The Vince Young Story.

[TitansJonne]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1163719/index.htm


Possibly the best SI article i have ever read. I actually started tearing up, it's very moving.

[hooktool]

I heard some about it on the radio today. But, your link doesn't work, and I can't find it. :)

John

[TitansJonne]

Sorry about that, it's fixed

[hooktool]

Awesome.:thumbsup

John

[NYTitan21]

amazing article. love it!

Heres to VY and growing up :toast

[InVinceWeTrust]

Excellent article

[Yvette]

I actually started tearing up, it's very moving.
Me too.

It's great to read that Dinger has figured out how to make their personalities work together, even when it means walking away.

I really like that VY watches the UT national championship tape, too. He's learned how to motivate himself.

I didn't think it was probable that he'd work through so many things in such a short period of time, but holy cow he has. He's an inspiration and I think he's going to be just fine :)

[Titans and Turtles]

With everything that's happened, and how things played out, and how he naturally is, I'm not at all surprised VY managed to get his swagger back, reclaim his confidence.

But what has been surprising, perhaps shocking, to me, is the amount of technical skill at playing a pocket QB he's picked up. I've long said Vince could be successful somewhere else where they'd run a very non-traditional offense, and that VY was special, but he'd never be a good pocket passer.

So far in his rebirth, he's proving me wrong. VY is not all emotions and scrambles anymore. He looks like a bona-fide NFL quarterback. Except he's still VY, the man who won't lose, who can carry team in crunch time like few ever did.

It's exciting. God I hope we find a way to get him one more good WR. I think Britt is showing himself to be the #1 quality WR we haven't had since Mason left... but we need one more guy who can actually catch a pass, and that ain't Nate or Gage.

[gnarl]

this was my favorite part of the article.


He can never replace Pops, but he took McNair's young sons to their school's Dear Dads breakfast this semester, accompanies them to Dave & Buster's on Friday nights and leaves them tickets whenever they want. He is not looking for a father figure anymore. He is one.

[TitansJonne]

I think Dinger should replace fish as HC. Make us an offensive team. Vy loves to have a coach who he develops a relationship with but Fish won't be that guy. So far it seems to be dinger. And he is the right guy to run our offense. We need to cut fish lose, promote dinger and get a REAL DC then we should be fine. I hope no one is calling for alan lowrys head because of our ST. It's fish fault for giving him the horrible personnel. Bud needs to make a team oriented move instead of trying to be loyal. i was through with fish once he doned the manning jersey

[MDK Titan]

great article thanks for sharing! I wish I could mature as fast as he has, im still working on that, lol.

[TTP77]

that was a great article....thanks for posting it!

[Sect309Fan]

It is in this week's SI, if you want to get a copy. I got mine in the mail yesterday, so it should be on newsstands soon (look for "Sweet win Alabama" on the cover).

It was a great article, and it did confirm that Vince went to McNair's sons in the stands right after the winning TD against the Cards.

[Mike McFan]

Great article.
Glad I got to read it.
Thanks !:thumbsup

[TitansJonne]

the title was amazing. "An Angel in His Pocket"

[tyrant28]

after that article, i cried a river of tears! there have been some articles that i have cried over and have been touched by, but none like this!!! NONE LIKE THIS TITANITES!!:cry:cry:cry if this doesn't make you proud to be a titanite, then get out!! GET OUT!! the sky is the limit for vince and this team, and when we get there in the coming years, its gonna be sweeter than the smell of rose petals!!

[TitansJonne]

its time for you ^ to get "titanite" patented and sell some merchandise

[Old Oilers Fan]

its time for you ^ to get "titanite" patented and sell some merchandise

Then use the money to go see a shrink. :lol

[TRUTitan]

Love the article. It is definitely a inspiration.

[tyrant28]

no need to see a shrink!:lmao just my way of expressing my love for my favorate team.

[MillaKilla8]

Great article.

Also, i guess VY wasnt listening to his iPod.

"Some people thought it was an iPod," linebacker Keith Bulluck says. "It wasn't." Young was listening to every offensive call, and when Bulluck asked him what the Titans were about to run, Young relayed the name of the play and how to execute it. "If the safety comes over," he'd tell Bulluck, "we have to check down."

[TitansJonne]

Great article.

Also, i guess VY wasnt listening to his iPod.

"Some people thought it was an iPod," linebacker Keith Bulluck says. "It wasn't." Young was listening to every offensive call, and when Bulluck asked him what the Titans were about to run, Young relayed the name of the play and how to execute it. "If the safety comes over," he'd tell Bulluck, "we have to check down."

That shut up alot of people. I mean who brings an ipod on the field anyway?

[InVinceWeTrust]

References to the earbuds being part of a Ipod started as a joke. Amazing how it took on a life of its own. ;)

[315]

Not to get anything started.... but I think I saw KC listening to his last week.

[tyrant28]

he was jamming to allen jackson.

[t1tan5]

That iPod thing was a complete crock. I think the rumor started on the TOMB to be honest. Anyways, it was a touching article. I think Mac's death was a blessing in disguise for Vince because it forced him to re-visit his previous choices and I think he really came of age at that point. The fact that he is acting as a father figure for Mac's kids is a testament to his new found maturity. I think he learned that chances like this (playing in the NFL) only come once in a lifetime and that you have to seize those chances because nobody knows when you'll be gone.