this is about celebrating our country s birthday and trips to the beach and hot dog contests. 15 baseball games tomorrow. 15 more today. usa team was eliminated, but the world cup rolls on. there is even a big nascar race down in florida tonight although i m not sure we should call that a sport. while they re enjoying their barbecue, fans everywhere are talking about where lebron will end up next season or which nfl team had the best offseason. but this is america. and in america, politics tends to get mixed up in everything. and that is particularly true when it comes to sports right now. the you issue of whether college athletes deserve how of a cut of the money schools make off of them seems to be coming to a head. the future of football is called in to question.
what is the future of amateur athletics, college athletics, with these increasingly large pies that schools can get for football and basketball and athletes not seeing a cut of it. first of all, student-athlete is an absolute indecent term. they re not students at the all in many cases. and it is so unfair that they are not paid. i m surprised the colleges have not said we ll give them a stipend. because i think the quarterback for alabama or whatever is worth $1 million a year. i don t think they should get a little pocket change. think they should get paid the way other athletes do. but public versus private institutions, you get a revenue
with a, but i won t let my kid play it. i don t know how that will affect the popularity before all these kids who play soccer, but kids have played soccer for 30 years and it hasn t gotten very popul popular. nothing is more popular than jogging on the weekends. i think that for years and years, all the nfl tried to do is suppress the information and to pretty much lie about it, let s say. now at least they re trying to take on the issue. i think you ll never have football without concussions, but i do wonder, though, about the example of boxing. somebody watch know hammed inmo mad ally and that tragedy. you would say, yes, except for the rise of mm. a and ultimate fighting.
almost all nfl games. and one other thing, betting. that s what i was going to say. very important. ever since the point spread was invented around 1940. the ascension has followed in that line. i m sort of surprised that they limit sports betting in the state of nevada. i don t know how that s possible under the constitution. chris christie agrees with you. new jersey says, hey, that s not fair. and i agree. i can t understand it at all. once that happens, i assume that it will, i think that football will explode even more. so that s the strength of football. what about the threat to the game posed by concussions? because how many parents out there now are having their kids play soccer or something else. part paicipation in youth football is down roughly 10% as the issue has come to the fore.
and also boxing is an individual sport. football is a team sport. you represent a city, you represent a college. and so the allegiance for football extends beyond the sport. you care about boxing. you love your team. so that s why i think no matter how brutal football gets, the game will still be there for people to watch. i ll try to make these guys commissioner for a day of baseball. if you could make one act to bring baseball back to where it would be. what would it be. and college sports, as well. instead of mailing everyone my vacation photos,