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Another big factor beyond the celebrity/wealth is that he is oldest of the olds. At 67, Jimmy is the oldest competitor that we have seen in a long time and I hope that he doesn’t fall victim to an injury-related elimination. But as a student/avid fan of Survivor, I suspect that Jimmy is smart enough to know whether or not his body can take the toll of the game.

(Because all things Cowboys have been shoved down my throat for years, I would like to clarify that the only other coach to win a college and NFL championship is Barry Switzer with the Sooners and the Cowboys. I feel dirty for even knowing that.)

David Mumpower: Since Switzer also played at Arkansas and they didn't win a national championship while he was there, that means Johnson is the only guy in the history of football to win a national title as a player and a head coach as well as be the head coach of a Super Bowl champion. How remarkable.

Daron Aldridge: Fair point. I don't feel so dirty now other than for not catching the "player" part.

Jim Van Nest: David, I think I may not have been clear with my thoughts on Jimmy pushing his "Coach-ness" to the background. In one of the videos, Johnson says it himself. He's used to being large and in charge. Someone screws up in practice and Jimmy would cut him and keep his paycheck. THAT'S the attitude Jimmy can ill afford to bring with him to Survivor, for a couple reasons. The first is that, celebrity or not, you can't take that attitude in this game without suffering the consequences. The second is that in football, Johnson was ALWAYS the smartest man in the room. I'd suggest that on the Fox shows he's STILL the smartest man in the room from a football standpoint. What we don't know is how Survivor-smart he is.

Boston Rob could be that leader and people would (sometimes literally) bow down to him because he was always the smartest man in the room. We've yet to see is Jimmy will be the smartest Survivor in the room the way Rob was. If Jimmy can prove to be as savvy at this game as he is/was with football, then I agree with David that he needs to grab the reins of this tribe and lead them toward the Ring. If he turns out to be too old or to just not have the superior skills that Rob had, he's best off to be a worker bee and not try to tell people what to do.

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