It's no fun not being #1, but what to do, when you're not even #2?

When you thought you were the first pick, the one most wanted, when in reality you slid down to eighth. When you think that you were the first option but you became the second. No not even second, they found eight other options to choose before you.

You who, sacrificed all of what you could've had a year ago, to be with others. Then when you get to your day to see your come uppins they are focused on something that they think is better.

When you were the talk of the town, the best thing going. Or so they said. When in reality they secretly wished for something else, another shade, another body type, more upside than you.
What do you do? How does it feel when you're devalued, and then what do you do with that energy?

They say that doing well is the best revenge.

But how do you succeed when even those that selected you did all that they could to draft higher, to pick someone else, but beyond there control they were in line behind several others, and at the time when they got to pick you were the "best available?"

How does that feel? When you are the best available. Not that you are the best, you are the best available under these circumstances. Not that if I had my choice of all that were on the board, that I would've picked you first and only, no, you were the best available at the time.

It's draft day in the NFL, and I was just sitting here watching it. Looking at how things went down. The guy that would have been last years first pick, the one that would've had the highest rookie salary, decided to stay at USC, and help them when another national championship for his school. And in this years draft, he was projected to go second behind his team mate Reggie Bush, but no, he didn't even become the second pick, he slid to number 8.

Then the story this month is that Bush has been receiving money and stuff from an agent during his college career and that's illegal so he didn't even get selected number one. Nor did the guy that actually won this year's national championship, Vince Young. "How does it feel to be Matt Lienart or Reggie Bush today? Are you just happy that someone selected you? Happy that you get to play or enter the game?

I'm just wondering how it would feel if I were in a similar situation.