Don't Do It Rook

If JaMarcus Russell can do it, everyone
should be able to do it. 

I am catching up on the NFL before I need to get all the first-second round picks for the different regions plus my Jersey Shore Power Rankings for today.  But strap in and enjoy some depressing stuff from pro football, awesome!  We will start out with something that bothered me more than Comedy Central thinking The Situation could do a comedy roast.

The NFL Players Association told fifteen to twenty top prospects who will get invited to the NFL Draft to not attend the event. The players thought they would be wrong to embrace Roger Goodell who supposedly caused all of this drama. Really? Correct me if I am wrong NFL players, weren't you guys the same ones who agreed to reduce rookie salaries dramatically. Now, you are trying to tell these prospects who had visions of shaking Roger Goodell's hand and holding up the jersey of their future team to forget all of it. Pathetic.



Peyton Manning, Drew Brees, Phillip Rivers, Tom Brady, and others pushing this idea would not protest the NFL Draft if they were coming into the league, you know why?  All of their collective egos are too damn big to let them pass up the chance of going to New York and having a night be all about them. Mostly, reasons for going to the NFL Draft is to show off your hot girlfriend/wife is, wear an expensive suit, and get drafted in the first ten to fifteen picks with the crowd cheering for you. If you don't agree,  remember the embarrassed awkward feelings things were for Aaron Rodgers and Brady Quinn when their stays in the green room were prolonged. It's all about your ego, nothing else.

In no way am I trying to imply there is something wrong with getting an ego boost, God knows I love it when it happens. If you did something to the highest level plus you are getting paid for playing the sport you loved as a kid, you deserve it that ego boost. The NFL players should not try to take something away from these prospects because they are dealing with more problems than Tony Hawk. It's like your older sibling telling their young sibiling how wrong something is and try to get inside the naive brain of the younger one. Therefore he or she will agree with the older sibling instead of creating your own opinion on something.

Good for Patrick Peterson for already saying he wants to go to New York. Don't be afraid of the older guys, they would give anything to be in your shoes right now. Because they would not have to deal with the stress of what's going on each day, everyone just wants to be a kid again.

-Charlie.