This aint no disco

What a weird story involving Tennessee Titans quarterback Vince Young. The number three pick in the 2006 draft and that year’s rookie of the year is “hurting inside” and might retire from football. 2006 had arguably two of the top five collegiate football players of all-time, in USC running back Reggie Bush and Univ. of Texas quarterback Vince Young. Young might have been the best college football player I have ever seen. He singlehandedly beat “the greatest team of all time” in the 2006 national championship game. But now, several media reports, most noticeably Fox Sports’ Jay Glazer say that Vince Young is frustrated with the fans, the sport, and the media and is thinking of just hanging up his cleats. This is not the first time he has hinted at his disinterest in the game. At the end of last season, he suggested to media outlets he was thinking of retiring. To me this is a guy who clearly just needs a change of scenery. He is having knee issues and maybe he just needs to be placed on IR this year, get out of Memphis, head back to his home in Houston, and ask for a trade to be a member of a smaller market team where there is less pressure and he can just relax and learn to enjoy football again.

1. In politics as usual, yesterday Barack Obama said, “If you put lipstick on a pig, it’s still a pig.” Republicans naturally are outraged. Of course Obama was not talking at all about Sarah Palin as Republicans have suggested, but rather about the No Child Left Behind Act. Republicans will shut-up very quickly if they do have a quick lexus-nexus search and find that in 2007, John McCain said that exact same quote about Hillary Clinton’s Health Care proposal. The hypocrisy is thick in Washington these days.

2. I do have to wonder… If Obama had asked Hillary Clinton to be his running mate (and she accepted; which is not for certain) would McCain have such a big lead (down to five points as of today)?

3. Professional athletes, and bands all of the time say they are going to retire but the draw of fame, money, or just the love of what they do draws them back. One person who I thought for sure had retired for good was Lance Armstrong. Apparently I am mistaken. I guess he confirms in the next issue of Vanity Fair that he is indeed going to race in the 2009 Tour de France. I guess why? He's not a young man anymore in a young man's sport. He has gobs of money, lots of fame, all of the cycling records. I guess he just loves the sport.