Best.... Father's.... Day.... Present.... Ever....

Whilst riding home on the 10 -freakin'- 35pm train had the most awesome, incredible, super father's day present idea ever.

Okay, couple of days ago Otis Smith signed to a one-day contract so he could retire a Patriot. Nice, blah blah, teams do it all the time (Thurman Thomas, Emmitt Smith).

But it made me think, jeez, that would be a neat retirement present after serving my four terms as Governor when I grow up. Robert Kraft III or little Jonny Kraft junior could give me a nice Pats jersy with #1 and The Guv written on the back and I could "retire a Patriot."

Which lead me to wonder, what would you pay to have a one-day contract with the Patriots? I'm sure there are at least 1,000 fans out there who would easily drop $250 for a nice little ($1) contract and a jersey with their names on it, and the Krafts could send the profits, after the costs of the contract and the $80 jersey, go to a deserving charity.

While googling around to see what kind of stupid salary-cap problem or bargaining agreement this would violate, I noticed minor league baseball clubs do this all the time, sometimes even selling one day contracts on eBay. Of course, most of those deals include actually playing an inning. I'm fairly sure no armchair quarterback would ever actually want to do a chute drill with Richard Seymour, but, hey, you got a death wish, why not?