Listening to a little sports radio this morning, it seems the media's in a snit because Rex Grossman got a little testy with them at a press conference.
Gee, I can't imagine why - all he's heard from them this week is the same question over and over again, "How do you expect your team to win when you suck so bad?" And then they wonder why people hate them so much.
"In fact, if passer rating is the yardstick, there have been no fewer than 10 Super Bowl QBs whose season was worse than Grossman's (73.9). And get this: six of them are in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Have I got your attention now?"
I'm talking -- cover your ears, idol worshippers -- about Bart Starr (64.4) in Super Bowl 2, Joe Namath (72.1) in Super Bowl 3, Len Dawson (69.9) in Super Bowl 4, Johnny Unitas (65.1) in Super Bowl 5, Terry Bradshaw (a ghastly 55.2) in Super Bowl 9 and John Elway (73.7) in Super Bowl 24.
Funny, I don't remember any of them being called the Worst Quarterback in Super Bowl History. But then, they weren't being compared to Peyton Manning.
We tend to forget how wretched Bradshaw's career had been before he began filling his fingers with rings. Through that 1974 season, his fifth in the NFL, he had completed a mere 48 percent of his passes and had racked up many more interceptions (81) than touchdowns (48). Indeed, he had started the year on the bench and played in barely half of the Steelers' games; in none of them did he throw for more than 146 yards." http://www.washingtontimes.com/sports/20070131-123827-8614r.htm