APRIL 23 2004 Who Made Eli King? One avid sports fan questions how athletes have more power than the teams that draft them Eli Manning: Good kid, strong arm, impressive senior year at Ole Miss, But............. Who made him king or a.k.a.: Bruce Almighty? Since when does he have more control and power than the teams that jockey for his services. So he says, he wants no part of being a San Diego (Super Charger: good joke after even April 1st) Good for him, whoopdidedo! Next> But no, we can�t just advance past the nonsense that is Eli vs. San Diego. It�s one collegiate player with the last name of Manning versus an entire franchise. One player vs. one franchise! Yet............. He�s the best player in the draft (supposedly), his name is Manning, and his dad is Archie. Archie the first of the Manning quarterbacks decided that Eli doesn�t want to be a Charger and keep in mind Archie never played for a winning team. Yeah Archie (father) is looking out for his son (Eli) and that all well and good.... But That�s where you draw the line. The NFL Draft, like any draft in professional sports is designed to help the horrible teams become respectable and upgrade their rosters to make them better and sometimes even GOOD. Now look at San Diego, and OBSERVE! The Chargers finished 4-12 and won the tiebreaker to be the worst team in 2003. Thus they�re the worst freaking team in football. Thus they get the best college player. Thus the #1 pick should be......... Eli Manning. But Manning, is to good for us. He doesn�t believe in the power of fate. Instead (feeling strongly about this) he thinks he is PERFECT and controls whatever he so chooses. Don�t forget alas he hasn�t said a word, its been his father, the kid is a wimp! He has little physical ability, and I hope he fails because no one deserves the silent treatment that he has been getting, being just another MANNING and just another quarterback out of college. Now interestingly enough... Manning was never in the Heisman race, never deemed a CANT-MISS, and his stats were barely above average until his senior year, a year he led the Rebels to a 9-3 record. So what!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!? Nahh, nahh you cant just throw that out the window because he�s a Manning. Personally in no way he should be complemented with a trade to another team. This is his stupidity, and the NFL should look at it, and poke fun at the power he �thinks� he has AND then they should give him an ultimatum bucking a new trend in sports. �You�re an athlete, you�re name is Manning, that�s all well and good, but if you don�t shut up, and quit threatening we�ll rule you ineligible.� Now hear me out when I say this: Let Eli sit out. Let him. Why? Because he�ll lose 1 year, and be put back in the draft, thus he�ll not have played for a whole season while hot new college names come into the draft picture thus plummeting his stock and degrading his value in G�s! I love it, I absolutely love it. Boy that would teach him a lesson, thinking he�s bigger then the game, and witnessing a cold spill of harsh reality. It�d be beautiful. Though it�s wishful thinking its brilliant. The best scenario of all: drafting Eli, watching him sit out, while your team comes out of nowhere to have a playoff-caliber year, making Eli have to eat his words, while he watches another young stud steal his opportunity. I feel strongly about this I really do. No athlete is bigger then their sport, including Eli. You�re a Manning, but in all realms of realism just another name. He probably cant back up his threats with his play, he�s probably a small, low, over-rated athlete. In essence: This scenario would be Controversial: definitely Genius: Indeed Spectacular: Not a Doubt in My Mind Will it happen? NO. Teams are afraid to take control, the Chargers would take a lot of heat and it�d be debated for years, but in the end it�d be perfect, unique, and as they say in the commercial: �BRILLIANT!� -sj |
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