Denver Native (Carol)
01-30-2014, 10:47 PM
NEWARK, N.J. -- John Elway didn't have enough time with the one personnel expert whose insight he most wanted.
The player whose transcendent moment came when he was racing the clock was unable to rewind it to grasp the wisdom he'd later need. And so Elway never found out why that scout didn't like a receiver that he'd thought highly of, their conversation interrupted and never resumed.
Elway was able to sit with his father, Jack, a longtime coach and scout, through just a few weeks of pre-draft meetings in the spring of 2001 before Jack died. At the time, John, two years removed from the playing field, was only beginning to realize that his quest to find out what in his life might replace football would lead him right back to where he started.
rest - http://www.nfl.com/superbowl/story/0ap2000000320424/article/john-elways-second-act-denver-broncos-back-in-super-bowl
The player whose transcendent moment came when he was racing the clock was unable to rewind it to grasp the wisdom he'd later need. And so Elway never found out why that scout didn't like a receiver that he'd thought highly of, their conversation interrupted and never resumed.
Elway was able to sit with his father, Jack, a longtime coach and scout, through just a few weeks of pre-draft meetings in the spring of 2001 before Jack died. At the time, John, two years removed from the playing field, was only beginning to realize that his quest to find out what in his life might replace football would lead him right back to where he started.
rest - http://www.nfl.com/superbowl/story/0ap2000000320424/article/john-elways-second-act-denver-broncos-back-in-super-bowl