ESPN’s List of ‘Versatile QBs’ Omits a Certain Someone

Posted Fri Apr 18th by Kyle

So ESPN reports that Steve McNair’s retirement puts him in a quite unique/elite group of quarterbacks in NFL history.

Except that the crack researchers at ESPN forgot somebody.

Of course ESPN Radio repeats it as gospel, along with the good folks at Sirius NFL Radio.

Don’t worry, though. NFL.com got it right. Sorta. Apparently John Elway’s 3,407 rushing yards isn’t ‘versatile’ enough. Only those with 3,500 deserve mentioning there.

(H/T jth1331 at the Orange Mane)

6 comments

1 Josh Temple { 04.18.08 at Fri Apr 18 06:25 }): Nice catch, what a bunch of idiots. What drives me crazy is ESPN feeds about 90% of sports fans most of their news. Then we see fallacies like this.
2 hercules rockefeller { 04.18.08 at Fri Apr 18 08:25 }): I saw that same graphic on sportscenter last night. I knew it had to be wrong. Nice catch.
3 kerry { 04.18.08 at Fri Apr 18 10:26 }): excellent catch there. but lets look at the bottom line here. mcnair can have his 3,500 rushing yards, we will take the back to back championships compared to mcnairs zero, oh let me repeat that MCNAIR’S ZERO. elway is a hall of famer, mcnair will never be. thus endeth the lesson.
4 bankmeister { 04.18.08 at Fri Apr 18 13:18 }): who’s this elway character you guys keep talking about? wasn’t he the director of scouting for the colorado rockies NHL franchise?
5 dan { 04.18.08 at Fri Apr 18 13:45 }): this is why ESPN is so irrelevant any more. They are a bunch of assclowns. I mean he has only thrown for over 50k, ran for 3400+ and until this year WON more games than oter QB.
6 Kyle { 04.18.08 at Fri Apr 18 13:51 }): What’s funniest is that 1) ESPN basically forgot about him, and 2) NFL.com (and Adam Schefter on the NFL Network last night) tweaked the stats specifically to exclude him.

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ESPN’s List of ‘Versatile QBs’ Omits a Certain Someone

Posted Fri Apr 18th by Kyle