Clinton Portis Wants to Turn Training Camp Into a Resort

Jul/30/07 03:33 PM Filed in: Clinton Portis
In 31 NFL training camps, the reporters show up looking for something to write and hoping they can get at least one player to say something more interesting than, "We're just going to take this season one game at a time."

At the Redskins' camp it's different because Clinton Portis is around. Dan Steinberg has a post at D.C. Sports Bog on what Portis said to the media Friday, and it includes more interesting quotes than most NFL players give the media in their entire careers. This is my favorite and, I think, Steinberg's:

"My idea of improving training camp is turning this into a resort, and that's going into the season healthy. I think the more guys you can get into the season healthy, the better chance you have, but Coach Gibbs and them's idea is totally different than mine, and they the rulers of this team. They the people who run this team, so whatever it is, I've just got to buy into it. I can't be an outcast any more, I can't stand up and speak on behalf of the team.

The whole thing is worth reading because Portis has the extraordinarily rare quality of being simultaneously articulate and incomprehensible.

(aolsportsblog.com)