Donovan McNabb is probably never going to play in the NFL again, unless he’s willing to take a job as a backup. Even then, he’ll probably still complain about being a backup and demand that he be allowed to compete for the starting job. At least that’s what I assume is the thought process of any GM looking for a competent veteran, because otherwise he’d be a Miami Dolphin.

It seems that McNabb may have accepted this idea now as well, because he’s already taking the next step in his career – promoting himself for the NFL Hall of Fame. According to McNabb, he’s as good as in.

“What happens a lot of times is we look at what the list says, so we talk about the five NFC Championship Games, the six Pro Bowls and then we come to the end, ‘Well, he never won the big game,’ ” McNabb told Mark Kriegel of FoxSports.com, via the Philadelphia Daily News. “Well, Peyton never won the big game until he won the Super Bowl. Dan Marino never won the big game. Does that mean his career is a failure? No, not at all.” (Via NFL.com)

That’s right, the big game is the Super Bowl, and Peyton Manning never won the big game until he won the big game. Aside from the fact that Manning and Marino are two of the most proficient passers in NFL history, that’s incredible logic right there. But let’s go ahead and destroy that logic for the sake of building a self-beneficial argument.

“First of all is his numbers. How many times has he led his team to the big game?” McNabb said. “The big game still is the NFC Championship Game, the game to lead you there, and most importantly of all, did he make the players around him better? In his time, in his era, was he a top-five, top-10 quarterback in the league?”

Okay, that’s more convenient, making the NFC Championship Game the “big game”. The Super Bowl is just the Pro Bowl play-in game at this point, so what matters is the conference championship. That must be why Jim Kelly is in the Hall of Fame. He sucked at winning Super Bowls, but they don’t matter. He was, however, awesome at winning the AFC Championship, and that’s the “big game”. But if that is the argument, it’s pretty weak, because McNabb was 1-4 in his big games.

I want to be fair, though. First, since McNabb invoked Manning and Marino as examples, let’s compare this trio.

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A while back we might have mentioned that LeBron James was developing an autobiographical cartoon series, but I’m too lazy to check because I’m halfway to Key West and can taste the boat drinks already. Regardless, the first episode of LeBron’s “The LeBrons” has been released, and the episode, entitled “Lion”, is the first glimpse at the four characters that the self-anointed King voices himself, and each character is based on LeBron’s personality.

One character is a young boy, or LeBron before the fame, growing up in Akron, as the opening song explains. The second character is an old man, who represents LeBron’s wisdom that he has amassed from all those years of letting people make decisions for him. Then there’s the athlete, who – spoiler alert! – plays basketball. Finally, there’s ladies man LeBron, who apparently lets kids walk into his house and watch him put the moves on women. As you’ll see in the first episode below, the message is that “two wrongs don’t make a right”. Like signing Chris Bosh can’t be solved by blaming Chris Bosh. I think that’s the point.

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