new york times, not allowed to watch football. too violent. ten minutes. soccer. is this directed at me? subtle indirect. it s a subtle indirect. you can like both, okay? with us, political writer for the new york times, nicholas. soccer fan. princeton university. steelers fan. editor at large for the standard, bill crystal. harvard hockey, going to the final four. and columnist for the washington post, david ignacius, as well as gene david, do you have a team? i have to stick with my poor old redskins. sorry. good for you. gene, your game? redskins. i ve been living here a long time. what? okay. latest gallup tracking poll has president trump at a 36% approval rating.
that s 74-year-old owner arthur blank getting down. call dancing with the stars, he ll be on next season. carol, come on, join us, rise up, carol, jump on the bandwagon, we re going to the super bowl, and taking on the patriots. you in? you know what, e.p. michelle, me executive producer, is a steelers fan. she said during your little thing she wanted to die. that s how i feel. reporter: you tell her she can wipe those steelers tears along with hines ward. i m going to get him tomorrow. super bowl li in houston will be outstanding. i am happy with hotlanta.
that he said. i ve thought this before. imagine if my new england patriots beat the pittsburgh steelers today and if you re a steelers fan, flip this script, and then after the game a sports commentator or the steelers coach comes on and says we won. and he says, no, you lost. he said, no, i have alternative facts. we would not tolerate that in sports coverage. a sports commentator who said that or a spokesman for the steelers would be thrown out of their jobs. we need the same standards in politics as we have in sports and other parts of our life. and i think it s going to be very tough, because if people from the administration come on shows and simply straight out lie and accuse those of calling them on it of being overly dramatic, maybe they don t belong on tv shows anymore. and that s really i know that s a hard thing to say, but if they re not going to tell the truth, what is the point of
to save this game. i m a steelers fan. but we have to know the truth, the players need to know the truth and the nfl needs to get out of the picture with the truth business because they are not giving it to us. it s as bad as the tobacco industry in the 90s. it is that bad, it really is. there was some study that the nfl was supposed to fund on the pervasiveness of this problem, andy. is the nfl still going to do that? well, no. and this story was a little confusing, carol. i ll give you a little background information. in 2012 the nfl gave the national institutes of health $30 million with no strings attached to fund whatever you want. espn s outside the lines is reporting the nih was going to use $16 million of that money to fund a study on cte to detect it while people are still alive because right now, of course, we can only detect cte once somebody has passed away. espn is reporting the nfl polled that funding or did not want the money to be used for that stupd
lenny, you are a steelers guy. your team gets brady in week one. is it good for america that he s back and that we can put this sort of national nightmare of deflategate behind us? well, deb, i appreciate you coming to me first. as a pittsburgh steelers fans i will know a lot more about football than mr. philadelphia eagles over there. that said, i think it is good for america because number one, you want to see the best of the best. when the super bowl champions come out and they will do their thing, you want your team to go up against them. the pittsburgh steelers are america s team. you have two of the best quarterbacks in the nfl going up against each other. i think that as well as the steelers fan, we have seen roger goodell go after particularly our defense when it comes to hits and playing rough aggressive defense for the last several years. it s about time roger goodell learned his place, takes a step back and hopefully learns a lesson and the league will grow as a result.