![]() He entered college with Dez Bryant, but by the time Weeden had earned the Cowboys' starting gig, Bryant had already left school to be drafted by the NFL Cowboys. I'm pretty sure he didn't have any scholarship offers from anywhere - Rivals actually doesn't go back to his high school days, so we can't quite check that. But he had enough cash from baseball to have a BMW and MLB teams are often contractually obligated to pay for post-career college education, so I guess he was fine walking on. He was the Yankees' first-round pick in the 2002 draft, but four years later he was still in Single-A ball - and pitching horribly, with a six-plus ERA and giving up broken bat dingers. Here he is in Los Angeles Dodgers gear holding a sign with his name on it to fully ensure his name would not be misspelled again.īut his once-promising baseball career petered out. Look, here he is in New York Yankees gear on a baseball card with his name misspelled. And now Romo's injury has shattered it.įor a significant amount of time, Weeden played minor league baseball. Weeden has had one of the strangest careers of an NFL quarterback, and had finally settled into a comfortable backup quarterback reverie. My mom says "well, say something happened to me or your dad - GOD FORBID." This is what makes us invoke the highest power in the universe in hopes something does not happen: hypothetical deaths of loved ones, natural disasters, the worst-case scenario.įor Weeden, this worst-case scenario was the possibility of having to do his job. Here's my experience with the phrase "God Forbid:" I'm a kid, and say, like, an ad for life insurance pops on the TV, and I ask what that is. Weeden wanted to make it clear that he doesn't want that to happen, because it's rude to wish injury on somebody.Īt every NFL training camp, a reporter asks a backup quarterback about their role on the team, and they give the same answers: "I'm trying my best to compete," "I know I'm not the starter, but I'm doing my best to make sure I'm prepared to be the next man up," "I'm trying to show and prove I'm worth a shot in the NFL." So, for Weeden to play, Romo would have to be hurt. He's friends with Romo and Romo is the Cowboys' clear No. ![]() That means Brandon Weeden is, for now, the Dallas Cowboys' starting quarterback. Tony Romo broke his collarbone and will miss about half of the NFL season. ![]()
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