Portis to His Critics: 'Check My Paperwork'

Clinton Portis is in the odd position of being at once the Redskins' most popular and famous player, and having the biggest disrespect complex in the team's locker room. Who exactly, besides Brian Mitchell, has been disrespecting Portis? Jason La Canfora? Mike from Rockviille? ChRiS LaRRy? Anyhow, whoever it is, Portis has a message for you:

"I think it's eatin' 'em up to still see me doing it," Portis told NBC Washington's Dan Hellie. "You really just can't say nothing to me, there's nothing you can say that's gonna have me low and down in the dumps. I can tell you check my paperwork. You know, just look at the paperwork, look at my stats, look at my grind, look at everything I've accomplished at 28, and I'm not even 28 yet. So you take the one year away that I got hurt, I'd be over 10,000 yards already."

Whatever your feelings about his defensiveness, check my paperwork is a great athlete line. Unless you're named Smiley Gonzalez.

"I don't think there's a harder back in the game when it comes to the grind, or the blocking, or doing the extra," Portis also argued. "I think when I'm on the field my energy level is better than anybody in the game. That's the way I'm gonna always feel. I'm gonna go out and I'm gonna give everything I've got for this team and this organization and my teammates, and when I can't do it no more, I'll walk away."

In other highlights, Portis said he'd pick Tom Brady first in his fantasy league, that he would be a surfer if he weren't in the NFL, that Jim Zorn would be an architect since "he built all the little tents," and that if he could be with any woman for a day, he would choose Alicia Keys.

"Me and Alicia Keys in Cabo, sun setting, and she's got a piano out on the beach, playing a good tune to me," he said.



(washigtonpost.com)