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The coach had put together the perfect team for the New Orleans
> Saints. The only thing missing was a good quarterback. He had
> scouted all the colleges and even the Canadian and European Leagues,
> but he couldn't find a ringer who could ensure a Super Bowl victory.
> Then one night, while watching CNN, he saw a war-zone scene in
> Afghanistan.
>
> In one corner of the background, he spotted a young Afghan Muslim
> soldier with a truly incredible arm. He threw a hand-grenade
> straight into a window from 80 yards away. Then he threw another
> from 50 yards down a chimney, and then hit a passing car going 80
> miles per hour.
>
> "I've got to get this guy!" coach said to himself. "He has the
> perfect arm!"
>
> So, he brings the young Afghan to the States and teaches him the
> great game of football ....... and sure enough the Saints go on to
> win the Super Bowl.
>
> The young Afghan is hailed as a hero of football, and when the Coach
> asks him what he wants, all the young man wants to do is call his
> mother.
>
> "Mom," he says into the phone, "I just won the Super
> Bowl!"
>
> "I don't want to talk to you," the old Muslim woman says. "You
> deserted us. You are not my son!"
>
> "Mother, I don't think you understand," pleads the son,"I've
> just
> won the greatest sporting event in the world!"
>
> "No! Let me tell you," his mother retorts. "at this very
> moment
> there are gunshots all around us. The neighborhood is a pile of
> rubble. Your two brothers were beaten within an inch of their lives
> last week, and I have to keep your sister in the house so she
> doesn't get assaulted!"
>
> The old lady pauses then tearfully says, "I will never forgive you
> for making us move to New Orleans"
>
>
> Saints. The only thing missing was a good quarterback. He had
> scouted all the colleges and even the Canadian and European Leagues,
> but he couldn't find a ringer who could ensure a Super Bowl victory.
> Then one night, while watching CNN, he saw a war-zone scene in
> Afghanistan.
>
> In one corner of the background, he spotted a young Afghan Muslim
> soldier with a truly incredible arm. He threw a hand-grenade
> straight into a window from 80 yards away. Then he threw another
> from 50 yards down a chimney, and then hit a passing car going 80
> miles per hour.
>
> "I've got to get this guy!" coach said to himself. "He has the
> perfect arm!"
>
> So, he brings the young Afghan to the States and teaches him the
> great game of football ....... and sure enough the Saints go on to
> win the Super Bowl.
>
> The young Afghan is hailed as a hero of football, and when the Coach
> asks him what he wants, all the young man wants to do is call his
> mother.
>
> "Mom," he says into the phone, "I just won the Super
> Bowl!"
>
> "I don't want to talk to you," the old Muslim woman says. "You
> deserted us. You are not my son!"
>
> "Mother, I don't think you understand," pleads the son,"I've
> just
> won the greatest sporting event in the world!"
>
> "No! Let me tell you," his mother retorts. "at this very
> moment
> there are gunshots all around us. The neighborhood is a pile of
> rubble. Your two brothers were beaten within an inch of their lives
> last week, and I have to keep your sister in the house so she
> doesn't get assaulted!"
>
> The old lady pauses then tearfully says, "I will never forgive you
> for making us move to New Orleans"
>
>
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