Two of Houston’s all time favorite sports figures are waiting this morning.
One of them, Craig Biggio, will know today whether he has been voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. The other, J. J. Watt, will have to wait until the end of the month before he knows if he will be named the MVP of the National Football League.
Biggio should make it today. He had a stellar career from 1988 to 2007, and amassed 3060 career hits. There have been only 20 players in history with more. There are those who are on a position to know that say the only reason he didn’t make it in his first year of eligibility is that there are a few old sports writers who refuse to vote for anybody their first time around.
It seems that everyone is assuming that Watt will be named Defensive Player of the Year for the second time in his short career, but MVP is still a question mark. The award almost always goes to a quarterback, and no defensive player has been named MVP since Lawrence Taylor won it back in 1987.
However the voting goes, these two gentlemen will always be tops in my book. Their actions, both on and off the field of play, exemplify the best their respective sports have to offer.
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