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Speaker 2: excitement about my Alba mater Cu going to the Alamo Bowl.
Speaker 2: I'm about ready to weigh into a topic which I
Speaker 2: have very little knowledge.
Speaker 4: It is.
Speaker 2: It's exciting to see the Buffs in a bowl game.
Speaker 2: It's great to see them ranked. It's been fun to watch.
Speaker 2: But there's something about new college football I really don't like,
Speaker 2: and it's that these players are now multi millionaires. It
Speaker 2: used to be a kid would go to college and
Speaker 2: if he got a scholarship, that helped him. Are you
Speaker 2: ready for this? Get an education? I know it's crazy.
Speaker 2: It would help that kid get an education he could afford,
Speaker 2: so he'd play on a team. In exchange, he'd he'd
Speaker 2: get a free education or discounted education. That's pretty cool.
Speaker 2: And then money perverts it. You've got superstars who are
Speaker 2: now selling what are is it called image, likeness and
Speaker 2: name something like that. That they they have control of
Speaker 2: their own image, they have control of their likeness, they
Speaker 2: have the control of their name, and if they want
Speaker 2: to sell those things for endorsement purposes, well shouldn't they
Speaker 2: be able to? I mean, come on, Caldera, you like
Speaker 2: all this liberty stuff and free market stuff. Isn't that
Speaker 2: really what we're talking about? Like, yeah, I see that.
Speaker 2: I particularly see that for some sports. Think of I
Speaker 2: don't know, gymnastics, gymnastics where by the time you hit eighteen,
Speaker 2: you're over the hill. It's not like some gymnast who's
Speaker 2: out out of school is going to graduate and then
Speaker 2: have the peak of her career afterwards where she can
Speaker 2: then trade in and get those endorsements and get paid.
Speaker 2: She's gonna be She's going to be top of her
Speaker 2: game when she's sixteen, sometimes fourteen, So if she doesn't
Speaker 2: cash in, then she might not be able to cash
Speaker 2: in on her celebrity. I get that, really, I really do.
Speaker 2: I get that. And so why not let this person
Speaker 2: cash in while they're hot? Even though college had these
Speaker 2: rules that you couldn't you couldn't do that, or if
Speaker 2: you made money, you couldn't be in the Olympics, And
Speaker 2: so you had a lot of people who skipped college
Speaker 2: or deferred college so that they could go off and
Speaker 2: do their sport and do some advertisements and make some money,
Speaker 2: maybe use that money to go to college. All Right,
Speaker 2: I see it, I really do. I get it. I
Speaker 2: can see that point. But there's something that just rubs
Speaker 2: me the wrong way. Of football players driving around in
Speaker 2: their maseratis being multi millionaires while they're students. So you've
Speaker 2: got you've got a very good quarterback at CU, You've
Speaker 2: got a Heisman Trophy winner at CU. These guys are
Speaker 2: cashing in money and they haven't even gone to the
Speaker 2: big leagues yet. They're not they're not professionals yet, they're
Speaker 2: not getting paid to play ball, they're getting paid to
Speaker 2: do advertisements. And I just think the purpose of college
Speaker 2: sports is college more than it is sport. Help me
Speaker 2: wade through this one three h three seven one three
Speaker 2: eighty five eighty five seven one three eight five eighty five.
Speaker 2: If you could, would you go back to the way
Speaker 2: back before times where hey, if you wanted, if you
Speaker 2: wanted to make more money and you're in college, you
Speaker 2: gotta wait until you're a pro, particularly in football, football
Speaker 2: and basketball, the big big ones. I really miss that.
Speaker 2: It has taken away the oh, I don't know how
Speaker 2: to put it. It's taken away the magic of the
Speaker 2: game of it being about a college. So you've got
Speaker 2: all these kids in a stadium and they're no longer
Speaker 2: in the same boat it used to be. That. You know,
Speaker 2: the guys who are the cheerleaders throwing girls up in
Speaker 2: the air. Maybe they're getting a scholarship for being on
Speaker 2: the cheer team. Maybe some of the folks on the
Speaker 2: marching band also get a scholarship. I don't know. And
Speaker 2: they're all the same, They're all in the same boat.
Speaker 2: They all go and live on the same campus for
Speaker 2: the first year or so, they're all taking the same classes,
Speaker 2: they're all going to the same student union. They're all
Speaker 2: having a shared experience. And then you know, some kids
Speaker 2: get a job on campus. I had a job on campus,
Speaker 2: and you make a few bucks an hour working at
Speaker 2: the student center, or I used to work security at
Speaker 2: some of the ballgames or things like that. All right,
Speaker 2: so there's a way to make a little extra money.
Speaker 2: But then that guy over there, because people love what
Speaker 2: he does, is getting paid millions millions, you know. So
Speaker 2: now now you've got a hierarchy in college that didn't
Speaker 2: exist before. I don't know how it doesn't mess up
Speaker 2: college educations, that it doesn't put the emphasis on the
Speaker 2: wrong thing, which is making money rather than learning and
Speaker 2: going to school. And also just I don't know, it
Speaker 2: just feels so ugly. Help me with this one three
Speaker 2: h three seven to one, three eighty five, eighty five.
Speaker 2: Let's talk to Mike. Good, Good afternoon, Mike. You're with
Speaker 2: John Caldera.
Speaker 1: John, nice to talk to you. Thank you, long time listener.
Speaker 2: Glad to have you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I was kind of weigh in on what
Speaker 1: you're talking about here with the college athletes. You know,
Speaker 1: I received the Division one scholarship to play basketball in
Speaker 1: the late nineties, and that was it.
Speaker 2: You got what school?
Speaker 1: Three school? I'm at the Boise State.
Speaker 2: Ah, the mighty mighty Boise.
Speaker 1: State, good old Broncos. With the blue field. I hate
Speaker 1: that thing. I used to run up and down that
Speaker 1: thing all the time.
Speaker 2: That is so weird, isn't it. It's just yeah, I
Speaker 2: mean I like the concept of a different colored field.
Speaker 2: If you're gonna have fake grass, why not do something
Speaker 2: something crazy? Maybe maybe zebra stripes, well, something something that
Speaker 2: really weird. Did you get a full ride?
Speaker 1: I got a full ride and you played and I
Speaker 1: you know, I wasn't the best player up there. I
Speaker 1: played here and there, you know, had some injuries and stuff.
Speaker 1: They sold my jersey number, not my name, because we
Speaker 1: didn't have our names on our jersey but they sold
Speaker 1: my jersey. I think they sold maybe one and then
Speaker 1: had one return good.
Speaker 2: So your mom bought it and then returned it.
Speaker 1: My mom bought it and it was too small, so
Speaker 1: you returned it. But yeah, I mean that was the
Speaker 1: big deal.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: I didn't have a lot of money coming out of
Speaker 1: you know, we weren't rich college. Yeah, that's that's what
Speaker 1: you know. And I took advantage of it. I got
Speaker 1: my degree up there and and uh but yeah, now
Speaker 1: these this portal situation and all these kids you know
Speaker 1: making money off there, like me, like me, Like.
Speaker 2: You say the portal situation, Educate me a bit on that,
Speaker 2: because I college football still confuses me. The whole playoff
Speaker 2: system confuses me. The conferences confused me. The rankings confuse me.
Speaker 2: So why I like the NFL. I can understand the NFL.
Speaker 1: I'm with you one hundred percent. I'm with you one
Speaker 1: hundred percent on that. I like NFL football and I
Speaker 1: like college basketball. I'll me crazy.
Speaker 2: So when you say the portal.
Speaker 1: I don't know too much about the portal system, but
Speaker 1: it just seems like every year there's a handful of
Speaker 1: kids who can go to as many as can you
Speaker 1: go to four different schools and four years do that system.
Speaker 1: I don't know how it works very well. But I
Speaker 1: remember back when I if I wanted to transfer, if
Speaker 1: if my head coach didn't get fired, or I wanted
Speaker 1: to transfer. So if if you lost a head coach,
Speaker 1: you could transfer without losing a year because you went
Speaker 1: to that school to play for that man or woman.
Speaker 1: Now it seems like you can just pop around. So
Speaker 1: I don't like this guy, or I don't like my
Speaker 1: situation here, I'm going to go here.
Speaker 2: So it's almost like they're free agents. Now. Yeah, the
Speaker 2: idea of be true to your school doesn't work.
Speaker 1: How do you hear that last part?
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I was just saying that the old Beach
Speaker 2: Boys song be true to your school, No, doesn't. It
Speaker 2: just doesn't happen anymore because you're thinking about money. You're
Speaker 2: thinking about you know how I can make more money
Speaker 2: right now? And I get some of that. You know,
Speaker 2: you're one injury away from from losing your livelihood.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but isn't payment for your livelihood to make you
Speaker 1: to the next level of free education? How much does
Speaker 1: school cost these days? You said you went to see you.
Speaker 1: I miss hear that.
Speaker 2: I sadly went to see you. Let me, let me,
Speaker 2: let me put myself in the group of what a
Speaker 2: waste of money from that communist factory. So, I mean,
Speaker 2: if you're an engineer, great, maybe their business school, but
Speaker 2: their liberal arts program is just there to perpetuate socialism.
Speaker 2: And I you know, so I love it when they
Speaker 2: call me for money from the alumni association and I'm like,
Speaker 2: are you kidding? Let me tell you why I'm not
Speaker 2: going to give you money. And then afterwards I always say,
Speaker 2: would you like us to take us take you off
Speaker 2: our solicitation list? Like no, I love having this yearly
Speaker 2: conversation to complain about what you teach at to see
Speaker 2: you anyway, But if you had to do it over again,
Speaker 2: would you.
Speaker 1: Yeah? I think so? Why not? You know, I probably
Speaker 1: would have done you know, obviously few things different, but
Speaker 1: you know that's from a young age. That was you know,
Speaker 1: I went to a family where you know, sisters were
Speaker 1: getting volleyball scholarships to you know, Nebraska and Arizona State,
Speaker 1: and basketball scholarships to Arkansas for my brothers and some football.
Speaker 2: So it was like it came from a jock family. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so you got a jock family, and you got a
Speaker 2: college education paid for. Your parents must have loved that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And then you look at the professional athletes in
Speaker 1: the as a whole. They're broken five years after they're playing.
Speaker 1: You know, that's why they get paid so much money
Speaker 1: up front, is because their their work history is going
Speaker 1: to be potentially very short, and you need you need
Speaker 1: to make those first three million dollars for the first
Speaker 1: three years last. And it just it doesn't work that way,
Speaker 1: you know. Whereas with my degree, I got it for free.
Speaker 1: I was I was a midrage player, got to go
Speaker 1: to school for free, and I got a great degree,
Speaker 1: and I've got a great career, I've got a great family,
Speaker 1: and I'm not a multi millionaire by any means. But
Speaker 1: but you.
Speaker 2: Also you also must have had a great memory of
Speaker 2: being on a college basketball team. Would would be you know,
Speaker 2: you're kind of living the classic American dream of Yeah,
Speaker 2: I played it, got through school playing sports.
Speaker 1: It was so great. It was so great, state of
Speaker 1: the art equipment. I mean when I was in school,
Speaker 1: Boise was just switching over. Their football program was just
Speaker 1: switching over from one double A to one A and
Speaker 1: state of the art equipment. Multi million dollar investors in
Speaker 1: the nicest court TV almost every night, the only show
Speaker 1: in so how first class flying you know, per deems
Speaker 1: during the day. And that's another thing too which I
Speaker 1: kind of struggle with, is these kids can make a
Speaker 1: lot of money on their likelyhood. But when I was
Speaker 1: in school, if you made more than twenty five hundred
Speaker 1: dollars during the summer, you weren't allowed. Right.
Speaker 2: It was the Mexicans.
Speaker 1: They didn't want boosters giving you money to do nothing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, And so now boosters can give money by
Speaker 2: by renting out your likeness. There's just it just feels
Speaker 2: so very wrong. And I understand the logic behind it.
Speaker 2: I understand that somebody's somebody's making money off you, So
Speaker 2: why can't I make money off of myself? I mean,
Speaker 2: I get that, but I think it just spoils, spoils
Speaker 2: the college education, and it spoils college sports. Hey, Mike,
Speaker 2: thanks for the call. Let's chat with Bill. Bill, welcome
Speaker 2: you with John Kelder. Glad to have you Bill.
Speaker 5: Hi.
Speaker 3: Hi, I'm in Western Nebraska, so I'm a Husker fan.
Speaker 3: But we'll forgive if your thing goes, say, yeah, the
Speaker 3: same thing goes. Are these guys that are getting engineering
Speaker 3: degrees and paying for their credits. Are these football players
Speaker 3: and athletes are they going to pay for the credits
Speaker 3: that the college is teaching them.
Speaker 2: A career well, their career.
Speaker 3: Are they going to be charged? Yeah, Well they get
Speaker 3: out and they go to the pros, and they're making
Speaker 3: all this money. Just like an engineer would if he
Speaker 3: paid for his credits and went out and got a job.
Speaker 3: These athletes need to start coughing up and paying for
Speaker 3: the training that the college has given them.
Speaker 2: That's an interesting thought. Let me see if I'm understanding you.
Speaker 2: So you go to school and you get a degree
Speaker 2: in engineering. You've got a bunch of engineering professors who
Speaker 2: get paid and you are paying them, and they teach
Speaker 2: you stuff. You then take that knowledge and get a
Speaker 2: career out of it. Here the college player, the multi
Speaker 2: millionaire is getting a free ride scholarship. Yet the other kids,
Speaker 2: the other tuition givers or boosters or somehow else people
Speaker 2: are getting paid to train you how to play football.
Speaker 2: That is your stock in trade, not engineering, and you
Speaker 2: take that knowledge with you when you leave and go
Speaker 2: become a pro.
Speaker 3: Yeah, or even the coach somewhere they're learning their trade
Speaker 3: of from the athletic side of the college, and they're
Speaker 3: not paying. I don't know what you call it. I'm
Speaker 3: a the tuition part of it that the normal guy
Speaker 3: that has an engineering is going for engineering is paying.
Speaker 3: They're getting a free ride from the taxpayers and the
Speaker 3: supporters and stuff, and not putting back into the for
Speaker 3: what they were getting trained for.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: It's it's there's something that perverts education. And I know
Speaker 2: we don't want to talk about education because we love
Speaker 2: college football so much, but there's just something that treats
Speaker 2: one kid differently than the other kid. And there's just
Speaker 2: something weird about I'm I'm going to class with somebody
Speaker 2: and next to me is this guy and he's making
Speaker 2: five million dollars a year in school and I got
Speaker 2: a part time job, you know, for fifteen bucks. Life life,
Speaker 2: you know, it just doesn't. We no longer have a
Speaker 2: shared experience as colleagues in school.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying. I mean, if you're getting if
Speaker 3: the college is teaching you to become something in athletics,
Speaker 3: like I say, a coach, a player, anything like that
Speaker 3: that you learned by by playing the game, you should
Speaker 3: pay the tuition for it, not just have the taxpayers
Speaker 3: pay for you.
Speaker 2: That's an interesting It's like, all right, Sanders, you're you're
Speaker 2: making millions of dollars off your likeness. You're only making
Speaker 2: that millions of dollars because you're playing football, which for
Speaker 2: our for our team. So how about you pay your
Speaker 2: own tuition? At least I could get behind that there.
Speaker 2: You know. The idea of tuition was to help people
Speaker 2: who couldn't pay. The Sanders family can pay their tuition
Speaker 2: and their room and board. They could sell one of
Speaker 2: their cars and do that. That's an interesting point. The
Speaker 2: other the other thing that's kind of weird for me
Speaker 2: is when I went to college, they had the college uniforms.
Speaker 2: I even remember those powder puff blue and gold uniforms,
Speaker 2: see you had, and they were awful. They were just awful.
Speaker 2: Black and gold is much better. But they played the
Speaker 2: same uniform the whole year. My god, these guys seem
Speaker 2: to have a different uniform every game. Who pays for
Speaker 2: you know, five different styles of uniforms and helmets that
Speaker 2: seems to get switched up every game. It just it's
Speaker 2: mixing school football with professional football, and I just don't
Speaker 2: like that mix. All right, Hey, thanks for the call.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it. What am I getting wrong on this one? What? What?
Speaker 2: What am I thinking wrong? Would you go back to
Speaker 2: to the way where you could not sell your likeness?
Speaker 2: And if so, who are you to tell somebody else
Speaker 2: what they can do with their face? Three oh three
Speaker 2: seven one three eight five eighty five. I'm John Caldera
Speaker 2: in for Mandy. You're on KOWA thirty four minutes after
Speaker 2: Good Afternoon. I'm John Caldera in for Mandy. Please be
Speaker 2: part of the conversation at three three seven one three
Speaker 2: eight five eighty five. I'm trying to make sense of
Speaker 2: this relatively new system where college football players can become
Speaker 2: millionaires while they're still playing college ball. I think it
Speaker 2: really taints the game. I think it really perverts education.
Speaker 2: But I'm also struggling with it this way. I mean,
Speaker 2: come on, I run a not for profit that pushes
Speaker 2: freedom and free markets, free people in free markets. And
Speaker 2: if a guy wants to sell his services as a
Speaker 2: spokesman for Kentucky Fried Chicken, who am I to say
Speaker 2: he shouldn't? Can I just say I don't like it?
Speaker 2: Help me understand this one. Let's go down to a
Speaker 2: fountain and talk to Bob Bob, Welcome. You're with John Caldera.
Speaker 4: John, it's just one more step in the march that
Speaker 4: we are doing towards commercializing everything. I got a free
Speaker 4: ride for college education back in the sixties from the church.
Speaker 4: I had to serve the church a certain number of
Speaker 4: years to earn that.
Speaker 2: I mean, you had to like be pope for a while.
Speaker 4: It's the wrong church, but that's the right idea. But
Speaker 4: the whole thing is that back when I was a
Speaker 4: kid and young man.
Speaker 5: Growing up, there was a loyalty to my school that
Speaker 5: I could not participate in a portal if that even
Speaker 5: existed back then, because what's.
Speaker 4: Upon a time. I was good enough in high school
Speaker 4: to play varsity ball, but I wasn't good enough at college.
Speaker 2: Interesting, Yeah, the idea of I guess there's a couple
Speaker 2: of different factors going on.
Speaker 4: On a bunch of money.
Speaker 2: Yeah. One of them is is you know, the idea
Speaker 2: of a portal if if you're really kind of a
Speaker 2: free agent in college, you don't have to make a
Speaker 2: lasting decision. I don't like it in this school, I'll
Speaker 2: go to the next school. It'll be good for my career.
Speaker 2: Now you can do that if you're going to business school,
Speaker 2: and you're going to business school at you know, Idahost
Speaker 2: State or something, and you go, you know what, I
Speaker 2: just got offered a scholarship to be at University of
Speaker 2: Denver's Leeds or Daniel's Business School. I'll think I'll take that.
Speaker 2: No one would blame you for giving up your old
Speaker 2: school to get a better education at a higher rated,
Speaker 2: better school that's going to help you. So why would
Speaker 2: it be different If I'm a football player and my
Speaker 2: career I plan on is professional football, and I got
Speaker 2: an ability to go pay a play for a better
Speaker 2: team that will highlight me more, that will increase my marketability.
Speaker 2: Why shouldn't I be able to go and go play
Speaker 2: for that team.
Speaker 4: The way you've explained it, you could all goes persuade me.
Speaker 4: The only thing is that I still have but Broncos
Speaker 4: whether they're winning or losing, And here lately they started
Speaker 4: winning and I don't have the tears that I used
Speaker 4: to have. You know, there's at the same time, commit
Speaker 4: but these more than just the ability to change your
Speaker 4: mind easily.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's there's And I might be thinking this too
Speaker 2: too much here, but there is a growing age of emancipation.
Speaker 2: I think about kids during World War Two. I've met
Speaker 2: some older gentlemen who snuck away at fifteen years old
Speaker 2: to try to go join the Navy, only to get
Speaker 2: turned back and sent home to mom and dad. And
Speaker 2: I think, my god, kids became adults so early by
Speaker 2: today's standards, and now you can stay on your parents'
Speaker 2: health insurance plan until you're twenty six years old. It's
Speaker 2: really pretty wild. In the same way a high schooler
Speaker 2: would make a decision, I'm going to take the scholarship
Speaker 2: offer from this college, and I'm there for four years now.
Speaker 2: It's like I can make that decision, but I can
Speaker 2: get out of it if I want to, So the
Speaker 2: cost of making decisions like an adult are less and less.
Speaker 2: I keep thinking about this from the college kid's point
Speaker 2: of view. What is best for the college kid, and
Speaker 2: not just the football player, but all the college kids
Speaker 2: and other than you were able to make more money.
Speaker 2: I'm having a hard time coming out why this is
Speaker 2: good for you for all college kids.
Speaker 4: The whole thing is I changed my major while I
Speaker 4: was in undergraduate school. I ended up with an MD
Speaker 4: degree and I've never used it, never practiced once, never
Speaker 4: completed any of my medical work, But at the same
Speaker 4: point in time I did not enjoy the money that
Speaker 4: would be created as a medical practitioner. I feel that
Speaker 4: we sell too much of ourselves for the price or
Speaker 4: for the income that we get. And I wonder whether
Speaker 4: or not that applies to our college professors as they
Speaker 4: earned more and more. And I also wonder about the
Speaker 4: tuition and the scholarship. If I got a free ride
Speaker 4: as a player, I would play. And if a school
Speaker 4: table around an offer be bloor, I don't think I
Speaker 4: could accept that as a person.
Speaker 2: Although when you get older and you have a job
Speaker 2: and one of your company's competitors starts to pursue you
Speaker 2: and offers you more money, you could take it. So
Speaker 2: are we saying kids shouldn't grow up sooner? If you're
Speaker 2: more of a free agent, isn't that more like being
Speaker 2: an adult? I mean, this whole thing confuses me. All
Speaker 2: I know is I don't like it. I don't like
Speaker 2: kids becoming multi millionaires while they're still in a dormitory.
Speaker 2: But at the same time, I don't know if I'm
Speaker 2: just being some nasty, grumpy old guy and I just
Speaker 2: don't like Jay And that might be the case. All right,
Speaker 2: good stuff. Thanks for the call. Three all three seven
Speaker 2: to one, three eighty five, eighty five. I'm thrilled see
Speaker 2: who's going to a bowl game. But it just seems
Speaker 2: it just seems like we're missing some of the innocence.
Speaker 2: Maybe that's it, some of the innocence of college football.
Speaker 2: Help me understand it. Three all three seven one three
Speaker 2: eight five eighty five. John Calderic, keep it right here.
Speaker 2: You're on KOA. Got about eleven minutes to the top.
Speaker 2: I'm John Caldera. Thanks for spending some time with me.
Speaker 2: I hope Mandy is having a great time on our
Speaker 2: day off. My job is to scare away her audience.
Speaker 2: I'm doing a good job. Give me a call. Three
Speaker 2: oh three seven one three eight five eight five. Big
Speaker 2: big football day tomorrow. Glad I've got a big screen TV.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be oneful. But as I've been talking about,
Speaker 2: I just feel really queasy about these new new college
Speaker 2: rules that allow kids to cash in while they're college kids.
Speaker 2: And I'm finding myself in that unfamiliar area where my
Speaker 2: logic goes in one direction, but my old man crankiness
Speaker 2: goes in the other direction. I get it, if a
Speaker 2: kid wants to make some money on the side. Who
Speaker 2: am I to say, don't do it. It's his face,
Speaker 2: it's his voice. And if Colonel Sanders wants to give
Speaker 2: him money to sling chicken, ain't my business. More power
Speaker 2: to them. But there's just something that feels like it's
Speaker 2: taking away the innocence of college sport. I've had this
Speaker 2: fight with my daughter, who is into gymnastics, and she's like,
Speaker 2: come on, man, and her very best Joe Biden, come on, man.
Speaker 2: Her point is a a college gymnast has a remarkably
Speaker 2: short career. I mean, you're eighteen years old and you're
Speaker 2: over the hill. So if you have to wait until
Speaker 2: after you get out of college to cash in, there's
Speaker 2: nothing left to cash in. It's like, well, that's that's
Speaker 2: a pretty good point. I don't have any problem with that.
Speaker 2: If you know, the guy on the college ping pong
Speaker 2: team wants to endorse his very favorite paddle, great, it's
Speaker 2: not like that's big stuff. That's that's small peanuts. This
Speaker 2: track and field guy wants to do a commercial for
Speaker 2: his running all right, fine, It's different when you've got
Speaker 2: Hunter and Sanders making millions and millions of dollars everywhere
Speaker 2: because football is so ridiculously popular. We can keep going
Speaker 2: with this and say does it anger any of the pros?
Speaker 2: What I mean by that is Colonel Sanders needs someone
Speaker 2: to advertise his chicken. Yeah, he could go to bow Nicks,
Speaker 2: but now he can get the quarterback Sanders. Get it,
Speaker 2: Colonel Sanders, Man, I could I could write this ad
Speaker 2: copy right now. Anyway. I wonder if any of the
Speaker 2: pros think I don't want the competition in the endorsement industry.
Speaker 2: I make my money off of endorsements. I just I
Speaker 2: just hate the high cost of everything, particularly sports. We're
Speaker 2: chatting in the previous hour about three hundred dollars plus
Speaker 2: lift tickets for ski resorts now, so regular people can't
Speaker 2: enjoy them. College players, professional players make so much money
Speaker 2: it becomes unheard of, absolutely unheard of. As a complete aside.
Speaker 2: Let me give you my thought on equality. So we
Speaker 2: keep hearing things like teachers are underpaid, teachers are underpaid,
Speaker 2: the sun comes up in the morning, teachers are underpaid,
Speaker 2: to which I say, there's actually not really proof of that,
Speaker 2: because we have enough teachers to fill the spots, and
Speaker 2: if not, well, then then we raise the price and
Speaker 2: we get more teachers. Football players make so much more
Speaker 2: than teachers. Why is that because to do what bo
Speaker 2: Nicks does or Peyton Manning did is such a rarefied talent.
Speaker 2: There's not much there. There's not a lot of competition.
Speaker 2: They are worth it because they bring in more than
Speaker 2: that in money. The reason these guys make this much
Speaker 2: money is because it is worth it to the owners
Speaker 2: to pay them that much and their operations get more money.
Speaker 2: It's an investment. If they are only a handful of
Speaker 2: teachers that could do teaching, they might be in the
Speaker 2: same situation. I also like to think about the diversity issue.
Speaker 2: Having a couple of minority owners of the Bronco, those
Speaker 2: who are African American, including Condolleza Rice was largely performative.
Speaker 2: It was largely for show. It's not like the Waltons
Speaker 2: really needed that extra investment money to pull the deal together.
Speaker 2: They needed the pr cover And I think, why couldn't
Speaker 2: we do the same thing on the field. You know,
Speaker 2: so the NFL does all this talk about equality and equity,
Speaker 2: Black lives matter, and you see it on the helmets
Speaker 2: and on the sidelines and on the end zones. How
Speaker 2: about this? Would you like the Denver Broncos to have
Speaker 2: the same racial makeup as the nation that you know,
Speaker 2: you could only have twenty percent African Americans on the team. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you'd have to have so many of this race on
Speaker 2: the team. Even the most craze socialists will go, well, no,
Speaker 2: you can't have that, Like, well, why not? Are you
Speaker 2: saying that racial diversity isn't important? Well, it's important in
Speaker 2: your office, but apparently it's not important on the field.
Speaker 2: Someone explained that to me. All right, let's take a
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