HOWIE'S BOY

A big day, Draft Day for the NFL. It's time for unworthy teams to pick from the best of the college ranks to improve their feeble team of the previous season. Almost no team was feebler than the Rams last year when they won a total of 3 games. So they got to draft second to the Dolphins who won one game.

The NFL has been called the No Fun League because of the rules, penalties, and shenanigans of some of the owners. It's also famous for its parity, which translates to mediocrity. However, in pro football more than any other sport, programs rule.

So no matter how badly NFL teams draft, the ones who know how to run a football operation will continue to prosper while the ne'er-do-wells continue in their same bath of cluelessness. I happen to support a team that once won a Super Bowl, lost a Super Bowl and then fell flat.

But they made headway back to respectability by their Number One pick from Virginia, Chris Long. I dare you not to like him. Not only as a player, but as a person. He's articulate, personable, comes from great stock, and should be a St. Louis landmark at DE for years to come. Also, he just made last year's pick, Adam Carraker better.

And just when you start feeling better about the chances of the Rams' returning to their glory years, they draft an unknown at Number 2. A wide out from Houston named Donnie Avery with the 33rd pick of the draft. Passing over name after name. One scribe had Avery as the 11th best wide receiver, but the first one taken in this entire draft.

Man, I hope I'm wrong. I'd never heard of him. Our son, a devout draftnik had. And he was depressed with the pick, sickened by Rams personnel who think they know better than all the others. "Thirty-one other teams are laughing at that pick," Scott said. And he's probably right.

The only explanation is one of semantics. Maybe the Rams thought it was Daft Day. At least Round 2.