Three Years of College Gets You...What?

Not that anyone who reads this blog gives a corn-riddled shit about sports, but reports out of the NFL combine have it that Vince Young, the quarterback and hero of the University of Texas' national championship team last year scored a 6 out of a possible 50 on something called the Wonderlic Intelligence Test, a standard 50-question timed test of common knowledge given to all NFL prospects. For example, the test has questions like "what is the 9th month of the year?" and "what color was George Washington's white horse?" (OK, first question real, second question not. If you didn't already know that, you, too, might fail the WIT).

Well, so?

QB's are supposed to be smarter than your average steroid-repository, so the NFL "prefers" they score between 25 and 30. For reference, the head of the Wonderlic operation says a "normal" American should score around 21. Already, red flags are up--everyone is already smarter than an NFL quarterback. He plays FOOTBALL, for Christ's sake!

Vince Young--apparently after being prepped by his agent, who if he followed common practice would have had Young take a simulated test twice a day leading up to the real thing--scored a masterful 6. Anything below 10 means you're either illiterate or retarded. The first punchline is that his agent claims the first score wasn't right and that Young retook the test and got a 16. That's the best his agent could do: yeah, he's dumb, but not THAT dumb...

So, Young, on a retest, scored lower than the "average" of 21. Lower than an offensive lineman. Lower than a kicker. Lower than a linebacker, whose job includes smashing his head directly into other people's heads. Ooooooo-Kaaaaaaaay.

But the real problem here is that a score of 6, or even 16, would suggest that Vince Young can't read. Either that, or he doesn't know what the "9" in "9/11" stands for. And he attended (and passed all his classes, according to his coaches) the University of Texas for THREE FULL YEARS before going pro.