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AP Kurt Warner |
I knew that Warner went from bagging groceries at a Hy-Vee and that he went to the Arena Football League, but I never knew exactly how he got to the NFL. And no, it doesn't have to do with an NFL scout watching Warner throw a Snapple that he forgot perfectly into a brown bag 20 yards away.
I was on set this morning with Dick Armey, the former House Majority Leader. Armey reminded me that it is his brother who deserved credit for Kurt Warner landing in the league.
Charlie Armey, at the time the team's vice president of player personnel for Rams, prided himself on finding hidden gems. He found Warner not because he was watching the Arena Football League, but because he got a call from a guy named Mike Kolling, who was an assistant at Northern Iowa when Warner played there in the early 90s. Kolling was apparently the quarterback on a high school team that Armey coached in Graceville, Minnesota.
Warner was signed, shipped to NFL Europe, played well and won the championship, and the following year, when Trent Green went down, Warner stepped in. The rest, as they say, is history.
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