Acme Packing Company
With Monte Harrison trying out football, who do you think could make the transition to football?
In honor of Monte Harrison, a former Milwaukee Brewers prospect who is returning to college football as a 29-year-old freshman wide receiver, we wanted to have a little bit of fun with this one. This was the prompt we asked the Acme Packing Company crew: Which out-of-work athlete would you like to see on the gridiron?
Here are the responses:
Justis
Mike Tyson and Jon “Bones” Jones
Jon hardly fights anymore and I want to see if he’s the better athlete in his family, considering pass-rusher Chandler Jones is his brother. Tyson is 57 years old, but if he’s willing to have a professional fight at that age I’m sure he play on a pitch count on the field. Tyson technically has college eligibility if he wants to use it. Take that as a warning, junior college coaches.
Tyler
Usain Bolt
You can’t tell me it wouldn’t be sick to watch Bolt try to haul in balls off go routes
James Harrison
I don’t care how old he gets. James Harrison could still play football until the day he dies.
Jon
Dwayne Johnson and Brock Lesnar
Before he was The Rock, Dwayne Johnson was an okay football player, first for the University of Miami and then, briefly in the CFL. Injuries drove him from the sport, but things seem to have worked out for him since then. Brock Lesnar has a similar story, though he was a wrestler first before a short stint with the Minnesota Vikings.
I want to see both return to football, if only because of the pearl clutching it would cause among a certain set of football reporters. People got very angry with Tim Tebow’s unretirement with the Jacksonville Jaguars a couple of years ago. Imagine if there was an actual sideshow going on in NFL camps featuring two professional entertainers.
Paul
Bubba Starling
The now 31-year-old Starling was once the number one high school baseball recruit in the nation, and early in his professional career in the minor league system of the Kansas City Royals, he was frequently touted as the number one prospect in baseball. Starling was a raw, five-tool prospect who just needed to develop the bat, but it’s extremely difficult to hit a baseball, and the bat just never came around as injuries disrupted his development timeline.
But the reason Starling was so highly touted in the first place was due to his incredible athletic profile, and while he made decent bank for his time in baseball, there’s a good argument to be made that he should have played football. He was the 6th ranked quarterback prospect in his class, and he received several football scholarship offers, including an offer to play both football and baseball at Nebraska. Starling is 6-4, 220 pounds, with a plus...
