REGGIE BUSH--CREDENTIALS
- Heisman trophy winner
- Won national championship at USC
- Numerous endorsements
- Helped lead the historically-bad Saints to their first NFC Championship Game
- But so did Drew Brees, Deuce McAllister, Marques Colston, Jammal Brown, Will Smith and Sean Payton
- Like Matt Leinart, beneficiary of the ESPN/USC Hype Machine
- Considered by ESPN to be a can't-miss superstar and the guaranteed first pick in the 2006 NFL Draft
- He went 2nd
- ESPN already treats the #1 pick in that draft (Mario Williams) as a bona fide bust because they didn't take Reggie Bush
- Deuce McAllister, not Reggie Bush, was the Saints' leading rusher
- Vince Young, not Reggie Bush, was the Offensive Rookie of the Year
- Vince Young, not Reggie Bush, carried his team to the BCS National Championship in the 2006 Rose Bowl. Some people also argue that Young should have won Bush's Heisman too
- ESPN virtually ignores stories about his mom being given a house while he was at USC
- Current points leader for the 2007 NASCAR season
- Four-time NASCAR Winston Cup/Nextel Cup champion
- Has won 79 races
- Is the "golden boy" of NASCAR, like Derek Jeter in baseball and Tom Brady in football
- Cornerstone of NASCAR's efforts to expand its fan base beyond the South
- Has his own soft drink
- Frequent fill-in for Regis
- Resented by some "traditional" Southern NASCAR fans (and Dale Earnhardt Jr. fans) because of his media and marketing attention
- Has a squeaky-clean public image
- But he left his wife and married a supermodel
- Some people argue that this image also lets him get away with aggressive (maybe even dangerous) driving. That kind of stuff is more believable when a "jerk" like Tony Stewart does it
- Sang "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" at (as he called it) "Wrigley Stadium"
- Half of ESPN's over-simplified NASCAR coverage (Who will win this week's race: Jeff Gordon, Dale Earnhardt Jr., or somebody else?)
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