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So many times in today's society, we can put football No. 1. And I've done it in my life at certain times. You put football number one, this game is more important than anything else. Well, really, it's not. It's just a game.

When I grew up, baseball was the No. 1 sport.

Football is a game you're supposed to have fun in.

Quite frankly, I can't get enough of soccer. I tell my jingoistic friends in the United States there's a reason why it is the world's No. 1 sport. The rest of the planet can't be wrong.

Football is a more beautiful game in high definition.

Football is football; I don't care if you're doing it in Division II, NAIA, or in the SEC or anything in between.

I'm not claiming that football is the nation's salvation in this area, but it's one of them, one little thing that apparently has captured the imagination of a large sector of our society. But when football can't be a relatively pure outlet, a fun thing, then it hurts itself.

Football is a team sport and not an individual sport. We win as a team, and every individual is better if we are part of the team.

Football was not what I was put on this planet to do.

Football is a sad game.