What your dad didn't tell you about the HEISMAN!
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by Billysellers
I was sickened by the sight I found when i logged in to the ESPN home page this morning. Why are we so wrapped up in putting the Heisman Hopefuls on the front page, does that award have that much to offer and is it even legitimate??? I mean there is a lot you don't know about the award, let me tell you a few things.
To begin with, let's look at the Fan Vote they have. If you can't find it, google it, it's presented by Nissan so you won't be able to miss it. But anyways, go to the site and tell me what they are pushing. No, they are not pushing fan involvement for the love of football. No, they are not pushing issues about the players who we are supposed to vote for. No, they are not pushing information about the goodwill of the award.
- They are simply pushing Nissan and the award. The Heisman is not bigger than any player out there, the Heisman is actually made by the players who win it...which by the way is why they always choose the player with the most hype and television personality. the better they are on camera, the prettier they are in a magazine and the more people who fall in love with them, the more money Heisman makes.
I bet you did not know that the all of the Fan Votes combined total add up to just 1 vote in the Heisman's voting system. How about that, if 20 million people vote...the total of all their votes counts for 1 person.
What if I told you that that 1 vote is only part of 925 other votes, from a list of voting members that the Heisman will not release...we do not even know who is voting for their award, for all we know it could be Oprah or Donald Trump! Yikes! That means that the total of all votes equals less than 1 percent and even less if you consider how many people are voting.
That is simply a sham!
The O'Brien's Fan Vote is great, it lets you vote daily and the total vote can move a player not selected by the Selection Committee onto the semi-finalists list and will eventually count for 5% of the total vote! WOW, now that makes me feel important as a voter. Check it out yourself at www.DaveyOBrien.com
Furthermore, The O'Brien has only 95 voters and have released all of their names to the public. People like Kirk Herbstreet, Brent Musburger, Verne Lundquist and Keith Jackson are just a few of the people who vote...now that is an actual voting committee right there!
I bet you didn't know that the Heisman Trophy winner has, over the past 25 years, gone on to be the #1 draft pick only 3 times. The O'Brien's winner has been the #1 draft pick 4 times. Interesting huh.
Listen, this season, boycott the Heisman...its not an award that represents college footballs best interest, highlighting the best players of the college football landscape that excel on and off the field. Vote O'Brien!
