Jacksonville.com: Sports: It's easy to sympathize with Sexton 06/15/05
By MIKE FREEMAN, Times-Union columnist
The news comes that Wyatt Sexton was allegedly laying in a Tallahassee street, then yelling at passers-by, then jumping on cars and loudly proclaiming that he was God. How are we supposed to react to this?
A. You tell your friends back home: "See, football really is a religion down here."
B. Luckily, since Sexton was allegedly doing push-ups in the street wearing nothing but shorts, that counts as part of his offseason workout program.
C. Sexton can't be God, because in Tallahassee, Bobby Bowden is.
D. Sexton was returning from a Dave Matthews Band concert, which, of course, explains it all.
E. You realize this could be another tragic tale of a young kid trying to live up to the image and pressures of being a star college quarterback, becoming overwhelmed and suddenly suffering a breakdown. So you immediately cease and desist all jokes and feel empathy for him.
Whole article here
posted by Chris at 10:48 AM
2 Comments:
My favorite take on the event is from SI.com:
"Florida State quarterback Wyatt Sexton was taken to a hospital on Monday night by Tallahassee police who say they observed him behaving strangely, lying in the street and telling them that he was God. Religious leaders quickly debunked Sexton's claim by pointing out that He would have completed more than 55 percent of his passes."
4:22 PM, June 15, 2005
Nice.
4:25 PM, June 15, 2005
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