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Inside the Landmark College Athletes Bill of Rights Being Introduced in Congress

Cory Booker may be a current U.S. senator, ex-mayor and former presidential candidate, but he’s also a college football fan.

And just like many college football fans, he wants to see the return of the NCAA Football video game. In fact, his friends keep bugging him about it.

“You say it’s trivial, but it ain’t,” Booker, a former tight end at Stanford, says. “You’re hitting in my own world.”

The most recent legislation that Booker (D-N.J.) plans to introduce in Congress is an ambitious and sweeping bill that could change college athletics forever—as well as open the door for the return of NCAA Football, the Electronic Arts college game that mesmerized gamers until legal disputes over its use of player likeness suspended production in 2014.