Kyler Murray became the 2nd straight Oklahoma quarterback to win the Heisman Trophy Saturday. However, don't expect him to follow in the footsteps of Bo Jackson, Deion Sanders, & Brian Jordan, and try to play both football & baseball professionally.
You see, Murray was drafted by the Oakland A's back in June with the understanding that he could finish his NCAA commitments with the Sooners. Once football season ends, Murray will begin focusing on spring training at the A's camp in Arizona.
You need to remember, too, that we're in a different era in professional sports where the likes of Sanders, Jackson, & Jordan would not be allowed to play two sports at the same time. Jackson's football career, in particular, was cut short by an injury, but he continued to play baseball for a few more years. Murray has retained the services of baseball's favorite parasite, Scott Boras, as his agent, which means the A's will have overpaid for another player in order to fatten Boras' bank account.
Murray's former teammate, Baker Mayfield, has helped the Cleveland Browns back to respectability, as the Browns upset Carolina earlier today. Murray, by the way, isn't the first Heisman winner to bypass the NFL. The last one to do that was Florida State's Charlie Ward in the 90's, who opted for the NBA and the Knicks.
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So Army has beaten Navy three years in a row, and they're in the Top 25. When was the last time Navy was ranked after beating Army? Just askin'.
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It's definitely the off-season in baseball when there's a tragedy in Venezuela.
Former major leaguer Jose Castillo, who played in Pittsburgh, and Luis Valbuena, who's been with Houston and the Angels, were killed in an accident earlier this week. Prayers & condolences to the families of both.
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As week 15 of the NFL season starts Thursday, it marks the end of Fox's Thursday Night Football schedule, and the end of the silly in-game ads for Tide. Bad enough that Procter & Gamble signed Patriots party boy Rob Gronkowski to shill their Tide detergent pods, but to have Fox announcers Joe Buck & Troy Aikman, as well as rules expert Mike Periera, do short bits loaded with puns, is just plain lame. And Aikman, who did a series of ads for Rent-a-Center a few years back with Hulk Hogan, should've known better.
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With three games remaining after this week, it looks like the AFC path to the Super Bowl could go through Kansas City instead of Foxborough for a change.
The Chiefs beat Baltimore to run their record to 11-2. Meanwhile, New England dropped a 34-33 decision to Miami on the last play of the game to fall to 9-4. The only way New England gets their coveted #1 seed is if the Patriots & Chiefs end the season with identical records, in which case New England would own the tie-breaker by virtue of an early season win at home over Kansas City.
Headlines suggested South division leader Houston could sneak past and claim the top seed, but that won't happen, as they lost to Indianapolis today.
2 comments:
Murray went to high school in Allen, TX (the high school is about 10 miles away from us). Baseball only is the right call for him IMO, and not even close. He's 5 foot 9, probably really weighs about 190; neither is ideal for an NFL QB. His professional future is in baseball.
Bo Jackson's hip injury ruined his career in both sports. A real shame; he was improving every year in MLB and was only 27.
Having a parasite like Boras as an agent will make Murray rich, but Boras has a bad reputation for fleecing owners to overpay in order to realize the money he never made as a player.
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