As he drove across the bridge toward the Pentagon and saw it was on fire, four star General Richard Myers pinched his cheek.  Hard.  He thought he was dreaming but he wasn't.  He was about to become the acting chairman of the Joint Chiefs on September 11, 2001.  The man knows crisis, so you'll have to excuse the President at Kansas State  if he doesn't think 20 year old men playing college football is all that dangerous.