Trump: ‘We’re Going Soft Just Like the NFL’

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“It’s a Sunday, who the hell wants to watch his crumbly games? I just want to watch it at the end....So I’m watching a game yesterday. What use to be considered a great tackle, a violent hit on [indecipherable]? If that was done by Dick Butkus [indecipherable] is the greatest player — if that would done by Lawrence Taylor — it was done by Lawrence Taylor and Dick Butkus and Ray Nitschke, right? Ray Nitschke. You use to see these tackles and it was incredible to watch, right? Now they tackle, oh, head on, head collision, 15 yard. The home game is all screwed up. You say wow, what a tackle, bing, flag — football’s become soft. Football has become soft....And I can imagine a guy like Lawrence Taylor and Dick Butkus who was really rough, and somebody’s guy sitting there watching wow, what a beautiful tackle, 15 yards since the game is over, you can’t kick a field goal anymore....The referees, they want to all throw flags so their wives see them at home, ‘Oh, there’s my husband.’ (Laughter)...We’re going soft just like the NFL. We’re going soft. It’s true. No, think of it. Am I right? Am I right?” (Cheering and Applause)
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