re: JFF on the Cover of Time-"It's time to pay college athletes"

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you're right, he's infamous. He's quite popular for being hated. So if we're just talking about getting readers and not making change, again i agree with you. If you'd like change though i stay away from him as my poster boy

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You're assuming those with power to impart change will put form over substance. That's a suspect assumption. The power brokers aren't going to be moved by the chiding from the ignorant mass pointing to the plight of some indigent kid. Those kids are a dime a dozen, largely forgotten once Rinaldi's voice fades and the next commercial airs.

JFF is the perfect figurehead for the movement because the financial benefits flowing from one player's name and likeness have never been so profoundly misappropriated. There are hard and large numbers reflecting what everyone but Manziel is making off "Johnny Football." Never has a nickname generated so much money for everyone but than holder.

Sure, from a superficial standpoint, one that appeals purely to emotion, he's not ideal--or even what you want. But whatever discontent he incites in the public, it's surely not outweighed by the actual merits of his case.

If there's going to be change, it will be so that players can profit from their name and likeness. There will never be some profit-sharing arrangement whereby every player on the 85 receives a kickback. If you accept that as true, Johnny is the perfect catalyst for change.