The criteria is a person who has for better or worse change world events. Past Persons of the Year have included some very unsavory folks, many of them Nobel Peace Prize winners.

Anyway, we nominate ex-Texas and current Tennessee Titans starting quarterback Vince Young.

Sure, he doesn't have a laser rocket arm, but he does having blazing speed and two percent body fat, plus a 6-4 record as a starter for the Titans as well as no Nobel Peace prize.

But his legacy is that every football league, from the Peewees to the pros have teams trying to figure out a way to make the spread offsense work for them. In the many college games we watched this fall, we have seen some attempts at the spread, a play here or there that have worked, but nothing that denotes the spread will work for every team for every quarterback.

Young defeated USC, as we said at the time, and the Trojans were defeated because Texas built this offensive formation around Vince Young and with a quick defense, the Texas Longhorns managed to defeat USC and ended a three year reign in NCAA college football.

Young has it all: a college football championship and no Nobel Peace prize. It don't get any better'n that!


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