Hoosier curse

Not a good 25 years for Indiana QBs

Ben Smith

The Journal Gazette

So I'm watching Jay Cutler throw strikes to various 49ers last night, and I'm thinking, well, here it is again, the Curse of Larry Rakestraw, aka, the mysterious malaise/virus/aura of stinkification that clings to every quarterback doomed enough to wear a Chicago Bears jersey.

Bears quarterbacks are the NFL's version of asbestos. Prolonged exposure will make you sick.

Except ... maybe this isn't the Curse of Larry Rakestraw we're dealing with in this specific case.

Maybe, as my boss suggested last night, it's the Curse of Being From Indiana.

"Let's see," he said. "Cutler's from Indiana, right?"

"Right," I said. "Grew up in Santa Claus, Indiana."

"And Jeff George is from Indiana, right?"

"Right."

"And Rexy? Rex Grossman? Isn't he from Indiana, too?"

"Uh, yeeaaah."

We were both laughing by then, because the problem was obvious.

Jeff George: Million-dollar arm, 10-cent head. Jay Cutler: Million-dollar arm, 10-cent head. Rex Grossman: $100,000 arm, 10-cent head.

Good thing the Mannings never relocated to Indianapolis when the kids were growing up. Peyton might be backing up Brady Quinn in Cleveland right now. And pouting about it.

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Drew Brees counts as an Indiana boy after playing at Purdue, right?

Posted by Sherry at 11/18/09 09:07:00 PM

Hoosiers face a real curse from the Mothers of Iraq war crimes:

From the BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/mid

Mothers warned

But it is impossible, as a visitor, not to be struck by the terrible number of cases of birth defects there.

We heard many times that officials in Fallujah had warned women that they should not have children.

We went to a clinic for the disabled, and were given details of dozens upon dozens of cases of children with serious birth defects.

One photograph I saw showed a newborn baby with three heads.

While we were at the clinic, people kept arriving with children who were suffering major problems - a little girl with only one arm, several children who were paralysed, and another girl with a spinal condition so bad I asked my cameraman not to film her.

Posted by Traxmor at 03/04/10 10:54:00 PM


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