About a year ago someone asked me that infamous question: “If you could have dinner with one person, who would it be?” I didn´t even have to think about it. Kurt Warner´s announcement on Friday that he was retiring from football after 12 years in the NFL brought a tear to my eye, but not because the game´s losing one of its great quarterbacks. No, it goes much deeper than that.
The game is losing one of its last great people.
Let´s ignore numbers for a minute and just examine Kurt Warner as a human being; as a teammate and a leader. He was a bright spot, a symbol of humility in a league otherwise tainted with ego. In a world where Terrell Owens is sabotaging entire franchises with his mouth, Adam “Pac Man” Jones is beating up strippers, and Plaxico Buress is firing guns in night clubs, Kurt Warner epitomizes everything at the other end of the spectrum; the quintessential good guy—a welcome reprieve from the constant stream of controversy and negativity emanating from the sports world.
See the full article from “American Chronicle”
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