while ago. They couldn’t get an environmental impact study approved to build a wall to save lives, to be good for our economy, to stop drug traffic. They couldn’t get it because a snail or a turtle or a snake was in the way. And then you look at CHINA in the

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