Wondering aloud
We found the article on the NFL’s Wonderlic test to be interesting. My fifth-grade son likes to play football (as well as other sports). I had my son take the five sample questions, timing how long it took him to complete the five questions. Extrapolating the 1:53 it took him to answer the five questions indicates that at this pace he would get through approximately 32 questions in the 12 minutes allotted for the test. If I apply the 60 percent that he got correct on the sample test to the 32 questions he would theoretically answer, I get a score of 19 – precisely equal to the average score of NFL players. Welcome to the NFL, son. (I won’t tell you what my eighth-grade daughter scored.)
Richard Bratten, Highlands Ranch
Sakic worth it
I do not normally give a lick for Woody Paige’s columns, but I cannot appropriately describe how much I appreciated his exceptional column about Joe Sakic last Sunday. Pro sports franchises and the media so often give lip service about sports giving us role models for character building, but the only lesson I and my boys get when a franchise unloads such a precious jewel as Joe Sakic is that franchise ownerships have no loyalty to people – either the players or the fans. For what Joe has given the franchise, the city and the fans, he deserves to stay as long as he chooses and then be given a sports hero’s send-off. Trading Sakic would be tantamount to trading Elway.
Glenn Davis, Avon
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