~ ~ Dr. Z/Nothing Is Impossible Event Update A week from tonight in West Orange, N.J., is our effort to raise money for SI's longtime pro football maven, Paul Zimmerman, who suffered three strokes in late November and cannot read, write or speak coherently. It's been a terrific week for the Zim cause, and it looks as though we'll have at least 200 football fans in the house to fete Dr. Z and to hear the two New York football coaches, Tom Coughlin and Rex Ryan, give us the lowdown on their teams. I continue to be amazed at the response. The other night, my phone rang. "Mr. King,'' the voice said, "it's :beer: Mark Sanchez.'' Stop with the Mr. King business, I interrupted. Then he said he'd read about the benefit for Zim and wanted to know what he could do. This is Mark Sanchez, hardly a child of the Zim generation. Zim was writing Super Bowl game stories glorifying Joe Montana when Sanchez wasn't even in the womb yet. Sanchez wondered if he could do anything, and I said, "Well, a signed jersey would be nice.'' And so it happened, and you can visit our auction site, www.DrZ.cmarket.com, today and bid for the jersey. > http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/peter_king/05/10/may11/3.html
On the forums home page all you can see is "Mark Sanchez signed" so I got very excited. Anyway, yea, Sanchez is amazing.
Good for Mark, we expect him to respond like this, he comes from a long tradition of philanthropy, over 50% of the students at his university volunteer their time to community services in the surrounding neighborhoods - and that includes the football players. Even Mark's most fearsome teammate, Rey Maualuga was a favorite in the Children's Cancer Ward of the university hospital, and visited regularly.
I'd like to put in a request now that the first asshole who posts that his intangibles do not make him a good QB in this thread gets perm banned. Thanks! :up:
Sanchez kicks ass. Hope his career lives up the hype to go along with that great personality of his. Bring home a Lombardi for us Mark.
