At 12:01 a.m. ET Monday, at the very end of arguably the most surreal weekend in the history of what is inarguably America’s most nonsensical sport, college football players informally unionized. That alone was a gobsmacking development, the stuff of fever dreams for players’ rights advocates for decades. But it was the guy pushing it forward who made it all the more remarkable.
Trevor Lawrence, the most recognizable collegiate athlete in the nation, hit “send” on a tweet that brought together two different player factions under one umbrella while announcing a desire to have a fall season and “ultimately create a college football players association.