Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Jamarcus Russell is Coming Back? What Else Can Sneak Up On Us?

The sports world has been talking about three things lately--the Super Bowl, Manti Te'o, and Lance Armstrong. Each of the three could easily take center stage and make anything else that happens seem frivolous in nature.

However, with all three stories basically breaking at once this is the perfect time for a player(s) or team to come forward with some scandalous and/or embarrassing  With the Super Bowl, the gullible Notre Dame linebacker, and cheating cyclist hogging all the headlines they could go virtually unnoticed!

Take Michael Crabtree's sexual assault allegations. Yes, the story has been covered, but it has garnered only a fraction of the attention it normally would.


How about the Jamarcus Russell comeback tale? Apparently a person that many consider the biggest draft bust in NFL history wants to give it another go in the NFL. Go ahead. Laugh. That's enough.

The story has been reported and ridiculed, but if you take a closer look at it there is potential for something bigger than another Late Night joke here. There is an impressive team gathered together to try and make the former LSU quarteerback into an NFL-caliber player.

He will be working with the likes of former NFL players like quarterbacks Jeff Garcia and Scott Brunner, wide receivers Mark Clayton and Quinn Early, and Marshall Faulk along with trainers and doctors.

Come on--some tell me that they are filming this transformation for a reality show! This is ratings gold! Shoot--forget gold; we're talking platinum! This country loves a reclamation project. Why else do people tune into the all the makeover shows? How else can you explain the popularity of weight loss shows? No one wants to watch fat people cry while they workout! We do love to see them turn into hotties when the show is over though...

With the Micael Crabtree story and now Jamarcus Russell I can only imagine what stories are just waiting to break. Being a half-way creative mind I can think of a few stories that I would not mind see come to light:

  • Woody Johnson didn't fire Rex Ryan because it is Woody playing with Rex's wife's feet.
  • Jerry Jones is Al Davis
  • Jerry Jones is Kaiser Soze
  • Roger Goodell ran the bounty program in New Orleans
  • The Lombardi Trophy is made from the remains of Vince Lombardi
  • All the players that claimed they were suspended for taking Adderall really took Adderall
  • Tim Tebow is Kaiser Soze
  • Peyton Manning keeps losing in the playoffs because of his deal with the Devil. If he wins the Super Bowl twice he loses his soul forever (any Yankees fans out there?)
  • Terrell Owens really is a great teammate and his bad reputation is completely because of the media
Not that I've been thinking about these scenarios...



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