Mason Barge
5/8/2013 10:41:00 PM
On Wed, 8 May 2013 14:52:05 -0400, "Obveeus" <Obveeus@aol.com> wrote:
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>"Mason Barge" <masonbarge@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 30 FOR 30 (The Draft of 1983)
>> Excruciating detail, as 30-30 usually has, about the only
>> draft in history where 6 quarterbacks were picked in the first round.
>> John Elway went first, and most of it revolves around his
>> adamant refusal to play for the Baltimore Colts, who drafted him, and
>> just how big an idiot the owner was.
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>John Elway...dirtbag move.
I dunno'. I can see his point. Baltimore was a dirtbag team.
It's amazing how much teams reflect the character of their owners. We
had to suffer through decades in Atlanta when Rankin Smith owned the
Falcons. Then Arthur Blank, great human being, bought them.
Elway may have acted like a spoiled kid, but at least he had the
excuse of being 20. What was Robert Irsay's excuse? And, may I point
out the reason Baltimore had the #1 pick.
Elway did have a good line. To try to be somewhat decent about it, he
told the press he didn't want to play in Baltimore because he was from
Southern California and it was too cold in Baltimore. So when he
announced he was signing with the New York Yankees, the reporters were
all over him, "New York is way colder than Maryland" etc. To which
Elway replied;
"They play baseball in the summer."
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>> Similarly, Jim Kelly said
>> he would refuse to play for Buffalo and when they picked him, signed
>> with the USFL, where he played for a number of years.
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>He also played his NFL career for the Bills.
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>> Then as the draft first round rattled down it was, in
>> addition to Elway and Kelly, it was Todd Blackledge, Ken O'Brien and
>> Tony Eason. Without peeking, anyone want to guess who the
>> next-to-last pick was in the first round?
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>The best QB in that draft.
Or, possibly, any draft.
Do you want to be the one to tell Ian that the Chargers had *three*
picks before Miami?