Joan Gilmore
Because I’m a fan of actor Kevin Costner, and I’m a football fan, I went to see his latest film, Draft Day. It’s all about football players and the big selection day for college football stars who hope to go pro. While the film probably won’t win any Oscars, the ins and the outs of drafting are well-presented, and in a most interesting way.
In the role of the Cleveland Browns’ manager, Costner wants to sign a specific quarterback who also is wanted by many other managers. Costner’s character trades his second pick in the next three rounds for one in the first. As he rethinks, he receives a tip that the star’s only flaw seems to be that when he had his 21st birthday party, not a single man on his team attended. Costner then reviews all the games on video and notices several incidents when the star was starring and team members were not.
He then tries to make some more trades. He chooses a young college player, not even a quarterback, which makes the other managers question what’s wrong with the supposed star.
In the end, Costner does fine, and the hot prospect ends up not getting chosen until the sixth round – actually by the Browns, after all. Naturally he was furious at not being first choice, which would have meant more money in a contract.
It’s such a coincidence between how the film shows how much personality matters, and what happened to Johnny Manziel, known as Johnny Football, who was so sure he’d go as the No. 1 pick in this year’s NFL draft.
Jerry Jones, Dallas Cowboys owner, was asked why he didn’t take Manziel.
“It was too significant for him to be an insurance policy,” Jones said, “and that’s not the usual development guy behind an accomplished quarterback (Tony Romo). (Manziel’s) a celebrity. He’s Elvis Presley.”
Certainly, this evidences that personality flaws are very important.
Go see the movie.
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