Oakland Quarterback
The Coach had
put together the perfect team for the Oakland Raiders. The only thing that was missing was
a good quarterback. He had scouted all the colleges, and even the high schools, but he
couldn't find a ringer quarterback who could ensure a Super Bowl win. Then one night,
while watching CNN, he saw a war-zone scene in Afghanistan.
In one corner of the background, he spotted a young Afghanistan Soldier with a truly
incredible arm. He threw a hand grenade straight into a 3rd story window 200 yards away,
ka-boom! He threw another hand grenade into a group of 10 soldiers 100 yards away,
ka-blooey! Then a car passed, going 90 mph, he throws the grenade at the car and it went
in to the open window. Bulls eye!
"I've got to get this guy!" the coach said to himself. "He has the perfect
arm!"
So, he brings him to the United States and teaches him the great game of football, and the
Raiders go on to win the Super Bowl the very next season.
The young Afghani is hailed as the Great Hero of football, and when the Coach asks him
what he wants, all the young man wants to do is to call his mother.
"Mom," he says into the phone, "I just won the Super Bowl!"
"I don't want to talk to you," the old woman says. "You deserted us. You
are not my son."
"I don't think you understand, Mother!" the young man pleads. "I just won
the greatest sporting event in the world. I'm here among thousands of my adoring
fans."
"No, let me tell you," his mother retorts. "At this very moment, there are
gunshots all around us. The neighborhood is a pile of rubble. Your two brothers were
beaten within an inch of their lives last week, and this week your sister was raped in
broad daylight."
The old lady pauses, and then tearfully says, "I'll never forgive you for making us
move to Oakland."