Colin Allred: “There needs to be a changing of the guard. There need to be folks put in place who will try and protect Texans.”

I think that in the Democratic Party, there’s almost been a reluctance to engage in things like football, and I don’t really get that.

Texas' 33rd Congressional District: Colin Allred, who went undrafted but played 32 games for the Tennessee Titans, won this Dallas-area district with a whopping 79 percent of the vote. He's a Democrat.

But I'm nowhere near done serving my community and our state. Today, I'm announcing my campaign for Congress to represent the newly drawn Congressional District 33.

And I have to say to them, you're absolutely right about that, too. We need to be better.