ladies and gentlemen, daniel flynn. [applause] >> thank you for coming out tonight. i figured since we're in washington, d.c. and talk about football we could sort of mix a little bit of america's game with the local sport which is politics, and football for whatever reason is a big sport amongst politicians. people say the horse racing is the sport of kings. i think if that's true, football is serving the sport of presidents. from everyone from theodore roosevelt the gerald ford playing at the university of michigan, an awful lot of presidents who have had a relationship -- a real interest in the sport of football. i think if you were to ask the people in this building, whose your favorite football playing president, they would probably say ronald reagan. ronald reagan, a lot of people don't know, played football at eureka college. he later was a play-by-play man for the university of iowa hawkeyes on w.h.o. radio. his biggest involvement in football stand of course from his role in the movie nude rockne all-american. in that movie ronald reagan got his nickname by

compelling reid we have a compelling speaker in the man who wrote the book ladies and gentleman daniel flynn. [applause] >> the cure for coming in washington d.c. we could mix a little bit of america's game with a local sports of politics. football for whatever reason is a big sport among politicians. people say the horse races this sport of skiing and if so it is a sport of presidents from theodore roosevelt to gerald ford at the university of michigan a lot of presidents have had a real interest in the sports of football and if you ask the people in this building to is your favorite football playing president dave would say ronald reagan. to play football at eureka college later was a play-by-play man up for the hawkeyes on who radio of the biggest them from his role in who brought the all-american? that is where reagan got his nickname and i think voter dame and college football brought to a lot more from ronald reagan. . . >> it's a right way of living that none of us will ever forget. they were professional athletes posing as amateurs. they were paid in other sports, and, also, they wer