“A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein” –Joe Theismann*

Tripping the TV fantastic with my remote one Sunday, I stumbled upon former San Francisco Quarterback (QB) Steve Young giving his two cent review of a particular quarterbacks performance.

To be honest it was really only worth .015 cents correcting for inflation and the fact that Steve left the game due to too many concussions.

I don’t recall  which QB he was reviewing because I was triggered after I heard him utter the words “engineering work” to describe the hard part of a QB’s job, reading defenses.

That statement is an insult to engineers. It is the same type of insult when someone labels  an athletes performance as brilliant or genius. It is fun to watch the graceful , powerful performance of an elite athlete. Notice how the words brilliant and genius did not arise in that sentence and yet the statement is more accurate and poetic than any reference distilled down to adjectives associated with IQ.

Playing quarterback, or any role in sports does not require knowledge of rocket science. I know, I spent a career working with real rocket scientists. Yea they’re wicked smart.

In general I am fairly certain no one would pay to watch a rocket scientist play quarterback and I sure don’t want to be near the launch pad of a rocket “engineered “ by QBs. 

Even though he got Alberts name wrong, Joe Theismann would agree.

For the sake of humanity let’s all argree to stay in our lanes.

*(Former Washington QB )Joe Theismann’s full quote: “Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.”

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