Anybody involved in sports in Missouri knows it's a great sports state. It is a great sports state, particularly in basketball and baseball. Particularly. Not to demean football, but it's a baseball state and a basketball state.

You could have a player that gave you some iffiness but his talent would make a real contribution, but you had to have an overwhelming base of players so you know exactly what you had.

Only 7 percent of NFL fans have ever been inside an NFL stadium. Seven... have ever been inside. So the NFL is certainly about the Colosseum of Rome. It can't be a studio game.

Is [football] for everybody? Of course not. But it is a meaningful contribution beyond, I think, other alternatives.

Look, many of us here are regular marines... I will die as a marine because that is my dream.

And I completely am one of the most sensitive in that area as far as the NFL is concerned.

Y'all should come to Cowboys Stadium and watch us beat the Giants' asses.