that i was a part of a class with a guy who everybody loved. i mean, he didn t hold himself above anyone else. he was a coach, he took his coaching skills to television, everybody was able to relate to him as a result of him being a coach and being able to telestraight his ways through plays and so forth. so i m saddened, but i m happy that i had the opportunity to know this man at least for a short period of time. the other thing is, and i don t think anybody is going to say anything about this during the course of today, super bowl xxi, when the giants played the denver broncos, i appreciated he tele-straighted up in the box where the gatorade was going to
forfeit. the game can t be rescheduled. players from both teams will also forfeit their salaries. the team responsible for the outbreak will also face further financial penalties. to date, 78% of nfl players received at least one dose of a covid-19 vaccine. and 14 of the 32 nfl teams have reached the 85% vaccination threshold. joining us now to discuss is george martin, super bowl xxi champion and the former president of the nfl player s association. it s good to see you, sir. so what s your reaction to this nfl policy? do you think it s appropriate or too harsh? well, john, i think on the surface i totally agree with it. i think there should be some penalty for twhoez will not conform and there should be some overt protection for those people who have conformed. where i do disagree, john, i don t think that the teams that who are affected by those who break the rules should be penalized equally. i don t think that s fair. what you re saying is the
money in the stock market. you made it handsomely the past month. stocks are hotter than hot. for the s&p 500, the last time we saw a month them pressive was back in january of 1987. ronald reagan was president at the time. the new york giants had beaten the denver broncos in super bowl xxi. whitney houston and lionel richie were winning big at the american music awards. the dow jones industrials crossed 2,000 for the first time. keep in mind, we re 25,000 right now. that was the same time that wall street and greed is good came to the scene. these people are too young to remember this. we have susan li with us, katherine rooney and john. john, an impressive star to the year for the s&p 500. the best start since january 1987. we know what happened the end of that year. but i m curious, what do you make of this start and what it portends for the rest of the year? i ll point out that i
through the midterm elections. this after the president uninvited the super bowl champion philadelphia eagles to visit the white house. let s talk about this with the former president of the nfl players association george martin who helped the new york giants win super bowl xxi, great to see you. good to see you. what do you think about all of this some of the players didn t want to go, somehow i guess that hurt the president s feelings, then he uninvited them and where we are today? first of all, i think it s an enormous smoke screen but i have to say a shout-out to one of your colleagues, april ryan for yesterday trying to get the narrative back on track as she confronted sarah huckabee sanders in trying to get this back to where it originally was which was human rights violations. it s obvious that the white house is going to use this initiative as a political, which is the pot calling the kettle black, political issue throughout the upcoming years