many national championships as he has. so you know nick. and this is not a football question. this is something that has fascinated me the past year or two. i saw a the new york times article that says it s the attention to detail. but what people have written books about wooden s management structure and what made him so successful. what is the secret of nick saban doing what nobody else can do in one of the most highly competitive sports fields in the world? you have to know how he was raised. we were raised about four miles apart in a coal mining community. his father extremely motivated and extremely sghined and extremely sports oriented and gathered up all of the kids and started a pop warner team. wanted to build these young men and young boys into men. nick inherited that and saw it up close and personal. when he goes into a living he recruits the best of the best in america and able to do that
thankfully through my scholarship winnings, $50,000 worth of it. get me through college with the musical degree, so hopefully i can come back and perform on broadway. the tough question at the end. ironically, miss america was up against a football game and you get a football question about tom brady and cheating. do you actually like football? no. i m not a football person. i m a theater person. as you know, we don t get to choose our questions. that was definitely a question i wasn t expecting. did you know about deflategate at all? i really didn t. i knew something about it so i was able to form a some opinion but it wasn t a firm opinion. we don t get to choose our questions. i m a theater person. i want to leave that issue up to the sports fans. let s talk about where you grew up. you group up in the country. no cable tv.
money in the bank and you still greau re doing great. ready to keep playing? as i am. let s play. meredith: let s play. [fanfare plays] [cheers and applause] what nfl team s founder, lamar hunt, credited his kids toy, a super ball, as inspiration for his coining the term super bowl ? denver broncos, dallas cowboys, kansas city chiefs, new york jets. i knew i was going to get a football question, and i don t know anything about football. meredith: hmm. well, you could jump it or ask the audience if you really have no idea. i know what the super bowl is. [laughter] ha ha! meredith: well, that s a start. that s a start. ha ha ha! but i think i m gonna have to jump this question. meredith: ok, question is out of play. you don t have to answer it. let s see the rightsy chiefs. let s see what you
bit. of course, newt gingrich at the presidential debates and the rivals, they exchanged jabs, engineer jeers and some jokes last night. even though there had been 723 presidential debates you always get something out of these things. maybe the line of the night. listen to who rick perry decided to compare himself to. there are a lot of people out there, i understand it. a lot of folks who said tim tebow wasn t going to be a very good nfl quarterback and people stood up and said, well, he doesn t have the right throwing mechanisms or he s not playing the game right. and, you know, he won two national championships and that looked pretty good. we re the national champions in job creation back in texas. but i m all ready for the next level. let me tell you, i hope i am the tim tebow of the iowa caucuses. all right, i m going to try to get jim acosta to be honest with me. he s in sioux city, iowa. tell me the truth, jim. when you heard that, what was your reaction when you h
it was great to have you with us today. we have to ask you before you leave, where are you playing next year? that s a good question. i ll leave that in the hands of god. i m always going to keep my faith that i ll land on my feet somewhere. you are playing, though? not set to retire? no. you re 37 right now. if you had your dream place where would you go? it s always tough. with me, i have to have a good quarterback. it has to be the right system for myself. so i know i can still play the game. obviously i proved that this past year, despite a lot of people saying, you know, kind of really assessing what did or didn t happen in buffalo. i think i proved to a lot of people this year. we had to ask a football question. he wants to go to a place with a good quarterback. that probably eliminates about 25 teams. i want to go to the super bowl, have a chance to win a ring. best to you and your family.