This is it? I don’t know, I guess I just always thought my first column would be more … romantic. Isn’t your first supposed to be special? Well I guess this could have been special, had the main character of this tale actually called me back. But that would be totally out of character for a guy like Liam Ezekiel. The same “team leader” who knocked his own kicker unconscious with two games remaining in the 2004 season.

Now, instead of celebrating the guy who still has a chance to be a Northeastern legend one day, I will be forced to come at his head.

I’m not one to dwell on athletes’ characters because I’d rather view them as emotionless pieces of a puzzle so I can still enjoy watching them play, however, Ezekiel has had this coming for a long time. But rather than start with the reasons he won’t make it in the NFL — the Division I-AA all-time leading tackler signed with the Buffalo Bills as an undrafted free agent last Thursday —