curtis martin is a hall of fame running back two played for the jets and patriots.rtis. >> welcome. thank you. i'm sorry. thank you. >> we're glad you're here. >> caught me off-guard. >> no worries. i'd really like to ask you about these concussions especially in light of three quarterbacks suffering concussions to the point they cannot play. surely you saw this in your playing days, but they weren't publicized. many we didn't realize so many concussions happened. >> well, you know something? unfortunately, football is a very violent sport, and concussions are almost an inherent part of the nfl. any time you have bodies colliding and heads colliding at that force, you're going to have some. so i think the nfl, they're doing a good job on some of the precautionary type of rules or different regulations that they're implementing to try to protect the players because it's hard to protect the players in a situation -- in a dangerous situation and that's what the nfl is. >> well, you know, i was going to ask you, even with the nfl's added safety precautions, even though

curtis martin right here. was just a short time ago you were wearing that gold jacket going to the hall of fame. >> yeah, it felt good. >> brian: did you learn to love the game as you went from the patriots to the jets? >> you know something? i learned to appreciate the game and i appreciate what the game did for me and i love that. and as time went on, i began to gain a love for it over time. >> brian: when you said play for people.pose, that purpose was? i really love impacting people's lives. i spent the rest of my life doing philanthropic ventures, charity. that's what i love to do. football has provided a stage for me to do that. >> alisyn: also melissa francis was on here, a child secretary of defense act throws went through brutal upbringing. you also went through brutal upbringing growing up. what you witnessed as a kid most kids don't come back from, the way your mother was treated by your father, what she witnessed. why is it that you're able to sit there and smile and have that type of career and en

jonathan martin wrote a terrific piece in politico where he called it cealism, and what he meant was that in 1972 pauline kale, living on the upper west side of manhattan, the great film critic -- >> curtis dixon of -- [inaudible conversations] only knew one person who voted for her. >> for nixon, and he carried every state other than massachusetts. so i think something like that less extreme version because obama didn't do as well as nixon, but something like that was going on. when you had serious people -- i had a bet with hugh hewitt, the conservative radio talk show host, he bet me dinner in new york -- which he now owes me -- was that romney would win with more than 330 electoral votes. >> ron, to get back to the main subject of what we've learned about obama, one of your three cease both in -- theses both in confidence man and an op-ed five, six days ago was that obama did not mobilize his army of supporters well enough in the first term in order to truly be who he was. can you explain that? >> well, it was an area of system some regret -- of some regret, certainly looking back by folks in the white house, and certainly there is a gap between an election and governance. we all kno