With how similar it was to the David Tyree catch, I actually started thinking for a few brief moments that maybe the football gods were actually real.

Well, to be fair, the other owner in the league who is most like Snyder, Jerry Jones, was going to draft him until his son physically prevented him from doing so.

Well, if it was directed at the person covering him, then the metaphor is missing the ending where Revis or whoever it was gets to spoon feed the pile of shit back to Baldwin.

He's not calling out other students, he's highlighting the difference in experience. Also, get over your work and school mantra. Whatever job you had wasn't as complicated and involving as being a college football player

We're working with 3-4% of college athletes, and the discussion moved on to all NFL players.

But you're comparing what an athlete makes in a few short years to what joe blow makes over his entire lifetime. Most NFL athletes are not disabled and unable to work after they retire.

Except that I was talking about Richard Sherman. But besides all of that if players are committing to that kind of schedule with no or minimal future prospects of playing football for money, then they are either

Let's assume for simplicity, that 1/4 of every roster graduates. That's 2,720 players.

the 4.5% is millionaires by net worth, not millionaires by income.

Perhaps, though in that scenario Alabama would spend money on it's players as well.

That estimate is based on all NCAA players, and Sherman belonged to a class of player, Division I at a high profile college, of which a significantly higher percentage get drafted. The numbers I can find indicate that between 10-20% of players who are on rosters their senior year are drafted, and 50-60% of those make…

Apparently, your schedule was easier because your education was not all that great.

But the percentage of players who go on to make millions in the NFL is probably LESS than the percentage of other students who go on to make millions on their own with their degrees.

I think you could argue that a big part of the value of any college football franchise is how good it's recruits collectively are, and that is most definitely directly related to who the coach is.

The kind that said 6'4 275 pound starting defensive end makes up with his probably chronically damaged imagination?

"I would love for a regular student to have a student-athlete's schedule during the season for just one quarter or one semester and show me how you balance that. Show me how you would schedule your classes when you can't schedule classes from 2-to-6 o'clock on any given day.

It isn't homogenous in that the interests of the players, while aligned on some fronts, are more disparate on others. A marginal player who thinks he has a year or two left of good playing time might be concerned about concussions, but he's not going to care enough to not vote for labor peace as compared to a strike.

Huh, that's a good point about the quarterbacks that I hadn't really thought about. I wonder if they could be enticed by the prospect of what they might be able to be paid if there were no salary cap and the highest bidder could pay for them? I have to imagine that the market value of Aaron Rodgers in an uncapped…

Well, maybe. I might buy that if that was 2007, but 30 years is a long time.

Which, yes, I think contributes.