I wish we had an NFL Annual Player Selection consultant here at DP Dot Com. Did any of you humps even follow the draft? I’m secretly glad that BRADY QUINN’s stock fell faster than COREY LIDLE’S Cessna because when my homey RYAN GRANT was balling for Notre Dame he wasn’t getting the rock from QUINN as much as he should have. I suppose that’s all good in the ‘hood now since GRANT was drafted by his hometown Giants anyhoo. Still, BRADY QUINN as a top five pick while MATT LEINART was 10th or whatever?!? BRADY, you get a ‘Ho Sit Down’ from DP Dot Com.
JAMARCUS RUSSELL is the second Black quarterback to be chosen with the first overall in the draft. Does anybody remember who the first was? The answer to that will win you a DP Dot Com Football Pooler Prize. RUSSELL played his collegiate football in Louisiana at LSU and along with another great NFL’er who went to Grambling State he continues the tradition of Black Bayou-schooled bigtime signal callers.
DOUG WILLIAMS played for Grambling back in the days when the Whitney M. Young Urban League game was still hosted at Yankee Stadium. Those games were as close as you could get to an authentic Negro League event. The halftime show featuring Grambling State’s marching band is still legendary. Back in those days when DOUG WILLIAMS was still at Grambling State it was like watching a god on Earth disguised as a quarterback. DOUG was so big and tall that he would push around defensive linemen that tried to tackle him and then he would throw the football from one endzone to the other so much as flicking his wrist.
All I can remember from back then were all my fathers’ friends and relatives with their families and the picnic baskets filled with fried chicken and cornbread. Too bad the Yankees never sell that food during the regular season. The older men would have their flasks in their back pockets and there would be all of this hooting and hollering except for when Grambling had possession of the ball. It would only take WILLIAMS a few snaps to do something incredible that would make the entire stadium explode with the type of cheer that only 50,000 Black people could muster. Try to imagine a collective “Awwwwwww sheeeeeeeet!”. For DOUG WILLIAMS and Grambling State University it was like playing a home game.
I remember buying tickets to the game as an adult an offering my dad my extra ticket when one of my homeys had a change of plans. It was fun to hang out with my dad at the game even though he made for a lousy wingman. I have a thing for hussy type broads and that never really sat well with the old man. Anyhoo, we enjoyed the afternoon, and the Grambling State Marching Tigers remain nonpareil when considering any university. If you have a chance to see them perform live I suggest you take the opportunity.
Back to JAMARCUS RUSSELL… I’m glad his ass is playing football because a name like JAMARCUS isn’t going to be good for too much else. His height and weight even eclipse DOUG WILLIAMS’ so I expect some big things in a couple of years from this man. It’s just too bad for him that RANDY MOSS isn’t in Oakland any longer.
Other notes on the NFL Annual Player Selection…
Nobody thinks they can throw a football one hundred yards like a JAMARCUS RUSSELL, but everybody thinks they can do a better job than their teams general manager, especially when that GM is MATT MILLEN.
