ABOVE: Rob Ford calls latest allegations “outright lies” while on Washington Radio Station 106.7 FM.
TORONTO – In his first appearance as a football analyst on a Washington radio station – a day after new allegations about his drug use and associates –Mayor Rob Ford’s comments about sports concussions, allegedly racist team names, Obamacare and women’s knowledge of football gained the most attention.
Here’s a look at what Rob Ford thinks:
Mayor Rob Ford on women participating in football pools:
On the name of the Washington Redskins:
Where do we go with this? It’s been around for years and years and years and if they were offended they should have come out when the name was first initiated, when you started playing.
How long did the ’skins have their name for, how long did the Chiefs have their name for, how long have the Cleveland Indians had their name for? Years and years and years. And now all of a sudden the politically correct people have to come out now? I think everything is fine and I’d just stick with the name.”
On the suggestion American football has become “too soft”:
“The game is just like hockey; you got to hit or be hit. Now with the, you know, even in hockey, people are saying, ‘Oh, pull the fighting out.’ I’m a big hockey fan too. But it’s ridiculous, if you’re going to play the sport, you got to know, that you might get banged up.
When I coach my kids I say, ‘Guys, you know, you’re going to get hit or be hit, you’ve got to be the hunter or the huntee and I’d rather be the hunter.
Mayor Rob Ford on Obamacare:
“Well as a person, as a person, I like president Obama. I don’t like his politics. I’m a conservative; I’d be a Republican if I was down in the states. I don’t believe in all this public-funded healthcare because we got to pay for it, we can’t afford it.
What you guys are doing down there, I can’t get my head around it because it’s costing a fortune and I don’t know where you guys are going to find the money except for the taxpayers’ pockets.
I think people are taxed to death and I don’t mind two-tier healthcare. If you want healthcare, you pay for it.
We have general healthcare up here or OHIP we call it but it’s going to cost a fortune for you people to put in this Obamacare and I just don’t see how the people are going to afford it, to tell you the truth.”
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