Dumbest Moments in Sports

Matador must be asleep. I figured "hiring Wlat" would be on here at some point.

 

Wasn't the first pick, but it was a first-round pick (No. 11 overall, I think).

The only time the Saints have had the No. 1 overall pick, they chose George Rogers over Lawrence Taylor. Rogers was great til he blew out his knee and started using cocaine, but still ...

They also had the No. 1 overall pick as an expansion team in 1967, but traded it to Baltimore for QB Gary Cuozzo, Johnny Unitas' long-time back-up. The Colts used the pick on Bubba Smith.

Moving on ...

 

If only they had some kind of Wonderlic test to see how you respond to cocaine.

 

In all fairness, Cuozzo was seen at the time as the best backup QB in the NFL and only needed a chance to start, which he wouldn't have gotten in Baltimore, naturally.

Of course, once he got the chance to start, he wasn't that good.

 

The winner of the Dinah Shore/Nabisco Whatever They Call It Now jumping into the pond next to the 18th green. I so desperately hope they need a lifeguard one of these years.

 

Maybe so, but Smith was then and now considered one of the greatest college football players of all-time. He would seem to be a slam dunk as the type of player a team would want to build from scratch around. Plus, he was from the Gulf South (Beaumont, Texas).

Given it was 1967 and New Orleans, there might have been a racial element in play.

 

Does unfortunate count?