ESPN.Com does Wes Welker

Decent little story on my favorite player, save maybe Zach Thomas.

I was at Jones Stadium when Wes Welker set the NCAA record for punt returns for a touchdown.

Now with the Patriots, Welker's success has given a lot of hope to short stumpy white boys everywhere. Still, reading the story, you see how the family's devotion to the game borders on fanaticism. I imagine it'd take that kind of faith and determination for a guy like Welker to make it, but you worry about everyone else with the same faith that just isn't going to have that kind of success.

With the Super Bowl coming up, it's kind of hard to root for a team that is so obviously not the underdog and takes itself too seriously at the same time. But I'm rooting for them because of Welker, and he makes it a lot easier to do so.