BRADY QUINN--CREDENTIALS
- Heisman Trophy finalist
- Led Notre Dame to back-to-back BCS appearances
- Stunk up the joint in 2006 when Notre Dame played Michigan, USC and LSU (completed less than 50 percent of his combined passes in those games--outscored by combined 73 points)
- Notre Dame outscored by combined 41 points in his two BCS games
- Beneficiary of the ESPN/Notre Dame Hype Machine
- Labeled by ESPN as a "franchise quarterback" and a top-three draft pick
- He went 22nd
- Apparently he and his agent don't realize he went 22nd
- ESPN turned the 2007 NFL Draft into "The Brady Quinn Show"
- The baby photos in the Browns uniform during the draft
- JaMarcus Russell, a fellow quarterback who beat Quinn head-to-head by a score of 41-14, went first in the draft. But the draft was still "The Brady Quinn Show"
- ESPN badly misjudged his draft position. Then ESPN used that personal error in judgment to label Quinn "The Story of the Draft"
- Quinn had to be taken out of the NFL Draft Green Room to protect him from ESPN cameras. Many viewers wish they could be protected from ESPN's Brady Quinn hype
- One of Japanese baseball's best pitchers
- MVP of the World Baseball Classic
- Subject of outrageous bidding war between Yankees, Red Sox, and others (not to sign him--to get the RIGHTS to sign him)
- He is having a very good rookie season with the Red Sox
- Beneficiary of the ESPN/Scott Boras Client Hype Machine
- Also known as "Dice-K Mania"
- The "gyroball" debate
- His "arrival" in the US similar to David Beckham's in terms of hype
- His first start in Fenway was treated like the arrival of royalty or the Pope
- While hyping Dice-K in his first start, ESPN almost missed opposing pitcher Felix Hernandez throwing a one-hitter against the Red Sox
- His "mix tape" was scheduled to go on sale last month
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