The day of parochialism in sports is over. The world is too small for what people like to call 'the good old days.' Fans want the best, wherever they come from.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In sports, championships often define a person's legacy.
Basketball's eras are defined by teams - Celtics, Lakers, Bulls - and baseball's epochs are defined by players - Ruth, Robinson, Mantle - but with football, it's the sideline strategists, the nutty professors and top coated Lears.
We should reach out to people to try to go after the fans the way other sports do. Because we can't just depend on the fact that it is a great game.
I think sports are meant to unite people.
Sports fans have been mistreated for a long time. They have overpaid for inferior food and they have had poor service.
I'm persuaded that sports is the one place where the rules are pretty well set out, where fans are equal. And if you got game or you're a good official, you make it here, whether you're white or you're black.
Most athletes, we're the good ol' boys, part of the good-ol'-boy fraternity, and we take care of our brothers, and we cover up the bad habit and the bad play.
We always try to reinterpret sport in an innovative, fashionable way, and when we do fashion, we're always trying to bring our sports heritage into the fashion world.
Fans, especially ours, demand championships. That's what we're striving for.
The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst.