Mad Dash: Brett Favre wasn't first choice for famous movie cameo

Brett Favre spends most of his time on screens these days selling jeans and copper sleeves, but perhaps his most famous non-football appearance was as the ex-boyfriend that Cameron Diaz's character pined for in There's Something About Mary. But it turns out he wasn't the first or even the second choice for the role. The Farrelly brothers actually wanted Drew Bledsoe to be their guy, but when the movie was shot in 1997, Bledsoe was dealing with bad PR from a trip to a mosh pit at an Everclear concert, and turned the offer down. Their second choice was Steve Young, but his Mormon upbringing kept him from participating in an R-rated movie. So the Packers' gunslinger was called upon. Years later, Favre admits to Rich Eisen that had he know he was third choice, he never would have agreed. But then that bowl cut of his wouldn't live on forever on the silver screen. We'd all be missing out.

One guy that's missing out? The kid that made a layup, a free throw, a three-pointer and a halfcourt shot to win tuition for a year at his school. He's missing out because a kid at Drake did the same thing – with a rebounder helping him along, no less – and won a freaking brand new truck. Time for everyone to transfer to Drake.

If you plan on acting like a kindergartner, don't transfer to Tulane. Head football coach Curtis Johnson made two players who were fighting in practice hold hands afterward as punishment because, as Johnson said, if they want to act like kindergartners, he's going to treat them as such.

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