comes this from CDR Salamander.
Saints fullback Kyle Eckel used to be a Midshipman at the Naval Academy. Greg Doyle wants to know why Mister Eckel isn’t serving alongside his brothers. Good question.
If you came here looking for answers, you’re out of luck. I have no answers. Not when the topic is New Orleans Saints fullback Kyle Eckel. And not when the question is this: Why is Eckel, who ran for 1,147 yards at Navy in 2004, playing in Super Bowl XLIV instead of fulfilling his military obligation in the United States Navy?
That’s a big, meaty question. And I’m but a small, scrawny sports writer, one who cannot answer it. Nor will I fill in the blanks with my version of Right and Wrong. Not this time. Not on this topic. It’s too large, too powerful. Too real.
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U.S. soldiers are dying in Afghanistan. One died just Monday in southern Afghanistan, blown up by an improvised bomb. And I’m supposed to sit here in my cozy media work room in Miami and demand to know why Kyle Eckel is playing football for the Saints while some of his classmates are tiptoeing around IED’s in Kabul? Sorry. Can’t do it…
Enquiring minds want to know. For more on this go HERE.
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Navy seems better off without him. Is MILPERSMAN a conscientious objector thing or something?
Nope, they sure don’t make ‘em like Roger Staubach and David Robinson anymore.
What a tool. He couldn’t carry my husband’s cover. I seem to remember a kid going to NAVY and played for the football team who wanted to be a Navy SEAL after he graduated. I wonder what happened to that kid.