The presidential nominees were nice enough to do an interview on ESPN before the football game last night. Here it is. Now, after watching this if you tell me that Mitt Romney isn't a robot I will call you a liar. You are on ESPN not at another debate. Loosen the tie, relax the shoulders. Barack Obama was having a fun interview, Romney looked like he was trying to still gain voters.
The part of the interview that I found interesting was the question about what would you change in sports. It's a fun question because the president doesn't really have the power to change sports...or do they? Obama takes credit for getting the college football playoff system off the ground because that's what he saw that needed to change. See, something fun. Although he did say that he would like to see eight teams, not four. So you would think that Romney would also pick something fun that the people would rally behind. Instant replay in baseball, larger courts in basketball, deep house music playing throughout the entire sporting event, something like that. What does he pick? Performance enhancing drugs. Fail. He gets all serious and whatnot. Everyone knows that drugs are a problem in sports. Everyone knows that they will never be out of the sports because every single person wants and needs to find an edge. Just deal with it.
Another case of a person being out of touch with the world. And I'm not saying that it is just Mitt that is out of touch with the everyday people and their sports plight. If they had asked the vice president and vice president nominee the same question Crazy Uncle Joe would have given a Romney-like answer whereas Paul Ryan would have made some sort of connection to P90X. Either way, politicians need to find a way to just shut off the professionalism from time to time and have a little fun with interviews.
But it'll never happen.
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