Former football coach and University of Alabama athletics director Bill Battle has some blunt advice for America’s outgoing president and Washington as a whole: They could learn a thing or two from the game of football.

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In a Monday interview on “The Laura Ingraham Show,” Battle was discussing the upcoming college football championship game against the Clemson Tigers out of Clemson University when the discussion turned to politics and comments made by actress Meryl Streep at the Golden Globes, and even President Obama.

“Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners and if we kick them all out, you’ll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts,” Streep said in her speech after accepting a lifetime achievement award Sunday night.

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President Obama took a similar dig at the sport when he told the New Yorker in 2014 that he wasn’t sure he’d let a potential son play football. He even compared players of the sport to chain smokers. “I would not let my son play pro football,” the president said. “I’m a big football fan, but I have to tell you, if I had a son, I’d have to think long and hard before I let him play football.”

Discussing recent research revealing the likelihood of concussions and head damage that can come hand in hand with the sport when not properly protected and treated, Obama said, “These guys, they know what they’re doing. They know what they’re buying into. It is no longer a secret. It’s sort of the feeling I have about smokers, you know?”

It seems even the game of football isn’t above political and cultural digs anymore. However, Battle had some sage words about any politically correct inspired attacks on the game.

“How do I do better to accomplish the mission?”

“When you really think about the game of football and the team effort, it doesn’t matter who you are, what your political views are, what your race is, what anything else is — it’s what you can do on the field.”

He continued, “If organizations in business or, especially, politics could learn the lessons that these football players learn about focusing on a mission and every play and every day thinking, ‘How do I do better to accomplish that mission?’ and ‘The guys beside me are important and I’m going to lean on them, but I’m going to do my best to not disappoint them’ — I think the people in Hollywood and people in organizations around the world would live by the principles of football. We’d have a lot better world.”

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After eight years of a disappointing presidency where strong leadership was clearly lacking, it does seem the precision and command of football likely could have taught the administration a few things about accomplishing things.

As for Hollywood, endless conservative-leaning artists have talked openly about the left-leaning nature of the town and the desire by many filmmakers to push only certain beliefs and to exclude differing opinions and right-leaning artists from produced work. In football, as Battle put it, all that matters is “what you can do on the field.” If that’s all that mattered in Hollywood and D.C., we certainly would have a better and more smoothly run world.