NFL Draft Weekend - Remembering Ryan Leaf
Ryan Leaf, Tony Randall, and Brian Bosworth visit Mount Rushmore There was a moment in time when in the NFL Draft people actually compared Washington State's Ryan Leaf to our Tennessee Vols Peyton Manning. It seems laughable now but it actually happened. However, it didn't take long for that comparison to get shot all to Hell. Peyton, as legend goes, became the finest QB in the NFL before jumping onto a rocket ship and blasting off into the galaxy to cure hunger for alien worlds far off. In ho read
1. You like to have a reason to veg out and follow something intnesely. Go ahead, tell me you don't. 2. You've been projecting your team's first round pick since the combine too, and you KNOW you want to see if you were right. 3. The first guy to get a hat and jersey from your team, for better or worse, will change the next 5-10 years for the franchise. 4. You don't root for the Browns and your team has a pick before Round 4 this year. 5. The 10 minutes between each 1st round selection make it read
Tomorrow is the NFL draft. The pundits have been out in force, analyzing, dissecting, breaking down the top players - trying to find the sleepers, identify the busts, and anoint the next superstars without a single player having seen a single down in the NFL except on their television sets on Sunday. It passed the stage of interesting a long time ago and now just resides in the land of tedium. Analysis for analysis' sake. Everyone has a different opinion, everyone identifies a different place read
Well, the good Dr. has returned just in time for his favorite sporting event besides WNBA playoffs, the NFL Draft! Being a Lions fan it is the day of hope, optimism and disappointment. The one thing I have come to learn from watching the draft is the NFL is a damn genius when it comes to marketing because let’s be honest folks, no one knows for sure how good a player is going to be or what is a “good pick.” There are thousands of examples of players who were drafted early that didn’t amount to read
There is more talk these days about the new emergence of a pro football league called the United National Football League. Don’t be too quick to pass judgment, I think this league has a shot to work. I am a football junkie and I will watch just about anything and everything football. But, I did not like the XFL - maybe because I don’t really care for wrestling - and this was a version of the wrestling Vince McMahon has made famous. Now there is nothing wrong with wrestling, it’s just not my cup read
