Brooks Bollinger UFL MVP

I read somewhere the UFL decided to play during the NFL season because people associate the fall with football. Which has to be the worst logic I’ve ever heard.

I’m so starved for football by May that I’d watch people of any skill level bump into one another for a couple hours if it looked even remotely like football. I’d probably even gamble on it just to try and make it more interesting.

If they were smart they’d play a couple weeks after the NFL draft. Everyone is so worked up for the game after months of mock drafts then judging your teams picks before the players have even put on a helmet with the team logo. That’s a lot of foreplay with a whole lot of nothing to finish the job. Anyone that puts together something resembling a football game at that time will have a grateful audience.

including franchises in LA, Sacramento, Portland, Salt Lake City and/or OK City, San Antonio, Louisville, Hartford, Richmond…there are other possibilities, too.

I shudder to think about how athletic the monsters in the NFL must be, and probably were in high school. I went to a small school that was just barely able to scrape together an 11 man team. We had two players that stood out. The first was easily head and shoulders above the rest of us. The other was so much better than the first it was mind boggling. He made everyone else look like they were moving in slow motion and the hits he would crush people with scared people. Opposing teams threw everything they had at him and he would still make plays.

But he was only lightly recruited by a couple D1 schools, and only offered a partial scholarship (he was actually a 4.0 student as well so academics wasn’t an issue). He took a scholarship to a good D2 school, but never even got to play. He was seriously injured a couple times in practice and decided to become a doctor instead.

If he couldn’t make it, and couldn’t even come close, I can’t even imagine how good those people that do are.

He was miles ahead of any other kid in High School, but lets remember he played in North Dakota which isn’t exactly on the same level as Texas High School Football. But good for him anyways!

I was just about to allude to the Maddox Effect, dang you for taking that away! ;-)

But yeah, Maddsux did great the one year of the XFL, did one good year as the Steelers QB until the true Maddsux came out and a rookie by the name of Big Ben took over. But the differance is, at least Maddsux had a short attention span of talent, Bollinger has no talent. Remember, the UFL is supposed to be a development league but may become a no talent, dead careers league.

Anthony Carter and Herschel Walker are just 4 players who went on to have relevant careers in the NFL after playing in the USFL.