Huard wins prestigious award

[Hammock Parties]

This is better than an MVP trophy.

http://www.kcchiefs.com/news/2008/11/19/qb_damon_huard_named_kcs_2008_ed_block_courage_award_winner/

Kansas City Chiefs President Carl Peterson announced on Wednesday that QB Damon Huard is the recipient of the club’s 2008 Ed Block Courage Award. Dating back to ‘83, the Ed Block Courage Award has annually honored one player from every NFL team who exemplifies commitment to the principles of sportsmanship and courage.

Named in honor of longtime Colts athletic trainer Ed Block, recipients of the award are selected by a vote of their teammates. Huard and the NFL’s other 31 Ed Block Courage Award winners will be honored at the annual Courage Award Banquet in Baltimore on March 10, 2009.

Huard joined the Chiefs as a free agent in 2004 after earning a pair of Super Bowl rings in New England (Super Bowl XXXVI and XXXVIII). Known as a reliable performer who can step into a starting role at a moment’s notice, the 12-year veteran has posted a 15-12 record as an NFL starter (10-11 with Kansas City). In 64 career games (27 starts), Huard has completed 574 of 946 passes for 6,303 yards with 33 TDs and 26 INTs for an 80.6 passer rating. He was placed on Injured Reserve on October 22nd.

Huard earned the respect and confidence of his teammates in 2006 when he emerged as one of the league’s biggest surprises. Despite not opening a game since the 2000 season, Huard replaced injured starting QB Trent Green in the season opener and opened the next eight games for Kansas City. He went on to lead the Chiefs to a 5-3 record in those contests, completing 134 of 221 passes for 1,684 yards with 10 TDs and one INT for a 97.6 passer rating. He finished the 2006 campaign with a 98.0 passer rating that ranked second in the NFL behind only Colts QB Peyton Manning (101.0) and set a Chiefs single-season record to lead the NFL with a 0.4 INT percentage (one INT on 244 attempts).

The Yakima, Washington native was a three-year starter at Washington, completing 458 of 744 passes for 5,692 yards with 34 TDs and 28 INTs. Those 5,692 passing yards ended his collegiate career as the Huskies all-time passing leader. A prep standout in both football and basketball, Huard earned All-America honors as a quarterback at Puyallup High School in Puyallup, Washington.

[MIAdragon]

ROFL "courage"

[Bill Lundberg]

It's a Major Award!

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[Brock]

Damon Huard Courage

One of these things is not like the others

[MIAdragon]

is this what he gets?

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/images/thumbnail1.php/ad01419d.jpg

[StcChief]

his fetal position move denies the fumble. :)

[Demonpenz]

congrats

[4th and Long]

Who Was Ed Block

Ed Block was a hero in many ways. Under General Patton in World War II, he earned a Purple Heart. As an athletic trainer, he was a master in his chosen field. As a person, he was compassionate and giving.

http://www.edblock.org/images/ed_block_photo.jpg

Ed graduated from the University of Missouri with his master’s degree in 1937. He initially began his career as a high school athletic trainer/coach in 1938 at Hancock High School in St. Louis, Missouri. After being drafted into the US Army in 1942, Ed advanced from the rank of Private to 1st Lieutenant and earned distinction with General George Patton’s Tank Corp during World War II. After discharge from the Army in 1947 he served as Head Athletic Trainer and physical education instructor at Washington University. In 1951, he returned to college and completed his doctorate in rehabilitation and earned a degree in physical therapy from Columbia University.

Ed was the Head Athletic Trainer of the Baltimore Colts from 1954-1977. He was asked to join the team by the legendary coach Weeb Ewbank in 1954 and cared for the team’s legendary players of the Colts’ glory years of the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s. He was inducted in the National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA) Hall of Fame in 1974.

Upon joining the Baltimore Colts, Ed quickly became synonymous with excellence of care in the early days of the NFL. His ability to keep the Colts together in those early days gave birth to the players of “The Greatest Game Ever Played” – the Colts sudden death win over the NY Giants in 1958. He demonstrated that same level of care through three decades and helped send eight players to the Pro Football Hall of Fame while working for celebrated head coaches Ewbank and Don Shula.

In addition to his accomplishments with the Colts, Ed worked for 13 years as a physical therapist for Kernan’s Hospital for Crippled Children, authored numerous papers and was a presenter at several national programs. He also served on NATA’s original Athletic Injuries Committee. A Fellow, American College of Sports Medicine, Ed had an extreme interest in research, injury prevention and conditioning. He served as a consultant to NASA, beginning with the original in-space flight training program in 1967. In 1973, Ed started early research on the use of diagnostic ultrasound at Johns Hopkins Hospital for use in evaluating musculoskeletal injuries.

After suffering a massive coronary during training camp in 1978, he was named Athletic Trainer Emeritus by the Baltimore Colts. The players that he cared for during camp saved his life by administering CPR and transporting him to the hospital.

From 1979 to 1983, he continued to serve the Colts’ players and was a constant mentor to the team’s athletic trainers who succeeded him. Ed was one of the founding fathers of the Maryland Athletic Trainers Association (MATA), helping to organize the first meeting in 1980, and was a member of its inaugural Hall of Fame class that was inducted on May 2, 2005. Ed continued to provide guidance to athletic trainers until his death in 1983. Numerous scholarships have been established in his name, both with MATA and the Professional Football Athletic Trainers Society (PFATS).

While Ed will be remembered as one of the most educated athletic trainers of his day, some of his most significant contributions came in the tirelessly manner in which he gave of himself to help improve the lives of children. He stood for courage and championed the cause of those who displayed that characteristic. His work and philosophy continues today through the Foundation that bears his name. A great and compassionate humanitarian, he was always proud to be known simply as “Ed Block of the Baltimore Colts.”
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[CrazyPhuD]

They give awards to people who quit?

[blueballs]

sounds like a kiss off to me
take this plastic chrome and brass monstosity
and take a hike -no gold watch for you

[4th and Long]

monstosity
:spock:

[blueballs]

It's a Major Award!

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FRAGILLY
most be Italin
for glass vagina

[blueballs]

:spock:

you really don't drop off a douce in the mornings
it's just your reflection in the tidy bowl water

[OnTheWarpath15]

This sounds just like that episode of The Simpsons where Mr. Burns told Homer he was going to be given the First Annual Montgomery Burns Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence.

[smittysbar]

A quitter gets a courage award...WTF

[talastan]

Why does it not surprise me that Claythan would be posting this Hutard story on the Planet. :rolleyes:

[Bwana]

ROFL

[KCrockaholic]

This is better than an MVP trophy.
get off his nutz!!!!!!

[gblowfish]

If this was "The Bill Kenney Giant Pussy Award" I'd say, perfect choice.
WTF????
This is the same organization that'll put King Carl on the Ring of Fame at Arrowhead as the final crowning FU to all the fans, once the renovation is done is 2010. You just watch...

[Agent V]

If this was "The Bill Kenney Giant Pussy Award" I'd say, perfect choice.
WTF????
This is the same organization that'll put King Carl on the Ring of Fame at Arrowhead as the final crowning FU to all the fans, once the renovation is done is 2010. You just watch...
Oh my God. I can't imagine the crowd reaction to Peterson's name unveiled on the ring. That prick got booed at a frickin' Kansas City Brigade game. I was there.

[Hammock Parties]

Oh my God. I can't imagine the crowd reaction to Peterson's name unveiled on the ring. That prick got booed at a frickin' Kansas City Brigade game. I was there.

I will buy a ticket to that game just to hear the boos. It will be an epic moment.