| The Extra Point - Volume 1 | |
May 8, 2001
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The Chicago Bears drafted a guy named Dan Fortmann in 1936 who played his first game when he was 20 years old. And there are reports of four high school players that played for the Milwaukee Badgers in the late 1800s, but since they did not play under their real names, their ages could not be verified.
On Friday, a 19-year-old named Wes Virgilio walked onto the Florida Firebirds football field in Pensacola, Florida, and kicked an extra point in an Arena II football game. Maybe it's not the NFL, and you can take the AFL2 for what it's worth, but it sure beats bagging groceries at the local Food Mart.
Speaking of raw talent...
What the heck was Jerry Jones smokin' when he traded two third-round picks to take Georgia quarterback Quincy Carter in the second round of the NFL Draft? Why didn't he use a fifth or sixth-round pick like any sane general manager would have done? What did Jerry see in this guy that the rest of us did not?
JJ reached so far to get Carter that now he could easily take over the responsibility of recovering the kicking tee after all kickoffs. After all, he could probably run across the field and grab the thing without bending over. C'mon Jerry, give Cowboy fans a break and get a general manager.
While we're on the draft...
Who still thinks the San Diego Chargers had any intention of taking Michael Vick with the first pick? Heck, even if they had not been able to give away the top slot, they still would not of made Vick the pick.
The city of San Diego is still "leafed out" over their last franchise quarterback fiasco, and anything short of superstardom out of Michael Vick would have been a public relations disaster.
Give GM John Butler credit. The Chargers are the big winners in this year's draft simply because he eliminated the risk of taking a very raw, although very talented Michael Vick, and turned it into a running back that should start immediately, and a quality future starter at quarterback.
I'll go out on a very short limb right now and say that these guys will have a better record in 2001.
The Neon One...
So Deion's in the "bigs" now. Does that mean that the WashingtonRedskins and the NFL are distant memories to Mr. Sanders?
I personally don't think the NFL has seen the last of Deion, although he probably is through in DC. Deion will bide his time playing baseball for the Reds, and the minute Daniel Snyder decides it's time to cut his cap-burdening salary from the roster, he'll be shopping his services to anyone that has a sniff at the Super Bowl.
"Neon Deion" loves the spotlight, and catching on with a team like the Bucs, or Giants, or maybe even the Oakland Raiders, could put him and his happy feet in the football limelight again.
Ravishing Raider...
Jon Gruden was recently named one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world by People Magazine.
Along with his photos in the magazine, Gruden playfully describes himself as a "blond, blue-eyed, surfer-dude guy". "I am a little nervous and embarrassed by all this," he says.
Now wait a minute! Isn't this the same guy everyone was comparing to "Chuckie" six months ago. You know Chuckie. He's the scar-faced throat-slashing doll from the Child's Play horror movies from the late 80s.
So which one is he people?
Another horror story... (actually, I find this kind of amusing)
The oft-injured Ricky Williams, running back of the New Orleans Saints, never had the time or motivation to attend mini-camps with the rest of his teammates. But alas, Rickey has changed his ways and dedicated himself to the Saints the way you would think a first-round pick would do.
You don't think this has anything to do with this year's first-round pick... do ya?
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