Is a MAN of many talents a bad thing for the NFL?

By: The Football Girl | Posted:

The purpose of this blog post is to throw the Bucs under the bus.  Well, not the whole Bucs organization, but the nimrod who decided to get cutesy while interviewing top prospect Myron Rolle, the safety from Florida State.  Courtesy of Jason Cole and Yahoo sports comes the story that one member of the Bucs organization asked Rolle point blank: 'What did it feel like to desert your team?'

Read the whole story here: http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news;_ylt=ArQpDjRtNGuhxZBVSyKe3iY5nYcB?slug=jc-committedrolle022510&prov

In case you haven't heard about Marvelous Myron, he's a Rhodes Scholar who, like all Rhodes Scholar's studied at Oxford for a year - meaning he missed a bit of playing time. And he has myriad interests and furture plans beyond the NFL to boot.    But he came back, declared for the draft, and somehow got by exercising both the medical anthropology (his Master's subject) and football parts of his brain.

According to Cole's and other accounts, Myron Rolle is the nicest kid on the face of the Earth so he politely responded to the idiotic Bucs inquiry by defending his cocktail of interests and talents that extend beyond the football field and suggested that, ahem, they may actually be an asset to an NFL team.  Stupid question aside, the Bucs and the NFL are probably scared of Rolle because unlike 99.9 percent of prospects, he doesn't need the NFL.  Rolle clearly has a multitude of high-level career options. He's already started a foundation before being shown how to do so by the NFL.  He might even inflict his teammates with a disease called Anti-GFHCD, as in subject matters beyond God, Football and Hot Chicks Disorder.

Does this look like a man not committed to football?

And really, even if Myron wound up hating the pedestrian ways of the NFL and took the money and ran after two to three seasons, who cares?  That's what so many first year associates at big city law firms do.  They can't pass up the $150,000+ salaries right out of school, so they pay off their student loans and jump ship to more rewarding careers in government or something at least a little more altruistic than big law firms. But while there, just like Rolle or anyone, they contribute or the field or voa billable hours.

Sadly it's not surprising most NFL players don't retire before their bodies have been beaten to a bloody pulp because, for most, what else would they do?  I'm not saying that just because Myron has options, doesn't mean he'll exercise them,  but I personally think it's a good thing the NFL has the threat.  Maybe they'll start treating their players as human beings instead of straight off the assembly line.

By the way, Rolle has future plans to be a neurosurgeon.  Sad to say, but the NFL may be the best place for his apprenticeship. 

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thefootballgirl
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Re: Is a MAN of many talents a bad thing for the NFL?
Reply #2 on : Wed March 03, 2010, 22:53:58

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Let me guess. The Dirty Dawg = not a Rhodes Scholar.

dirtydawqesq
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Another Brick in the Wall
Reply #1 on : Wed March 03, 2010, 22:50:57

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We don't need no education...we don't need no thought control...Hey! Teacher! Leave us kits alone!