Name: Spergon Wynn III

Claim to Fame, Minnesota: I think the conventional wisdom is that he’s the worst starting quarterback in Vikings history. Granted, it was only a couple games, but I think the conventional wisdom is right. I ask the readers: who else is in the conversation? T-Jack seems a given, Kelly Holcomb is absolutely in the mix, and I recall Jim McMahon being less than useless (unless he was throwing to Eric Guliford). Anyone I’m missing? Is Gary Cuozzo too obscure? [RandBall note: We also remember Steve Dils being quite terrible].

Claim to Fame, Everywhere Else: oddly enough, the 38.6 quarterback rating he compiled for the Purple did not lead to further NFL employment. Wynn was forced to head north to America’s Hat, where he became a CFL journeyman and, for a short time, Ricky Williams’ teammate.

Where He Is Now: the most recent intarweb mention of Wynn is from 2006, when he was with the Toronto Argonauts. Is he night managing a Tim Horton’s in Saskatoon? Is he back in the States? So many questions.

Glorious Randomness: Sperg, as I like to call him, was one of the six quarterbacks drafted ahead of Tom Brady in the 2000 draft. The others: Giovanni Carmazzi, Tee Martin, Chad Pennington, Marc Bulger, and Chris Redman. In addition, his alma mater, Southwest Texas State (which got all huffy like Mankato State and changed its name to Texas State University-San Marcos), can claim Wynn, LBJ, Powers Boothe, and potential Sunday starter Fred Evans as alumni.

Forgotten Fact, Proprietor Addendum: Spergon Wynn III started his college career with none other than the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers (lucky No. 13). A Strib article from 1996 explains in part why his career here didn’t exactly pan out.

Sophomore running back Rafael Cooper, the Gophers’ leading returning rusher from 1995, has been dismissed from the football squad for violating team rules regarding “personal property rights.” Freshman split end Tony Vann and freshman quarterback Spergon Wynn III were suspended for one game. The three players were allegedly involved in a burglary incident April 7 in Sanford Hall on the university campus. None of the players has been charged with a crime. …

According to university police reports, a female student left her locked dormitory room at 11:30 p.m. on April 7. She returned to her room at 1 a.m. on April 8 to find $100 in cash, her checkbook and a compact disc missing. During that time she had visited the room of Wynn and Vann, hoping to collect $80 that Wynn had borrowed from her. The police report describes a ruse possibly used by Wynn and Vann to obtain the victim’s room keys. Vann then left the room, and returned before the victim left.

When she discovered the items missing, she went in the hallway to ask question people to see if they had seen Vann in her room. Officers searched Vann and Wynn’s room, but did not find the missing property, and the two players denied knowledge of the items. Vann said he had left his own room to watch movies in “his cousin” Cooper’s room. Cooper told police he was with Vann all day watching movies.

On April 12, Cooper knocked on the girl’s door, handed her the checkbook and said, “Here’s your checkbook. Don’t ask me any questions about it.” According to the police report, he told her he found it “in a trash can.”

Yeah, right, the officer said. I’ll believe that when I see Spergon Wynn III quarterbacking the Vikings.

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