Draft Day Tribute to Saccopoo

[Direckshun]

I just wanted to share a few words for a few minutes' worth of typing about somebody I really enjoyed for years that we no longer have anymore to entertain and education us on the Draft -- on Draft Day.

I didn't know Sacc at all outside of football discussions. I'd run across him a few times in personal life threads and in DC. But I stick to football talk mostly here, and few were as entertaining and fun to talk to and argue with as he was.

There may not have been a person he disagreed with more than me. And as anybody he disagreed with knows, there was little mystery as to how far your head was possibly shoved up your ass by the time Sacc was done with you.

I don't think he was a football whisperer or any kind of football expert, any more than any of us are. But he was truly passionate and truly outspoken and put a lot of rewarding time into his hobby that allowed the rest of us to learn about players -- typically in the Mormon belt -- that we wouldn't have been familiar with if not for this character.

The most distinctive thing about Sacc, who I believe invented mock draft threads peppered with tons of flattering pictures of his preferred draft selections on ChiefsPlanet, was his discussion style. His opinions were expressed with a kind of metaphysical certainty and balls-to-the-wall assertiveness that made his posting style magnetic.

One time I remember him shitting all over an ILB that I had posted about, only a week or two later to list that player, whom he hailed as a linebacking savior, in his own mock draft. I asked him what gives, he said I changed his mind. Which is amusing; having your mind changed is reasonable. But the breakneck 180-degree turn he performed was so aggressive and outspoken that you could hardly believe he was arguing the other side just days prior. That's of course not to say he was a hypocrite, any more than the rest of us were. He was as passionate about an opinion he had held for four days as the rest of us are about lifelong convictions.

His posts were very blue; he was as delightfully foul-mouthed and colorful in his usage of expletives as anybody on the forum. He shit on people all the time, as well, and never cared to try to procure a single ally. That kind of equal treatment for his rhetorical crosshairs almost took on a Don Rickles quality, and as a result he was widely enjoyed across the board, despite the fact that basically any of us could have been next.

His posting on personal matters was equally as jarring/entertaining. His TMI threads about his exploits were one thing, but I remember him giving what he would consider personal advice in other threads, and his opinions on life were just like his opinions on football: complete conviction, no hint of dissonance, and universal contempt for dissent. Same thing with his participation on DC, which always promised fireworks.

This guy put hours, and hours, and hours of football work into this forum over the years. He was as colorful and entertaining as anybody this board has had. And I was happy to read on his obituary that he was as loud, brash, and widely appreciated in his personal life as he was on this board.

I'd say "rest in peace," Saccopoo, a.k.a. Drew, but I know that peace would almost certainly bore the **** out of you. I hope you have a colorful afterlife in whatever form that may be for you, because you brought plenty of color to this really stupid corner of the internet.