reed got havard to join. harper joining with the help of roosevelt too was critical to its so it became the dominant organization. a few years later, it renamed itself the ncaa and overtime it there is a lot of ongoing research in this area, debates about equipment and tweaking the rules. the nfl just changed its kickoff rules. they are going to kick off from the 30-yard line. they move to five yards. there'll be more touchbacks in fewer kick returns in kick returns are famously dangerous place. so they are doing things like that and there are controversies about, what was the organization that criticize super bowl for domestic violence increasing on super bowl sunday? i think that was shown to be not true or at least unproven but football does come under attack. there are people who don't care for it, and that they are not going to stop football the way these progressive era prohibitionists tried to do and may have succeeded in doing if it hadn't been for these innovations. >> do we have another question? if

. >> guest: he was from havard. he was in astrophysics major, seth jacobs in astrophysics major who always cared for me. he always doing preps guard i wasn't going to be the a student but that i met well. even though, that was how i skirted around my add and was able to maintain my place in an elite prep academy where everybody was havard, stanford princeton bound. i knew i was not going to be going to an elite academy. seth knew my burden. seth made that -- >> host: but you would visit him. >> guest: he visited me and he said i need to take you on a walk. just sit down. he took me on a walk around the street in santa monica and he said, and this is when i was utterly wayward. he said i have seen your future. it is this thing called the internet. it works the way your brain works and at that point i had been diagnosed with adult add and i had tried ritalin for about a month and i hated it. i felt hideous about it. .. >> coming up next, booktv spent the day at the literary festival in illinois. watch our coverage fro