Gunzlingr
05-01-2003, 09:15 AM
It was A.J. Smith's idea, and that tells us something about the man right there.
Before the San Diego Chargers' new general manager put his name on his first NFL Draft as the guy in charge, 26 years after he entered the league, he put John Butler's name on it, too. Way up high. Where everyone could see it.
On Friday, before the weekend of picking started, Smith called his entire football staff together in the Chargers' draft war room. The first card he placed on the team's draft board looked like every other card. A name, a school, a position, and all the measurables that matter.
But this wasn't just any card, listing the particulars of just any prospect. It was Butler's draft card, specially made and placed there atop San Diego's board in memory of a man who had made just this kind of work his life's work
more (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/inside_game/don_banks/news/2003/04/30/chargers_smith/)
Before the San Diego Chargers' new general manager put his name on his first NFL Draft as the guy in charge, 26 years after he entered the league, he put John Butler's name on it, too. Way up high. Where everyone could see it.
On Friday, before the weekend of picking started, Smith called his entire football staff together in the Chargers' draft war room. The first card he placed on the team's draft board looked like every other card. A name, a school, a position, and all the measurables that matter.
But this wasn't just any card, listing the particulars of just any prospect. It was Butler's draft card, specially made and placed there atop San Diego's board in memory of a man who had made just this kind of work his life's work
more (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/inside_game/don_banks/news/2003/04/30/chargers_smith/)