Houston We Have a Problem

It’s a Monday, the initial day of the month of May, and now that the madness that is the NFL Draft has concluded we have a chance to return to normalcy.

Normalcy in the states apparently now comes in the form of a brand spanking new holiday. As if National Secretary Day or Bring your Daughter to Work Day wasn’t enough, the US of A now has……drum roll please……………………………………..
National Immigrant Day!!!!

On Monday, immigrants, many of whom reside in this country illegally, played hooky from their respective jobs they retain with no working papers, and rallied across this horrible country in which they receive free health care in, for better treatment and equality. What a country.

To me, this is like an 18 year-old sneaking into a bar with a fake, and then bitching to the bartender that his shot of peppermint schnapps is watered down. If you are somewhere you shouldn’t be, shut your mouth, thank your lucky stars and fly below the radar.

National Immigrant Day---makes as much sense as passing up on Reggie Bush.

Oh those Houston Texans.

Ignore the chatter from Charlie Casserly and Gary Kubiak and all those in Houston who will forever be linked to this monumental mistake. If this was a decision purely based on prowess, ability on the football field, and the Houston Texans deemed Mario Williams to have more upside potential than Bush, then I don’t know a damn thing about the sport. Factoring out the possibility of an injury plagued career, Reggie Bush will be a perennial All-Pro in this league. His speed, patient yet explosive running style, and his position flexibility made him a no-brainer as the top selection this draft. Clearly, Houston did not concur.

Or, the Texans were scared off by the ridiculousness that swirled around Bush and his parents last week. Or the Texans didn’t want to pony up the cash Bush was sure to command. Whatever the reasoning for not selecting Reggie Bush, it was the wrong reasoning and the wrong decision.

If Houston selected Vince Young or Matt Leinart, I would have given them a pass. However, passing up on Bush for a guy who in my opinion is a marginal pass rusher, who wows people with his size and physical skills, is not a shrewd football move.

Mario Williams, is your typical combine freak. He’s a guy who played in a substandard football conference and dominated much weaker opponents who will never play a down of football on a Sunday in their lives, unless a belt full of flags is tied around their waists. But, he’s a guy who can bench 225 a bunch of times and can run the shuttle run quickly. Big deal. Mario will be spending his Sundays flat on his back, while Reggie will be spending them in an end zone near you.

The other big story coming out of the NFL Draft was the slide of Matt Leinart all the way to the Arizona Cardinals at number 10. Leinart, after winning 37 of 39 games as a starter at USC, and doing just about everything he could to prove his success would translate to the pro game, was passed up on by nine teams on Saturday, six of whom were in dire need of an upgrade at the quarterback position.

Leinart is a classic example of a guy who all of these know it alls must find a flaw in. He’s like Derek Jeter. He wins. He’s great. He’s handsome. Stop hating on the dude.

Think he’ll have some sex in Arizona?

Speaking of Matty, his former favorite target and college roommate Dwayne Jarrett, also known around L.A. as the guy who showed Mr. Leinart’s women the way to the door the morning after and provided them with viable cab fare, is under investigation by the NCAA. Staying with the USC theme these days, it seems as though Leinart and Jarrett were living in an apartment that rented for 4 thousand bucks a month, but the two Trojan athletes wrote checks for a combined $1200 a month. Matt’s pops picked up the rest of the tab. Apparently, the NCAA deems this as an impropriety. The joke continues.

You mean to tell me rich parents everywhere aren’t paying a little extra for their son’s underprivileged fraternity brothers to live a little more luxuriously. It’s really laughable.
Do Jarrett a favor. Kick him out of school. Let him sign with an NFL team so he can cease his indentured servitude to college and become a millionaire like his buddies Reggie and Matt just did.