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I couldn't imagine the type of N-I-L deal you'd have. I would have an N-I-L deal with football. I have an N-I-L deal with baseball, and I'd have an N-I-L deal with track, because I live in all three sports, all American in all three sports. And who knows who knows where I would be. But I tell you what, I would be happy. You'd have a lot more money a lot earlier in life. Who would even think about playing Pro Ball? Exactly. Why? Why? I would probably have to take a, I would probably have to take a pay cut to go to the pros. To go to the pros, you'd think, well, you just want to extend your eligibility. Give me eight-year eligibility. There we go. I'm going to keep running. But before that, I cannot these kids, if they are getting it, they are getting it, but I think they're getting it the wrong way, Brett. I think they're getting it the wrong way. There should be rules and stipulation with this, because kids don't know how to manage the type of money that they're making, and they're going, who needs a $100,000 watch in college? Who needs a $200,000 sports call in college? See, what happens if they go out and care for me tomorrow? I wonder, too. I wonder, too, like, okay, let's take for granted, take for instance, the quarterback at a big-time university, who's getting a $3 million NIL deal. And now, that alignment is getting pissed because he ain't making nothing, but you got to protect him. You're blocking his head. Your quarterback is going to get eight up this year, because unless you're sharing part of your NIL with me, I'm getting something. Why should I block for you? At least in the NFL, the linemen, yeah, they're not going to be paid like a skill player, but they're still doing very well, making a million dollars. But if you got a quarterback in college making $3 million as a 19-year-old, and you're doing the grunt work on the line, and you're getting an NIL, a share of a 10 or 15 grand, you're going, wait a minute, I'm getting some mailbox money. This guy's getting, he could buy a new house money. So, there might be a little resentment, especially at that young of an age. Yes, but, and I say that there are ways to fix that. There are ways to fix this. I think, but I think what has happened, and this is my opinion, I think they put the saddle on the horse backwards and smack it on the ass and send it out the bar. You're just thinking right now, it's too late to do it, or can we? No, this can be fixed. It can be fixed. But like I said, it's called rules and stipulations. I don't think it's right for a kid to enter in the transport portal until after his sophomore year. I think the only fair for the university, if I'm going to pay you $3 million, you're going to finish your college career at this university. You are going to get pissed because somebody jumped in your butt because of something when you decide at the end of the year, you're going to enter a transport portal and take our $3 million with you. No, it's going to go on a fund, it's going to go on a trust fund, and you'll get a stipend off of it every month until you graduate and you go pro. And if you decide that you're going to leave, guess what? The university keeps what's left in that account. Yeah, because the player, you're right. You can go get another NIL with somebody else. Right. You're not going to live off our NIL and somebody else's NIL because if that's the case, kids will jump from school to school every year and a half and just make money. Right. They can hold their institution hostage. They have too much leverage with the university. But I agree, I don't like this portal how it's just every year. It's he's going, he's going, he's going, and there's no, there's got to be more rules where, okay, you can do it, but you kind of have to jump through hoops and it's not just an easy thing. I can just declare there's some rules and there's a process to it, which in the end, it doesn't make it something that's glorifying to do. I'm trying to find the words for it, but it doesn't make, it's not just an easy thing. I can push a button and I'm at LSU today and I'm at Auburn tomorrow and oh, there's some money over here. I can go over there. No, you can do it, but there's a process and it's something that doesn't, right, it doesn't feed you to do it. Like you don't, okay, I'm going to pick my school this year, pick it next year. No, that's not the thing. We want you to go to your university, be known with that university, be successful at university and not be changing. The portal is for that last, you know, that last ditch, like, all right, it didn't work out here. So yeah, here's a way you can do it. You got to wait a year. You got to do this. Not something coming in and oh, it's something we do every year. But the big thing for me, it's not the money that the kids are getting, but because there's no rules and everything so that it's teaching kids for me personally, this is nobody talking but me. For me, it's teaching these young athletes how to run away from their problems instead of sit back and deal with it. Be a man, stand up to the plate. I don't think there's one kid playing in this day and age could go through a rip, but an ass rip ripping that we got from our coaches when we played. I don't think there's a kid that could handle that. Everybody everybody's too offended. Yeah. Yeah. And that that actually made that actually made me tough. That that made me tough. But I got a good example here. My rookie year with the Raiders. This was a week before the Seattle gate. I got into it with the I think the defense coordinator, defensive line coach, because me and the defensive lineman, we were going back and forth because somebody wasn't peeling off their blocks, right? And I said something to one of the defensive line and the defensive line coach jumped in my ass and I jumped back in his. And the last thing he said was you just make sure that you do what you got to do. And I turned around and looked him in his eye and I said show up Monday night and I'm going to show you what the I'm going to do. That's how you have an issue. And on that Monday night, when we played Seattle, after that game, that defensive line coach came up to me and shook my hand and said, Mr. Jackson, what you did out there tonight was impressive, damn impressive. And you showed me instead of talking about it. And not that I'm bragging on myself. But if you want to be successful in life period, it doesn't have to be sports. It can be anything you put your mind to. Let your actions speak for you. Let your actions speak for you. People I watch today's game and believe me with with the disagreements with the agreements, I'll always be I'm a baseball lifer. But I look at the the young players today, not just in baseball and all sports. And they come up. And the argument is, hey, we don't want you to make it tough on them. We want you to welcome them, be a part of the team. Maybe we'll get some more production quicker from a young player. Yeah, that's that argument. When I came up when you came up, I'll tell you what I was you speak when you're spoken to you earn your stripes. We'll let you know. I remember to this day coming my rookie year and J Booner to this day. One of my mentors put it put his took me under his wing. But it was tough luck. And it was loony. Get your ass off this bus. You go on the you go on the scrub bus until you earn the right to hang with it. And I'll tell you what I used to do it. I used to laugh. But it was so rewarding when I earned my stripes. And what I had to go through the fighting the clawing to be accepted and finally kind of have Ken Griffey Jr. looking at me and go, you're a big leaguer kid. All that fight and all that hardship and and those guys getting on you and being tough on you. I think it it not only prepared me for my career, but it prepared me for life. My dad told me at a young age, life isn't fair Brett. There's going to be some ups and downs. You're going to get some there's going to be some awards that you should have won that you're not going to win. And what are you going to do about it? What are you going to do? Absolutely. So I think you have a a point there where it's like and you go through that. And I think you're a better human being for for having to struggle a little bit and get through. You got to kind of look at yours. Everything isn't. Oh, it's going to be okay. We'll make it okay. Because we always want to make you comfortable. How do you become a man like that who would never having to be uncomfortable? Absolutely. You got to get your ass kicked and find out how to get off the ground and fight through it. You have to deal with it. Yeah. You got to believe in yourself. But if you don't got to fight in here, if you don't got to fight fire in here, you're always going to you always you always going to be in the back of the bus. If you don't have that fight, my thing coming but and you got to look at it like this. When I came to the wrongs, it was a year after they won the World Series. Take your business further with a smart and flexible American Express Business Gold Card. It offers flexible spending capacity that adapts to your business. You can also earn up to $395 in annual statement credits on eligible purchases at select business merchants. That's the powerful backing of American Express. Terms apply. Learn more at american express dot com slash business gold card. Yeah. That's right. Everybody was the MVP. I remember it. Everybody on that team knew that their job was safe. I come up from spending 34 days in the minor leagues and Memphis in the mental as a mental attitude that I had. I didn't know if I was going to play right center or left, but my mentality, this is how I approached it, was that somebody, I don't know who, but somebody is about to lose their job. Somebody is about to lose their job. And it's not personal. I didn't know and I didn't know who, but I knew when I got the opportunity. You got to shine like a new pig. You got to shine like a new penny. And that's what I try to instill in all these young athletes, but I mentor young baseball players. I mentor young football players and I tell them all the same thing. If you don't got the fire in your heart, if you don't believe in yourself, you're not going to make it in this game. I say you're not going to make it in this game. I say the show boating and all of that. That's fine. I say, but if you don't hustle every time you step across that white line, you ain't going to make it. And I guarantee you that there's somebody that got the attitude that I got is licking their chump to wait and to get their opportunity to put you on a bus somewhere. Yeah, if you don't have passion, if you don't have passion, unless you're just a beyond freaky talent, you don't have that passion. You'll get run over because too many kids out there got that passion. Yes, it is. Yes, it is, brother. Well, we ever see another Bo Jackson. I look at the kids today, how they're grown up, how every these parents especially, oh, you're going to concentrate on one sport, which is I think is the worst advice you could give especially to a kid. I think I call them helicopter parents. Yeah, let your kid, let your kid compete in whatever sport he wants, or she wants to let them choose the sport that fit them. You can't do it for them. And I say to you to answer your question, will there ever be another Bo Jackson? I'd say yes. Give him about, give him about 15 to 17 years. Name's Aiden Vincent Jackson, as my grandson. Your grandson. Boney, eight minutes. He, he was actually taking batting practice three weeks ago in the Rolls locker room. He had the big leaguers pitching to him in the locker room. How old is he? How old is he? How old is he? He's three. Three. He's three. And he's clean like pop up, but when he hits the ball, instead of him running tough, running, running toward first base, he turns around and runs back backwards to the back of the to the back of the cage. He runs back and pick it and pick up the bat and go back to the head again. So it would be Aiden Vincent Jackson. He's three years old. He's Papa's best friend. And as soon as this over, I'm going to pick him up and we're going to go get him lunch that don't have a egg in it. He has an egg allergy. He doesn't like it. Close your eyes for one minute. What uni you wearing? Raiders Auburn Royals. Close your eyes for a second. What uniform, when you envision yourself, what uniform you're wearing, Royals Raiders Auburn. It doesn't matter. Yeah. It doesn't matter. I enjoyed my ass off with whatever uniform I put on. You forgetting the Raiders? No, I said Raiders. White Sox Angels. Angels last year, you were the angels. Yes. White Sox. White Sox? Yes. But like I said, I try to leave my footprint wherever I go. I try to leave a footprint and say, hey, bowl was here. Not something, not something grandiose, but just to say, hey, I was there at one time. I was there at one time. I don't want to, I don't want to be the best. I just want to be one of the cylinders in that, in that V8 engine that's getting that car down the road. 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