J.A. Adande

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510 appearances 4 recordings 3 series first heard Mar 2025 last heard 2 May

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The Herd with Colin Cowherd · Colin Cowherd Podcast - J.A. Adande On Steelers + Dodgers Dynasties, The Myth Of Michael Jordan, NIL, LIV Golf Crashes Out · 30 Apr 2026 podcast

The key thing, Carlin, that you mentioned was the lack of social media.

And I think Michael would have been picked apart and nitpicked and memed in a way.

I mean, he got memed enough just for crying and shedding tears at his Hall of Fame speech.

So could you imagine the entirety of his career?

Every time a camera caught him with making a funny face, it would be a meme.

So we probably wouldn't think of him as this exalted Michael Jordan if we got to see him be more ordinary or caught him on a bad day or a poorly lit picture the way that LeBron has played almost his entire career in the social media era.

He's drafted in 2003.

I think Twitter comes out in 2008.

So he's had to live so long in the social media era.

I don't think Michael Jordan would have held up as well as LeBron has been able to held up if he'd been subject to the same amount of public social media scrutiny.

So it hasn't changed.

Northwestern basketball, which is not a huge thing, it's been more popular.

The most fraudulent, the greatest fallacy that the NCAA tried to hoist on us was that interest in college sports would be diminished if the players were getting paid, as if them being impoverished was essential to us liking and enjoying the sports, right?

And no, we've seen, especially in college football, where the money really is, that

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the ratings are higher than ever for the NCAA playoffs, the college football playoffs, and the championship games, right?

You know, and like the Mendoza story, do we get that if we don't have NIL?

Probably not.

Just the whole Indiana, you know, this Cinderella story.

But behind the scenes, there's a lot of money involved, right?

And yet it still feels in some ways it's kind of wholesome and pure.

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