Smack dab in the middle of Peter King’s Monday Morning Quarterback column yesterday was this delicious little passage, passed along by a colleague (bold is ours for emphasis):

The troubled (Percy) Harvin, obviously, got investigated thoroughly before he was drafted out of the University of Florida in April. When Brad Childress went to Gainesville the week before the draft to meet Harvin and spend a day with him, he said he wanted Harvin to pick him up and drive him around. “I wanted to be in his car, and I wanted to smell the car,” Childress said. You know, for the pot smell. And he asked Harvin if he was aware that because of his marijuana experiences in college and for testing positive for pot at the Scouting Combine, he’d enter the NFL already in the NFL’s substance-abuse program. “You’ll be eligible to be tested up to 10 times a month,” Childress warned.

The mind is awash with thoughts:

*Imagining Childress sniffing Harvin’s car for “the pot smell.”

*Thinking about Harvin preparing to pick up Childress.

*Wondering what he was driving.

*Wondering what the two of them talked about.

*Thinking about the character red flags raised about someone if such a thing is necessary and if passing such a test is some sort of final draft clearance.

*Thinking about the QB situation, in terms of both Brett Favre and Tarvaris Jackson, and also thinking about Harvin. And now thinking about just how far Childress has put himself out there this year.

*Concluding, once again, that even without Favre this season will either be a spectacular success or a morbid failure, and it will be nice to not have a middle ground.

Your thoughts?

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