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Vote early, vote often for Vince Young for NFL Rookie of the Year. Winner announced February 1st.

The moron’s personal vendetta against Young continues.

The Associated Press announced today that Vince Young has received the AP Offensive Rookie of the Year award in a land-slide victory. [tag]Vince Young[/tag] received 23 out of 50 possible votes, with the next closest being 9 for Marques Colston and Maurice Drew. And guess who rounded out the vote at the bottom? That’s right, Reggie Bush.

Overall I think you have to be impressed with the quick transition VY is making in the pros. Many people doubted him, but Texas fans have known what everyone else is starting to learn about him. He is just a winner, plain and simple. It doesn’t matter what level is playing on, he will get the job done.

So a big congrats to VY from Bevo Sports and we look forward to more good things to come.

Not that there was any question what the greatest sports moment in 2006 was, but ESPN has made it official. Vince Young’s performance in the Rose Bowl and the Longhorns beating USC was ranked #1 by ESPN as the greatest sports story of 2006.

And to top it off, [tag]Vince Young[/tag] got yet another cover of a magazine, the latest issue of ESPN the Magazine.

What is with all of this love by ESPN for Vince lately? The upper execs can’t be too happy about this. I expect them to return to normal West Coast love soon.

Update: Looks like Yahoo agrees that the Rose Bowl was the best sports story. But take a look at #5, I am pretty sure it is now a bigger deal that the Texans didn’t draft VY, not Reggie.

ESPN.com has a pretty cool special called “The Education of Vince Young” up right now featuring a good article from Michael Smith, a photo gallery with twelve great high-res photos, and a short video from Sean Salisbury. Photos look great and there’s some shots in there that might make for great desktop wallpapers. Salisbury is very complimentary of Vince and especially his intangibles.

Vince is also on the cover of this week’s ESPN The Magazine so he’s definitely starting to get the love from ESPN (the moron Merril Hoge excluded of course.)

I guess this is pretty old, but this is the first I have seen these Interesting Vince Young facts from the Houston Texans message board. Pretty funny stuff. I have included my favorites:

• Vince Young can only get drunk from a combination of rattlesnake venom and hot sauce. And he’s sober again in six minutes.
• Vince Young can eat just one Lay’s potato chip.
• Vince Young once joined a Buddhist Monastery. The Buddhist leaders immediately kicked him out after the Monks began to worship him.
• Vince Young has already been to Mars; that’s why there are no signs of life there.
• Whenever Vince Young needs a new pair of boots he just goes out and kicks through a cow.

Brings back memories right?

Seriously, if you wrote a script of how everything went down with Vince and the Texans, and this was the ending, people would probably laugh at you saying it was unrealistic. Well not when you are dealing with Vince Young. He continues to amaze everyone, so much so that Merril Hoge might even have to say a positive comment about him.

One question I have, where was Mario Williams on that play? Ha.

Want to see complete highlights of the game, check this out.

Thanks to TexasOwnzYou for the video.

Merril Hoge may be the most delusional person that I have ever seen. His hate for Vince Young has been taken to a whole new level today with his latest rant on ESPN. It’s hard to put into words how idiotic he sounds, so just check out the video. There is a transcript of what he said after the jump.

Thanks to TexasOwnzYou from Hornfans for the video.

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Not sure about it for the rest of Texas or our out of state readers, but the Tennessee Titans game against the Philadelphia Eagles is airing on CBS here in Dallas right now. It’s only my second chance to see [tag]Vince Young[/tag] and his Longhorn teammates this season, his tough debut against the Cowboys being the other. The Titans are wearing their extra ugly alternate uniforms featuring baby blue pants just for us. Too bad it’s not in HD.

On Fox, the Chicago Bears are playing so if you’d rather watch Nathan Vasher and Cedric Benson you can. It’s great to be able to see so many former Longhorns all over the NFL.

Colt may not be Vince, but early on he’s a more efficient passer.