Cam Newton and Terrelle Pryor???s careers have been clown mirror versions of one another. Slightly distorted but resemble one another in a prism.  One was the #1 recruit in the nation. The other became the NFL???s #1 overall pick. Both were highly touted high school recruits out of high school but one was bigger.  If ESPN???s 150 Recruiting Ranking was the cast of In Living Color, Terrelle Pryor was Damon Wayans and Cam Newton would have been a little known Fly Girl dancer named Jennifer Lopez.

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It occurred to me recently that the world is spinning on the wrong axis. Lockouts are popping up around the four major sports like Anthony Weiner photos on the Web. As amateur college football players strive to get paid, future NFL rookies will be paid considerably less. Welcome to the 100^th Day of the NFL Lockout. If this were the NBA, fans would get one free soft taco at their nearest Taco Bell. The NFL has had significant lockouts before but for the first time in NFL history, the NFL lockout is occurring with millionaire athletes on the other side. It???s tough to pick sides in a lockout. It???s like asking Theo and Rudy Huxtable which parent they???d like to live with if Cliff and Claire called it hired divorce lawyers. In the NFL lockout, the fans are Theo and Rudy. The league has been here before but at least this time, the unpleasantries are being handled during the off-season.

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