I recently saw a picture on a magazine with one of the future NFL draft picks dressed as Superman. And this got me thinking. Who would the other future draft picks represent if they were superheroes?
One day flight could be as common as fumbling in the NFL.
Here are my top ten draft picks if they were drafted as superheroes:
1. Houston. H-town picks Flash aka Reggie Bush. He's everywhere and nowhere. Even that red and gold Flash outfit looks like it could be SC practice gear.
2. New Orleans. If it doesn't trade the spot, New Orleans could pick up Captain Marvel, otherwise known as Captain Leinart. Cardinal and Gold costume. Shazam!
3. Tennesee. The third pick gets the Superman I saw on the magazine cover. Vince Young. His evil nemesis will be Wonderlic, an evil fan who throws multiple choice questions at him while he scrambles around the field to avoid them.
4. New York Jets. D'Brick. The name even sounds like an updated hip-hop version of the Thing.
5. Green Bay. Bat Man. The Packers choose Mario Williams, the guy who the scouts say has a tremendous wing span who'll be batting down many balls.
6. San Francisco. 49ers pick Spiderman played by Michael Huff who spins a good web in the defensive backfield. He ate a radioactive spider while ingesting shrimp and pancakes at IHOP.
7. Oakland. Raiders pick Thor. I was going to go for the obvious with AJ and call him the Hawkman or Hawkeye but he just looks way too much like Thor and I could picture a Raider player carrying a hammer out on the field.
8. Buffalo. Bills pick Haloti Ngata, another name for Hulk of Samoa. He's big and mean and played for the greenest team you can play for in Oregon.
9. Detroit. Lions pick Wonder Woman. This is nothing against Jay Cutler even though he might look good in red boots. It's just that he was the one flying that invisible plane known as the Vanderbilt football team.
10. Arizona. Cards Pick Iron Man. The red and Golden Armor of USC. Wins-ton Justice. Doesn't that sound like a superhero name by itself?
this one was a little goofy but was having fun with it... yeah fitzgerald is one writer can't get enough of -- recently read hemmingway's moveable feast and he gets mentioned in there
I was abandoned as a baby by an oil rig worker named Ramses who set me off in a little raft to die at sea. I was eventually found on a Gulf Coast shore by a one-clawed crustacean who raised me until I was old enough to cook and eat him.
In all seriousness, I'm originally from Houston, Texas. I graduated with an English degree from University of Texas. After graduating, I moved to Los Angeles and have been working in the entertainment industry ever since. Between jobs, I moved to Paris, France for a year and wrote for various magazines over there. I moved back to Los Angeles and am currently working in the music industry for Warner Bros.
I've followed and played sports all my life, mostly BBF (Basketball, Baseball, Football). If I had a sports program I'd call it "The BBF".
