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Matter of fact, I do it every single Friday.
So, if you did miss any of what I had to say today, here's a little taste of what I said earlier with Brian Kilmead. Uh If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead. Craig Carton, host of the Craig Carton Show on Outkick. Go to Outkick.com.
Craig, excited to have you here again. Hopefully, this is a Friday tradition. I think it is. Right. 9:34 every Friday.
And we're excited. And look at this: there's two things that you know that make you fit in. The America hat. That's right. That's right.
And the Fox Sports sweatshirt. I mean, I'm a company man, Brian. Yes, I know where my bread is butter. No, in the afternoon, do you put on a WFAN hat? No.
No. I leave. This is actually a version of the American flag from Tractor Supply.
So it's like a hunter's hat. You see like different animals there. No, I rock the Fox gear. That's wherever I go. I'm rocking Fox stuff.
Yes, I had a great moment this morning walking over here. I come down 48th Street in New York City.
So the firehouse that lost the most men, sadly, on 9-11 is right there on 48th and 7th. And I'm walking down the street, a random guy in normal street clothes. Carton. I'm like, let's go. Because I don't know.
I have no idea. Just one fight before school again. You have no idea. And he's like, firefighter, right there. I think it's Ladder 54, Engine 54.
And he goes, Would you come over and say hi to the guys at the firehouse?
Now I'm half awake, but you can't say no to that because everybody was sleeping.
So I walked in, I got to see the firehouse, took some pictures, and it was awesome. But the guy knew me not just from the radio, but from my many appearances with you now on Fox and Friends. Nice. That's right. He's getting fun of me not wearing a suit.
International. But you could go anywhere in the world now.
Now I can. That's WANA. Yeah, that's right. And wherever I want to go, it's like, you're the guy that doesn't wear a tie. Right.
So, so, Craig, just so you know, I'm not sure what you can do with this information. Fascinating to find out. When we were growing as a country, before we got to 50 states, we were adding a stripe with every star. And the freight was getting too big.
So they made a decision. Keep it thirteen. Ed stars. Good move? Yeah, I love that.
Because the flag would have been enormous. I will say this. Like 50 stripes would have been ridiculous. That'd be the biggest flag of all time, right? To make the stripes really, really small.
As you may know, I majored in American history. I happen to love the Betsy Ross flag from an aesthetic standpoint. But we got the best flag out there, so I'm good with it. Absolutely. Who made that decision?
The founding fathers? It would have been way after them, right? Allison, do you know who made that? I don't know if there was one person who made the decision. I think one person was like sewing this and go, Can we stop this?
Like, my fingers are killing you. I'm killing it. I mean, the Louisiana purchase, I resigned. Are you kidding me? We don't have enough thread.
I think you're probably right. It was a seamstress gun. No, no, no. What did you come back with? All right.
So, back to our original topic. We had John Harbaugh bumping in, talking about, you know, there's a reason behind this. This is just one of the games this weekend. It's going to be intriguing. I think Jameis Winston is one of the best backup quarterbacks in the NFL.
I kind of like to have him as a backup in his head. I'm thinking that he's almost thinking like he's retired. Because he spent the summer doing World Cup. And then he was the Wednesday before the game, he was doing a Broadway skit with Eli Manning. The Hamilton thing, right?
So do you expect him to be better? Yeah, I think he can't be worse. He was terrible. He was, I don't want to use this word because it's going to be overstated. He embarrassed himself against the Rams on Monday night.
Obviously, there's no expectation I'm going to play. But when you say that you feel like he's the best backup, I think the Giants felt that way also. They gave him a two-year extension this offseason with $12 million guaranteed.
So they obviously felt like he could step in. The problem for him is that we saw Drew Locke step in in Seattle for Sam Donald. He's 2-0. We saw 40-year-old Carson Wentz step in for Kyler Murray in Minnesota. He's 2-0.
Last night, although Michael Panix should have been the starter, he was hurt. He comes in after bad quarterback play and beats the Green Bay Packers in Green Bay.
So we've seen a competent backup quarterback play. He has to be better because this is a game you have. To win.
So, yeah, we got to talk about more than New York, but I do have to ask you who you would sign in addition because the people that are saying, um, J.J. McCarthy? Yeah, I don't think J.J. McCarthy's any good. I know you and I spoke the other day.
Jimmy Garoppolo is a name that's out there. What do you think? Look, he's free. He only retired last year. It cost you nothing to get him.
So it's not a bad idea. Obviously, if you get to a third quarterback, your season's a wrap anyway. You're not going to like this. And John fans are not going to like this. But I would go to Russell Wilson and save him from that train wreck of a pregame show on CBS.
That CBS shows a lot. I mean, for a network that started pregame shows with the legendary Brett Musberger and Irv Cross, they're rolling over in their graves right now because that is a. Clown Show. Right. Why do they have to get rid of Boomer and Phil Sims?
Well, they were too old. You can't have too many old people. Who white guys on TV these days? Really? Your days are numbered.
So how dare you? But Craig, you still have Terry Bradshaw and Harry Lawrence. They're roughly the same. But they're fun. Like, if you're fun and you're self-deprecating, it works still.
Like, Terry Bradshaw still works. He does. Just the show's fun. Right. They had Nate Burlston out there last Sunday.
I don't know if you saw this or not. wearing shorts with a suit. Right. Now, you and I can't rock that. We both understand that.
But neither could he. Right. And you wear that because you don't want to. But you do make fun. If I wore it, it would be to make fun of myself.
Oh, imagine what Lawrence would say to you in the morning. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. And I'd mock you as well. You can't, there's no such thing as a good-looking suit with shorts.
I don't care if you put cocoa butter on your legs or not. It's not a good look.
So, and the fact that he was seriously doing that. Yeah, he did it because nobody wants to hear what he has to say.
So, now it's got to be: look at the clown. I like the sarcasm. But you have to admit, and and Fox, like when for example They're sitting now with the guys. They're not there to break news. Like if you're the Fox pregame show?
Any of these pregame shows used to be, we're going to break news on this show. For example, the best interview right now would be Tony Romo. Tony Romo to talk about: look, no one's for DUIs. Everyone makes mistakes. But if you're going to get a DUI, That tape This guy was polite.
He was kind. Couldn't have been any better, actually. Couldn't have been any better. He was polite, respectful. I mean, for him to get pushed out like that and to find out, I mean, it's all about the contract and the performance.
And they overpaid him. Yes, and he changed the game financially for all the analysts, making literally a million dollars a game. I think the reality of that is what you just said. If CBS still thought that Tony Romo was the greatest analyst, John Madden, obviously, Troy Aikman at ESPN, Tom Brady, obviously with us here at Fox, then they would have found a way to bring him back to broadcast with Jim Nance. The reality is that he regressed as a broadcaster.
So we all have morals clauses in our contracts. I do. You do. I'm sure as well.
So this is an opportunity for CBS to say, hey, wait a minute. He's got five years, $90 million left on his contract. We have a contractual right to get out of it and save the money. And it's more about that than what Tony did. I also think Tony Romo was very smart in the one point.
Public comment he made through his publicist was that. Because of the injuries I suffered playing football, sadly, I've leaned on pain meds and alcohol to numb the pain.
Well, what fan can't show some level of respect for that? It was a genius play, whether it's factual or not. It was the right thing to say. Can I just say factually, here's the problem? Yeah.
Is that he's evidently an awesome golfer? Yeah, showing out for the senior tour.
So, yeah.
So, if you're in that much pain, in your second career, how are you still that good? Yeah. No, I'm with you on that. Look, see, by the way, if I make a good point, you can use this on FAN. No one like, but I don't think we, if you don't mind, just I can see you saying that.
I'm going to be driving in my car, and you're going to be like, you know, I was just thinking about this Romo situation. You know, I'm going to do it today. I made it today. Hey, Giants fans, take a break. I know you don't want to talk Giants and Yankees playoffs start on Tuesday.
But Kill Meat had a great point this morning. No, you wouldn't say Kill Meat. I got to give you credit. Oh, you wouldn't give it to me. I don't steal content from anybody else.
Okay, really? All right.
Okay, I'll keep that in mind. 3:30 this afternoon. We can't wait.
So, yeah, and by the way, while we're talking about that, I asked Randy Levine last night, was on with me. I filled in for Jesse. And at the end, I asked him about Aaron Judge. He says, I have no idea if he's playing, but I wanted to get you to comment on the college sports reform that they put out there that Randy helped pioneer. He's a lawyer, and he's good friends with.
Trump for 50 years.
So it looks like it's passed another hurdle. It's going to get a final vote in the Senate on Monday. Here's how he described it. This episode is brought to you by Google Chrome. You think you know a browser, but Gemini and Chrome, that's new.
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Oh, you want to go Ted Cruz? Try this again.
So instead of having Randy Levine, I'd rather have Ted Cruz described. They're on the same committee. Thanks for going with me. The NIL era is here. The Protect College Sports Act embraces this new reality by codifying and protecting the rights of student athletes.
Real NIL is not the same as a disguised recruiting payment. Revenue sharing is not the same as unlimited cap evasion. Athlete mobility is not the same as permanent roster free agency. And legal certainty does not mean a blank check. The Protect College Sports Act draws these lines.
Five years, right? One transfer. Coaches can't transfer even in the middle of the season. They said it's going to empower with an antitrust exemption, it's going to empower the NCAA to make a rule and not get sued, to flip that rule. And it's going to be redistributing some of the money from college football and basketball to the so-called Olympic sports.
Yeah, and then they've done that. You know, listen, football and basketball drives 90 plus percent of all the revenue in college sports. There are a few sports that have other programs that do well financially, but it's a football-basketball world. What I'm trying to figure out, Brian, and I had Randy on my radio show as well, and he's a dear friend. Why would you be against it?
Like, for example, Corey Booker, senator in New Jersey, is against it. Rutgers is half a billion dollars in debt because of, in part, NIL and the new rules, right? Yeah, so I'm trying to figure out why would we want kids to be able to change schools every single year, willy-nilly? Why would we want coaches to make commitments to kids to recruit them to leave in the middle of a season? Why would we want guys with bags of cash to be able to determine the outcome of next year's season or where a kid's going to go?
Why don't we vet the boosters? Like in Miami, their biggest booster for 20 years was committing fraud in his business life and he was using the ill-gotten gains of that fraud to support you, Miami football. Why do we want a new quarterback every single year on every team? Why do we want to screw high school seniors graduating looking for their opportunity to play college ball? No one yet.
has given to me, at least to my satisfaction, a platform for why you would vote against it.
Now, I don't think government needs to be involved in every aspect of our lives either. But college sports has a very special place in this country, and we need to protect the sanctity and the respect that those players get.
So, Drew Rosenau says, I like it the way it is. He says, because an agent, he could actually sign high school players. Yeah, but here's the other thing: they can sign high school players. Without this act, there's no cap or limit on how much an agent can take from a player. You're talking about immature kids that are signing multi-million dollar deals, and their parents might not be in a position to understand what those deals entail either.
And the agents come in, and it's predatory, and they'll say to a kid, I'm going to take 25% of what I get for you. In the NFL, the max is 4%.
So I do think that should be capped as well. Absolutely. So I am all for it too. Tebow's on this. They have players on this.
They got Nick Sabans on this committee. I don't think anyone's agenda is really. And by the way, the SEC is now on board. The other thing they're doing is they're stopping conference colleges from leaving conferences. They said if you do that for five years, you're at large.
You have no conference.
So if you want to leave the SEC, okay, good. For five years, you've got to, you're basically. Which makes it harder to win a championship. Right. And that upsets some lawmakers, like in Florida, because it looks like Florida State wanted to move.
Yeah, the other part of this is that the upside is we're going to level the playing field literally for everybody. Like, so take Indiana. Indiana was the worst program in the history of the Big Ten in football, the losingest program historically of all time. All of a sudden, you can inject some cash into the recruiting, and now Indiana is a powerhouse. That's ultimately good for the sport because you're not going to have one or two teams that dominate and have a dynasty.
Now, your alma mater, my alma mater. I don't care where you went to school, if you've got donors willing to stroke checks, you can now compete on the same level as Alabama and Georgia and Ohio State, et cetera, et cetera. But you got to screen and you got to screen the company.
Well, where's the company? In order to get into the ability, in other words, it should be an NIL eligibility.
So it's got to be, let's say, it's going to be Firestone Tires. Right. Okay. Firestorm Tires wants to sponsor a team.
Well, you're going to have to go through the process. All right.
Yes. And so then now they're eligible. You should be vetted.
So every school is going to wind up having a general manager now. That's going to be a CFO. And I think that's smart. Jalen Brunson is going to be hosting SNL. Here's the promo.
Hi, I'm Jalen Brunson, and I'll be hosting the season premiere of SNL. What's up, Ben? Jalen, what's up, man? How are you doing? Oh my god, I'm so happy you're here, dude.
Appreciate it, man. Is that the key to the city? Yeah, I got it after we won the NBA Finals. Yeah. Speaking of, I was going to ask: do you mind signing my lower back so I can get it tattooed?
What? Nothing. What were you saying about the key? There's only one door. I want this key to unlock.
Saturday Night Live.
Okay. Um That's a great thing.
Someone said to me about an hour ago, Are you going to watch SNL because Brunson's hosting it? And I'm obviously a big Knick fan. No, because when was the last time it was funny? Never. Never.
Yeah. It's been a long time. Funny comedy writers, from sure, individually, are really funny. They probably stand up comics, right? Why can't they make SNL funny?
Right? Saturday nights on Fox News is funny. I'm also a part of it from time to time, and that's where it's at its funniest. With Jimmy Phaler. Yeah, Jimmy's great, right?
Aaron Berg is great. Kennedy's great. Why can't SNL find funny people? You know why? Because they're into this political agenda.
I agree. They had the funniest president ever, and Joe Biden, they could have had great fun with that. And they decided, well, we can't do it because it hurts the party, which is crazy. Yeah. Because if you go back, they used to make fun of everybody.
And that's the beauty of comedy. I was just talking to Jim Norton, who's famous, a stand-up comic out in New York. Like, we need comedy. We need stand-up comedy to poke fun at all the mundane things that we worry about throughout the week. But SNL does a terrible job with that.
As someone who's who, if I was managing a career and it's up, and we've been talking. Are we in a good place? Yeah, I would say you should watch.
So it'll help your Monday show. Just so you have something to talk about. All right, fair enough. I will. All right, watch Outkick.
And you get it on the stream, right? Outkick.com. Outkick.com. It's all over all the social media. And today, well, Mark.
I think our 14th show. Fantastic. I didn't think it was going to last that long.
Well, I was a little surprised. My over-under was 30. Thank you, Craig Carton. Thank you very much. I've always been seeing you.
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