With the National Football League getting bad press in recent days in connection with high-profile cases of domestic violence, radio giant Rush Limbaugh is now proffering a way to end criminal activity in the NFL: Create a television show about it.
"I got a great idea for a new, either a cable TV show or syndicated TV show called 'NFL Court,' Limbaugh explained Monday on his top-rated program.
"We take on 'Judge Judy,' but we only deal with crimes in the NFL. I'll be the judge. 'Judge Rush.' 'NFL Court.'"
"I'll be happy to do it," he continued. "We get to the bottom of this and we take care of it in a season. And [there] wouldn't be any positive result of being on this show. You [appear] on this show, you're gonna have bad vibes and bad press and bad buzz and bad PR. We'd stamp out the crime in the NFL like that."
Though Limbaugh initially said he could be the judge hearing all sides of the cases presented on the show, he also said he'd be fine relinquishing that role to another.
"I don't have to be the judge. I'd be happy to give the idea to anybody else," he said.
Limbaugh asserted what's happening now in connection with the NFL is actually political in nature.
"This is majority political right now, where it is and how it's gonna be dealt with, and how it is built upon. And it's being built on," he said.
He said Democrats will likely use the so-called "war on women" tied to the NFL to collect votes in the November election.
"There have been two polls, Washington Post and New York Times, which both show that the Democrat Party has lost tremendous support of women voters, from Obama specifically and the Democrat Party at large. And believe me when I say they think that their totally contrived and made-up 'war on women' worked like a charm. They think it was brilliant, and they will try to revive it, either not on the back of this thing, but maybe closely associated with it."
Meanwhile, Britain's Telegraph is reporting support is now growing for a campaign to draft former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to step in and replace the beleaguered Roger Goodell as commissioner of the NFL.
It noted how politicians and women's groups were enraged by the NFL's decision to impose what they regarded as an inadequate two-game ban on Ray Rice, the Baltimore Ravens' running back who knocked his future wife out cold in the elevator of an Atlantic City casino.
The Ravens terminated Rice's contract last Monday, the same day the violent video surfaced, and Rice's punishment from the league has since been upgraded to an indefinite ban after footage of the incident was released by TMZ.
Watch the video of Ray Rice punching Janay Rice (WARNING: Graphic content):
Goodell has claimed NFL officials never saw the video when the original ban was imposed.
"If he lied to the American people, he has to step down," said Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y.
In an editorial, the Washington Post blasted Goodell while offering support for Rice.
"Roger Goodell has made a mess of it. Time for the former secretary of state with an intense love of the game to step in and save the NFL," the paper wrote.
Others on Rice's side include Karl Rove, the former adviser to President George W. Bush.
"I think Condi would succeed in any job she had, as she did when she was national security adviser, secretary of state, provost of Stanford, etc.," Rove said.
"If it's a job she wants, with her encyclopedic knowledge of the sport and passion for the game, I have no doubt she'd be great."
Pro football has been hit by two more allegations of domestic violence.
On Friday, Adrian Peterson, a top running back for the Minnesota Vikings, was indicted by a Texas grand jury for beating his four-year old son with a stick.
He was deactivated, that is to say, dropped from the team over the weekend as was Greg Hardy of the Carolina Panthers.
Hardy had been found guilty of assaulting his girlfriend in July, although the verdict is on appeal.