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of Credit</a></h2> <span class="post-cat"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228/http://www.thebiglead.com/index.php/category/nfl/" title="View all posts in NFL" rel="category tag">NFL</a></span> <span class="post-author"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228/http://www.thebiglead.com/index.php/author/jason-lisk/" title="Posts by Jason Lisk">Jason Lisk</a></span> <span class="post-calendar">September 19th. 2012, 12:55pm</span><div class="post-content"><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-208964" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228/http://www.thebiglead.com/index.php/2012/09/19/vince-young-is-broke-too-much-credit-early-now-out-of-credit/uspw_2160215/"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-208964" title="Vince Young appeared to experience early success, is now broke" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228im_/http://thebiglead.fantasysportsven.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/uspw_2160215-594x395.jpg" alt="" width="594" height="395"/></a>The quarterback gets too much credit when a team wins, and too much blame when they lose. Vince Young, despite immense success at the University of Texas, was not prepared to handle the credit or blame in the NFL. With the news he “needs a job” just seven years after getting $26 million guaranteed (and certainly more than that over the years in other salary and endorsements), we have another high profile athlete claiming poor. This time, the athlete isn’t recently retired, like Terrell Owens or Allen Iverson. Vince Young is 29 years old.</p><p>Jason Whitlock nailed Young’s situation back in 2006 prior to the NFL Draft. Before Young was drafted, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228/http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=whitlock/060309" target="_blank">Whitlock warned of his lack of humility</a> at playing the most important position in the game.</p><blockquote><p>Young’s success in the NFL will hinge almost exclusively on his willingness to prepare. And that’s exactly what Young’s Wonderlic score and other curious decisions call into question — his will to prepare and his level of humility.</p><p>The fact that Young had to take the Wonderlic twice in order to score a 16 is an indication to me that Young did not prepare for the test, particularly the first time. That speaks to Young’s arrogance. So does his choice in representation and his decision to visit the president and the White House sans sports coat and tie.</p></blockquote><p>That representation was a family friend and local Houston criminal defense attorney, Major Adams, who had no experience as a NFL agent, and his uncle, Keith Young. The disputed details of the recent claims center around Adams and a North Carolina financial planner. Young claims they misappropriated funds. They claim otherwise. That’s neither here nor there, and is a small part of a much bigger problem.</p><p>Even if that amount had nothing to do with Vince Young and he was merely the victim – I’m skeptical of that, by the way, given the timing of the loan during the lockout with a company that did the same for other players – his pattern has to be one of squandering money to get rid of the rest of it. We can sit and ask how you spend that much (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228/https://twitter.com/darrenrovell/status/248194096433340416" target="_blank">$7,000 a day</a>!). Focusing on the specific amount is pointless. Look, if you are willing to spend it, there is an endless supply of people and ways to get rid of your money. The bigger issue is Young’s continued inability to properly weigh credit and blame and take responsibility.</p><p>When he entered the league, he appeared to experience immediate success. Those appearances were very deceiving, and if Young had a better sense of humility and proper perspective, he might have dealt with it. He went 8-5 as a starter in year one, but did he really? He wasn’t that good. <em>The team</em> went 8-5 with him in the starting position. They played better, they won close games. He “led” four fourth quarter comebacks, and in retrospect, if someone who treats the position as cavalierly as Young can come up big at clutch time, how predictive is it?</p><p>It continued a year later, when the Titans made the postseason with Vince Young throwing almost twice as many interceptions as touchdowns. The next year, he was replaced. The Titans knew he wasn’t progressing; Young probably thought he was hot stuff.</p><p>Too much credit, and too much misplaced belief in the credit he got, and now he is out of it.</p><p>I’ve written how <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228/http://www.thebiglead.com/index.php/2012/05/11/vince-young-to-the-buffalo-bills-before-you-laugh-teams-gave-up-on-jim-plunkett-and-chris-chandler-at-the-same-age/" target="_blank">Vince Young’s career numbers do not rule him out from a future rebound</a>. Many of the game’s reclamation projects had careers before 30 not unlike Young. Of course, the difference is their driving desire to continue to play. Rich Gannon wasn’t going broke even though he was out of the game, he was doing everything to get back to prove he could play. I still think that IF Vince Young ever humbled himself to work relentlessly, he could still do some things in the league. I also think that’s an IF that probably will never be realized. He wants to blame others, rather than taking it all himself. 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class="alt" id="comment-1766689"><div class="commentname"><div class="commentcount">1</div><cite><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228/http://twitter.com/NotNDub" rel="external nofollow" class="url">NDub</a></cite> Says: <br/><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-1766689" title="">September 19th, 2012 at 12:56 PM</a> </small></div><div class="gravatar"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228im_/http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=ab304eefca20f088fc5ae9670e88df50&rating=PG&size=32" title="Gravatar image"/></div><div class="commentext"><p>#hookem</p></div></li><li class="" id="comment-1766692"><div class="commentname"><div class="commentcount">2</div><cite>angry</cite> Says: <br/><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-1766692" title="">September 19th, 2012 at 12:59 PM</a> </small></div><div class="gravatar"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228im_/http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=294fcbb43cde5d14ab01111402916c4d&rating=PG&size=32" title="Gravatar image"/></div><div class="commentext"><p>If he would not have been forced to play for free in college, he wouldn’t have any problems.</p></div></li><li class="alt" id="comment-1766694"><div class="commentname"><div class="commentcount">3</div><cite><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228/http://somerandomolddude.blogspot.com/" rel="external nofollow" class="url">Some Random Old Dude</a></cite> Says: <br/><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-1766694" title="">September 19th, 2012 at 1:00 PM</a> </small></div><div class="gravatar"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228im_/http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=fb6b618e3f891a05f79623ab763f5bc4&rating=PG&size=32" title="Gravatar image"/></div><div class="commentext"><blockquote><p>He went 8-5 as a starter in year one, but did he really? He wasn’t that good. The team went 8-5 with him in the starting position.</p></blockquote><p>This is why I go “la-la-la” whenever some taking head spouts off about QB won-loss.</p><p>Young is an amazing athlete. As a man, he’s gotta be humbled now when he looks in the mirror.</p></div></li><li class="" id="comment-1766696"><div class="commentname"><div class="commentcount">4</div><cite>Ty_Webb</cite> Says: <br/><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-1766696" title="">September 19th, 2012 at 1:02 PM</a> </small></div><div class="gravatar"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228im_/http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=0b695230a54a4a631e75189ff3109be3&rating=PG&size=32" title="Gravatar image"/></div><div class="commentext"><p>typical Texas</p></div></li><li class="alt" id="comment-1766697"><div class="commentname"><div class="commentcount">5</div><cite>somewhereoverthedwaynebowe</cite> Says: <br/><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-1766697" title="">September 19th, 2012 at 1:03 PM</a> </small></div><div class="gravatar"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228im_/http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=dd3f178599598e6d84bb12f3ff7d0fca&rating=PG&size=32" title="Gravatar image"/></div><div class="commentext"><p><em> We can sit and ask how you spend that much ($7,000 a day!). </em></p><p>Multiple 5 bedroom, 5 bath houses (dumb). Multiple 80K+ Cars (dumber). $85K bottles of champagne at the club(coup de gras of dumb).</p></div></li><li class="" id="comment-1766699"><div class="commentname"><div class="commentcount">6</div><cite>BFFredo</cite> Says: <br/><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-1766699" title="">September 19th, 2012 at 1:03 PM</a> </small></div><div class="gravatar"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228im_/http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=56364073625b9ee4b8e0d3b7891eda51&rating=PG&size=32" title="Gravatar image"/></div><div class="commentext"><p>So a really talented person who was been sheltered, shielded, protected, enabled and defended by family, friends, coaches, agents and other speculators desperate to cash in on his eventual talent lacked the proper humility and willingness to work hard to maximize his talents? Why didn’t his folks help to teach him humility? Why didn’t Mack Brown (molder of men) not ensure that Young married his talents to a strong work ethic? Why didn’t Jeff Fisher?</p><p>Vince Young is but the latest example. He won’t be the last.</p></div></li><li class="alt" id="comment-1766700"><div class="commentname"><div class="commentcount">7</div><cite><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228/https://twitter.com/#!/derkaiser10" rel="external nofollow" class="url">Der Kaiser</a></cite> Says: <br/><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-1766700" title="">September 19th, 2012 at 1:04 PM</a> </small></div><div class="gravatar"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228im_/http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=85bee8b9c9ba3ec1c79a77c10ead35c4&rating=PG&size=32" title="Gravatar image"/></div><div class="commentext"><p>He also used Peyton Manning’s 3 interception performance as evidence that he’s not getting a fair shake.</p></div></li><li class="" id="comment-1766702"><div class="commentname"><div class="commentcount">8</div><cite>somewhereoverthedwaynebowe</cite> Says: <br/><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-1766702" title="">September 19th, 2012 at 1:05 PM</a> </small></div><div class="gravatar"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228im_/http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=dd3f178599598e6d84bb12f3ff7d0fca&rating=PG&size=32" title="Gravatar image"/></div><div class="commentext"><p><em>Why didn’t Jeff Fisher?</em></p><p>I’m the worlds 2nd biggest Jeff Fisher hater… but I believe he tried pushing Young… and it drove Young to threaten an attempt to commit suicide. McNair’s Murder probably didn’t help the kid much either. If only the police had caught the real culprit.</p></div></li><li class="alt" id="comment-1766703"><div class="commentname"><div class="commentcount">9</div><cite><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228/https://twitter.com/#!/HtownHacker" rel="external nofollow" class="url">HtownHacker</a></cite> Says: <br/><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-1766703" title="">September 19th, 2012 at 1:06 PM</a> </small></div><div class="gravatar"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228im_/http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=f46daea18495ada246635da192ef9da9&rating=PG&size=32" title="Gravatar image"/></div><div class="commentext"><p>Just tried to do a search on any property he might own in Houston. The only thing I came up with is a $600,000 house he bought his mother in the Royal Oaks section. (Steve Francis, Cuttino Mobley and many other local athletes have bought homes there). I was guessing he may have bought higher priced stuff given the amount of money he burned through.</p></div></li><li class="" id="comment-1766704"><div class="commentname"><div class="commentcount">10</div><cite><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228/http://somerandomolddude.blogspot.com/" rel="external nofollow" class="url">Some Random Old Dude</a></cite> Says: <br/><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-1766704" title="">September 19th, 2012 at 1:06 PM</a> </small></div><div class="gravatar"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228im_/http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=fb6b618e3f891a05f79623ab763f5bc4&rating=PG&size=32" title="Gravatar image"/></div><div class="commentext"><blockquote><p>We can sit and ask how you spend that much ($7,000 a day!).</p></blockquote><p>Easy. I’d follow Toto on their European tours. And tortellini, lots of tortellini.</p></div></li><li class="alt" id="comment-1766705"><div class="commentname"><div class="commentcount">11</div><cite>Nada</cite> Says: <br/><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-1766705" title="">September 19th, 2012 at 1:07 PM</a> </small></div><div class="gravatar"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228im_/http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=c1bb15c60d1278e9e280efa4bcc827e0&rating=PG&size=32" title="Gravatar image"/></div><div class="commentext"><p>Didn’t we see this post last night?</p></div></li><li class="" id="comment-1766706"><div class="commentname"><div class="commentcount">12</div><cite>Babar 2.0</cite> Says: <br/><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-1766706" title="">September 19th, 2012 at 1:07 PM</a> </small></div><div class="gravatar"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228im_/http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=9001c57ae94a7efe975b9784dec12428&rating=PG&size=32" title="Gravatar image"/></div><div class="commentext"><blockquote><p>If only the police had caught the real culprit.</p></blockquote><p>Police? Please they might be in on it.</p><p>This is where private citizens come into play.</p><p>Because he’s the hero The Internet deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we’ll hunt him. Because he can take it. Because he’s not our hero. He’s a silent guardian, a watchful protector. The Big Lead.</p></div></li><li class="alt" id="comment-1766707"><div class="commentname"><div class="commentcount">13</div><cite><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228/https://twitter.com/#!/derkaiser10" rel="external nofollow" class="url">Der Kaiser</a></cite> Says: <br/><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-1766707" title="">September 19th, 2012 at 1:09 PM</a> </small></div><div class="gravatar"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228im_/http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=85bee8b9c9ba3ec1c79a77c10ead35c4&rating=PG&size=32" title="Gravatar image"/></div><div class="commentext"><p>I can easily see myself spending $7,000 a day. When I was 8 years old, one of my relative gave me a $100 bill as birthday gift. He made the mistake of directly giving me the money rather than handing it off to my parents. I spent all that money in under 3 hours.</p></div></li><li class="" id="comment-1766708"><div class="commentname"><div class="commentcount">14</div><cite>Nada</cite> Says: <br/><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-1766708" title="">September 19th, 2012 at 1:09 PM</a> </small></div><div class="gravatar"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228im_/http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=c1bb15c60d1278e9e280efa4bcc827e0&rating=PG&size=32" title="Gravatar image"/></div><div class="commentext"><blockquote><p>So a really talented person who was been sheltered, shielded, protected, enabled and defended by family, friends, coaches, agents and other speculators desperate to cash in on his eventual talent lacked the proper humility and willingness to work hard to maximize his talents?</p></blockquote><p>Hey, this isn’t a JaCarcass Bustall post.</p></div></li><li class="alt" id="comment-1766710"><div class="commentname"><div class="commentcount">15</div><cite><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228/http://tigerwoodsfistpump.blogspot.com/" rel="external nofollow" class="url">s1rweeze</a></cite> Says: <br/><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-1766710" title="">September 19th, 2012 at 1:10 PM</a> </small></div><div class="gravatar"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228im_/http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=13ebf0e8de7a2b92b8ae45d31bc9d716&rating=PG&size=32" title="Gravatar image"/></div><div class="commentext"><p>Vince Young Just Wins Football Games. He doesn’t win at anything else.</p></div></li><li class="" id="comment-1766711"><div class="commentname"><div class="commentcount">16</div><cite>Nada</cite> Says: <br/><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-1766711" title="">September 19th, 2012 at 1:10 PM</a> </small></div><div class="gravatar"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228im_/http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=c1bb15c60d1278e9e280efa4bcc827e0&rating=PG&size=32" title="Gravatar image"/></div><div class="commentext"><blockquote><p>the Royal Oaks section</p></blockquote><p>When I lived in Houston, they had a great old-time movie theater there. Can’t recall its name.</p><blockquote><p> I’d follow Toto on their European tours</p></blockquote><p>Sometimes I worry about you, and your sanity.</p></div></li><li class="alt" id="comment-1766713"><div class="commentname"><div class="commentcount">17</div><cite><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228/https://twitter.com/#!/HtownHacker" rel="external nofollow" class="url">HtownHacker</a></cite> Says: <br/><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-1766713" title="">September 19th, 2012 at 1:12 PM</a> </small></div><div class="gravatar"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228im_/http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=f46daea18495ada246635da192ef9da9&rating=PG&size=32" title="Gravatar image"/></div><div class="commentext"><blockquote><p>When I lived in Houston, they had a great old-time movie theater there. Can’t recall its name.</p></blockquote><p>You may be thinking of River Oaks. Royal Oaks is more nouveau riche.</p></div></li><li class="" id="comment-1766714"><div class="commentname"><div class="commentcount">18</div><cite><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228/http://twitter.com/adamstbear" rel="external nofollow" class="url">St. Bear</a></cite> Says: <br/><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-1766714" title="">September 19th, 2012 at 1:12 PM</a> </small></div><div class="gravatar"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228im_/http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=ab4605e6617e8d0f84d971e63834d47c&rating=PG&size=32" title="Gravatar image"/></div><div class="commentext"><blockquote><p>I’d follow Toto on their European tours</p><p>Sometimes I worry about you, and your sanity.</p></blockquote><p>I just assumed SROD has early onset dementia, and still thinks it’s 1983.</p></div></li><li class="alt" id="comment-1766717"><div class="commentname"><div class="commentcount">19</div><cite>Nada</cite> Says: <br/><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-1766717" title="">September 19th, 2012 at 1:14 PM</a> </small></div><div class="gravatar"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228im_/http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=c1bb15c60d1278e9e280efa4bcc827e0&rating=PG&size=32" title="Gravatar image"/></div><div class="commentext"><blockquote><p>You may be thinking of River Oaks. Royal Oaks is more nouveau riche.</p></blockquote><p>You’re right. I blame my addled state of mind on being nearly as ancient as SROD®.</p></div></li><li class="" id="comment-1766718"><div class="commentname"><div class="commentcount">20</div><cite><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228/http://womenshotgunningbeers.tumblr.com/" rel="external nofollow" class="url">sousedbergin</a></cite> Says: <br/><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-1766718" title="">September 19th, 2012 at 1:16 PM</a> </small></div><div class="gravatar"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228im_/http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=a35130719be83b15c4d74c4a31c009f0&rating=PG&size=32" title="Gravatar image"/></div><div class="commentext"><blockquote><p>Multiple 5 bedroom, 5 bath houses (dumb). Multiple 80K+ Cars (dumber). $85K bottles of champagne at the club(coup de gras of dumb).</p></blockquote><p>Average NFL career is short and often includes living in multiple cities. Lock half your money away instantly in a long term savings account (do not invest). Rent, for the love of fuck rent and lease a car. Expensive cars are the dumbest thing you can buy. Why buy a bottle service or make it rain when you can order women off twitter? Most important of all do not get anyone pregnant.</p></div></li><li class="alt" id="comment-1766720"><div class="commentname"><div class="commentcount">21</div><cite>Patrick Division</cite> Says: <br/><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-1766720" title="">September 19th, 2012 at 1:17 PM</a> </small></div><div class="gravatar"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228im_/http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=aa481e516956dc07c653b69f9b30ede7&rating=PG&size=32" title="Gravatar image"/></div><div class="commentext"><blockquote><p>I spent all that money in under 3 hours.</p></blockquote><p>Video games/pinball, or did you actually buy stuff?</p></div></li><li class="" id="comment-1766721"><div class="commentname"><div class="commentcount">22</div><cite>Nada</cite> Says: <br/><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-1766721" title="">September 19th, 2012 at 1:18 PM</a> </small></div><div class="gravatar"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228im_/http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=c1bb15c60d1278e9e280efa4bcc827e0&rating=PG&size=32" title="Gravatar image"/></div><div class="commentext"><blockquote><p>$85K bottles of champagne at the club(coup de <strong>fois gras </strong>of dumb).</p></blockquote><p>Sounds better in this context, for some reason.</p></div></li><li class="alt" id="comment-1766722"><div class="commentname"><div class="commentcount">23</div><cite>PeerLessPrices</cite> Says: <br/><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-1766722" title="">September 19th, 2012 at 1:18 PM</a> </small></div><div class="gravatar"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228im_/http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=a97cef6027f558012a3b8800ff146d5d&rating=PG&size=32" title="Gravatar image"/></div><div class="commentext"><p><em>Why didn’t Jeff Fisher?</em></p><p>Fisher didn’t want him. He wanted Cutler or Leinert. But, he did push him, tried to coach him. Of course we don’t know what went on in the locker room or behind closed doors, but near the end VY called him out in the papers and it got ugly. Signs of immaturity, sure. Probably not only one to blame as well, though</p></div></li><li class="" id="comment-1766723"><div class="commentname"><div class="commentcount">24</div><cite>jthussler</cite> Says: <br/><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-1766723" title="">September 19th, 2012 at 1:18 PM</a> </small></div><div class="gravatar"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228im_/http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=84514fe65d14ee87c64e8f82dbc64aff&rating=PG&size=32" title="Gravatar image"/></div><div class="commentext"><p>So is this what’s going to happen to Jay Cutler in a few years, Darrell?</p></div></li><li class="alt" id="comment-1766724"><div class="commentname"><div class="commentcount">25</div><cite>Nada</cite> Says: <br/><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-1766724" title="">September 19th, 2012 at 1:19 PM</a> </small></div><div class="gravatar"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228im_/http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=c1bb15c60d1278e9e280efa4bcc827e0&rating=PG&size=32" title="Gravatar image"/></div><div class="commentext"><blockquote><p>Most important of all do not get anyone pregnant</p></blockquote><p>Antonio Cromartie is on line one, sir, asking if you can be his manager from now on.</p></div></li><li class="" id="comment-1766725"><div class="commentname"><div class="commentcount">26</div><cite>somewhereoverthedwaynebowe</cite> Says: <br/><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-1766725" title="">September 19th, 2012 at 1:21 PM</a> </small></div><div class="gravatar"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228im_/http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=dd3f178599598e6d84bb12f3ff7d0fca&rating=PG&size=32" title="Gravatar image"/></div><div class="commentext"><p><em>Most important of all do not get anyone pregnant</p><p>Antonio Cromartie is on line one, sir, asking if you can be his manager from now on.</em></p><p>Really don’t know why these guys don’t jerk off into a tube a half dozen times, Ted Williams that shit, and then get snipped. Makes too much sense, I guess.</p></div></li><li class="alt" id="comment-1766726"><div class="commentname"><div class="commentcount">27</div><cite><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228/http://somerandomolddude.blogspot.com/" rel="external nofollow" class="url">Some Random Old Dude</a></cite> Says: <br/><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-1766726" title="">September 19th, 2012 at 1:21 PM</a> </small></div><div class="gravatar"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228im_/http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=fb6b618e3f891a05f79623ab763f5bc4&rating=PG&size=32" title="Gravatar image"/></div><div class="commentext"><blockquote><p>Sometimes I worry about you, and your sanity.</p></blockquote><p>“I told ya I was crazy”. It is kinda liberating. People get out of the way, and I can go about my business.</p><blockquote><p>I just assumed SROD has early onset dementia, and still thinks it’s 1983.</p></blockquote><p>Tee-hee.</p></div></li><li class="" id="comment-1766727"><div class="commentname"><div class="commentcount">28</div><cite><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228/http://womenshotgunningbeers.tumblr.com/" rel="external nofollow" class="url">sousedbergin</a></cite> Says: <br/><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-1766727" title="">September 19th, 2012 at 1:22 PM</a> </small></div><div class="gravatar"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228im_/http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=a35130719be83b15c4d74c4a31c009f0&rating=PG&size=32" title="Gravatar image"/></div><div class="commentext"><blockquote><p>Antonio Cromartie is on line one, sir, asking if you can be his manager from now on.</p></blockquote><p>Antonio, how the hell are you? You remember Kobe’s knee treatment in Germany that made him a new player? Well they do that hear now it’s called a vasectomy and it makes your penis bigger!</p></div></li><li class="alt" id="comment-1766728"><div class="commentname"><div class="commentcount">29</div><cite><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228/https://twitter.com/#!/derkaiser10" rel="external nofollow" class="url">Der Kaiser</a></cite> Says: <br/><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-1766728" title="">September 19th, 2012 at 1:23 PM</a> </small></div><div class="gravatar"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228im_/http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=85bee8b9c9ba3ec1c79a77c10ead35c4&rating=PG&size=32" title="Gravatar image"/></div><div class="commentext"><blockquote><p>Video games/pinball, or did you actually buy stuff?</p></blockquote><p>I bought 3 sega genesis games from a kid in my neighborhood. He was highly motivated to sell. I also bought ice cream for me and 20 of my “friends”. I only knew 4 of them. The rest just happen to be at the park playing when I was showing my friends the money. I also gave $10 to a girl at school cause I threw soda on her book bag and stained it.</p></div></li><li class="" id="comment-1766729"><div class="commentname"><div class="commentcount">30</div><cite>Nada</cite> Says: <br/><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-1766729" title="">September 19th, 2012 at 1:23 PM</a> </small></div><div class="gravatar"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228im_/http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=c1bb15c60d1278e9e280efa4bcc827e0&rating=PG&size=32" title="Gravatar image"/></div><div class="commentext"><p><code>one of my relative gave me a $100 bill as birthday gift. ... I spent all that money in under 3 hours.</code></p><p>That’s 11 shots of Bulleit right there. Nine if you’re gonna tip. I can do that in 3 hours.</p></div></li><li class="alt" id="comment-1766730"><div class="commentname"><div class="commentcount">31</div><cite><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228/http://womenshotgunningbeers.tumblr.com/" rel="external nofollow" class="url">sousedbergin</a></cite> Says: <br/><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-1766730" title="">September 19th, 2012 at 1:24 PM</a> </small></div><div class="gravatar"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228im_/http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=a35130719be83b15c4d74c4a31c009f0&rating=PG&size=32" title="Gravatar image"/></div><div class="commentext"><p>Everyone time I make a typo it is the Canadian spelling.</p><p>/true story</p></div></li><li class="" id="comment-1766731"><div class="commentname"><div class="commentcount">32</div><cite>Nada</cite> Says: <br/><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-1766731" title="">September 19th, 2012 at 1:25 PM</a> </small></div><div class="gravatar"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228im_/http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=c1bb15c60d1278e9e280efa4bcc827e0&rating=PG&size=32" title="Gravatar image"/></div><div class="commentext"><blockquote><p>I just assumed SROD has early onset dementia, and still thinks it’s 1983.</p></blockquote><p>He’s dancing on the ceiling, all night long.</p></div></li><li class="alt" id="comment-1766732"><div class="commentname"><div class="commentcount">33</div><cite>Nada</cite> Says: <br/><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-1766732" title="">September 19th, 2012 at 1:27 PM</a> </small></div><div class="gravatar"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228im_/http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=c1bb15c60d1278e9e280efa4bcc827e0&rating=PG&size=32" title="Gravatar image"/></div><div class="commentext"><blockquote><p>Really don’t know why these guys don’t jerk off into a tube a half dozen times, Ted Williams that shit, and then get snipped.</p></blockquote><p>I’d say John Henry Williams is a good reason to avoid that.</p><p>Wiki:<br/> <em>In 2002, at the age of 33, John Henry entered pro baseball, with Ted pulling strings to get him onto the Red Sox’s rookie team in the Gulf Coast League. Dubbed “The Kid’s Kid” by the media, John Henry had his father’s build but none of his baseball talent.</em></p></div></li><li class="" id="comment-1766733"><div class="commentname"><div class="commentcount">34</div><cite><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228/http://womenshotgunningbeers.tumblr.com/" rel="external nofollow" class="url">sousedbergin</a></cite> Says: <br/><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-1766733" title="">September 19th, 2012 at 1:30 PM</a> </small></div><div class="gravatar"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228im_/http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=a35130719be83b15c4d74c4a31c009f0&rating=PG&size=32" title="Gravatar image"/></div><div class="commentext"><blockquote><p>When I was 8 years old, one of my relative gave me a $100 bill as birthday gift.</p></blockquote><p>Buddies stopped by my apartment after a concert, found the door open and myself passed out naked in the bathtub. Woke up to them asking “What the hell are you doing?” It was 30 minutes to last call and I was out of booze so we ran to the nearest pub to order Guinness and Irish Car Bombs. I tried to coerce the bartender Nigel into selling me a bottle but instead he gave me the name to a pizza place (Amico’s for my toronto brothers and sisters) that will deliver beer. I remember trying to play it coy by asking for an extra large pizza before ordering 18 beers. 30 minutes later my friend remembered the order and I ran home to find a man wondering the neighborhood with an enormous pizza and 18 beers. The beers were $4 each, the pizza $20 plus tip and with the Guinness and car bombs I spent $131 in 40 minutes after already drinking myself unconscious and naked.</p></div></li><li class="alt" id="comment-1766734"><div class="commentname"><div class="commentcount">35</div><cite>Miguels Driver</cite> Says: <br/><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-1766734" title="">September 19th, 2012 at 1:31 PM</a> </small></div><div class="gravatar"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228im_/http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=870a223b3edbac287f3cbc4c5cf34aa9&rating=PG&size=32" title="Gravatar image"/></div><div class="commentext"><p>I don’t feel bad for this idiot, but it always makes me wonder how these people can blow through this much money. It has to be lack of foresight. Which is dumb, because football is one of the most finite careers out there. Granted, if I was given a shitload of money I would go on a few spending sprees, but I would certainly not be broke a couple years after my playing days…</p></div></li><li class="" id="comment-1766735"><div class="commentname"><div class="commentcount">36</div><cite>Babar 2.0</cite> Says: <br/><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-1766735" title="">September 19th, 2012 at 1:33 PM</a> </small></div><div class="gravatar"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228im_/http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=9001c57ae94a7efe975b9784dec12428&rating=PG&size=32" title="Gravatar image"/></div><div class="commentext"><p>Nada…the Ted Williams reference was to freeze it for later use…not hope your offspring can support you later in life with a similar skill set.</p></div></li><li class="alt" id="comment-1766736"><div class="commentname"><div class="commentcount">37</div><cite><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228/http://somerandomolddude.blogspot.com/" rel="external nofollow" class="url">Some Random Old Dude</a></cite> Says: <br/><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-1766736" title="">September 19th, 2012 at 1:35 PM</a> </small></div><div class="gravatar"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228im_/http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=fb6b618e3f891a05f79623ab763f5bc4&rating=PG&size=32" title="Gravatar image"/></div><div class="commentext"><blockquote><p>That representation was a family friend and local Houston criminal defense attorney, Major Adams, who had no experience as a NFL agent, and his uncle, Keith Young.</p></blockquote><p>this is the part that frustrates me the most. Just ’cause I babysat you or made you a PB&J after school a couple of times when you were younger don’t make me qualified to manage your millions.</p><p>And, those friends & family folk are getting paid to mis-manage money. Double whammy.</p></div></li><li class="" id="comment-1766738"><div class="commentname"><div class="commentcount">38</div><cite><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228/http://joebushtradepub.blogspot.com/" rel="external nofollow" class="url">Walking Underwear</a></cite> Says: <br/><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-1766738" title="">September 19th, 2012 at 1:44 PM</a> </small></div><div class="gravatar"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228im_/http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=2203459d8b899afe4f251eb5fec9fae2&rating=PG&size=32" title="Gravatar image"/></div><div class="commentext"><p><em>So is this what’s going to happen to Jay Cutler in a few years, Darrell?</em></p><p>it’s happening now if this</p><p><em>When you are a quarterback, you can’t take the credit without the blame</em></p><p>is a solid measure</p></div></li><li class="alt" id="comment-1766739"><div class="commentname"><div class="commentcount">39</div><cite>Nada</cite> Says: <br/><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-1766739" title="">September 19th, 2012 at 1:45 PM</a> </small></div><div class="gravatar"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228im_/http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=c1bb15c60d1278e9e280efa4bcc827e0&rating=PG&size=32" title="Gravatar image"/></div><div class="commentext"><blockquote><p> Just ’cause I babysat you or made you <strike>a PB&J</strike><strong>Purple Drank</strong> after school a couple of times when you were younger don’t make me qualified to manage your millions.</p></blockquote><p>/ JaCarcass’d</p></div></li><li class="" id="comment-1766746"><div class="commentname"><div class="commentcount">40</div><cite><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228/http://www.majorleaguejerk.com/" rel="external nofollow" class="url">spencer096</a></cite> Says: <br/><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-1766746" title="">September 19th, 2012 at 1:48 PM</a> </small></div><div class="gravatar"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228im_/http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=041daee325110fd2760943d55e4bffbc&rating=PG&size=32" title="Gravatar image"/></div><div class="commentext"><p>Y YOU NO PUT GOLD IN BUNKER?</p><p>/the big meme’d</p></div></li><li class="alt" id="comment-1766747"><div class="commentname"><div class="commentcount">41</div><cite><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228/https://twitter.com/#!/GloriousMullet" rel="external nofollow" class="url">GloriousMullet beats jokes into the ground</a></cite> Says: <br/><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-1766747" title="">September 19th, 2012 at 1:49 PM</a> </small></div><div class="gravatar"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228im_/http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=fb1fd85fdf28616ee319489a2ba3eb01&rating=PG&size=32" title="Gravatar image"/></div><div class="commentext"><p>@TheBigLead made Sports Illistrateds top 100 Twitter follows.</p></div></li><li class="" id="comment-1766750"><div class="commentname"><div class="commentcount">42</div><cite><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228/http://joebushtradepub.blogspot.com/" rel="external nofollow" class="url">Walking Underwear</a></cite> Says: <br/><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-1766750" title="">September 19th, 2012 at 1:51 PM</a> </small></div><div class="gravatar"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228im_/http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=2203459d8b899afe4f251eb5fec9fae2&rating=PG&size=32" title="Gravatar image"/></div><div class="commentext"><p><em>Sports Illistrateds</em></p><p>well there’s your answer….it’s a fake SI handle</p></div></li><li class="alt" id="comment-1766751"><div class="commentname"><div class="commentcount">43</div><cite><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228/https://twitter.com/#!/GloriousMullet" rel="external nofollow" class="url">GloriousMullet beats jokes into the ground</a></cite> Says: <br/><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-1766751" title="">September 19th, 2012 at 1:51 PM</a> </small></div><div class="gravatar"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228im_/http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=fb1fd85fdf28616ee319489a2ba3eb01&rating=PG&size=32" title="Gravatar image"/></div><div class="commentext"><blockquote><p>Buddies stopped by my apartment after a concert, found the door open and myself passed out naked in the bathtub. Woke up to them asking “What the hell are you doing?” It was 30 minutes to last call and I was out of booze so we ran to the nearest pub to order Guinness and Irish Car Bombs. I tried to coerce the bartender Nigel into selling me a bottle but instead he gave me the name to a pizza place (Amico’s for my toronto brothers and sisters) that will deliver beer. I remember trying to play it coy by asking for an extra large pizza before ordering 18 beers. 30 minutes later my friend remembered the order and I ran home to find a man wondering the neighborhood with an enormous pizza and 18 beers. The beers were $4 each, the pizza $20 plus tip and with the Guinness and car bombs I spent $131 in 40 minutes after already drinking myself unconscious and naked.</p></blockquote><p>LEGEND</p></div></li><li class="" id="comment-1766752"><div class="commentname"><div class="commentcount">44</div><cite>scripty</cite> Says: <br/><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-1766752" title="">September 19th, 2012 at 1:51 PM</a> </small></div><div class="gravatar"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228im_/http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=d47485b1a2b1e988ff34817818594056&rating=PG&size=32" title="Gravatar image"/></div><div class="commentext"><p>Even though it was apparent VY was a terrible traditional QB, I felt that team w/ him and Chris Johnson were onto something. Two dynamic runners that could hit home runs at at moment. It was almost pre-Tebow in that you knew the QB was going to have to run or get lucky on a long pass.</p></div></li><li class="alt" id="comment-1766753"><div class="commentname"><div class="commentcount">45</div><cite>njensen79</cite> Says: <br/><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-1766753" title="">September 19th, 2012 at 1:53 PM</a> </small></div><div class="gravatar"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228im_/http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=00296fb8f9b6dc7d8977e8188685bf26&rating=PG&size=32" title="Gravatar image"/></div><div class="commentext"><p>Pay dat man hees money</p></div></li><li class="" id="comment-1766785"><div class="commentname"><div class="commentcount">46</div><cite>guinnessgirl13</cite> Says: <br/><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-1766785" title="">September 19th, 2012 at 2:25 PM</a> </small></div><div class="gravatar"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228im_/http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=8f864fb6f0fca22294c4bd94b6ae058b&rating=PG&size=32" title="Gravatar image"/></div><div class="commentext"><blockquote><p>Well they do that hear now it’s called a vasectomy and it makes your penis bigger</p></blockquote><p>!<br/> I bet you could sell it like that. Why not be a sports agent combined with a urologist and financier and corner the market?</p></div></li><li class="alt" id="comment-1766835"><div class="commentname"><div class="commentcount">47</div><cite>Novac Chokeabitch</cite> Says: <br/><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-1766835" title="">September 19th, 2012 at 3:08 PM</a> </small></div><div class="gravatar"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228im_/http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=ed665107c60cc5182e25ec16f7b27389&rating=PG&size=32" title="Gravatar image"/></div><div class="commentext"><p>Since this is the 2nd “Vince Young is broke” post, may as well repost my comment from the original. Sorry for those that are reading it for the 2nd/3rd time.<br/> A friend of mine had a class with Vince<br/> Young at UT. It was a sociology class,<br/> dealing with human sexuality. One day the<br/> prof was expounding on foreplay and asked<br/> a question along the lines of “what is<br/> foreplay?” Vince raised his hand and said<br/> “that’s like suckin’ on titties and what-not”<br/> True story.</p></div></li><li class="" id="comment-1766842"><div class="commentname"><div class="commentcount">48</div><cite>Benjamin Franklin Rodriguez has the highest WAR evah!</cite> Says: <br/><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-1766842" title="">September 19th, 2012 at 3:13 PM</a> </small></div><div class="gravatar"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228im_/http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=8abecad0e60a137932f019ba47b12ed2&rating=PG&size=32" title="Gravatar image"/></div><div class="commentext"><p>You really didn’t have to re-re post it. It’s really kind of an underwhelming story.</p><p>//and what not</p></div></li><li class="alt" id="comment-1766852"><div class="commentname"><div class="commentcount">49</div><cite>Novac Chokeabitch</cite> Says: <br/><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-1766852" title="">September 19th, 2012 at 3:21 PM</a> </small></div><div class="gravatar"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228im_/http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=ed665107c60cc5182e25ec16f7b27389&rating=PG&size=32" title="Gravatar image"/></div><div class="commentext"><p>Perhaps true. However, wouldn’t that make your comment on my comment even more pointless?</p></div></li><li class="" id="comment-1766855"><div class="commentname"><div class="commentcount">50</div><cite>Benjamin Franklin Rodriguez has the highest WAR evah!</cite> Says: <br/><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-1766855" title="">September 19th, 2012 at 3:25 PM</a> </small></div><div class="gravatar"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228im_/http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=8abecad0e60a137932f019ba47b12ed2&rating=PG&size=32" title="Gravatar image"/></div><div class="commentext"><blockquote><p>The team went 8-5 with him in the starting position. They played better, they won close games. He “led” four fourth quarter comebacks, and in retrospect, if someone who treats the position as cavalierly as Young can come up big at clutch time, how predictive is it?</p><p>It continued a year later, when the Titans made the postseason with Vince Young throwing almost twice as many interceptions as touchdowns.</p></blockquote><p> So, if I get this right, he went 8-5 his first year, made the playoffs his second year, and he had nothing to do with any of this? If you’re going to write about credit, try and give some where its due.</p></div></li><li class="alt" id="comment-1766857"><div class="commentname"><div class="commentcount">51</div><cite>ThatsSoTaguchi (Now With Zip)</cite> Says: <br/><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-1766857" title="">September 19th, 2012 at 3:28 PM</a> </small></div><div class="gravatar"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228im_/http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=eb437126946ae01a32e90b47fd5a43b8&rating=PG&size=32" title="Gravatar image"/></div><div class="commentext"><p><em>It continued a year later, when the Titans made the postseason with Vince Young <strong>doing a good job by </strong>throwing almost twice as many interceptions as touchdowns.</em></p><p>/fixed for Darrell</p></div></li><li class="" id="comment-1766861"><div class="commentname"><div class="commentcount">52</div><cite><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228/http://twitter.com/ButtersBC" rel="external nofollow" class="url">ButtersBC</a></cite> Says: <br/><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-1766861" title="">September 19th, 2012 at 3:30 PM</a> </small></div><div class="gravatar"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228im_/http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=082344e612c6992c3d50f1aadc7c67b1&rating=PG&size=32" title="Gravatar image"/></div><div class="commentext"><blockquote><p>So, if I get this right, he went 8-5 his first year, made the playoffs his second year, and he had nothing to do with any of this?</p></blockquote><p>Not a whole lot, he really wasn’t good and once the team got worse it unmasked his failings as a player…he was Tebow before Tebow with the “he just wins football games” talking points</p></div></li><li class="alt" id="comment-1766863"><div class="commentname"><div class="commentcount">53</div><cite>Benjamin Franklin Rodriguez has the highest WAR evah!</cite> Says: <br/><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-1766863" title="">September 19th, 2012 at 3:32 PM</a> </small></div><div class="gravatar"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228im_/http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=8abecad0e60a137932f019ba47b12ed2&rating=PG&size=32" title="Gravatar image"/></div><div class="commentext"><blockquote><p>Perhaps true. However, wouldn’t that make your comment on my comment even more pointless</p></blockquote><p> If I posted the same comment 50 times like you, then it would be.</p></div></li><li class="" id="comment-1766865"><div class="commentname"><div class="commentcount">54</div><cite>Benjamin Franklin Rodriguez has the highest WAR evah!</cite> Says: <br/><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-1766865" title="">September 19th, 2012 at 3:38 PM</a> </small></div><div class="gravatar"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228im_/http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=8abecad0e60a137932f019ba47b12ed2&rating=PG&size=32" title="Gravatar image"/></div><div class="commentext"><blockquote><p>Not a whole lot, he really wasn’t good and once the team got worse it unmasked his failings as a player…he was Tebow before Tebow with the “he just wins football games” talking points</p></blockquote><p>When did the team get “worst” with Young at QB?</p></div></li><li class="alt" id="comment-1767170"><div class="commentname"><div class="commentcount">55</div><cite>josh hamilton's tats</cite> Says: <br/><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-1767170" title="">September 19th, 2012 at 7:57 PM</a> </small></div><div class="gravatar"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921232228im_/http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=a62f786f7895bfed9bbd63a7ae99d1e3&rating=PG&size=32" title="Gravatar image"/></div><div class="commentext"><p>Damn I hate it when I agree with Darrell. 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