Dang. If I were the New Orleans Saints, I would have stayed the hell away from Reggie Bush this past weekend. Why? Because the last time a Bush came to New Orleans, he jacked it up beyond repair.  So, what does the Saints drafting Bush prove?

It proves that the NFL knows the hell out of irony: the Houston Texans staged a shocker by picking North Carolina State defensive end Mario Williams with the first pick in the 2006 NFL Draft, putting the New Orleans Saints in the enviable position of picking the consenus top guy who just happens to be named Bush.

Flashback: Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans, the Government with President Bush (who, lest we forget, is from Texas) at the helm, mangled the response, leaving thousands dead, missing, homeless, and displaced, many of whom are inner city Black families. Kanye West proclaimed on national TV that “George Bush doesn’t care about Black people.”

Fast forward: 2006-2007 NFL season. New Orleans is full of fans sporting Bush jerseys, many of whom suffered great losses as a result of George Bush’s “punt” on disaster response.

I hope Reggie Bush is the all world running back that everybody thinks he is and that he’s able to lift the Saints up from the NFL dustbin, giving the city something to cheer about as it rebuilds. If Bush fails in New Orleans, not only will the Texans front office look like a bunch of geniuses for not drafting him, you can forget irony and start dialing up the Ghostbusters to check on that voodoo Bush curse on the Superdome.

In other draft news:

The 49ers got their man Vernon Davis, the tight end out of Maryland, who is a genetic freak: 6′3″ 254, runs a sub-4.4 40-yard dash, plus he cries so he’s a great fit for San Francisco. Very cool. He’s got tree trunks for legs.

I wished that Matt Leinart got picked by the Lions. I mean is it just me or is it hilarious picturing Hollywood Matt in Motor City? I was talking to Mickey Minnesota at the end of the first round and he said that Leinart staying at USC for his fifth year ballroom dancing class probably cost him about $14 million in guaranteed money. And here I thought my school loans were bad…

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