A Reggie Bush Conspiracy Theory

This is too funny not to pass along:

There's a theory quietly making the rounds among league insiders regarding the decision of the Houston Texans to pass on Reggie Bush with the first overall pick in the 2006 draft.

As the theory goes, the NFL wanted to help rejuvenate football in New Orleans, and the league realized that the best way to make it happen would be to finagle a marriage between the Saints and Bush.  So ... the league made some back-door promises to the Texans, such as support for future Super Bowls or some other way to help owner Bob McNair make more money and/or eventually persuade the locals to name half of the town after him.  In exchange for getting Bush, Saints owner Tom Benson would have then made promises to the league regarding keeping the team in New Orleans for a set amount of time and/or generally keeping his mouth shut and his head low...

It's pretty bad when the best possible explanation people can come up with for why your team drafted the unknown Mario Williams over the electric Reggie Bush is some sort of crazy backroom deal.

Right now, Williams is on track for 43 tackles and no sacks, although you have to think he's going to be in the vicinity of the quarterback eventually, right?

By comparison, the Eagles' much-maligned Mike Mamula had 41 tackles and 5.5 sacks his rookie season, although to be fair to Mike he only played in 14 games...