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Jim McMahon has always been a wild card.
On the field. Off the field.
It always felt like you never knew exactly what the star quarterback might do. That doesn’t seem to have changed much throughout the years. The 64-year-old has had some health struggles that he has discussed, but he is still kicking, in the cannabis business and advocating for that, and even dreaming what things might be like if he was president.
McMahon is reportedly teaming with former NFL offensive lineman Kyle Turley to push cannabis advocacy among other things. The duo co-founded a cannabis brand — Revenant — together, and they got some time in front of the cameras in New Hampshire Tuesday.
Another primary focus of theirs is pushing the SAFER Banking act, which would reportedly protect “federally regulated financial institutions that serve state-sanctioned marijuana businesses.”
And of course, McMahon made the most of his opportunity.
“We’re gonna have some fun with it,” he said according to Fox. “We’re gonna try and grow our brand and make people aware about this plant. We’ll see what happens.”
He also teased — or perhaps joked — he and Turley running on a presidential ballot, per Fox.
“I’d close the (expletive) borders for one and then go find all that people that got in her illegally,” McMahon said. “It’s ridiculous. We’re paying all this money as tax payers, and it’s not helping us at all. We’re sending it all overseas, you know. Who knows where we’re sending it, but it’s not being used her in the states.”
McMahon ended it by saying he’d “clean house.”
Of course, it’s highly — just astronomically impossible — unlikely that he would get such a shot.
McMahon is probably best known for helping lead the Chicago Bears to a win in Super Bowl XX. He won the NFL’s Comeback Player of the Year as a member of the Eagles in 1991.
He was on the team’s roster from 1990-to-1992.
He also had stints with the Chargers, Vikings, Cardinals, Browns and Packers.