Even Assholes Get It Right Sometimes
I’m not a big fan of Steve Largent. But that has nothing to do with his football career. The guy was a great football player; no one can take that away from him. My dislike for the man has to do with his political career. I just don’t have much use for right-wing fuckheads. Never did. So it’s good to know that the NFL’s Steve Largent (as opposed to politics’ Steve Largent) is a class act.
It’s not a huge deal or anything, but Largent didn’t have to let Jerry Rice wear his number. He could have told Jerry that number being retired meant something to him and made Jerry pick a new one. But he recognized that the number means something to Rice, too. Little stuff sometimes says a lot (though not enough to make me feel any more warmly toward Largent as a human being, because he’s still a great big pile of shit in that regard).
