For those of you New Yorkers not going to the Steinberg-Magary-Bissinger toolfest tonight, I’d like to recommend a much nobler cause than getting drunk and hoping for angry outbursts from Pulitzer winners: the Doodle for Hunger charity auction benefiting Capuchin Food Pantries.

As you can see from the above selection of works by famous athletes, this may be your only chance to own a shitty drawing of a stick figure playing football.  Unless you know a five-year-old.  And, although it wasn’t unveiled at Capuchin’s website, there will also be a masterpiece from Eli Manning (see final item).

For next year’s show, I’d like to nominate Brady Quinn and Michael Strahan.  Just because there’s something really enjoyable about seeing pro athletes being absolutely terrible at something.  Well, terrible at something besides wearing condoms.

As sexily-named reader Matt pointed out to me, NASCAR fans presently have the opportunity to vote on the "celebrity artwork" that they want to appear on the 2008 Daytona tickets, and I'd like to take the opportunity to throw my support behind the masterpiece shown here, drawn by the able hand of the Cleveland Browns' new quarterback, Brady Quinn.  Just look at the way he stayed inside the lines.  You can't teach that.

Or if you're not feeling Quinn's magic, Michael Strahan's thumbnailed image below is a masterpiece of American art.  For a three-year-old.  What the fuck is that, an amoeba on wheels?  F