I posted this over at Raiderfans.net, but perhaps you'll find it interesting, too. It's celebrity and all that.
Beat writer Jerry McDonald reports a quarterback named Danny Southwick is on a tryout basis at the Raiders' current minicamp.Just a camp arm, no doubt, a 27-year-old former AF2 quarterback who wound up at Occidental in 2007, his fourth or fifth college.
So, a few years back, the Raiders had around a camp arm named Bret Engemann, out of BYU? He was around in '03-05 in camp and on the PS, plus a couple of assignments to NFL Europe.
So here's the random coincidence.
Danny Southwick is the son of a woman named Shawn Southwick, who is talk-show host Larry King's latest wife. (Number seven, if you're counting; married since 1997 - he is now 75, she 49).Her maiden name is Engemann, and she is Bret's sister.
So apparently, the Raiders' tradition of favoring NFL(ish) bloodlines extends even to fifth-string quarterbacks!
(Bret Engemann, now 31, is retired from football and a marketing executive, if you're curious.)
Maybe, as keeper of the S&B Report roster (formerly the unofficial Raiderfans.net roster), I'm the only one who finds this interesting.
Or maybe not.
Friday, May 08, 2009
Random Raider coincidence of the day
Made up by Ace at 6:46:00 PM
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