Picture it: California. 2019. California lawmakers pass a bill allowing college athletes to profit off of their own likeness. They cannot be paid by their team, but they can endorse products, lease their image, profit from jersey sales, the whole nine yards. (Actually, for football that should be the whole 50 yards, right? I’m more of a baseball gal).

Despite Greg Abbott’s never-ending quest to claim how much California sucks, two years later he signs the same bill that originated in California. If only Johnny Manziel had a time machine.

I’m posting this mostly to foster discussion because the people that come to the beauty salon know way more about college sports than I do –  I’m a Mean Green Eagle and a Houston Cougar and unless they make headlines I mostly tune out.

My first and last opinion on the matter is this: My liberal populist heart is sated just a little bit this morning. Regardless of the impact on the sport itself, for once, the little guy can get his share of the take. For those college athletes that put their all into sports only to be sidelined with injury before they ever make a dime, perhaps they’ll have a chance to profit off of their work, even if the career ends before it gets a chance to begin. What say y’all?