This is the most hypocritical column you’ll probably ever read. Enjoy.
You may have heard of this dude named Leonard Fournette. To hear people speak of him, he’s the first alien-human hybrid, made after years of testing in some underground dungeon in Latvia.
He’s some amalgam of titanium, Martian smarts, Godzilla, Adrian Peterson, and Batman. Yet, instead of sending him out to immediately take over the galaxies and at the very least, take over Earth, they’ve decided to test his mettle by seeing if he can play football and deal with Les Miles.
The prerequisite for taking over the human race is playing football in the SEC and not going completely insane hanging out with Miles. I should take that back. You could probably sell this idea to a hard core group of fans.
At any rate, this Fournette fellow is pretty good, and he has people convinced he is ready for the NFL. The only problem for all of these idealists is that the NFLPA and the NFL mutually agreed that you’re not going to the NFL unless you’re at least three years out of high school.
Mark my words: you will hear the national media at some point soon take up this soap box of alleged unfairness.
They’re wrong, of course, and this is coming from the guy that routinely admonishes the idiocy of the NBA’s one and done rule, and not because it should be longer, but because it’s flat un-American to ask high school players to not be able to professionally enter a league where they’ve seen widespread success going beyond any of the doom and gloom stories you see passed around.
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