1.08.2010

No happy quarterbacks--a Zen riddle?




Now that the national champions are identified:
  • Tim Tebow isn't happy, because he didn't get to play in the national championship
  • Colt McCoy isn't happy, because after spending his college career getting his team there, he didn't get to play in the national championship
  • Greg McElroy isn't happy, because he played in the national championship under circumstances where anything but a decisive victory would have been an embarrassment that would dog him the rest of his life
  • Garrett Gilbert isn't happy, because he was forced to play in the national championship without a season of play to sharpen his game, and had to make his rookie mistakes in front of the whole world, for the highest possible stakes
If each quarterback's job is to thwart his competitors, then no one's happy because they all succeeded.

Hmmm...

Geronimo