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Like it yesterday. it was cold, rainy, windy for this one in seattle yesterday. not very good for the saints. they are used to playing indoors but it didn't bother marshon lynch. in the fourth quarter he takes off for a 31 yard touchdown. this is the second quarter touchdown as the seismic monitors went off. this is the play end of the game. a forward pass was thrown. that's a no-no. that penalty gets a ten second runoff. seahawks win it 23-15. in the afc patriots hosting the colts. this was the show. the patriots scored four touchdowns in the game one coming on a 73-yard run in the fourth qua...

Pilgrims who'd sailed across the atlantic on the mayflower, a country of pioneers who'd gone across the oregon trail in covered wagons. now all of a sudden we were changing into a bunch of white-collar workers who were soft, who were mollycoddles. he thought what young boys needed was something that would make them tough, manly men, and that was football. he thought it was worth the price no matter how tad bad the injuries were for boys to play it. >> all right. obviously, there were some decisions that rules had to be changed, the biggest rule being the invention of the forward pass. so knute...

Go to rundown.msnbc.com for more with alan simpson on this family feud. coming up, using the bully pulpit to save football. if it weren't for our 26th president, we would haven't the gridiron game we love today. how teddy roosevelt helped to legalize the forward pass and make the game safer for players on the field. plus, we're honoring the 150th anniversary of one of the most iconic speeches in american political history. that brings us to today's trivia question. which president was resident of gettysburg, pennsylvania? stop it, jonathan. first person to tweet the correct answer -- >> ea...

Contention. >> and wild card. jets, bengals, they can sneak in. >> he can't throw a forward pass, but that doesn't matter. >> he rushed 22 times yesterday. >> the defense was so obsessed with keeping him from running it, he'll eventually become a better passer. >> we'll see. let's get to that jets game. a good game sanchez four touchdowns, but it wasn't pretty. everybody's talking about this play. what's your take on the celebration here? >> when you have a history of dropping the football, you can't put more pressure on yourself. that's what he did with this play. when he does the plaxico bur...

Much of his governorship and even into his presidency. >> well, they always say in show business easier to find a new audience than to find new material. here is one of reagan's note cards that doug's dug up. it's on taxes. it reads, every time the government shifts to the left the decimal point in taxes shifts to the right. ron, did he really believe if you lowered the tax rates the government made more money? really believed it? >> i honestly think he did. all evidence to the contrary, i know find me a time when that actually happened, i think he believed somehow that that would happen. >> w...