Set Vince Free

January 5th, 2006

Anybody who thinks Vince Young isn’t ready for the NFL please stand up. I’m only going to say this once, sit down Mack. Anybody who thinks that the Saints, Titans, Jets, and Raiders would be completely out of their mind not to draft Vince Young in the top six of the draft raise your hand. Seriously Mack, we’re trying to conduct a scientific poll here. Forget it, Mack obviously isn’t going to let us do this, congratulations anyway Mack.

Being the huge fan of Michael Vick that I am, how can anybody in their right mind say that Vince Young isn’t better and better prepared to make the jump to the big leagues? I’m sure that Mack has something brilliant to say; like that Vince still has something to prove or that he just loves college so much or that he wants to win a Heisman. Let me make it easy on you; tell me the amount of pro bowlers this season in the NFL that won the Heisman Trophy? Vince, Carson Palmer doesn’t need your company. He’s just fine.

I’m not rooting for Vince to leave college; I’m rooting for him to join the NFL. How horrible would it be if Vince made it to the Fiesta Bowl in ’07 and pulled a Willis McGahee, snapping his leg in two?

Anybody who says Vince has something to prove is drunk or lost or related to Watson Brown. Vince and his boys just brought down Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls. They just brought down Wooden’s Bruins. For crying out loud they just brought down the only team to make Wilkinson’s boys seriously sweat in five decades. What does he have to prove?

Everybody in the Big 12 needs to give themselves a pat on the back and give the ‘Horns three. The conference saved some face with a 5-3 overall bowl record, with Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska getting huge wins for conference pride. Those five wins included two over the PAC 10, one over the Big 10, one over the SEC, and one over Conference USA. None bigger than bringing down the beast.

We may have seen one of the greatest games in the history of college football take place while two of the greatest players in recent memory tore apart the field. On this night Reggie Bush was no match for Vince Young. Bush’s aerial expertise seemed to swing the momentum to the Trojans one last time, but Vince was having none of it. Young almost seemed surprised by his own talent after his last score, so were the rest of us. This guy is beyond good, he’s beyond great, he’s once in a lifetime. Who wants to see him on Sundays?

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