A Lesson In Humility Handled Like A Man

I'm a sports fan as most men and partial to Notre Dame as my father is a '64 Alum and I have been brought up in Chicagoland which is considered local to South Bend, then spent 13 years up and down the East Coast then the past 20 years in Chicago again. Therefore as many others here were, I was pulling for ND grad QB Brady Quinn to go high in yesterday's NFL draft.

Surprisingly he barely made the first round cut and ended up with the Cleveland Browns after finally being picked number 22, which was a bit of a shock financially for he and emotionally for both he and his fans (and the NFL for that matter) from the hoped for possible number 1 pick. One can only imagine how disappointed he likely must have felt.

However, unlike most crybaby spoiled gifted athletes of today going from high schoolers all the way to the pro's, he accepted this personal letdown with grace and dignity, his first words after the shell shock being these:

"I had a dollar in my wallet when I walked here and I still have that dollar," Quinn said with a smile after he was drafted.Let this be a lesson for the young athletes out there that holding out, sitting out seasons, suing the teams that draft them or whatever to go somewhere they want to play when they don't get what they want or planned for is not the way to go. Just accept the gifts you are given by God with some grace and dignity or just STFU and play ball.

I know how I feel and I'm pretty sure the working men and women of America just don't wanna hear the pompous and ungrateful whining anymore from this crowd, particularly the professional basketball players. (more on them at the bottom of this entire post)

So Good Job to You Brady and good luck.

Quinn Plummets Through First Round of Draft

NFL AOL Sports: "NEW YORK (April 28) - Brady Quinn knew he could fall in the NFL draft the way Matt Leinart and Aaron Rodgers had the last two seasons."Even before he dropped to No. 22 after being the considered a potential overall No. 1 pick, he kept saying it wasn't a problem. "That means I'll be playing for a better team," Quinn kept repeating.

Well, the former Notre Dame quarterback isn't playing for a better team.

He's playing for the Cleveland Browns , who might've taken him at No. 3, but chose offensive tackle Joe Thomas instead. Cleveland, 4-12 last season, then dramatically traded up from the second round to take a player it hopes is the next Otto Graham, NOT the next Tim Couch. Couch was the first overall pick in 1999 for an expansion team that replaced the original Browns, who defected to Baltimore in 1996. more of this story here

Quinn Happy in End

more about the draft here

One final tidbit: Some of you may have noticed even as a killer Chicago sports fan I haven't posted one iota about the Chicago Bulls and their first victory in a playoff series since the Jordan Era. They accomplished this by sweeping out the world chump Miami Heat this past weekend.

The Brady Quinn "rant" above would be the reason why, as contrary to his ilk, the likes of Allen Iverson and the new pervasive "rapping street culture" of the NBA just personally disgusts me and as a result of the behavior I simply refuse to pay a single solitary dime to support the lifestyles of these NBA pimp daddy, flamboyant, ungrateful and over payed millionaire street thugs.

So to each his own, and to me since Jordan, Bird, Magic and the likes left the game it's gone straight downhill and is picking up speed, headed for a complete and well deserved meltdown just as rap in hopefully very near future.

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