Friday, April 29, 2011

Best moment of the NFL Draft



With a first round filled with surprising quarterback selections and a few trades, the defining moment of the draft didn't come until Alabama RB Mark Ingram was selected by the Saints with the #28 pick.

The former Heisman Trophy winner received an email from his incarcerated father, which was read to him live on the air by ESPN's Suzy Kolber.

Ingram's dad, Mark Sr. is a former NFL wide receiver (also selected #28, by the Giants in 1987) in the middle of a 7-year prison sentence for laundering and bank fraud. He had additional years tacked on to his sentence after jumping bail in 2009 to watch his son, then a freshman at Bama, play in the Sugar Bowl. Hours before kickoff, Mark Sr. was arrested in a hotel room and returned to jail. The next year, Ingram Jr. won a national champion and Heisman Trophy for the Crimson Tide.


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